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[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

Life, June 24, 1967:

(ETA:  That was a typo.  This ad is from 1957.  Sorry.)



I don't know which is the greater offense against the English language:  "FoMoCo", "travelized", or the use of "ready for anything" as a noun phrase.

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[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Canadian Pacific
Alaska

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[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Medemoiselle, August 1958, p. 27

Such an incredibly elegant ad. Such an odd name for a youth-oriented brand.

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[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

 

All she does is sit around like a rock all day, but no one's complaining (especially her chiropractor!). 

1986

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[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

The Seattle Times, Sunday April 14, 1957, p 32.

Apparently it also changes your hair colour.

We've got your Slumber Number! & SANTA LOOK OUT!

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Two images from New York Central Railroad's magazine ads of 1946, emphasizing train travel in luxury style.  NOT a contest entry.  Second image is very large, may load slowly. 

( Two ads under the cut )

CONTEST ENTRY: "He is a confidence man ... THANK GOODNESS!

[write-light.livejournal.com]

From BOAC (which I've flown!, good lord, how old AM I?) aka the British Overseas Airways Corporation (later, British Airways), 1959

*hilarious sudden twist headline
*odd hand positions
*lady in 2A's hair is on fire?
*this is not steerage, I gather, but "de LUXE"
*charming, charming ageism
*ellipses are... overused ... and where dashes would be better ... sometimes in the wrong place too.

My favorite line: "Frankly, we ourselves don't know quite how."



Click to see 800x1034 version.  A much larger version (2048 x 2864) can be found HERE on Flickr.

CONTEST ENTRY: Las Vegas! Fly TWA

[write-light.livejournal.com]

The COLORS.  The illustrations!  The two-toned woman who is all things to all people all day.


TWA (Trans World Airlines), 1965



ETA: further info - "American illustrator David Klein designed some of the most successful travel posters of the postwar era. A huge success on Madison Avenue in the 1950s, Klein won numerous awards for his work on the TWA campaign."
See the man himself with his New York/TWA poster, here.  The man was a genius - he even made Air Cargo sexy.   Image search is worth your time; his New York, San Francisco, and esp. St. Louis ones are stunning, and his non-commercial art is lush and psychedelic.

Bounce fabric softener, 1986

[mystical-chickn.livejournal.com]

I thought I posted this ad this morning, but it turned out I accidentally posted it to my own journal :p (no wonder I didn't get any comments on it) Anyway for those that saw my previous ad (the one for Eckrich Farms smoked sausage) before it was deleted (sorry, I accidentally the rules), this is the Bounce ad I mentioned wanting to find at the end. Except I thought the song was Van Halen's "Jump" and it obviously isn't. Oh well.

I actually pretty distinctly remember the people falling backward into that giant ... blanket ... towel ... thing.

CONTEST ENTRY: Germany! Beautiful, large, large Germany.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Ah, Germany, your bypaths* of beauty beckon so alliteratively!

I harken to the throbbing song of the waves playing on your North Sea beaches.

I tour Karlsbad, Germany; Wiesbaden, Germany; Dresden, Germany; Berlin, Germany, Vienna, Germany  

Vienna, Germany?



Oh, riiiight.

German Railroads Information Office, 1939.


*A private path; an obscure way; indirect means. "God known, my son, By what bypaths, and indirect crooked ways, I met this crown. Shak.

Kraft Dinner - Reader's Digest, April 1979

[corridor7f.livejournal.com]

 

Band-Aid Plastic Strips - Woman's Day magazine, July 1954

[corridor7f.livejournal.com]

 

Puss 'n Boots Cat Food - Woman's Day magazine, Aug 1960

[corridor7f.livejournal.com]

 

Vacation Vamps a la Frederick's of Hollywood (Contest Entry)

[corridor7f.livejournal.com]

Aforementioned Vamps include: Shock Wave, Saintly Sinner, Fiesta!, Tropic Torch & Miss T!
 

Full-sized ad (2451 x 3315) with readable type is a must!

Contest Entry

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Austria