Vintage Ads

BERMUDA IS "ENGLAND"!

1920s (via elevenvintage on etsy)

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England in miniature, within two days of New York! Like a trip abroad, to see British customs, government, battleships and regiments. English and Canadian visitors. International golf, tennis, and yacht races.

Bermuda is the international all-year playground. Its equitable climate is sub-tropical, averages ranging 60ª-70ª in winter. No motors or railways--clean, quiet, and restful is this "Land of the Lily and the Rose."

Passports not required. For details of steamships, hotels, boarding places, and furnished cottages, request booklet from The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., 26 Broadway, the Furness Bermuda Line, 34 Whitehall Street, or

The Bermuda Trade Development Board, 250 Park Avenue, New York (A Department of the Bermuda Government which has authorized the publication of this advertisement.)

Canadian Pacific, 1950s
via http://www.flickr.com & x-ray_delta_one

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West to the Canadian Rockies and Alaska or East to Old Québec and the Atlantic seaboard - you can't beat a Canadian Pacific vacation! Golf, tennis, swimming, fishing, hunting or just loafing - whatever you like to do best. Canadian Pacific can show you where to find it . . . and take you there iin comfortable, well equipped trains.

Power . . . through the mountain peaks!
Cruise sheltered waters "down North" to Alaska . . . land of romance.
Banff Springs Hotel . . . luxurious centre of a mile-high mountain playground.
St. Andrews-by-the-Sea where fashion and sport meet on Canada's glorious East Coast.

Railways * Steamships * Air Lines * Hotels * Communications * Express
Canadian Pacific Spans the World
For full informaiton consult any Canadian Pacific office or your own agent.

Visit Yugoslavia, 1935

The Southern Railway (UK), 1936

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more info and more AMAZING Southern Railway posters HERE

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Wikipedia says that this ship is the RMS Aquitania.

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if you noticed the promo ad on the vintage ads' page yesterday, i apologize....i had no clue it was there until an observant member notified me....apparently we were opted in to the LJ promo thing and i had to opt us out....if it returns, please let me know STAT and i'll again get us out of it....

i also wanna take the time to, again, thank y'all for being such great community members, for the participation and for the harmony we have 99.99% of the time....it makes being mod very easy and we can all focus on the most important rule of vintage ads, which is HAVE FUN!!!

Have these people never seen a chafing dish before? And is that Chef Boyardee ravioli?

LIFE Dec 13, 1954 santa fe super chief private room streamlined rail train service regrettable

I think what these people are doing was called "reclining."

LIFE May 16, 1955 santa fe railroad transportation recliners not now

Here's a nice bit of racism for you.

LIFE Apr 11, 1949 santa fe rail system lines train travel racism

LIFE Apr 11, 1955 santa fe railroad big dome color

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Riffing from

noluck_boston's Vintage Massachusetts commerical: While you're on vacation in the Bay State, here's one place to visit, in this 1970s-era commercial (which I remember seeing as a wee Ref in the early 1980s, on Boston's Channel 56, back when it was still WLVI) :

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Another place to visit during your vacation to the Bay State (and another one that I fondly remember seeing as a Ref-ling, along with visiting ye aquarium! Along with the Museum of Science, one of my favorite places in Boston)

Continueing with the New England Theme.