This advertisement from the December, 1949 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal provides the reader with a number of delicious-sounding recipes that can all be made from just one pound of Diamond Walnuts! Maybe I’m just extra hungry right now, but these recipes actually all look really good to me. And none of them seem very [...]
On this, the last day of my Thanksgiving holiday entries, I decided to finish with a subject that even today would scare me if I actually had to bake the turkey myself. I am referring to the way to carve a turkey. The November 1907 issue of Delineator magazine had pages full of Thanksgiving articles, [...]
Just as the economy today is teaching many of us to turn to less expensive ingredients and to do away with things that aren’t necessities, in 1974 the United States was in the midst of a recession and changes were being made. This little recipe booklet is one example of that. However, it comes from [...]
Many of the products we use around the house today were in existence for quite a long time! One example of this is Vaseline, as seen in the vibrant ad above that I found in the December 1919 issue of The Woman’s Magazine. However, as the ad shows, Vaseline came in several different formulas at [...]
This ad for the Kelvinator refrigerator came from the June 1955 issue of House and Garden magazine. The Kelvinator was founded in 1914 according to Wikipedia; and in 1955 they introduced the Foodarama, which was the first side-by-side refrigerator. The Foodarama is shown in the picture below, and as advertised, it came in eight “glamorous” [...]
I was very surprised to see that a riding lawn mower like this existed a hundred years ago! As you can see, it was made by the Coldwell Lawn Mower Company. The company is no longer in existence; I tried my best to find more information on this model but everything similar I found seemed [...]
Aren’t the outfit and that hair wonderful?? Yes, this is definitely an ad from the ’70’s! It appeared in the September 1971 issue of McCall’s magazine. This ad was so amazingly retro that I couldn’t resist posting it.
Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale was introduced - in Canada, of course! - in 1904. The Canada [...]
This is an ad for the Eaton’s Catalogue which appeared in the March, 1967 issue of Chatelaine Magazine. Chatelaine is a Canadian magazine, and Eaton’s a Canadian department store chain. According to Wikipedia, Eaton’s was Canada’s largest department store retailer at one time.
I remember my family visiting Toronto when I was a kid in the [...]
According to Wikipedia, “A corset is a garment worn to mold and shape the torso into a desired shape for aesthetic or medical purposes (either for the duration of wearing it, or with a more lasting effect).” From the 17th century up until the early part of the 20th century, corsets were a common part [...]
The September 1927 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal is full of elegant, beautiful images. Two such images come from these ads that appeared in the magazine’s pages, and both happen to feature sun rooms. I think they are gorgeous and I can easily imagine myself sitting there, perhaps having a glass of lemonade, and simply [...]
