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Swore off 1950s housewares ads for good until a box of old Life magazines from a garage sale in Ames changed my mind
I used to skip past every old ad in the vintage magazines I picked up because they felt like filler between the articles I actually wanted. Then last week I sat down with a stack of Life issues from 1953 and 1956 and started really reading the copy, like the line in a Hoover ad promising a woman she'd finish her whole house in under an hour, and it hit me that these weren't just selling vacuums, they were selling a whole picture of how a family was supposed to live. Anyone else start collecting these ads after years of ignoring them, or did you already see the value from the start?
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felixw991d ago
Reading old magazines for the articles is like buying Playboy for the interviews, nobody believes you. Those Hoover ads basically sold a whole life sentence with the vacuum, so congrats on finally noticing the fine print.
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