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rodmonster
05-17-2009, 07:51 PM
Here are a few goodies....
Some are below and a few more in this album...
http://www.mymerrychristmas.com/forum/album.php?albumid=308
I will add some more later..
=)
http://www.mymerrychristmas.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3166
http://www.mymerrychristmas.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3162
http://www.mymerrychristmas.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=308&pictureid=3165
trackrebel
05-18-2009, 03:26 AM
very cool stuff Rod
George Broderick, Jr.
05-18-2009, 07:16 AM
I like the one in your album for the car... what marketing genius decided "Hey! Let's take this generic car ad... throw in some twinkly stars and VOILA! a Christmas ad!"..?

They probably got paid extra for that. cheesy
YellowSnow
05-18-2009, 07:47 AM
Very cool Rod. Except for the transistor radio, those prices are almost unbelievable. I guess we're talking almost 50 yrs ago though... Hard to believe the '60s were that long ago.

YS
MsChristmas
05-18-2009, 08:05 AM
That is so neat! Of course that was before I was born... cheesy but I still cant imagine how cheap some of those prices were as compared to today!
Minta
05-18-2009, 10:29 AM
Awesome!!! I love looking at stuff from Christmas past.
rodmonster
05-18-2009, 01:17 PM
Hope to upload some more Christmas ones soon
=)
tsteffes
05-18-2009, 02:42 PM
I loved looking at those ads!! I was a kid in the 60s and I remember it being a carefree time!
Meceka
05-18-2009, 07:13 PM
Cool!
Christmasstar
05-24-2009, 03:08 PM
very cool, but the scary part is that it looks familiar! I was 10 when this stuff came out.
Wenceslaus
05-25-2009, 07:34 PM
My dad had that Polaroid camera in the lower right of the Ardan ad. Thanks to it, we have albums of childhood photos. And we had that "Jack and Jill TV radio" in the Shoppers' World ad — it was basically a wind-up music box with a rotating series of pictures telling the J&J story.
HolidayHoney
05-25-2009, 07:49 PM
We had the camera too, and I still have it!! My Dad gave the camera and his Bible to me....I cherish them.
George Broderick, Jr.
05-26-2009, 06:59 AM
As long as we're on the topic of old ads and/or catalogs, check out this thread entry I just posted in Online Christmas Media:

http://www.mymerrychristmas.com/forum/showthread.php?p=163950#post163950

If you follow the link there, you'll be able to read a complete Christmas promotional giveaway comic (put out by the W.T. Grant 5 & 10 chain) from 1952... it features Jo-Joy, a little boy Jack-In-The-Box.

Enjoy.
made582
05-27-2009, 10:04 AM
Cool ads thanks for posting. I wish stuff was still that cheap.
MerryNoel
09-05-2009, 07:03 PM
I Love These :)
Snow-in-Texas
09-06-2009, 08:04 AM
My dad had that Polaroid camera in the lower right of the Ardan ad. Thanks to it, we have albums of childhood photos. And we had that "Jack and Jill TV radio" in the Shoppers' World ad — it was basically a wind-up music box with a rotating series of pictures telling the J&J story.


Oh my God!!! I had that Jack and Jill TV Radio too, I forgot about it until I read your description of it. Wow that's wild, I totally forgot about that until just this moment!!!

Those are some pretty cool ads, do bring back some childhood memories.