Category: The Advertising
Pepsi giveth, Pepsi taketh away.
I heard that Pepsi came out with a special seasonal flavor, Apple Pie Pepsi. They say it “mimics the texture and mouth-feel of apple pie.”…
Flock for cash!
What happened to this magical Flok-Kraft that can dress your dashboard like Wilma Flintstone? We used to have an old Dodge Dart that had worn…
You can do it a trot, you can do it at a gallop-
In our hours of quiet semi-quarantine desperation, we dream of things we will do when this mysterious virus has subsided. It will probably be even…
To the year 2508!
Going to the year 2508 with Hugh Marlowe and Nancy Gates, I don’t care if it does have monsters with many eyes, and huge spiders…
Space Command!
It must have been a golden time for independent Television and Radio stores like Jack Bartlett’s. Remote Control of your television, being able to turn…
Nobody fixes anything anymore.
Another item from my dad’s old 1958 Jensen-Byrd catalog, supplier to hardware retailers all over the west. This is a set of the locking mechanisms…
Madison Avenue likes what it likes.
I don’t understand what the point of this Barbasol ad was, but the cartoon is cute and clever. What do you expect from Popular Mechanics?…
The Great American AWESOME
I normally only collect old book matches, but this matchbox from The Great American Food and Beverage Co. Conglomeration (A SoCal chain but they had…
Sell Christmas cards, win a shotgun
When I was a kid, I earned money by selling Christmas cards, and in the spring, seed packets- I got my inventory from outfits like…
Don’t be in the dark about flashlights!
This is from a Jensen-Byrd Wholesale hardware catalog from 1951, that my dad had and referred to once in a blue moon. A huge hardback…
