The winter holidays are coming up, with family gatherings and parties that you don’t want to attend, but have to look nice for anyway. That means it’s time to go shopping for red sport coats and bow-bedecked blouses, to keep your family looking sharp! Because it’s always 1986 in my imagination, let’s go to…JCPenney. [More]
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Sears Commercials Through The Decades: Jingles, Car Repair, Bruises
By 11.27.13
Sears: it was an iconic American retailer, and now has become more of a cautionary business tale as it struggles for relevance and tries to shed more real estate and scrap itself for parts. Many years ago, though, Sears was a central shopping experience in Americans’ lives. Americans who bought boom boxes and played “Space Invaders.” [More]
Vintage Food Ads: Nabisco Bacon Thins, Parmesan Fruit Salad, And Food Sticks
By 7.31.13
Over time, food tastes change. This happens both because of trends and normal evolution, and because marketers tell us what it is that we want. On both counts, the middle of the 20th century was a terrible, terrifying time for American food. [More]
Lancer’s Shirts’ Machofascismo
By 3.21.06
ve got a nice campaign piece for jackboots. From 1996 issue of Playboy.
