Christmas Advertising: LIFE Magazine, Nov. 30, 1959 (Xmas#5)
Posted: November 30, 2013 Filed under: 1950s, 1959, advertising, alcohol, Canada, christmas, decorating, gifts, record advertising, shopping | Tags: 1959, bill cullen, Christmas Advertising, frigidair, Life magazine, november 30, price is right, proctor appliances 2 Comments
Just look at that radiant smile! And it’s all because of (find out below) …
NOTE: I occasionally post off-topic entries, especially during the Christmas season. I’ll be taking a breather from the My Life — In Concert! series for December to make way for three or four Christmas-themed entries to come in the the next few weeks.
A couple of yuletides ago, I published an entry highlighting Christmas-related ads spanning 1949-2011 that were culled from my magazine collection, focussing on gift-giving suggestions from throughout the years as well as with ads relating to seasonal social activities and entertaining.
While I love old magazines in general, I am particularly fond of and seek out issues of LIFE (something I chronicled in this piece on the first issue of LIFE on the 1950s). In this entry, I am zeroing in on one particular issue, with a newsstand date from exactly 54 years ago today: November 30, 1959. Read the rest of this entry »
Picture This: VA Poster Collection Highlights
Posted: August 1, 2013 Filed under: 1957, 1970s, 1973, 1978, 1980s, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1990s, 1994, 2000s, 2006, 2007, 2010, 8 Tracks, advertising, alt country, alternative, americana, Canada, Classic Rock, comedy, Concerts, Glam Rock, indie rock, Live, Music, New Wave, Ontario, pop, post-punk, posters, R&B, record advertising, skydome, Television, Toronto, Uncategorized | Tags: 8 tracks, aretha franklin, david bowie, ed wood, film, iggy pop, joni mitchell, kd lang, little britain, lou reed, lucinda williams, marilyn monroe, music, neil young, ottawa bluesfest, patti smith, poster art, posters, red heat, reveen, sharon jones & the dap-kings, siouxsie & the banshees, soundgarden, the grapes of wrath, tony d, trailer park boys, tv, u2, van morrison, variousartists 6 Comments
Howdy to those of you on both Open Salon and WordPress … I’ve had another OS/WP absence owing to a few reasons: life stuff, some needed household re-arranging, and a spell of writer’s block. I was also having too much damn hot fun in the summertime as of late, seeing a slew of great gigs over the past two months.
Well … that fun seems to have unblocked things. Read the rest of this entry »
KA-CHING-A-LING: Christmas Advertising Highlights 1949-2011
Posted: December 14, 2012 Filed under: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010, advertising, alcohol, Canada, christmas, decorating, gifts, jazz, record advertising, shopping, Uncategorized | Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, alcohol, Christmas Advertising, gifts, Life magazine, maclean's, new musical express, nme, parties, Santa, shopping, vanity fair Leave a comment
Season’s Greetings from Schlitz. And Joan from Mad Men (Life, December 1960) .
NOTE: I am pausing from my series to bring you a series of Christmas-related posts, a few of which were initially published on my OpenSalon blog.
Christmas is the season of peace, good cheer, and jollity … and maxing out your credit card; stressing over what to buy everyone in between bouts of insomnia as you try to recall if you bought Uncle Walt a similar pair of McGregor socks last year; rock’em sock’em parents giving each other a sharp right hook as they fight over the last (insert latest toy fad here) on the shelves while dodging pepper spray; abused, overworked sales staff squaring off against exhausted, overheated shoppers to discern who’s more fed up; mall patrons launching law suits following multi-car fender benders after a downpour of freezing rain has turned the parking lot into a fiesta of black ice … Read the rest of this entry »
