Monday 12 July 2010

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.



7 comments:

JoJo said...

Well that's great news! :D

JoJo said...

I didn't see the rest of this post till I came back. I love these old ads. Nostalgic, if a bit weird and sometimes creepy.

white rabbit said...

JoJo - I have the bad of habit of doing a posting and then adding bits later on. I agree about the 50s adverts - they are quite fascinating but I'd better stop them before this becomes a 50s nostalgia blog!

The Dental Maven said...

We shall all anxiously await the return of Marilyn! Can we expect pics, Rabbit??

tony said...

Bugger!Ah That's Showbiz I guess...........

Sarcastic Bastard said...

You do find some interesting stuff.

JoJo said...

Upon second glance, the lady at the grocery store looks like Kim Novak ca. "Vertigo".