Great art direction for this menswear ad, oozing style and confidence, but now I want to find out more about the cool chair the suited dude is sitting in. Somebody thought it could be a Lucite chair but I’m not sure. Anyone know?
The Jujyfruits shapes are asparagus, tomato, grape, banana, pineapple, raspberry and pea pod.
You absolutely must be curious about the etymology of jujube.
Heide Candy Company was founded in 1869.
Heide was sold to Hershey Foods Corporation in 1995.
Hershey sold Heide to Farley’s & Sathers Candy Company in 2002.
Farley’s & Sathers merged with Ferrara Pan Can Candy Company in 2012, becoming the Ferrara Candy Company.
What’s a pastille? It’s for when you don’t want to say “lozenge”.
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Some Western movies from 1972.
The Robert Redford Jeremiah Johnson gif many of you are familiar with is, like this ad, from 1972.
Last night’s adventure was going through a 41 pound lot of The Country Gentleman magazines published between 1915 and 1927.
Here are some of the covers (and one random ad portion) I uncovered while going through this rough but rather large lot.
Gay Diversion is brought to you by the same folks who made Menace, Enchanting Menace and Moonlight Menace.
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At an auction on Saturday, I was digging the packaging for Minnesota brand macaroni shells.
I can imagine the girl having a Selma Diamond voice and she says — “I like to stick the macaronis up my nose.” — followed by a strange rattling noise as she laughs.
Simonis might be the only one still in business.
In 1971, the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. sent out fancy-looking replicas of one of its 1906 advertising pieces to… oh, probably bars, package stores and, who knows, maybe even courthouses and Girl Scout troops. It was a different time. Anyways, here’s one of them.
Back in the 1990s when I was living in Grand Forks, North Dakota, there was a building that housed Sensations Nightclub, the Down Under Pub, Campus Liquors and several other businesses. In the inside hallway was a pinball machine that one of my friends decided to play one night. After a bad game, she shouted, “Bad Girls sucks your balls!” and something like that is hard to forget.
I randomly happened upon this Bad Girls flyer while scrolling through some eBay listings and, yeah, I had to get it.
Ahh, good memories of Bad Girls.
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