Welcome to Friday, Dear Readers! And on Fridays this blog takes some time off from goofing off to pursue more leisurely pursuits like flipping through old magazines.
And to that end, here’s a magazine from 1953 I found stuck between two cookbooks at the Thrift store yesterday:
Come on, let’s look inside:
Is it just me or is this little guy wearing a saucer on his head?
This says: “Every Woman is Beautiful Thru Pregnancy”
Uh . . . not in this outfit she isn’t.
The note at the top of this page says: Painted for the Green Giant Company by Norman Rockwell.
Just think! In 1953 you could still hire Norman Rockwell to illustrate your ad!
Uh . . . judging from the color of their complexions, I think it might be a good idea for them to lay off the Libby’s Tomato Juice for a while.
“Of course not, darling, why would we?” “Mommy, do you think we’ll ever stop dressing like twins?”
“Of course not, darling, why would we?
Something in me longs for the days when gunning down Mother if she didn’t fix her children a snack of canned meat that had been “deviled” was considered wholesome fun!
While big brothers are chasing little sister (who has a a 35-year-old woman’s face) so that they can lasso her around her neck (good luck with finding her neck), the important thing here is that they won’t scuff the floors thanks to Simoniz self-polishing floor wax!
Well, Dear Readers, my scanning elbow is starting to act up again so we’ll quit for today, but I hope you enjoyed this little romp back to 1953!
Until next time . . . I love you
Linda Vernon Humor 
I am sorry, but I will be damned if I ever have a deviled ham-cream cheese-mayonnaise-and-peanut butter sandwich. I have to wonder how children of the 50’s ever survived to adulthood.
I really don’t know how we survived, Undercover. Everybody drove and drank, smoked everywhere and kids were never stapped in in the car and we didn’t eat much of anything was wasn’t canned (lots of canned meat too!) or highly processed such as Wholesome Hostess Cupcakes! But there certainly was less to worry about! 😀 (I also have a picture of me wearing two toy guns in a holster when I was two! LOL!)
Mmmm… Hostess CupCakes. I miss them.
I heard they started up the company again. They just went out of business so they could get rid of union wages they were having to pay.
That’s what I heard, but I am still looking for Twinkies and not finding them.
Twinkies in the US should be arriving shortly (within the next 2 – 6 weks, I think…)
They should have never left in the first place…. damn those union mobsters!
REally! Somebody needs to give them the Jimmy Hoffa treatment. Or just the Jimmy treatment as we . . . uh I mean THEY like to call it.
Yay! I can’t wait! 😀
I have seen hide nor hair of any Hostess products. (oh I hope there’s no hide nor hair in them . . . )
Let’s hope that among the changes in unionized workers, there was also a recipe change taking out the hide and hair.
Haha! That would definitely improve on the cream filling! 😀
Love looking at old magazines. People long for the “good ‘ole days”, but none of this sounds so great!
That is so true! Especially before they had antibiotics! And the polio vaccination. I can remember drinking the polio vaccination. It tasted pretty good actually. But I went to school with several kids my age who had to wear braces because they got polio — and just a few years before they came out with the vaccine.
They gave me a sugar cube, supposedly laced with polio vaccine, but I think it was really LSD.
That’s an interesting theory and is a great excuse for just about any behavior. In fact, from now on I’m blaming everything on my polio/LSD vaccine! Ha!:D
Honestly, the overuse of Libbys Tomato Juice is appalling.
don’t people know that if children are dipped in it more than twice a week, they’ll look like 40s children?
50s mom should be shamed of herself.
Those 50’s moms! I think they got way too much LSD in their polio vaccines!
Yeah that floor looks like pure glass. I can almost hear it crack under their Buster Browns.
Oh me too! And I can almost hear the spanking that was sure to follow!
Looking good thru your pregnancy…and apparently checking the condition of you bald spot.
I think I’m going to get Henry that flying saucer hat. Maybe aliens can help round out his flat head.
Ahahah! I forgot about bald spots! And yes a hat like that might just do the trick for Henry’s head. Only you could make it out of foil to keep the aliens from communicating with him and kill two birds with one stone!
This sounds like the same magazine that promoted the wife to ‘look nice’ for her husband when he returned from work. This after wrestling with the babies all day, feeding and cleaning up the mess they continuously made every minute.
The good old days. Thanks Linda for reminding me why the modern age has so much more to offer.
Enjoyed every single pic… I’m not that old, but that deviled ham looks familiar from my younger years… 😉
Thanks for sharing!
Ha! So glad you liked it. It’s funny how quickly everything changes. But I guess it was 60 years ago at that! (Funny how quickly time passes!) So glad you enjoyed this Bluejellybeans! 😀
No clue who Norman Rockwell is, and I have no desire to ruin the joy of not knowing, so don’t tell.
Oh Borgia, I will never reveal who Norman Rockwell is and I will take the secret to my grave (but leave it in an unmarked paper bag underneath my gravestone just in case you’re still curious! 😀
Too funny!
In 1953, I was six years old. I LOVED learning to read, and spent a lot of time looking through Mom’s magazines. Would you believe–I remember some of these ads! I’m so impressed with myself 🙂
Oh that is so funny. They must have really made an impression on your young mind! I remember my mother cutting out the McCall’s paper dolls for me. They were so hard to play with though because they were so limp! 😀
Oh my! Little Betsy McCall, how could I have forgotten you! My mom used to give me the cardboard that her nylons came wrapped around. I’d go to work with LePage’s glue and prop up poor little limp Betsy 🙂
Ah, now you were really resourceful. My grandmother always saved the nylon cardboard packaging for me. I always colored pictures on them. Gee I wish I would have put two and two together like you did! I would have had way more fun with my paper dolls! 😀
🙂