Mom doesn't like moths? No problem, just have her sedated.
Does dad overact to a stumble? He can be sedated too.
The ad's byline calls it a saddle horse substitute, and looking at the mechanism, it appears the part you sit on was sprung and could move somewhat independently of the base.
So I'm guessing, you would hold onto the handles and then move the seat back and forth a bit like a modern rocking chair perhaps? Maybe it could provide a small amount of exercise in the process. Even some upper body workout if you used primarily your arms on the handles to supply the force.
How that translates to the most important health mechanism ever produced is left as an exercise for the reader.
On top of being the most important health mechanism ever produced, this ad might be the most important example ever produced of why you should pick a font and stick with that one for a little while.
The company also claimed that it would cure "cripples, paralytics, the corpulent, the insane, and the blind."
This appears to be a modern photo of a surviving example.
Sounds right.
In the 1960's, a band named themselves after this guy, in homage.
Unclear if this is an ad for the rental of a funeral car, or the purchase of affordably priced coffins, or both. I'm not spotting a motor or a place one would be hidden, so I guess this must have been a horse drawn vehicle that R.F. Dorr would use when you hired their services.
I would think that by the aughts, these would be motorized, putting this ad in the 1800's. But maybe tradition held out, and horses were used in the 10's or 20's in funeral duty? I could see that, since it's more stately and cars were noisy and undignified. In which case this could be early 1900's.
Huh... It looks very impractical to me, if so. But then, I am not a 1960's high society lady, and I do not know about these kinds of things. Perhaps you are right.
Very possible that Pamela, and the Tom, Dick, and Harry hand guys, are no longer with us.
1962 was 64 years ago. How old was Pamela in this photo? I am terrible at age guessing! 25? That would put her at 89 today. If 30, then 94.
Possible... but it's well past the average lifespan for someone born in the 1930s. The average American woman born in 1935 had a 63 year life expectancy.
If Pamela was a smoker in her life, not just when posing for ads, her expected span would be shorter than that average which also included non-smokers. Only 1/3 of women were smokers in the early 1960's. Of course we don't know from the ad if she was a smoker, or not.
Editing my own post to add: There is also the conditional factor to consider. While a woman born in 1935 might have had a 63 LE, there was a lot of infant morality in that figure, so the LE for a woman born in 1935 who had already reached 20-some years of age, would be higher than 63.
Glad to see they were so careful to avoid any hint of objectification!
What is the blue thing she is holding? It looks like a cheerleader pom-pom, but her attire is inconsistent with that.
More Viewmasters, but this time with sound!
I never knew there were talking Viewmasters. I wonder how many talkie reels were produced. I guess probably not very many, compared to the many thousands of photo only reels.
Never heard of that lady, but TheMovieDB lists her film parts, which were mostly uncredited bit parts such as "Girl on Meat Packers Float".
As well as, one assumes, whatever masterpiece of American cinema resulted from this ad.
The scenery ones are cool though! Virtual travel to see far flung places, before the internet. Plus, you got to see it in 3D.
I never even knew there was a projector, until I saw this very ad!
But whatever year it was, $11 got you the projector, the normal viewer, and 15 reels!
The device itself hails from 1939. I do not know the date of the ad. ~~50s? 60s?~~ Probably no earlier than 60's per deduction from everett@lemmy.ml below.
It seems like the projector version, you would lose the 3D, wouldn't you? Which is the whole point of a Viewmaster, for my money!
I like this ad style too.
I have to think that we have not come very far. Today, no arsenic wafers, but an epidemic of mental health crises, and people get plastic surgery to look like distorted Instagram-filter version of themselves.
These were sold under various Dr. Somebody's brands.
Even in the 1800's, reputable doctors knew arsenic was highly toxic, and they tried to warn people away from these products. But for a time, the pallor and waxy, death-like skin arising from arsenic poisoning was a beauty ideal.
At least dozens of deaths were attributed to the use of arsenic wafers as a beauty aid, and the true number might be much greater than anyone knows.
They were often advertised as being safe, as seen on this box.
Other image here from the US NIH history archives about the product. This one promises that Neuralgine contains no morphine, opium, or cocaine.
So what does it contain? They didn't have to tell you, back then.
Naturally!
I wonder about the exposure of playing with this, and how it compared to other sources at the time, like lead paint, lead gasoline, lead pipes, etc.
This was a kit sold for children 12 and up, which let them create metal soldiers and other figures. The kit included a crucible, a heating unit, and lead ingots that you would melt in the crucible, to then pour the molten lead into molds.
I assume you could then paint the resulting figures, if you wanted.
Here is a photo showing those components. The crucible and electric heater are on the right. I suppose(?) you would file or trim away the flashing and pour-funnel from the final cast figure, but this photo shows the result straight out of the molds.
Ages 12 and up.
Not much about it, just Spirographs! Nobody is too old to enjoy one. The standard model sold here for $2.99. I never knew they made a motor one!
If I was eph-ewe rich, I would buy a Spirograph for every child in the world. It's gotta be a good thing, to learn that mathematical patterns are cool and fun.
This brand still existed into the 1970's, advertising under the same name! I assume in the 1940's, the modern slang was not in common use. Some word origin sites say "poo" arose in the 1950's. By the 1970's, this branding must have become problematic!
Nothing wrong with the product, as far as I know. Similar dry shampoos can be purchased today, under rather different branding.
$2.85 in 1949, is about $40 today. So 91 weeks of that, plus the unspecified down payment, would exceed $3600 in today's terms, possibly over $4000.
1949 saw the first episode of the Lone Ranger, which ran 52 episodes that season. The first broadcast of the Emmy awards. The first televised charity telethon, for a cancer foundation.
There were 4 television networks in the USA. ABC, CBS, NBC, and the much lesser known DuMont network, which operated from 1940 to 1956.
I am very confused as to this idea, of a solder returning from probably WW-I (1917 ad!), buying a swagger stick for his little girl.
Would a single little girl in 1917 prefer a swagger stick to the dolls or the pinwheel? Swagger sticks are called out in the biggest font, the very centerpiece of the ad, but they don't even bother to show a swagger stick? Was this hyper progressive, at 50+ years before the army let women become officers? Did somehow, the Marks Brothers Toy Company create a branch in the timeline where that happened decades before the other timeline where no one ever imagined swagger sticks as gifts for little girls? Maybe we'd still be waiting on female generals and admirals today, in the other timeline?
I have so many questions.
Allan Sherman himself wrote a spoof about Digit Dialing!
https://youtu.be/watch?v=hCFLanFgUPI