#vintageadvertising
Do all of us have a “golden era”?
I was in my mid-20s when I started my business in the Pioneer Square area of Seattle. It was the center of cool where creatives ✍️ and innovators worked & played. We’d found a home where there were great clubs, restaurants,and similar people gathered. “Startups” wasn’t a word yet, but they were happening. Gordon Bowker (an original founder of Starbucks) was one the early supporters of the Weekly, a Seattle newspaper ️in my office building.
One of my friends from those days was Jerry Gay, a Pulitzer prizewinning photographer who founded “Picture Magazine.” We just spoke this week & I dug up these photos he shot of Chihuly Gardens for a story I was working on in 2012.
My office had a leather couch, ️ chrome & glass furniture and a Bang & Olufsen stereo incessantly playing jazz albums. Roger Downey, one of the Weekly writers, ⌨️ called me “Jazz baby.”
People in the building who drank coffee ☕chipped in & we shared the cost. Roger insisted we always buy “Yuban,” a canned coffee that was more expensive than Folgers and Maxwell House.
Judy, the Weekly office manager thought it would be funny to fill the Yuban can with “Brand ✖️” to see what would happen. Roger didn’t notice. How’s that for the power of advertising?
For many, our 20s & 30s is the golden age and a fun time in our lives.
Do you have a favorite memory of your young adult years?
PHOTOS: #Chihulygardenandglass at the Seattle Center - photos by Jerry Gay; An early #Starbucks ad I designed for Gordon in 1978.
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#handblownglass #dalechihuly #Seattlecenter #flashbackfriday #pioneersquare #goldenage #starbucks #yubancoffee #vintageadvertising #advertisingdesign #pulitzerprize #pulitzerprizewinner
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CWxXntWruB7/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Some fun vintage advertising for corsets similar to our c.1912 Edith. #periodcorsetscatalog #museemccordmuseum #museumcorset #researchcorset #vintagecorset #early1900s #early1900sfashion #historicalfashion #historicalcostuming #overbustcorset #longlinecorset #downtonabbeystyle #historicalundergarments #historicalcorset #corset #corsetry #vintageadvertising (at Seattle, Washington)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CcoDTaSPWQL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Hey everyone! I know I’m not terribly active on this page anymore, but I have a new project in the works. I’m working on a Tarot deck! That’s right. I’ve worked on this kind of thing before but it didn’t really pan out…
Well, I wanted to get back into it with a fresh idea and take on Tarot with a cool theme, Vintage Ads! So each card will be representative of a vintage ad of some kind, except some of the products advertised will be of a decidedly more fantastical nature… Think the vintage plasmid ads in Bioshock.
This is just the first in the series, The Fool. I’ll be unraveling more here as I churn them out… Until then, enjoy! Let me know if you’d like to preorder a deck as well as I would love to gauge the interest for this kind of thing.
#tarot #tarotdeck #tarotreadersofinstagram #Punksthetic #artwork #design #photoshop #drawing #illustration #artist #artistsoninstagram #majorarcana #minorarcana #vintage #vintageadvertising #retro #thefool
https://www.instagram.com/p/CUNgt77LdcE/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Saw this creepy-ass #Hires #rootbeer ad over the weekend at #Bretzels in Strasburg, VA. Looks like Kuato from Total Recall.
“Quaaaaaaid — Mars needs clean air — but you need the *wheeze* crisp refreshment of a — Hires Root Beer.”
#vintageadvertising #totalrecall #kuato #tinyhand #creepy #funny #creepyandfunny #strasburgva
https://www.instagram.com/p/COs_UB9BN4v/?igshid=nrtr1wcs9pva
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Magicool Perma-Lift Rubber Bras 1950s #instapic #58petticoats #etsyshop #vintageadvertising #vintagelingerie #bra #shapewear #pinup #pinupgirl #fetishfashion #burlesque #boudoir #boudoirphotography #rockabilly #wearvintage #photooftheday
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Did you know we carry a fabulous, big bowl of vintage matchbooks in the shop? Look at those fun graphics and fonts! Just $1 each. In store. #Vintage #VTG #VintageMatchbox #Matchbox #Advertising #VintageAdvertising #RichardsFabulousFinds #Chicago (at Richards Fabulous Finds)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb3gpXLL9QM/?utm_medium=tumblr
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