Modern Living: Part Fourteen

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DuPont Better Things for Better Living 1961

This is a very strange ad. "Only a few years ago the theme was that a third of our people were in poverty. Then it turned out that the trouble wasn't poverty but something called "affluence"

Affluence: the state of having a great deal of money; wealth

It just doesn't make sense!!!

 

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Spring Menthol Cigarette 1959

 

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Jimmy Stewart Air France 1961

 

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Benson & Hedges 100's

I love these ads. Also like the song "Dis-Advantages of You" by The Brass Ring 1967.


In the YouTube video look carefully for McLean Stevenson and Vic Tayback

 

[luxflairguy]

Do we really need cigarette adds? NO!

 

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<strong><strong>"Advertisements for homes and products up to 1989. Traditionally built & manufactured homes,  building materials, furniture, lighting, plumbing fixtures, flooring, decor, non-electric housewares, home linens, kitchenware, cleaning products..."</strong></strong>

 

<strong><strong>Thanks!</strong></strong>

 

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American Kitchen 1952

 

 

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Benjamin 1919

 

 

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Barcalounger 1955

 

 

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Bulova 1964

 

 

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Federal 1956

 

 

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Finco 1966

 

 

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Handel 1924

 

 

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Kentile 1962

 

 

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Libbey 1954

 

 

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Martex 1931

 

 

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[kd12]

electric chafing dish

#86 mentions "electric chafing dishes" in the ad. Did they mean electric mixers like the KitchenAid? Never heard that term before.

 

[ea56]

Re:#95

Roger,

An electric chafing dish would have been similar to an electric frying pan.  A chafing dish is used for the last minute preparation and heating of dishes table side such as cherries jubilee, crepe suzette, bananas foster or steak diane.  I haven’t ever heard before of electric chafing dishes going back as far a  1919, but apparently they had them.

 

I would imagine that only the very well off people in 1919 would have owned such a luxury.  And if they could afford an electric chafing dish they probably weren’t worried about having to plug it into a light fixture socket, they would have probably had wired wall plugs.

 

Eddie

 

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Reply #94

Martex 1931 - LOVE the cursive writing!

 

lawrence

 

[combo52]

Connecting an electric chafing dish in 1919

There were all kinds of electrical gadgets by 1919 but I don’t think any houses had electrical outlets. They were very few and far between almost everything was connected to an overhead light fixture, because electric lights were the first thing that came into homes when electricity arrived.

Even the early electric wringer washers and even refrigerators were often plugged into a light fixture with a cord draped across and down to the Appliance.

John