Showing posts with label advertising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advertising. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Tillamook Baby Loaf is driving around San Diego, I just saw it Sunday
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Parnelli and the #98 at the March 1965 Kearney Bowl midget races
the midget racer referred to would be similar to the #83 in the Justice Brothers museum http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/05/hollywood-spring-axle-special-driver.html
found on the wall of the Fire Memories Museum
Monday, February 11, 2013
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
A variety of busses from Fifties50s.blogspot.com
Sprotts Mexico Tours, back int he 40's I think, or 50's... when it was safe to go into Tijuana. When it was a day trip vacation for a lot of Southern California residents.
The background is the "central park" of San Diego, Balboa Park specifically. Site of the 1915 Panama California Exposition
Found among the variety of cool posts at http://fifties50s.blogspot.com
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Advertising through the 30's, 40's and 50's
gas stations and gas company advertising, mostly 1930's and 40's
A footnote of interest in history, and I think a lot of people have forgetten, that during world war II, so many men in America were drafted into the military, that in order to keep American jobs alive, and to make munitions, tanks, airplanes, and so many of the suddenly necessary things that fighting the war created a need for, women stopped being treated like domestic prisoners. They even formed a baseball league, since the majority of the baseball players were drafted (See the movie "A League Of Their Own")
Above, good design thinking, why not have the gas station provide shade for the mechanics, cars, and customers? Not just shade, but shelter from rain and snow!
Some time ago, the company Montgomery Ward was like Target. It operated from 1872 to 2001. Then couldn't figure out how to compete with online companies like Amazon.com that had taken it's business model of mail order goods, and improved on it to where it and the other competition have put Sears, Montgomery Ward, and Kmart out of business or through bankruptcy. Montgomery Ward was so influential, they invented Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer. The mail order catalog was deemed as influential on American life as the Websters dictionary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Ward
The above is in Portland Oregon, and has been going through a restoration
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