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Stuff that strikes me as funny and/or interesting, but that I'm too lazy to publish on The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
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1955-02-07 p090, Buick on Flickr.
Buick automobile ad scan from Life magazine, February 7, 1955.
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From “Our Kids are in Trouble” by Vintage Cool 2 on Flickr.
One of these days, those young hooligans and their dope smoking will be the ruin of this country. Mark my words.
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“Coffee… have another cup!” by Vintage Cool 2 on Flickr.
Why yes, I think I will have another cup!
Ad from the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
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Night exterior of Eavey supermarket - Fort Wayne, Indiana, September 1957. Photo by Francis Miller for Life magazine.
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Two different Coca-Cola ads from two different magazines (Life and Ebony) in the same month (August 1967). Notice any similarities? The white man’s hand has been altered to make it look like a black man’s hand for the Ebony version of the Coke ad.
The strange thing about this (well, one of them) is that Coke was clearly fine with using African-Americans for their other ads. Just not this one.
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Portrayal of drunk by six pink elephants in scene from Dolphin Show (aquashow) at Northwestern University. Francis Miller for Life magazine, 1951.
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Young girl posing like Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver in Lilliput except captors are new Troll dolls, plastic reproductions of dolls created by Danish carver Thomas Dam. Photo by Ralph Morse for Life magazine, 1964.
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1955 Ford and Mercury cars being unloaded for a Life magazine photo shoot, 1954. Credit: Yale Joel.
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Overhead photo of stacked shelves of food at Super Giant Supermarket, with shoppers lined up at checkouts. Rockville, MD 1964.
Photo by John Dominis for Life magazine.
