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January 23rd, 2012

Modern Woman Mondays: Shopping With Points

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

I’m guessing from this vintage ephemera set I’ve listed that Emling Products was, if not like S&H Green Stamps, operating some sort of point rewards system for shoppers back in the day. I don’t know anything about Emling. If you do, please share!

A vintage Seasons Greetings holiday card with poinsettias on the front. Inside it reads:

Greetings:

Just as friendship grows and flourishes at the Holiday Season, so it is our sincere wish that our business relationship shall grow in mutual understanding and strength.

Best of everything for Christmas and New Year’s.
From the EMLING “Business Family”

I think it might be a Gibson greeting card — on back: E. 63, made in USA, what looks like a G.Co. It’s one of those “money” sized greeting cards, measuring roughly 8 by 3 1/2 inches.

Tucked inside, a gift certificate for “Five Hundred Merchandise Points” which reads as follows:

You may use these points at any time to obtain merchandise listed in our point catalogue. Ask your Emling representative for our point catalogue.

When you purchase Emling Products your representative will give you additional point coupons throughout the year.

Gift certificate measures approximately 8 by 3 1/2 inches. At the bottom of the paper gift certificate: copyright GOES 417.

January 22nd, 2012

Play With Reddy Flame & Reddy Kilowatt

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

I had a whole plastic baggy full of these vintage / retro plastic toy puppets from NSP Northern States power Co. One side has Reddy Kilowatt, the other Reddy Flame. I’m not sure gas and electricity are things you want to encourage your kids to play with but… Or small plastic bags either. But you can catch the remaining ones at Listia and eBay.

January 10th, 2012

Vintage Cigarettes For Kids

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

In case you just thought candy cigarettes were just a thing from your childhood, know that they are much much older. Exhibit A, this vintage Gold Tip Gum package.

Made by The Sterling Mint Co., these 5 cent boxes of gum, in four flavors, date back to the 1920s — but were also used through the 1940s. And they look pretty awesome in their original store display stand. (
I’m giving mine away on Listia.)

If the “gold tip” part doesn’t convince you this is cigarette gum, check out what’s written inside the lid of the flip-top box:

The Aristocrat of Gums
Ten 5 cent Sticks
Cigarette Form

They still make candy and bubblegum cigarettes, but you rarely see them in stores. Oddly enough, I do spot the bubblegum chew in stores; infinitely grosser, in my opinion.

January 9th, 2012

Ding Dong, Avon Calling

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

Vintage Avon ads from 1953.

December 23rd, 2011

With Bacardi Eggnog…

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

The elves will come alive!

Via.

December 20th, 2011

For A Sentimental Person With A Practical Side

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

Give the gift of GE appliances! Refrigerator or no, you’ll be sure to get the cold treatment for a long, long time. Via.

December 7th, 2011

It’s The Holidays, I’m Busy

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

So guests, make your own freakin’ toast. Toastmaster, 1949.

November 30th, 2011

Of Course There’s A Santa

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

November 17th, 2011

Frederick’s Wouldn’t Scalp You

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

“If you can tell it from your own hair… Send it back!” If you can’t tell wigs from your own hair, please don’t scalp yourself and send that back to Frederick’s Of Hollywood.

November 15th, 2011

Dames & Dogs #52

by Deanna aka Pop Tart

Two Girl Scouts put a hat on a Dalmatian; via a 1955 Girl Scout Calendar.