It's Too Fabulous

[Unimatic1140]

American Airlines has just announced a new ad campaign with 1950's style print ads targeted to people, well like many of us, YAY!

This ad is super cool, can't you see it right out of one of our 1950's Better Homes and Gardens magazines that so many of us have shelves full of? I love it...

http://www.bgay.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=130&Itemid=23

 

[toggleswitch]

You betta holla to get my dolla!

DINK DINK DINKY.

Double-Income No Kids.

It's not about disposable diapers, it's about disposable INCOME!

We are a fiercly (and as-of-yet untapped) strong financial sub-market.

 

[gyrafoam]

Very kool.
Too bad they can't provide equipment from that era to fly on!
Their old DC-7 (large, four-engined, piston powered) "Flagships" and "The Mercury Service", were quite luxurious and comfortable with huge seats compared with todays aircraft. And full service was provided to all with excellent food and drink. Those were the days!

Now, back to reality, a kool ad campaign nevertheless. Such a thing was inconcieveable in the 1950's.
We've come a long way baby!

 

[toggleswitch]

No matter what anyone says or thinks or does to cut us down in society;

LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE!

 

[hoover1060]

very nice...

now to only have the service to live up to the ads...

my last few experiences with American Airlines were anything but grand or pleasant..

 

[gyrafoam]

Yeah, I forgot to mention it would be nice if traveling by air were such a plesant adventure as it was back in the fifties.

Now, with rare exception, it has become an irritating ordeal, and I avoid it as much as possible.

 

[alexb1186]

I don't have the BHG's but I'd love to have the guy in the blue shirt even if he's a drawing. Hey a guy can dream

And the article on Scott Jordan at the bottom of the page? My reaction as illustrated by this picture of Marcy D'arcy

 

[gansky1]

I wonder if most BGay readers thought "Oh, get her with the hat!"

Love the ads - they have appeal on many levels!

Peg's laundry room and Lady Kenmores - she never actually washed the clothes, "just dried them for a while..."

 

[mickeyd]

It's David and Dennis home from Hawaii

;'D

 

[laundromat]

I like Southwest Airlines but I heard most gay men like to fly United lol

 

[toggleswitch]

Stewardess: TWA coffee or TWA tea? NEITHER thank you!

Customer/flyer: But can anyone in here pass the double Red-bull test?

 

[tomturbomatic]

Advertising art used to be so colorful. There is a great difference between the ads up through the mid 50s and the photographic style that followed. The older ads were usually colored ink drawings and many home furnishings were shown against the dark wall colors used through the early 50s. Later, maybe starting when appliances began appearing in colors, the background was just the stark white of the paper stock. Even white GE and Frigidaire washers were often shown in magazine ads against a white or light gray background in the early 60s.

 

[toggleswitch]

Maybe they need a gayer artist........

Colostomy patient in shoe store:
"Do you have shoes to match my bag?"

Girls, girls, girls. The man in blue may be nice, but the bag absolutley MUST match the shoes! OH the horror of it all!

*LOL*

Here is an old newspaper article

http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/2006-11-02-gay-market-usat_x.htm

 

[toggleswitch]

Orbitz dot com

http://www.orbitz.com/App/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=gay-travel

 

[toggleswitch]

AW *OUTING*?

I'm thinking to take the cruise from Ibiza, Spain (gay island resort) to Italy to Mykonos, Greece (gay island resort)

The trip of a lifetime! And we get to use washers in three countries and on the ship!

2009 anyone? Nice pic, but where are the trolls like me hiding? *LOL*

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[pumper]

yet still all advertising in gay/str8 media is geared toward the guys with the tight buns and bulging pecs. if they want to go where the real money is, they should be targeting the older crowd. and when are they going to get past the idea that the only thing gay people have to offer is money and sex?

 

[beadsobleach]

Artistic License

My memories of flying in the early 60's were that people dressed for flying. I'm old enough to remember when women wore gloves. I wonder if the stewardess would let them on dressed like that?

 

[hooverwheelaway]

Of course it was probably too "controversial" to play in the US... but go Travelocity!!

Take a peek at this:

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[gansky1]

Hot towel? Hot towel?

Love that - awesome commercial! Can you imagine the FCC fine for that travesty playing in the U.S.? A SIN against Jebus! Congressional resolutions, stiffer fines for the offending networks and heaven forbid a defenseless child sees it - they'd turn to salt just like when Janet's titty got out a few years ago!