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…Just one pound of Diamond Walnuts

26-Jan-10

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 [...]

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The Kelvinator, 1955

30-Jul-09

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” [...]

Filed in 1931-1940, 1951-1960, ads | Also tagged , , | Comments (2) »

A Riding Lawn Mower from 1909

17-Jul-09

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 [...]

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Canada Dry, 1971

16-Jul-09

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 [...]

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The Eaton’s Catalogue, 1967

06-Jul-09

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 [...]

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