It's going back up!

The rabbit has had a commendably quick reply from the manager of Missing and - yes - the statute of Marilyn Monroe is going back up. IN GOLD!!!

(Sorry Tony!)

While we're about it, here are a couple of ads from plan.59 from 1948 and 1949 for something called Petri Wine featuring drunken rodents in boots...

I also quite like this one which is from 1955 and the US Brewers Foundation and poses the (presumably rhetorical) question 'when everyone feels like relaxing, what makes a glass of beer taste so good?' Ummmmmmmm.....

Below is from 1960 and is for some odd reason by Champion Paper and Fibre. The young woman looks, as seems to have been the custom those days, very well turned out to do her shopping (standards slipping with no gloves, though!). The checkout woman looks like Nurse Ratched in One Flow Over the Cuckoo's Nest but I suppose most people did in those days.

Finally, here is an early example of the mobile phone from 1945 and the Pennsylvania Railway company who proudly announce 'linked together . . . by Induction Telephone'. Pleased to see the driver is wearing gloves! He's probably on one of those premium lines where he's having a discussion with a 'Bored Lithuanian Housewife' or somesuch at an alarming rate per minute.