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] inkytwist.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man. If I only had that tie. I'd get ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL THE LADIES.

[identity profile] glitterberrys.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
There's a joke here about the coolest thing I've ever seen being a giant cock, but I'm not gonna make it...

[identity profile] glass-houses.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
Clearly a classy mag!

[identity profile] gutterboylive.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't be a Faux pas!"

I won't. Thanks!

[identity profile] tiajuanabible.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
that tie is bad ass.

[identity profile] purplesquirrel.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
I am going to make myself one of those ties.

[identity profile] kip-w.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Touched by the wand of darkness..." and that's a pretty darn big wand!

[identity profile] janenx01.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Forget the tie. Bring on the whiskey and mint leaves.

[identity profile] chvickers.livejournal.com 2008-03-15 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
When my dad died in 1998, we found Carhartts work pants in his closet from the mid 1940s. He was still wearing them in the years before he died. Say what you want, they were incredibly well-made.