1936 Ads for Cars, Liquor, Cigarettes
Oct 15, 2015 07:43:59 #
Yesterday was a little messy so I was hanging around the house looking for something to do. In digging through a box of belongings left by my wife's father I found this old FORTUNE magazine from March 1936. The ads were fascinating so I started photographing them. I wasn't trying to create really great photos as I was more interested in the subject matter and artwork of the advertising. I hope you enjoy looking at these as much I did.
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Oct 15, 2015 07:54:22 #
I bought a stack of Time magazines from the 30s, 40s and 50s from an auction. I love the ads in them so I understand. Good pictures! Cheers.
Oct 15, 2015 08:04:51 #
ginbudjim wrote:
Yesterday was a little messy so I was hanging around the house looking for something to do. In digging through a box of belongings left by my wife's father I found this old FORTUNE magazine from March 1936. The ads were fascinating so I started photographing them. I wasn't trying to create really great photos as I was more interested in the subject matter and artwork of the advertising. I hope you enjoy looking at these as much I did.
Nice. I used to have a '37 LaSalle sedan. (No, I didn't buy it new. :D)
I used to look through old copies of magazines in the library. I noticed that there was very little photography in the ads - mostly artwork.
Oct 15, 2015 08:17:07 #
Oct 15, 2015 08:22:01 #
I'm surprised at the cost of the magazine - $1.00, that's a lot of money for a magazine in 1936. Life magazine was only 10 cents while Time was 15 cents at that time.
Oct 15, 2015 08:40:03 #
catfish252 wrote:
I'm surprised at the cost of the magazine - $1.00, that's a lot of money for a magazine in 1936. Life magazine was only 10 cents while Time was 15 cents at that time.
I was sruck by the cost as well. Their target market was obviously for the very wealthy. Just like the Robb Report today.
Oct 15, 2015 14:54:55 #
Oct 16, 2015 07:02:01 #
Oct 16, 2015 07:32:37 #
When I was in the Air Force in 1951 at Sampson AFB, NY, I bought a Nash Ambassador from a Sergeant ho was a friend of my Sergeant Major for $125.00 - $25 down and the balance in four monthly payments. In 1953, i sold it in Washington, DC, for $100.00. Great car, lots of fun. Thanks for the picture. I am saving it to show my children.
Oct 16, 2015 08:11:37 #
ginbudjim wrote:
Yesterday was a little messy so I was hanging around the house looking for something to do. In digging through a box of belongings left by my wife's father I found this old FORTUNE magazine from March 1936. The ads were fascinating so I started photographing them. I wasn't trying to create really great photos as I was more interested in the subject matter and artwork of the advertising. I hope you enjoy looking at these as much I did.
Great stuff. In my twenties, I worked for a designer who loved this sort of thing. He had many tear sheets from magazines of the '30s, '40s, '50s, and '60s. It was amazing to watch the evolution of ads and general culture.
Oct 16, 2015 08:22:54 #
ginbudjim wrote:
I was sruck by the cost as well.
Me too. Out of curiosity I plugged one dollar into BLSs CPI Inflation Calculator and the price is equivalent to $17.12 US in todays money. For a little perspective of sorts, the March 1936 issue of Popular Mechanics was selling for 25¢ (one quarter of Fortunes price but actually not too shabby itself since that works out to $4.28). :)
Oct 16, 2015 08:23:06 #
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Loc: Tallahassee, FL
My first car was a 1928 Model A roadster. My grandfather bought it new. When he gave it to me on my 16th birthday it had less than 12,000 miles on it.
Oct 16, 2015 12:38:03 #
Oct 16, 2015 16:14:56 #
arch23 wrote:
When I was in the Air Force in 1951 at Sampson AFB, NY, I bought a Nash Ambassador from a Sergeant ho was a friend of my Sergeant Major for $125.00 - $25 down and the balance in four monthly payments. In 1953, i sold it in Washington, DC, for $100.00. Great car, lots of fun. Thanks for the picture. I am saving it to show my children.
Where in NY is/was Sampson AFB?
Oct 17, 2015 16:31:05 #
A friend of mine in high school had a Nash Ambassador sedan. He called it his sports car, because the seats would fold back into a bed. It certainly would have been a better venue at a drive in theater than my '65 Corvair convertible..... Jus' sayin'!
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