Akai model # VTS-100

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( Partially not safe for work )

Contest entry

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

I really can't imagine how this topic would come up in conversation.



Life, September 1940.

Contest entry

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

I now have a working scanner.  I'm not sure whether that is good or bad news for this community:



Great idea:  get people to associate your product with hideous disasters, terrible loss of life, and third-degree burns.

contest entry- ET the video game

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Its too bad commercials for nintendo's virtual boy, the nokia n-gage, or sega's 32X arent old enough to be considered vintage yet though :(

( ah, what the hell ;) )

Contest Entry--Lead Industries Association/White Lead Paint, 1939

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Lead paint--it never flakes away!!  Or poisons your children.  Sorry about the bottom of the ad--my scanner cut it off.

Contest entry: "Germany Land of Hospitality", 1939

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

This was published in an English magazine in July 1939. I wonder if any tourists took them up on this offer?



Originally published in The Illustrated London News.

Contest: Burnett's Hair Cocoaine

[eredien]

Gives a beautiful lustre!



I scanned these in from a book of stories my grandfather had when he was a kid. Look for more in future contests!

CONTEST ENTRY: Straaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaange recipe

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Someone must have found this food combination appealing...although it's difficult to imagine why. It looks like some kind of odd cake with peas on it.  I wonder if anyone ever tried the recipe?

Contest Entry: Winter Clothes Ad

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In honor of Dia de los Muertos . . .

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

A little late--sorry! I couldn't find any vintage ads with references to Dia de los Muertos or images of sugar skulls, etc. This is the best I could do for now. 

From 1976:


And, yes, there's a recipe for The Horny Bull Cocktail there. 


( Another ad )

See, he's not a victim of testing, HE'S A WEE SCIENTIST!

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Dow Chemicals, 1951



can we get a tag for Dow,  or chemicals, or industry, maybe to cover a lot of things?

Vickers Viscount & TAA

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Further cool airplane ad:

The Viscount & TAA, October 1954



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Shillcraft - Rugs you make yourself

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WOMEN ARE DELIGHTED, do you hear?  Also, perhaps unrelatedly, "So easy, even a child could make a Shillcraft rug."



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God, and I'd almost forgotten hook rugs ever happened. :(

And because all my colleagues are coughing and sneezing...

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Kleenex, 1951  &  Listerine, 1958



( Listerine ad below the cut )

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Wolves and Glamour Gals

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Hostess Sno-Balls, 1950s  (industry promo)

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Wolff Freres : A Man's Cologne, 1968, Esquire magazine

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