http://ribald-faggot.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] ribald-faggot.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] vintageads2008-03-14 07:46 pm
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From Inside Detective, September 1944. You really get a feel of the target audience of this magazine by looking at the ads. Lots of ads for booze, career schools, work clothes, and insurance. And stuff like this:

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[identity profile] meig.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
And all the cancer. I bet it was radium paint that made it glow.

[identity profile] inkytwist.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Pssht. Cancer's in everything, nowadays.

Also, um, Why wouldn't they use a phosphorus base?

[identity profile] meig.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Back in the day they didn't realize that radium caused cancer. It was cheap and glowed in the dark, so it was nifty cool.

[identity profile] chvickers.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
It was known by this time that phosphorus could cause fossey jaw in people who worked with it. It was considered far more dangerous than radium!

[identity profile] rebel-abrahams.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
I came here to make that joke. 2QUICK4ME.
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