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Friday, November 7, 2014

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Buy a jacket, get a free pipe!

Thanks to Bill Crider's Pop Culture Blog.

Received via email from a reader, who says that he believes this is from a 1950s-era Reader's Digest.

Oh, how I miss Three Nuns!

An undated but obviously "vintage" photo of a liquor store, with a sales display of Medico pipes at the upper left. From Roger Wilkerson.

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This 1908 image of women smoking and drinking was intended to be a horrifying glimpse of a post-suffrage future.

I spotted two pipe smokers. Orignally in Puck Magazine, March 18, 1908.

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I remember my grandmother having some button cards similar to this when I was a kid. I guess no one makes them anymore.

Readers of this blog should well be familiar with creepy vintage Bond Street ads. We have seen bears, bulls, stalkers, werewolves, weird uncles, man-goats and goat-men, and the father of them all, the evil mastermind (a.k.a. The Creepy Bond Street Guy). I think we can safely say that this is the least creepy of them all. with Lucy about to bring the glowing hammer of doom down on Ricky Ricardo's smelly pipe.

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