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hmhaines

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Sep 5, 2016
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Wanted to do some design research for a project I'm working on so I pulled out my small collection of Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, and Mechanix Illustrated. I love the old ads and whatnot want to use them as inspiration.
Anyhow, stumbled on a Yello Bole ad from, I believe, 1946. The collection spans from '46 to '49, there could be a few pipe ads in there! Anyone interested in me taking some time to photograph or scan the ads and post them here?

 

mackeson

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Mar 29, 2016
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Absolutely! I love the old ads. They're a great peek into our history.
EDIT: oops, "Peek" not "Peak"

 

pagan

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May 6, 2016
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I love the old adds, hell I love the time when they could publish tobacco and smoking related adds, now all you see are commercials with some bad mannered hipsters, crazy sounding (music?) with flashing lights saying this is the generation that quits smoking, sory, Id rather remember the generation that saved the world

 

hmhaines

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Sep 5, 2016
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Started scanning. When posting, should I include the whole page of the magazine, or just the pipe ads?

 

aldecaker

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Feb 13, 2015
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1) Posting the whole page may help to put the ads in a little bit more context, and

2) Those magazines were usually digest size anyway, so a full page won't take up a huge amount of space.

 

hextor

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Sep 20, 2015
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Love the olden ads of yesteryear, I wonder if carter hall, or captain black tasted different back then.

 

mso489

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Those were the magazines that featured the little ads in the back that offered a military Jeep boxed in parts for an incredibly low price, $89 or something. Yes, old magazines are a study in history, and especially the ads. The ones from the teens and twenties had car ads for brands most of us have never heard of or seen. I've seen a Hupmobile and a Reo, but there were a world of brands that have gone out of business. Now Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Saturn, and Mercury have joined the long list.

 
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