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Pepsi advertisement photo taken through bus window Bangkok, Thailand December 1979 On our trip to southeast Asia in December 1979, it was fun to see common, American logos with foreign writing.

Life Savers' advertisement circa 1950s Shirley S. lost her sleek appeal                                      Slim Sally Hayes stays light on her feet She never stops eating from meal to meal                     She makes Life Savers her 'tween meal treat  What are your impressions of this vintage advertisement?

Maytag vintage advertisement approx. 1950 My mother did not get an automatic washer in the farmhouse until the late 1960s. Until that time, she used a wringer washing machine, not a Magtag, but similar to the one pictured at the top of the advertisement. The washer was kept in a corner of the porch and rolled out on laundry day. A small bench was placed behind the washer. A large copper boiler for the rinse water sat on this bench. Hot water (boiled on the stove) for the washer and copper boiler were hauled from the kitchen to the porch. The clothes were sorted and piled on the kitchen floor in the order they would be washed. Sheets, whites, colors, and finally coveralls and jeans. The washer had a lever on the side that started the agitator. When the clothes were clean, they were "fished" out of the washer, run through the wringer and then placed in the hot water of the copper boiler for rinsing. Then the clothes were run through the wringer once more and taken ou...

advertisement from Workbasket magazine circa 1958 This "Home Haircut Kit" looks a lot like the ones that my mother used to cut my brothers' and nephews' hair. Previous post and photos can be seen here . source: wikipedia I remember Mom taking the clippers apart and oiling the motor with 3 in 1 oil  from a can  like the one shown above. Old clippers (probably long broken) were stored in boxes on an upper kitchen cabinet shelf. They were probably saved for parts, but I doubt they were ever utilized. source: online image Several hand clippers like the ones shown above but with a broken handle were also stored on the upper shelf, but I don't remember my mother using them. Given a choice, I would prefer to have a haircut with the electric clippers.

1955 Workbasket (click to enlarge) Please note that the diet would be mailed in a plain wrapper: some consolation since they already insulted everyone  with the "Fat Girl's Diet" headline The more things change, the more they seem to stay the same. While the headline is not politically correct in 2013, many of the same "diets" keep surfacing in magazines. I doubt that they will ever disappear. What's the craziest OR most successful diet that you've tried?