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Crazy for Cruises
Vintage Ad Cunard Cruise Lines 1953 Once upon a time, a cruise was a world of gaiety, comfort and relaxation such as no other form of travel provided. It was a rarefied world of glamour, hospitality...
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The Jet Age Hits Suburbia
Morning Lift Off Intruding upon on our leisurely Sunday morning breakfast in the winter of 1958, the rude roar of the airplane passing overhead totally obliterated the happy snap, crackle and pop...
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The Jet Age Hits The Suburbs Pt II
Starting in the fall of 1958 the roar of jets could be heard streaking through the blue skies of my Long Island suburban neighborhood, screeching over split levels, supermarkets and elementary schools...
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The Real Housewives of the Cold War
Like most women growing up in the 1950s and 1960s I was fed a generous serving of sugar-coated media stereotypes of happy homemakers who were as frozen and neatly packaged as the processed foods they...
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Supermarket Adventures Pt II: The Case of The Supermarket Sleuth
One day while flipping through a 3-year-old, dog-eared magazine while waiting for her hair to dry at the Glam-A- Rama Beauty Parlor, my mid-century Mom happened upon an article in the May 1955 issue...
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Happy Homemakers in Training
Illustration Saturday Evening Post Feb 16 1957 Steve Dohanos illustrator Before Domestic Diva Martha Stewart instructed American women in how to be the perfect homemaker, high school girls were...
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Nuclear Jitters
(L) A public service newspaper ad produced by the Advertising Council, advising mothers to be prepared with an assortment of first aid materials should a nuclear bomb attack occur. (R) A government...
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Heartbreak and the Boston Marathon 1979
A Runners World (L) Illustration by Ignacio Gomez for Cosmopolitan Magazine 1977 (R) Runner’s World Magazine June 1979 Boston Marathon The tragedy at the recent Boston Marathon jogged my memory back...
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A Boy Scout First
Vintage Illustration from Boys Life Magazine 1963 – History of Scouting Firsts 2013-Another Boy Scout first- ending their long-standing ban on Gay Scouts! Copyright (©) 2013 Sally Edelstein All Rights...
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The Gay Bachelor And The Bride
Vintage men’s fashion Ad Hart Shaffner & Marx 1948 Next to the waiter passing the champagne, my confirmed bachelor Great Uncle Harry was the most sought after man at a mid-century wedding....
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Man, What a Heat Wave
Vintage Illustration “The Story of Man The Panorama of Human Life and Works” 1960 Illustration by Pierre Leroy The Temperatures Rising… It Isn’t Surprising… Poor mankind! His triumphant march towards...
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Was Justice Served?
Serving on a Jury Was justice served in the murder acquittal of George Zimmerman? You be the judge. It would seem that the only ones being served were the sequestered jurors who were treated by...
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First Born Boy With Benefits
A Royal Welcome (L) Vintage children’s book illustration “Bedtime Stories Omnibus” Brimax Books 1979 (R) Vintage ad- Carnation Evaporated Milk for babies 1947 By George, it’s a Boy! Many in the media...
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What Was The Right Brewing Before The Tea Party?
“Every citizen must read this as it tells what you and every American can do to save our constitutional freedom and competitive economic system from destruction.”“The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping...
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Remembering Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941 Just as 9/11 is a marker for this current generation, and November 22 was for mine, Sunday December 7, 1941 was a where-were-you-when-kind of day that was seared permanently in the...
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Santa’s Heart Healthy Holiday… Ho Ho Ho
With his overweight girth, penchant for candy, coffee and cigarettes, it’s a Christmas miracle that twinkly-eyed Santa is still around to make his Christmas deliveries. One only hopes there’s a...
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Your Doctor is Just a Phone Call Away
Vintage ad Mallory Electronics 1949 A Thing of the Past Today when it is unthinkable to go anywhere without your smartphone in hand, it’s hard to imagine the excitement and wonderment generated by...
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Winter War Time Romance PTII
Vintage ad WWII Woodbury Soap 1944 Moonlight Becomes You “The breathless night. The moon burning on its billion watt radiance. Multiplying mystery, quickening the pulse. Stirring up a suddenly sweet...
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Coke & American Diversity-It’s the Real Thing
“Hospitality-So Easy and Welcome with Coke” vintage Coca Cola Ad 1948Recently, some very inhospitable reactions have bubbled up over Coca Colas multilingual rendition of America the Beautiful Real...
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True Detectives
Vintage “True Detective” magazine April 1941 As HBO’s True Detective has proven, Americans love their Dicks. The true crime and true detective genre is as American as apple pie. Long before the much...
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