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Where Is Space? When we look down a street we look into space. The True Book of Space, by Illa Podendorf, illustrated by Robert Borjo (1959)
À La Carte Food Marts You can pick and choose the food mart of your choice from this menu of architectural concepts. These retail food mart concepts look suspiciously canned and…
Mystery Pie It’s a big mystery. It’s a pie, or at least it looks like a pie. You decide.
Food & Gum The William Wrigley Jr. Company, the maker of several types of chewing gum originally sold products such as soap and baking powder. In 1892, Wrigley began packing…
The Mysterious Hot Dan The Mustard Man This is probably the most obscure advertising mascot in the history of advertising. He is obviously the spokesperson for French’s Mustard. He is…
Subvertising refers to the practice of making spoofs or parodies of corporate and political advertisements in order to make some sort of statement. Subvertising can take the form of a…
Good Eating In A Loaf Ground meats of all kinds provide tasty loaves that make exciting, varied main dishes. Very exciting. Yes. Mmmm mmmm.
This is Mrs. Filbert’s New Idea … Make a cake with mayonnnaise! Now, you must watch Mrs. Filbert cook up a storm in this 1979 television advertisement. Sadly, we never…
Sounds Like Whizzing Through Space! Why, it’s the Space Pilot Helmet, a Tarco Toy. 1952 … Pre-Sputnik Period Space Toys Basically a plastic beanie with a pin-wheel attached.
Vintage Hams Whether it be Sunday, Easter, Christmas, Funeral, Church Socials, Miscellaneous Gatherings … it doesn’t matter. Just add the ham! Bon appétit!
In 1955, Jockey Briefs trying to sell their boys undergarments by showing young boys shoving guns down their underwear. No word on if the campaign was successful or not, but Jockey…
The Pipe That Hef Smokes You’re going to want to pick this up pretty fast. It’s the pipe that Hugh Hefner smokes. So it’s got to be cool. There’s no…
