Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Bong Cookies

For your pot munchies.



Hand-crafted custom cookie cutters by Frankencutters; part of their 60's party theme designs.

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Monday, September 7, 2009

Bacon & Eggs On Your Fridge

By Kids, For Kids, crochet patterns to make bacon & egg magnets. (Patterns are free for registered members at Lion Brand Yarns; registration is free.)

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Friday, July 24, 2009

Last Dance With Mary Jane


Die-cut candy advertising piece from the early 1900's.

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Early Product Placement

An ad for ice in the official magazine of the ice industry, Modern Woman Magazine (1941, V10 n5), with very recognizable beverage bottles.

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Monday, May 18, 2009

Modern Woman Monday: Kate Smith

Find out why I'm celebrating Kate Smith -- and asking myself, as the Memorial Day weekend nears, if this is the America people defend & fight for... Seriously.

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Friday, May 15, 2009

Craft-Scan Friday: Make Amusing Table Favors From Fruits & Vegetables

Mrs. George C. Wagoner of Glendale, California, must have never been told by her momma not to play with her food; here she show how to make a tiny orchestra from hairpins, paper clips, modeling clay, and a basket of common fruits and vegetables. Talk about your anthropomorphic fruits and veggies!



Found inside this vintage issue of Modern Woman Magazine.

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Monday, March 16, 2009

A Comic Male Quartette

Get the lyrics to Ham & Eggs, by John Martin (arranged by Fred K. Huffer), 1917; I hear tell it's a great encore!

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Friday, March 6, 2009

"Do I sound like that?" "Yes."

Because I'm so loving the latest McDonald's Filet-O-Fish commercial (obsessively tracking down info on the jingle's creators), I had to stop and watch this one:

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Have A Coke & A Smile




Seeing as old Coke came with more than a glimpse of thigh, I can see why New Coke just couldn't make it.

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Saturday, January 10, 2009

How To Talk To The Soda Jerk



From Calling All Girls, December, 1945.

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Hires Root Beer Package, 1890

Make five gallons of beer for just a quarter -- and it's medicinal!



Ad in the December, 1890 issue of Peterson's Magazine.

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Annual Family Tradition

After eating a big holiday meal, it was customary for the men to go into the kitchen to cut the cheese. No one knew why Sara always went along.



Maybe it's cheese; maybe it's not (you can find out at Flickr). But then the food isn't really the issue now, is it.

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Friday, December 19, 2008

Giant Thinks Jack A Killer-Diller

A 1936 Dentyne gum ad.

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

"The Potato Babies, And How They Grew"

A story of grandma entertaining the kids with people and animals made from potatoes...





From The Maple Leaf Book Of Stories.

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Thursday, December 4, 2008

Everything's Better When It's Kitsch On A Ritz


Retro ad for Ritz Crackers from the June 1968 issue of Family Circle via Flickr.

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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Yeast, The New Way -- And You'll Like It

You'll like yeast this new way -- um, why is she lifting her leg like that? What kind of yeast are we talking about here?



From Liberty, February 22, 1941.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Nothing Warms Them Up Like Baked Goods


Girls Cupcake Scarf Pattern from Jaybird Designs.

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Monday, November 3, 2008

Sucaryl On This

Slenderella, packed by Richmond-Chase Company, featured Sucaryl® -- "the magic sweetener that doesn't add one single calorie". The cutie-patootie in the ad exclaims, "...so finally I tried slenderella low-calorie foods... and look what happened to itty-bitty me!"



I look slimmer when I wear my tablecloths too, bitch.

But seriously... Sucaryl ® is Cyclamate, and was banned in the US for cancer. Which sort of begs the question about just what would be the cause of any weight loss.

If you can stand more strange factoids about Sucaryl®, check this info from Wikipedia:
Like many artificial sweeteners, the sweetness of cyclamate was discovered by accident. Michael Sveda was working in the lab on the synthesis of anti-fever medication. He put his cigarette down on the lab bench and when he put it back in his mouth he discovered the sweet taste of cyclamate.
Just how do lab rats manage to survive at all?

Ad found in The Dakota Farmer, "Dakota's Own Magazine", April 18, 1959.

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Thanks, But I Prefer Bald Condiment Dispensers

OK, so you know I collect these figurines with pasted on rabbit fur; therefore you might not think I have the right to mock these retro S&P kitties...


But honestly, who wants to shake salt or pepper from them, knowing full well that dust & whatever else sits in the rabbit fur will also be shaken, not stirred, onto your food?

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The Pink Rectangular Hole In His Heart

Jeff! at All Bitched Up would like to remind Arnold Schwarzenegger of his manners -- Manner wafers, that is.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Milk-Mucus Connection Found

Doctors may say there's no connection between milk & mucus, but I think I've found one: Borden's Elsie the Cow on a hanky.

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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Will. Not. Eat.


I don't care what the ratio of Tigger bits to Pooh parts is -- I don't want any poo in my cereal.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

We Said A-Beef-Hot-Links!


Due to the ear-worminess of the Hillshire Farm ads, I've been compelled to post such things.

Thanks to Retrofuture, I can.

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Friday, July 25, 2008

Choo-Choo Charlie & Me

We love Good and Plenty!



Via Flickr.

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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Hooray! Whee! For Chef Boy-ar-dee!



Still on my quest for more information about this ad, I discovered Chef Boyardee was real. Who knew?

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Slow Food Tray


By Design Glut.

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

They Quickly Learned To Keep The Knives Away From Susan



Via LJ's Vintage Ad Community (we're still crediting them, hoping they'll credit us with the stuff they score here).

UPDATE: Hey, StumbleUpon folks -- there's a lot more at KKC, so start at the beginning and get so dizzy with the delights that folks will need to keep the knives away from you too.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Someone Needs A Napkin



Via LJ's Vintage Ad Community -- someone there has been taking a lot of our scans lately, but not crediting us. :sigh:

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Friday, June 20, 2008

How Florida Secures A Great Harvest

Virgin sacrifice among the oranges.
And you thought Anita Bryant was the only chick sacrificed for the sake of the fruits.

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Friday, April 4, 2008

Meat-za Pizza


Some assembly required; not available in all 50 states.

(Tell us how to serve and eat that, Louella!)

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Monday, March 24, 2008

Modern Woman Monday: 1000 Ways To Make Yourself Beautiful

This book jacket proclaiming, "A Thousand Ways to Make Yourself Beautiful!" is from the 1940 Hollywood Glamour Cook Book, by Mariposa.


This book will disclose to you the Beauty Secrets of the Movie Stars. You, too, can be "most divinely fair," as irresistible as your favorite Glamour Queen. Imagine the thrill of hearing someone say about you, "Isn't she Glamorous, isn't she lovely!"
You can find out more about my obsession with Mariposa in my article at Collectors' Quest. (And I welcome any knowledge you have about her!)

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Thursday Thirteen: Hello, 1964!




13 More Magazine Scans To Mock, From The Year I Was Born
(I skipped TT last week here, so you can't be sick of me.)

#1 Musical Jump Rope with clown head handles?! No matter how fast you skip and run, those clowns follow you!



#2 Amazing any of the Breck's solitaire game boards, made of "feather-light Dylite" (aka Styrofoam) survived. (I know they have, every once and awhile I spot them at thrift stores -- even without being in a box. Which means someone had to carry it in gingerly, separately, from the other donated goods. Amazing.)



#4 Vicks: Where huffing begins.




#5 & 6 For those that believe in the separation of Church & State, 15 Religious Figures and 35 Presidential Statues -- each with their own display.




#7 Arthur Godfrey says Tintex takes the guesswork out of fabric dying.



Now that you've seen the ad, let's talk. What's the deal with this celeb endorsement? Was Godfrey a big ol' butch male crafter -- the Rosey Grier of his time?

(Well, it does look like Godfrey's has his experiences with dying... Look at those splotches on his face.)

#8 Black Eyed Suzie Flowerkins. I saw her live on stage at CBGB's.



#9 & 10 In an issue of Workbasket we find Women Who Make Cents. Some ingenious gal gives away her secrets for making money by using her left over netting to make hair nets. I'd say selling her business idea to the magazine for $2 is more money than she ever made or would have made from the sale of hair nets, no matter what decade.


Also in this column on ways for women to "add to the family income" are directions for bronzing baby shoes at home:
Fill a pair of baby shoes completely with plaster of Paris. Allow to dry or set. Then spray with gold or bronze paint, giving them 2 or 3 coats. Then sell for $2.50 to $3.50 per pair.
OK, I won't argue the cost v. profit ratio (I'm too lazy to research the cost of baby shoes, plaster of Paris and paint in 1964), but isn't the point of bronzing baby booties to both preserve your own child's booties (memories) and to actually bronze them?

#11 If you can't see the bleach container for the pig and actually need instructions and a pattern to make Pretty Priscilla, perhaps you've moved from huffing Vicks to snorting Clorox.



#12 Royal made a "nutty new flavor" in 1964 -- "a proud new pudding that combines the creaminess of caramel with the crunch of toasted bits of cashews!"



I can't won't am not allowed to speak for pudding pride, but the reasons why I've never hear of caramel-cashew pudding was either:

A) cashew quickly pudding became as pricey as cashmere pudding & out-priced anything in the boxed dessert (including the other Royal flavors, by the case)

or

B) like me, few desired crunchy pudding.

#13 Just when you thought pudding couldn't get any nuttier...

My-T-Fine pudding pushed a pudding and pantyhose promo.



I'm at a bit of a loss here because hubby keeps me to the PG-13 rule, but naturally, when I hear of pudding and pantyhose I think of a control-top -- and a breathable cotton crotch. The ad mentions neither.

Nor does it actually state pantyhose, but rather reads "nylon fashion hosiery." Not that pudding in my stockings sounds much better.

...But now I'm treading on the too-thin PG-13 ice. I don't want to skate the issue; he makes me. You, however, may play with "pudding" and "ladies' hosiery" and "My-T-Fine" and see what you come up with.

Get the Thursday Thirteen code here!

The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others' comments. It’s easy, and fun! Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!



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Saturday, March 1, 2008

I Love Chiquita Banana, So I'm Here To Say...

Chiquita Banana was inspired by Carmen Miranda, and so before Chiquita was an animated banana, there was The Terry Twins in Chiquita Banana (1946):



Chiquita Banana was then drawn by artist Dik Browne who also drew the Campbell Soup kids and Hagar the Horrible.

According to Weird Wild Realm:
Patty Clayton was the first radio voice of Chiquita for radio in 1944, followed by Elsa Miranda for 1945-6 promotional tour. Elsa Puerto Rican not related to the Brazillian singer in the fruit hat who inspired the character of Chiquita Banana.
Also see Animation Archive's Chiquita Banana theatrical animation info.

Here's the original Chiquita Banana theatrical ad:



Chiquita became so popular that parody ensued... I give you Juanita Banana by the Peels (1965).



In 1987 artist Oscar Grillo, creator of the Pink Panther, transformed Chiquita Banana from banana woman into a woman. And that's about when I lost interest in her.

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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Pink Elephant Hang-Over


From Spuzz Light Year at LJ's vintage Magic in Frosting book, found via Planet Fabulon.

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Monday, February 18, 2008

Boxed Dinners

Upon spying this 1957 ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee's box-O-pizza I not-so-fondly remembered eating the stuff.


Why was eating Kraft Macaroni and Cheese grand, but just spotting a box of this stuff in the pantry a sign that you were indeed among the poor kids?

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Big Boy Eventually Lost To An Even Bigger Steak



Chickens will devour McDonald's. Film at 11.

Via Flickr.

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