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A wonderful new world of Fords

Car Adverts from 1960

Oct 16th 2008 by Christopher

Advertising Enjoy this fun and swanky Ford commercial from 1960 linking new compact cars to futurism and the space frontier. They don’t make commercials like this anymore, do they? If you like this, there is a ton of more of old commericals and archive footage to be found in the Prelinger Archives at the ever so great archive.org website. ( continue reading... )

The Cocktail Nation - Queens Of Vintage

Episode 266    May 12th 2013

This week we talk to the publisher of an online magazine called Queens Of Vintage, her name is Lena Weber and recently she interviewed me in her kings of vintage portion of the website so I thought we should have her on to talk vintage culture and the English scene. Plus the best exotica and lounge music from across the globe.

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Does your airline offer this?

Apr 24th 2008 by Christopher

Advertising More airline retro goodness from a TWA commercial made in the early 1970s. Looks cheesy but still delicious in some odd way. ( continue reading... )

Attention all Customers – The Art of Lettering

Apr 18th 2008 by Christopher

Attention all Customers – The Art of Lettering
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Advertising I am not only interested in vintage design, architecture, lounge music and stewardesses but also graphic design and typography seeing I majored in it in college and nowadays what I make a living from. One thing that caught my attention lately are those old handwritten posters and placates that were found in major stores and outlets. Handwritten of course, they were in their own way ( read more... )

Fly the Friendly Skies

Mar 19th 2008 by Christopher

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Advertising Remember what is was like before Southwest Airlines? Well, I don’t. But it looks all good to me. Here are two early 1970s ads from the Dallas based airline Southwest Airlines and Miami based National Airlines. Both rather sexist, created to attract the attention of male passengers using tightly fitted outfits on the stewardesses along with broadcast and print campaigns suggesting that you could “fly” ( read more... )