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Beauty, Brains, and a Bar of Soap
Sally’s Pretty and Sally’s Smart Would you dare risk the shame of “Cosmetic skin?” Sure you’re careful, never risking offending with halitosis, avoiding housewife- hips, pink toothbrush, B.O. and...
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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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Time Tested Tips To Land a Job
A crackerjack resume can only take you so far. In a rough economy, opportunity knocks few times these days. Too many folks are seeking jobs and competition is keen. So it is important to make every...
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To Canoodle or Not to Canoodle; A valentines Day Dilemma
In Post-War America, love was in the air. Along with Valentines Day’s hearts and flowers, came big dates, big dances, and king sized expectations in high schools and colleges all around the country....
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Can Betty Draper Tune in to the Now Generation?
(L) Vintage Life Magazine- Generation Gap Issue 5/17/68 (R) Vintage ad Cascade 1955 Like my own mother Betty, Mad Men’s Betty Draper woke one morning in the late 1960s to the realization she was a...
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Heinz Ketchup Beckons a Man
Vintage ad Heinz Ketchup 1934 Mad Men’s Don Draper was not the first man to be tempted by the beckoning allure of Heinz Ketchup. During the dark days of the Depression, Babs Johnson learned how to keep...
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Five Minute Face Lift
Want a more youthful vibrant expression? Chew on this! Forget expensive cosmetic wrinkle fillers and injectables like Botox. For a true non surgical age reversing technique-good ol’ American chewing...
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Liberace: In the Candelabra lit Closet
In Your Dreams Next to Rock Hudson, Liberace was Sue Ellen Wolinski’s absolute dream date. Liberace was just so fabulously different from any other fellows she had ever met. A wonderful pianist, yes....
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Ladies and Lawns
Vintage Illustrations (L) Saturday Evening Post Cover 1955 illustration: Dick Sargent (R) Vintage Ad 1955 Beer Belongs Home life in America Series “Showing Off The New Power Mower” illustration by Fred...
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Ding Dong…Avon Calling
The lyrical sound of Ding Dong… Avon Calling was music to my mid-century mother’s ears. My father may have said he wanted to be a hands on kinda Dad but it was my Mother who had her hands filled...
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July 4th Celebration Cold War Style
Vintage American Legion magazine 1948 Truthfully, I would always remember my first July 4th. It was 1956. The cold war was frozen solid. Never were American dreams more potent or more seductive than in...
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Rosie The Riveter’s Swimsuit Romance
Vintage Ad WWII Jantzen Swim Wear 1943 It was a sweltering summer in 1943 and along with most war-weary Americans, Rosie the Riveter needed a day off. In the heat and stickiness of summer everybody was...
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A Weiner Roast
Vintage Ad Skinless Wieners 1940 At the most talked about lunch in Washington DC this summer, you can be sure that Hillary and President Obama will not be dining on wieners, though it may well turn...
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Wouldn’t You Really Rather Have A Cadillac?
Cadillac Standard of the World (L) Vintage Cadillac Ad 1953 (R) Vintage Cadillac Ad 1958 With the conviction of a car salesmen selling a wouldn’t you rather have a Cadillac, Mid-Century Americans were...
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Beach Club Paradise on Parade
L) Vintage Ray Ban Sunglasses Ad 1960 (R) Vintage Jantzen Swimsuit Ad 1950s, illustration by Pete Hawley Preening In the summer of 1960 the glitter and glamor of my Grandmothers beach club often...
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The Cabana Set Boys of Summer
Vintage Cabana Set ads (L) Mc Greggor Sun Wear 1948 (R) Catalina Sport Sets 1954 as worn by Norm van Brocklin and Elroy “Crazy Legs” Hirsch who formed one of footballs greatest passing teams Beach...
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Cold War Defrosted
Cover Illustration from Colliers Magazine 10/27/51 This Cold War era magazine imagines a “Preview of a War We Don’t Want” a cold war what-if, featuring Russia’s defeat and US occupation 1952-1960....
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When the GOP Really Was Grand
The Man Who Feels Right About the World! Vintage image from Airfoam Ad 1946 Fact or Fiction It may sound like a fairy tale but once upon a time the GOP really were…well, pretty Grand! Today when 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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Republican’s and the Retro Working Girl
Collage by Sally Edelstein Calling gender pay gap an embarrassment in 2014, President Obama said in his State of the Union address that ” it’s time to end workplace policies that belong in a Mad Men...
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