WPA, Chicago- Ready to Serve!

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Groundhog Day (Time Travel)

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This is technically one year too recent to qualify as "Vintage," but maybe we can use a little time travel to bring it back in under the wire?

I think this counts as time travel -- just a very short round trip. And the special repetition of the alarm clock going off makes it extra applicable to our wake-up troubles this week.

Chiclets, Good Housekeeping, 1908

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Found this one last night while reading GH of my great-grandmothers' era, like you do. Page 736 of this volume.

Reminders + April Contest Theme Should be???

[misstia]

Please vote for our jello finalists on this entry here

THURSDAY!! March 15th!! THE IDES OF LJ DAY HERE!!!! Ads that deal with betrayal, stabbing in the back, etc....let's have subversive fun!!!!

DW is still invite free and we are manning the life boats to Vintage Ads on Dreamwidth where they treat their users with respect.....

What should April's theme be? Did i say? (yes my mind is still muddled and occupied with lists and things to do for Eddie, we should have a better idea hopefully tomorrow of when he can move into another place which will help him IMMENSELY....)....i don't think i declared a theme....

so what should it be????

Ads with flowers (too narrow? how about a spring theme as it'll be spring in half the world)
Bathroom Ads
Ads for jewelry

and please add other suggestions....i can always add them to the 'hat'!!!!

What, no more Jell-O?

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Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm a bit late to the party here, but the time change has really thrown me off. Also, I have a nasty cold, which I blame on the time change. 

( Click here for video )

Tampax: Be Free to Be You

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Tampax, 1968



Crossposted at Vintage Ads Dreamwidth :)

OTIS Elevators, 1952

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Otis Elevators, 1952  in glorious, dizzying, starfield (!) cutaway. 

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this ad.  I also like that elevatoring is a verb, and that 'autotronic' even existed. ;D



Full size: 1444x1897 
Via the astonishing ad collection "The Visual Telling of Stories"

Crossposted at Vintage Ads Dreamwidth :D

Come on over to see a second, even more dizzying Otis ad!

CATS! Swedish, 1953 (also: shoes)

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Konsum (Sweden), shoes, 1953.

I find this cute and also a bit creepy.  Translation welcome!



Crossposted at Vintage Ads Dreamwidth along with two other cute cat ads! :D