Midcentury Modern and a half-naked lab assistant

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Summitville Tiles, Inc., 1957

Check out the room in the background - apart from the Centaur, it looks groovy.  The language teacher in me is also intrigued by the non-plural-yet-plural "wherever interior tile are used".  Tiles are/ Tile is both work, curiously, so at least today it's one of a small group that can be both count and non-count, but I've not seen it used as a non-plural (e.g., sheep, deer, fish, etc.) /boring aside



Another classic Summitville Tiles ad lies behind the cut.

Summitville Tiles, Inc. 1961  via sandiv999 at flickr




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Comments

[bradygirl_12]

For a minute there I thought 'Summitville' was 'Smallville'. Well, I guess that explains the lab and the assistant's meteor mutant powers of shredding her clothes.

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

So did the 'scientist' screw up and cause that to happen to the woman's clothes, or is she the ditzy blonde lab assistant?

Is it bad that my inner 12 year old instantly noticed that the chemical formula on the blackboard kinda lookS like it says "NO HO NO"?

[teamrodent.livejournal.com]

My inner child brought treats to share with the rest of the class (since I did as well).

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Your inner 12-year-old is smarter than my inner 12-year-old, which couldn't get past "Large Unit."

Heh heh. Large Unit.

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Well, it's hard for anyone to take their eyes off 11 7/8 inches!

[write-light.livejournal.com]

XD (the preceding expression was fixed on my face when they found my dead body)

[youngwilliam.livejournal.com]

I think they were asking for trouble when they had the rubber-hose gas leads go down to the flame instead of up to it.

That, and I'm not sure how they're getting gas to an upright pipe that's blatantly on a moveable base.

..and what's holding that table up?!

[write-light.livejournal.com]

ROFL I'd be tempted to say it's his ****, but again, the height's not right, unless it has a 90º bend in it.

ETA: I also remember from my distant high school chem class that you do NOT point a test tube at people's faces.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Although I'm impressed at the detail of her splayed toes, why has Miss Shredded Garments got her shoe off? Was she about to smack Doctor Icky with it before an explosion was caused?

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Very little about that ad makes sense. Least of all that the acid dissolves only her lab coat but not her streetclothes or skin...

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Yes. It would be more accurate if her limbs and face were dissolving.

[teamrodent.livejournal.com]

"So, remember to buy Summitville Tiles. Easy to clean when you cause yet another fatality in the lab, ya scrambled egghead"

[write-light.livejournal.com]

"And with this color, the blood never shows either!"

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that centaur is supposed to be the zodiac sign for Sagittarius? "What's my sign, baby?" *points to the tiles*

Mr. Wizard, the early days. The blonde lab assistant has a Marilyn Monroe or Doris Day vibe to her.