Scanned images of photos, illustrations, etc. including specs for the Avion Pickup Camper (diagrams for Deluxe Gaucho Model, Custom Side Dinette), Avion luxury travel trailers (diagrams for 31′ Imperial, 28′ Travelcader, 25′ Argonaut, 22′ Tourist), extolling the virtues of aluminum construction and the “amazing new” THERMO-X insulation, promo for Travelcade Club, etc. From brochure promoting the 1969 Avion line, titled “The Switch Is On To Avion”.
Tag: 1960s
Before Lady GaGa
Before her meat dress, there was meat wallpaper — or decorator wallmeat. Or something gross.
Vintage Accent Seasoning ad,1965 Life Magazine; via GeriADtric.
All Weak Eyes Are On Asheville
Vintage ad for the Battery Park and the George Vanderbuilt hotels, from the 1963 issue of This Week In The Land of the Smokies and The Southern Highlands.
As Easy As Shooting Fish In A Barrel
How The West Was Done
Children dressed up as cowboys for Mardi Gras; The Netherlands, 1965.
Think Of Her As Your Mother
This American Airlines ad (found in National Geographic, June 1968) reminds you not to grope the stewardesses — you don’t grope your mom, do you? Vintage ad via this Advertising & Tourism post at the Visual Arts Library Picture & Periodicals Collections blog.
Better Than A Blanket & Pillow Fort
Photo via Superbomba.
Come For The Smokies; Stay For The Ogle’s
More from that 1963 issue of This Week In The Land of the Smokies and The Southern Highlands; this time ads for Ogle’s Buffet Restaurant and Ogle’s Crafts Of The Smokies.
Navigating Las Vegas In 1967
Found at Dames Of Chance, where Shawnee fancies traveling back in time. So she needs a vintage map of the area.
Where Chattanooga Plays
A vintage ad for Tennessee’s Lake Winnepesaukah Amusement Park found inside This Week In The Land of the Smokies and The Southern Highlands; despite this vintage travel guide’s title of “this week,’ this issue is dated “Events For The Month Of May 1963.”