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Closeup of Casablanca fan,
Around 58s mark -> https://youtu.be/watch?v=3zgdZZmX7r8
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Photo of a bottle from the Museum of American History,
Found what looks like a modern photo of a surviving pair of these.
Date unknown, but $5.95 got you a pair of these bad boys including postage east of the Mississippi.
Also, no zip on the address. 5 digit zip was introduced nationwide in the US by 1963. So this may be 50's or at most very early 60's.
It might not've been though. There was big advertising push in the early/middle 1900's to get infants off breastmilk and onto formula as the "modern" way.
Even today, there are large differences related to socioeconomic class, in how many parents use formula. Also varies a LOT per country.
Since the 80's, there has been a renewed push for breastfeeding. Advertising has been curtailed, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Marketing_of_Breast-milk_Substitutes
7-up or not, I have watched plenty of parents giving sugar sodas or other calorie laden drinks like sports beverages as a steady diet to young children. I can't recall any that were straight up infants like in this ad. But certainly very young children. And those children, to my eye, did appear obese. Not to mention being set on a path they will struggle to get off of, later in life.
So much modern food is terrible for you, but addictive, and advertised everywhere.
As far as I am seeing on Snopes and CBS News, this 7-Up ad was a real ad in the 1950's.
NOTE! There is almost the same image circulating that claims to be about giving beer to infants. That is a FAKE ad. It looks virtually identical as this one, but replaces 7-Up with beer. Same baby etc.
There is also a "Soda Pop Board of America" fake ad, with the tagline, "For a Better Start in Life, Start Cola Earlier". It also features a photo of a baby, but looks different from this. That ad is also FAKE -> Hoax Ad
Older ones had round picture tubes.
Twice as fast as what?
As NOT using digit dialing!
Phones were around for a long time before you could just pick one up and dial a number of somebody halfway across the country to call them like magic. That's a fairly newfangled way! Before that, there was no direct dialing. An operator at a switchboard at the phone company had to physically plug a cable to connect your phone line to your callee's phone line. You had to talk to the operator to ask them to do that!
In the very early days, you would ask for the other party by name, and the operator would look up the right jack that way. Eventually, there were exchanges, and you might ask for a particular party at "Garfield 7", or "Madison 3". Those are the names in the Allan Sherman song I linked below, that he is complaining about losing due to the move to digit dialing. Which is also what this ad is about - trying to get the public on board with it.
Digit dialing was not totally rolled out until the 1960's, although it was partial before that. New York City had switchboard operators in the 1880's. So the way you are used to, of simply entering a number to reach someone, has been the universal method for much less than half the time telephones have existed!
Editing, here is a photo of switchboard operators plugging cables in the 1950's. But clear back in the 1880's, it happened like that, but more primitive of course than the 1950 photo here.
Mom doesn't like moths? No problem, just have her sedated.
Does dad overact to a stumble? He can be sedated too.
The ad's byline calls it a saddle horse substitute, and looking at the mechanism, it appears the part you sit on was sprung and could move somewhat independently of the base.
So I'm guessing, you would hold onto the handles and then move the seat back and forth a bit like a modern rocking chair perhaps? Maybe it could provide a small amount of exercise in the process. Even some upper body workout if you used primarily your arms on the handles to supply the force.
How that translates to the most important health mechanism ever produced is left as an exercise for the reader.
On top of being the most important health mechanism ever produced, this ad might be the most important example ever produced of why you should pick a font and stick with that one for a little while.
The company also claimed that it would cure "cripples, paralytics, the corpulent, the insane, and the blind."
This appears to be a modern photo of a surviving example.
Sounds right.
In the 1960's, a band named themselves after this guy, in homage.
Unclear if this is an ad for the rental of a funeral car, or the purchase of affordably priced coffins, or both. I'm not spotting a motor or a place one would be hidden, so I guess this must have been a horse drawn vehicle that R.F. Dorr would use when you hired their services.
I would think that by the aughts, these would be motorized, putting this ad in the 1800's. But maybe tradition held out, and horses were used in the 10's or 20's in funeral duty? I could see that, since it's more stately and cars were noisy and undignified. In which case this could be early 1900's.
A nice find!
Very possible that Pamela, and the Tom, Dick, and Harry hand guys, are no longer with us.
1962 was 64 years ago. How old was Pamela in this photo? I am terrible at age guessing! 25? That would put her at 89 today. If 30, then 94.
Possible... but it's well past the average lifespan for someone born in the 1930s. The average American woman born in 1935 had a 63 year life expectancy.
If Pamela was a smoker in her life, not just when posing for ads, her expected span would be shorter than that average which also included non-smokers. Only 1/3 of women were smokers in the early 1960's. Of course we don't know from the ad if she was a smoker, or not.
Editing my own post to add: There is also the conditional factor to consider. While a woman born in 1935 might have had a 63 LE, there was a lot of infant morality in that figure, so the LE for a woman born in 1935 who had already reached 20-some years of age, would be higher than 63.
More Viewmasters, but this time with sound!
I never knew there were talking Viewmasters. I wonder how many talkie reels were produced. I guess probably not very many, compared to the many thousands of photo only reels.
The device itself hails from 1939. I do not know the date of the ad. ~~50s? 60s?~~ Probably no earlier than 60's per deduction from everett@lemmy.ml below.
It seems like the projector version, you would lose the 3D, wouldn't you? Which is the whole point of a Viewmaster, for my money!
I like this ad style too.
These were sold under various Dr. Somebody's brands.
Even in the 1800's, reputable doctors knew arsenic was highly toxic, and they tried to warn people away from these products. But for a time, the pallor and waxy, death-like skin arising from arsenic poisoning was a beauty ideal.
At least dozens of deaths were attributed to the use of arsenic wafers as a beauty aid, and the true number might be much greater than anyone knows.
They were often advertised as being safe, as seen on this box.
Other image here from the US NIH history archives about the product. This one promises that Neuralgine contains no morphine, opium, or cocaine.
So what does it contain? They didn't have to tell you, back then.
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Yeah... I wonder if it might've said on the back of the bottle? I don't see it on the front or the ad.
The reason I wonder about the back is, this was 1920's, and in the USA, the legal requirement to disclose the ingredients of medicines was passed in 1906 under Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy was all about pure food and drugs.
Normally I think of the 1800's or early 19-aughts as the era when ingredients were a total mystery.