The Sooner The Better

I couldn’t agree more – Ted Images found at “Advertising is good for you”

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Beer Promotion Film “As We Like It” from 1952

This film is about beer. About how beer has helped to build America and Western civilization in general. About how beer is brewed to exacting standards of sanitation and quality. About how beer has great "food value." About how heavy taxes are levied on beer, building highways and schools to benefit us all. And about [...]

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Dressed For A Night On The Tiles

I would have thought dressing a bit more formal was required to get in to most country clubs, but who am I to judge, we don’t have country clubs in Norway – Ted Image found at “The 1955 Hudson”

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New Cure For Drunks

The cure works like magic. Consisting almost entirely of cocaine syrup and weak grapes. If any drunkard drinks copious amounts of this cocaine syrup they will almost instantly lose their need and want for alcohol and will gain a new want for life and fun – and cocaine – Ted

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Something To Think About

Forget your Italian racers, This little babe-magnet is the Daihatsu HI jet MPV Hmmm, Am I buying this. Not quite, not quite – Ted

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Bovril

Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick, salty meat extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston and sold in a distinctive, bulbous jar. It is made in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, owned and distributed by Unilever UK. Bovril can be made into a drink by diluting with hot water, or less commonly [...]

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Felina

Felina is a family owned corporation, in business for over twenty years with corporate headquarters in Los Angeles, California. We employ a dedicated staff who brings to you some of the world’s most beautiful intimate apparel. The makers of brassieres, panties, thongs, garter belts, bustiers, daywear and sleepwear, Felina offers European inspired designs at affordable [...]

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Now That That Buffalo’s Gone

ca. 1874, [Buffalo Heads Outside Taxidermist’s Office, Kansas Pacific Railway], R. Benecke By 1874, when railroads were in competition for business, iconic images like this one were used for advertising. Here the promotion is that riders could shoot buffalo for sport from the train. The Kansas Pacific Railroad even had its own taxidermy department. Needless [...]

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Beer Promotion Film: As We Like It (1952)

This film is about beer. About how beer has helped to build America and Western civilization in general. About how beer is brewed to exacting standards of sanitation and quality. About how beer has great "food value." About how heavy taxes are levied on beer, building highways and schools to benefit us all. And about [...]

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Old Kodak Ad

    I would say that covers my sentiments when it comes to hunting to. I shoot them  with my 1970 Canon F1 or the 1952 Rolleyflex. Or my digital Canon if I should be a bit lazy one  day – Ted Image found at “every day tea”

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Join A Pig Club

As my girlfriend would say: “I don’t need to, I live with one” – Ted Image found at “Donna Lethal”

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What A Daft Contraption

The only mechanism producing a concentrated continuous massage of the chin and neck, dispelling flabbiness of neck and throat, restoring a rounded contour to thin, scrawny necks and faces, bringing a natural, healthy colour to the cheeks, effacing lines and wrinkles. Oh yes, that would do the trick – Ted  Image  found at “defrag”

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Keep That Schoolgirl Complexion

MILE-STONES in the love affairs that lasts a lifetime. Staying young with your husband – The priceless reward that comes from keeping “That schoolgirl complexion” – The simple rule to follow. The good old copywriters working for Palmolive knew how to say it – Ted Image found at “Bernice bobs her hair”

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It Looked Safe

Why on earth a company that deals in aluminium and brass should run an add that warns against socialism is beyond me, but the ad is American and it is from the fifties. That tells a lot – Ted

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Meet Potato Pete

Here’s a useful reminder that posters during the WWII weren’t separate objects but were seen by people at the time as part of a whole range of other kinds of graphic design surrounding them – and the rest of it can easily be forgotten when we’re telling the story of the posters. Take Potato Pete, [...]

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Fallout Safe Powdered Milk With Extended Shelf Life

It’s nice to know that if the nukes wiped out your whole family, at least your powdered skim milk was safe – Ted Image found at “My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning”

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How A Sign Was Painted In The Forties

Recreated from an article in Popular Science’s October issue from 1946 A water-colour drawing, scaled one inch to the foot, is squared off by the pictorial painter for his own guidance in putting such outsize art work on a board with raw paint. This is shown below, overlaid on an outline sketch of picture and [...]

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Hot Toilet Water From The Most Amazing Electric Appliance

Supreme Tecal makes tea automatically while you sleep – wakes you when brewed – tells the right time – lights attractive bedside lamp – switches off kettle and give hot toilet water – everything is automatic I see that the teapot is not included, but as far as I can see, neither is the toilet [...]

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Naughty glasses

These kind of items must have been very popular in the US, I’ve posted another set of glasses like them earlier and some stripping pens as well. A bit tacky may be, but who cares. One man’s tinsel is another man’s gold – Ted Image found at “grooveland”

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Daring Cannon Towels Ad From 1944

This must have been a rather daring ad for 1944. The right wing christians must have had a hard time swallowing all this female skin turning up in a full page ad in their family friendly magazines – Ted

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