Modern Packaging Magazine - Productstat 2.0

[Unimatic1140]

I've been experimenting with a low-resolution preview system on Automatic Ephemera for certain public domain trade magazines. I just posted the September 1958 issue of Modern Packaging with a preview of all 236 pages yesterday.

Quite a few of the articles I originally posted on Productstat came from Modern Packaging and I plan on republishing them over time this way. It's much easier for me to do it that way than to try and format a single article into a blog style posting.

Now like with Productstat this is all an experiment to see how much work it turns into and how it effects the performance of the server so no promises that I will continue doing this or even keep these previews live. Time will tell, but enjoy what I post for now.

You can click on the image on each page to go to the next page or use the controls at the top of the image, check it out...

 

[Ultramatic]

 

 

Love, love, love it! Thanks Robert!

 

[Unimatic1140]

Thanks Louie! I also should point out my favorite articles from this issue which are very Productstat like...

Design History
Packaging Pageant
First Aluminum Canned Beer!
Triple Fruit Sherbet
Swan Detergent goes plastic
Paper Wraps
Polystyrene films in use

 

[arbilab]

Really? Primo was the first aluminum canned beer? Fascinating. I used to drive past the factory twice a day in 1967.

Can't address the beer itself. Never that much a fan, I had given it up altogether for pot at the time. After much research, can report pot is easier on the metabolism. But much harder to acquire after one can no longer pass for a college student (after 50 in my case).