Archive for December 1st, 2007

Thanks to Dad !

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

This old ad (from The Adventures Of Alan Ladd #2), reminded me of an article I read in a Flemish newspaper the other day, which claimed that of all the members of a household, father gets the least presents with Christmas. It’s just something I wanted to bring out in the open, so to speak. So there…

And another thing - are there still men who address their wives as “mother” ? Or is she really his mother, and has she aged very well ? We’ll never know…

Sneakers and batteries

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

By chance I came across a bunch of Alan Ladd comics recently, which also contained these wonderful elaborate comic style ads for Ray-O-Vac batteries and P-F sneakers. What was the deal with all these hyphens in the brand names from the 1950’s ?