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Post by drewsmom595 on Jan 20, 2009 11:00:22 GMT
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Post by chefmate51 on Jan 20, 2009 14:12:50 GMT
Those were a hoot especially the one dealing with smelly crotch!!!
They are just a reflection of the times those people lived in; no big deal, the ads today aren't much different except for the wording
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Post by iamjumbo on Jan 20, 2009 14:52:24 GMT
that's true. advertising is nothing more than appealing to people's basest instincts. the vast majority of commercials, especially now, as opposed to then, do not contain information, but are merely persusaion
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Post by everso on Jan 21, 2009 1:00:07 GMT
One thing you never saw advertised years ago (at least in the UK, don't know about the US) was anything pertaining to menstruation. It just wasn't mentioned. Ever.
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Post by chefmate51 on Jan 21, 2009 3:26:49 GMT
One thing you never saw advertised years ago (at least in the UK, don't know about the US) was anything pertaining to menstruation. It just wasn't mentioned. Ever. Those are disgusting and don't remember them growing up and I hate the ones for birth control methods......give me a break and go talk to your doctor or read the internet How about the erectile dysfunction ones or the ones that promise to make a man's whoopee stick longer?
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Post by everso on Jan 21, 2009 12:36:02 GMT
One thing you never saw advertised years ago (at least in the UK, don't know about the US) was anything pertaining to menstruation. It just wasn't mentioned. Ever. Those are disgusting and don't remember them growing up and I hate the ones for birth control methods......give me a break and go talk to your doctor or read the internet How about the erectile dysfunction ones or the ones that promise to make a man's whoopee stick longer? I must confess, they make me cringe slightly. But at the same time, how strange that we've been conditioned to think of it as disgusting. Wonder who made us feel like that?
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Post by chefmate51 on Jan 22, 2009 16:20:00 GMT
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Post by swl on Jan 22, 2009 23:58:54 GMT
I used to have an old local newspaper from about 1900 or so. It was fascinating. It was about the size of a regular broadsheet, but it folded out to the size of a dinner table - it was all one piece of paper. It was full of local interest stories and letters sent back from the Boer War from local soldiers. Most fascinating were the ads from local shops. One chemist in Cupar advertised Askit Powers as a cure-all for everything from headaches, gout, earache, stomache ache, fevers, rheumatism, seizures, general malaises and "all troubles afflicting gentlewomen" In the small ads was one from a local house looking for a Kitchen Maid - "Strong country girl required, must be adept in black leading, housewifery and birthing"
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Post by drewsmom595 on Jan 23, 2009 11:01:47 GMT
That newspaper must've been fascinating, swl! I actually like reading old time ads because it's a hoot to see how cheap things were "in the olden days".
Not too long ago, my son was watching an episode of "The Brady Bunch" which was shot in the 1970s. There was a scene in the butcher shop, and they had prices of meat posted. Everything was less than $1 per pound. I cracked up looking at it. Imagine buying chuck roast today for 79 cents per pound.
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Post by iamjumbo on Jan 23, 2009 18:36:05 GMT
That newspaper must've been fascinating, swl! I actually like reading old time ads because it's a hoot to see how cheap things were "in the olden days". Not too long ago, my son was watching an episode of "The Brady Bunch" which was shot in the 1970s. There was a scene in the butcher shop, and they had prices of meat posted. Everything was less than $1 per pound. I cracked up looking at it. Imagine buying chuck roast today for 79 cents per pound. until i left california two years ago, i was paying 99 cents a pound for hamburger. of course, that's still not three pounds for a buck like it's supposed to be. when you look at life magazines from the fifties, you see new chevvies for $1200. that's a far cry from the usurious prices that they sell them for now
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Post by beth on Jan 23, 2009 22:23:47 GMT
Jumbo sez: until i left california two years ago, i was paying 99 cents a pound for hamburger. of course, that's still not three pounds for a buck like it's supposed to be. when you look at life magazines from the fifties, you see new chevvies for $1200. that's a far cry from the usurious prices that they sell them for now True, but the pay scale was much lower then. I worked in personnel several years ago when some of the older employees started out in the '50s. Their entry level wages were just over $1./hour and they were not unskilled.
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Post by chefmate51 on Jan 24, 2009 2:58:46 GMT
my first job in 19701 paid $1.80 an hour and I always had money left over
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Post by iamjumbo on Jan 24, 2009 12:53:23 GMT
Jumbo sez: until i left california two years ago, i was paying 99 cents a pound for hamburger. of course, that's still not three pounds for a buck like it's supposed to be. when you look at life magazines from the fifties, you see new chevvies for $1200. that's a far cry from the usurious prices that they sell them for now True, but the pay scale was much lower then. I worked in personnel several years ago when some of the older employees started out in the '50s. Their entry level wages were just over $1./hour and they were not unskilled. that's true enough. minimum wage was only $1.60 even in the seventies. still, like with houses, you could buy a two bedroom house for about $15,000. now, the fools try to get twenty or thirty times that much, but most people only make ten to fifteen times as much, which has resulted in half or more of your income going for housing rather than the quarter that it's supposed to be
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Post by iamjumbo on Jan 24, 2009 12:55:05 GMT
my first job in 19701 paid $1.80 an hour and I always had money left over that's because price gouging wasn't the order of the day then as it is now, primarily because ceos made maybe a hundred grand if they were top notch in a top notch company, as opposed to the fools making millions now
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jan 26, 2009 19:41:41 GMT
my first job in 19701 paid $1.80 an hour and I always had money left over Chefy is a time traveller from the future! AH
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jan 26, 2009 19:49:47 GMT
Some of those adds are great...I've a good mind to sig the "Amolin" one...
"Society simply won't stand for indelicate women"
AH
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