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Try not to think about this being 43 years ago.

JCPenney Fall & Winter 1978 Catalog Cover

It’s French.

I received a lovely trio of magazines that go back to the days when French dressing was for shoes.

Bewitching

“Beware!” — Life magazine cover, October 30, 1913

There’s no place like hone.

How’s this for an advertising time capsule, or rather, paperweight and hone from the age of scythes and threshers? A premium given to potential advertisers of The American Thresherman magazine with a little cobranding from The Pike Manufacturing Company.

The whetstone side might be Belgian Yellow Coticule from the Ardennes, which would be 30-42% garnet crystals bonded with mica, which gives a sweet edge on a blade. Supposedly, the stone is one of the reasons Romans conquered Belgium/Belgica back in the day.

Baby Go Wif ‘you?

Snug, warm. Indorsed by physicians. (1909)

That’s a good price.

1979 Polar Package newspaper ad (Bismarck ND)

insidious

Sorry, but I lost where and when this top part of an ad came from. Let’s pretend it’s from the future!

1970 in Legs

Those dang hemlines.

Are you a hoser?

Print ad for the Strange Brew movie. Circa 1983.

Wiggle it. Just a little bit.

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(Spring and Summer 1957 Sears catalog)