I recently found some vintage magazines in my attic dating back to 1914. I've done some fun posts on them on my other blog, As Life Happens. I titled them Then and Now. Pop over there if you want to read them.
I loved the old ads in these magazines. Here's a great one that was in a 1916 copy of The Country Gentleman about a new type of gas stove - apparently a big improvement over wood cooking stoves. It's titled "This summer I'll cook in comfort". I love the vision that she is seeing standing in a hot kitchen - inside the little thought bubble.
and this one of a family driving around in their new Mitchell automobile with 3rd row seats. It's a convertible! I had never heard of a Mitchell car.
These old magazine ads give us a glimpse of the past - history in advertising. I love them! I would love to have that old car, but I think I'll stick to my modern kitchen stove.
Linking to The ColoradoLady's Vintage Thingy Thursday. Go take a look for more vintage things.
I loved the old ads in these magazines. Here's a great one that was in a 1916 copy of The Country Gentleman about a new type of gas stove - apparently a big improvement over wood cooking stoves. It's titled "This summer I'll cook in comfort". I love the vision that she is seeing standing in a hot kitchen - inside the little thought bubble.
and this one of a family driving around in their new Mitchell automobile with 3rd row seats. It's a convertible! I had never heard of a Mitchell car.
Linking to The ColoradoLady's Vintage Thingy Thursday. Go take a look for more vintage things.
I see you are still out junking and finding great things.
ReplyDeleteYes LV, perseverance pays, lol.
DeleteOh, I love all kinds of vintage and retro advertising. It is so interesting to see them, and to relate how things used to be back then!!
ReplyDeleteI remember my grandmother baked on a woodstove in her kitchen and never got an electric one. She said she liked her stove perfectly fine and it made the best pies I've ever tasted. She died in 1957 when I was 9 years old. She was 77.
DeleteWow! The only thing I've found in our attic is dust... Fun to see what made women happy way back when. (can you hear the sarcasm in my typing?)...
ReplyDeleteYes, their "conveniences" would be cumbersome to us today, wouldn't they?
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