Tag: vintage magazines

“This Candy Must Taste As Good As Or Better Than Your Favorite Candy Or Your Money Back!”

And they guarantee you’ll lose weight too!

Another scan from that 1954 issue of People Today, this time an ad (one of the few advertisements in the magazine) for Kelpidine Candy. There was a gum too.

“Kelpidine” doesn’t sound tasty, but it’s not as unfortunate a name as Ayds weight loss candy.

Anyway, People Today is rather a mini-men’s mag, so I feel rather weirded-out that the ad depicts a “fat chick.” If this was a February issue of the publication, I’d be convinced guys were supposed to give their fat wives a box of Kelpidine for Valentine’s Day.

But I guess the guys were just supposed to buy her weight-loss candy “just because.”

The Happy Harrises

An article about “The Happy Harrises,” Alice, Phil, Alice Jr., and Phyllis, by Helen Maree as published in Modern Woman magazine (Volume 17 Number 1 1948). Note the “twin silver mounted saddles” amidst the “gay ginghams and large overstuffed chairs.”

Sears Calling

Don’t you just love looking at your favorite catalog models? …Remember sneaking them into the bathroom for a little dreamy privacy, and — what? You didn’t get that way over the latest telephone models from American Bell and GTE?

Not the Flip-Phone or the Fashion Plate? Not even the Princess telephone?!

Huh.

I guess I’m just weird that way.

Two pages from the Fall-Winter 1983 Sears catalog.

Be An Accountant, Man

Sexist ad on the back cover of Ranch Romances & Adventures (May, 1971) which clearly states that men who are trained in accounting are being moved up the ladder to important management positions. Way to go, LaSalle. Did the coursework include how to belittle the female accountants and ways to chase the secretary around the office?

Ring-Ring, Bling-Bling, Ring-A-Ding-Ding!

Jayne Mansfield with a rotary dial telephone full of bling on the January 1958 cover of Modern Man mag. It’s enough to make your teenage daughter go blind with jealousy. And we don’t just mean for the phone bling either.  (You’d better keep this away from your sons too; they could make themselves go blind too.)

Say Hello To El Santo

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Without looking for clues in Google I can tell you that this picture was taken circa 1970 in Mexico when a Costa Rican movie producer visited to negotiate the production of a movie with “El Santo” mexican wrestler.

The clipping is from a mexican newspaper called Excelsior (I can tell from the typography).

Craft Scan Friday: “Your Home Will Bloom With Color”

This bit of ephemera, Artex Hobby Products, Inc. Pattern Booklet No. 731, copyright 1973, illustrates a bit of the history of women working from home.

Artex Hobby Products, Inc., of Lima Ohio, is no longer in business; but it was a member of the Direct Selling Association. The following scans are of the pages outlining the benefits of becoming an Artex Instructor, i.e. selling the Artex product line via party plans, and the pages for the Artex Painting Class hostesses, who receive Artex merchandise as their Hostess Awards.

You can, quite easily, earn $10 to $100 per week in your spare time, without neglecting your family…by joinng the Artex Family today.

A trip to Paris, a color TV, even a new car could be yours as these are just a few of the many wonderful extras that are awarded to Artex Instructors throughout the year.