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Monarch Electric Range Booklet (7) c1947
Monarch Electric Range Booklet (6), c1947
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Okay, I admit it. I love the Deco-like stylings of these pages. The bright yellow and blue, the "capsule" shapes. The ham's line and color take it about two steps away from being a still life by Gauguin.
Monarch Electric Range Booklet (5), c1947
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Everyone started looking forward to the Lenten fast after Ma sent this winner down. o_0
Monarch Electric Range Booklet (4), c1947
Monarch Electric Range Booklet (3), c1947
Monarch Electric Range Booklet (2), c1947
Monarch Electric Range Booklet, c1947
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Twin Efficiency! Twin Efficiency!
The kitchen background implies that they'd already invented bad CGI over sixty years ago...?
Front cover of a 72-page booklet published by Monarch Home Service, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
(Originally posted to flickr on June 26th, 2011.)
Old Smuggler Scotch Ad, 1956
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And you're entitled to half off the giant-size bottle of aspirin from Walgreen's. Just peel the coupon from the back of the bottle!
From the March 31st issue of The New Yorker .
Hilton Hotel Ad, 1956
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I'll be haunted forever by that puffy-stickered white oval thing in the foreground. What in blazes IS it?!
From the March 31st issue of The New Yorker .
Izod Womenswear Ad, 1946
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Adorable outfit, cute dog... but geez. Between her makeup and the lighting, she looks like Robert Z'dar from Future War. DX
From the September issue of Harper's Bazaar .
Bakers Chocolate & Coconut Ad, 1953
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One hell of a boring, lazy dessert, but it's hard not to admire their zeal for cramming a dozen different typefaces into a one-page ad.
From the February issue of Good Housekeeping .
House & Home, 1961
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This was literally all the money you needed to own a house in full back then. (Ah, silver currency, how we miss you!)
De Soto Automobile Ad, 1956
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Includes a hi-fi record player, so you don't miss that Lawrence Welk tribute while you're stuck in traffic.
From the March 31st issue of The New Yorker.
1847 Rogers Brothers Silverware Ad, 1947
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Daffodil kebabs. A really early take on the raw food diet.
From The Ladies Home Journal .
Martha Manning/Forest City Fashions Ad, 1953
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Modern-day hipsters know nothing of expressing disdain. Let the pros teach you, Kiddies!
From the February issue of Good Housekeeping .
The Blue Goose Buying Guide (19), c1946
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Elberta sports the then-still-common Veronica Lake 'do, while Hale shows off her Pit Bull (or Boston Terrier) stylings.
The Blue Goose Buying Guide (18), c1946
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If anyone dares to complain when I change my username to The Jersey Peach, I'll just make them read this page.
The Blue Goose Buying Guide (17), c1946
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Can someone please go ask their dealer about watermelon-plugging and then get back to me re: the response? Thanks.
