Found in the October 1969 issue of Golf Digest.
A Brief History of the Talon Zipper Company
Continue readingIt will never turn a man into a disaster.
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Fee-fi-fo-fum bear meat’s always yummy-yum!
Dandy, Handy and Candy were later replaced by Sugar Bear.
Sugar Crisp is now known as Golden Crisp, because that’s much healthier.
Continue readingJust Four Spiffy Little Ads From 1948
Simonis might be the only one still in business.
Do you have under-par children like High-Strung Helen?
How to Impress a Biker Chick
Illustration by Jay Hyde Barnum. Not a lot of info online.
I’m not quite sure what sort of action went down in the illustration, but they both look great!
A History of Herringbone, courtesy of King & Allen Bespoke Tailoring
Continue readingScrubbing is for the living.
Looks like the original Sani-Flush was still being sold until 2009 or so. With its main ingredient being sodium bisulfate, when some people didn’t follow directions and mixed it with chlorine bleach (drain cleaners like Liquid-Plumr or Drano), it created chlorine gas, which can be fatal.
Grocery shopping in 1964 was much more exciting thanks to Sani-Flush!
Continue readingCome on, ride the train, hey, ride it.
The Overland Limited was the “the ne plus ultra of travel luxury”
Did you know that thing in front of the train is called a cowcatcher? Or a pilot, if you’re boring.
The Overland Limited was in service from 1887 to 1963, Or maybe 1899 to 1938. There is some disagreement.
Continue readingThe Right of Way
I love this pairing.
The one on the left is a reproduction of Philip Goodwin’s “The Right of Way” by the Remington Arms Company from their “famous Remington Wildlife Art Collection” and was first issued in 1907.
The one on the right isn’t.
Voila!
“Oh, we’re the boys of the chorus…”
Or perhaps…
“Throw out your hands
Stick out your tush
Hands on your hips
Give ’em a push
You’ll be surprised
You’re doing the French Mistake
Voila!”
I CAN HAS SPARKLEE HOOMAN?
Pronounced RAY-PLEEK.
Réplique was introduced in 1944.
The original scent was discontinued in the late 1980s.
Via Cleopatra’s Boudoir…
“The story is almost too good to be true, but it is an acknowledged fact: The main “nose” of parfumeur Worth in Grasse had just created “Requête” in 1944 when he had a violent argument with one of the directors and left them in the worst possible terms. He was immediately hired by Raphael and created “Réplique”, the reply to a “Requête” in French legalese. It was rumoured that Worth did not enjoy the joke.”