Annette Funicello
1942-2013
Showing posts with label 1956. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1956. Show all posts
April 8, 2013
August 9, 2012
April 1, 2011
From 1956: Smoking Cigarettes Is The American Way!
No, this commercial doesn't actually say that, but it might as well.
God, I miss cigarettes. I quit my two-pack-per-day habit almost twenty years ago. Wanna see a 40-year-old woman drop 50 pounds without even trying? Give me a couple of cartons of Marlboros and I'll demonstrate it for you.
God, I miss cigarettes. I quit my two-pack-per-day habit almost twenty years ago. Wanna see a 40-year-old woman drop 50 pounds without even trying? Give me a couple of cartons of Marlboros and I'll demonstrate it for you.
September 15, 2010
From 1956: You Can't Conceive This Level Of Awesome
Follow this link to see what might be my favorite post on The Information Superhighway so far this year. It is, in a word, fabulous.
September 11, 2010
From 1956: Blech.
I'm sick...some sort of overenthusiastic bug is chewing on my innards. Ever feel like you were accidentally shoved in front of a milk truck and it ran over you five times? Yeah. That's how I feel.
And Benadryl, any incarnation of it, should be sold on the street. I took some for the watery eyes and snuffly nose aspect of this flu and I woke up 18 hours later!
So I thought I would appease The Cold And Flu Gods by creating a post about vintage soup advertising, and this is what I found. Just what you want to look at when you are sick...pea soup the color of vomit. And to think, this is the best the graphic artists of the day could do with the color! What did this soup really look like? Sheesh.
Women's Day
April 1956
And Benadryl, any incarnation of it, should be sold on the street. I took some for the watery eyes and snuffly nose aspect of this flu and I woke up 18 hours later!
So I thought I would appease The Cold And Flu Gods by creating a post about vintage soup advertising, and this is what I found. Just what you want to look at when you are sick...pea soup the color of vomit. And to think, this is the best the graphic artists of the day could do with the color! What did this soup really look like? Sheesh.
Women's Day
April 1956
February 20, 2010
From 1956: As I Lay Dieting
American Meat Institute, Family Circle, July 1956A double clicker not to be forgotten, trust me.
I'm on a self-imposed diet that just so happens to coincide with the six weeks of full-on Catholic guilt otherwise known as Lent. I'm just not happy with my current weight and I know that I can do better, look better, be better. But gee golly, gee damn, those hot dogs are actually tempting to me. I have even looked longingly at one of the most hated of all Fifties Foodstuffs here at Touch Of Tuesday Weld, that green Jello botched abortion in the middle of the platter. Are those chopped onions suspended in green gelatin?
Goddammit, where's my sugarless gum and my Diet Coke?
July 9, 2009
April 28, 2009
Better Living Through Chemistry: Meet Bridget, The Fidget
1956
Ah, the Fifties. When plain old ordinary human foibles were medicated away by the rampant use of barbiturates.
This one is a real double-clicker.
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