The Glass Character
Showing posts with label 1950s TV advertising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1950s TV advertising. Show all posts
Saturday, August 11, 2018

How mild, how mild, how mild can a cigarette be?

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Unusually short for a 1950s ad. This came out back when TV was "radio with pictures", and every ad had a chorus singing the ji...
Monday, February 26, 2018

'50s Treasures (and dubious pleasures)

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Friday, August 11, 2017

Pream or scream?

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I love Pream ads more than life itself, because they're so odd. (For those who are less than 100 years old, Pream was the first p...
Saturday, August 5, 2017

Snap, crackle, oh damn.

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I don't remember seeing this particular Rice Krispies ad as a kid, mainly because it was a few years before my time. Yes! There are ...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

"Put a smile in your smoking!": 1950s TV advertising

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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

There really was a Chef Boyardee

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This has got to be one of my dumbest animations ever, but here it is anyway.  For God's sake, I could only find three pictures! The...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

See, hear, smell, taste: feel?

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Friday, August 19, 2016

Stopette! Stopette RIGHT NOW!

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I could, can, and do watch old commercials by the hour. Some of them I actually remember - in fact, the 1950s ones are probably among...
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Margaret Gunning
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Welcome to Margaret Gunning's blog: a tribute to the strangeness of the ordinary. Ms.Gunning is the author of The Glass Character (Thistledown Press), her paean/tribute to the brilliant silent screen comic Harold Lloyd. Researching and writing this novel celebrating Harold's legacy and legend was by far the most compelling (and fun!) experience in her long and varied writer's life. The novel is available on Amazon and Kindle, Thistledown Press, and other major book sites. Her previous novels, Better than Life (NeWestPress) and Mallory (Turnstone Press) explore her lifelong fascination with family secrets, alienation, and the surprising joys of the ordinary. She has also written hundreds of book reviews (Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail) and newspaper columns for small-town papers across the country. Her philosophy: "Everything that happens is happening for the first time."
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