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Does a gentleman offer a Tiparillo to census takers? [1968] advertisingpics.tumblr.com/post/619133218…
5 Separate Vegetables in 1 Can - Larsen Company, 1949 advertisingpics.tumblr.com/post/619133919…
Bathing friends gameraboy1.tumblr.com/post/619178399…
“Esther Williams says: If you can afford a car you can have this pool in your backyard”, Esther Williams Pools, 1957 advertisingpics.tumblr.com/post/619178495…
The Soviet city of tomorrow, illustrated by A Shumilin on the cover of Tekhnika Molodezhi, October 1961. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/619179546…
Pontiac Bonneville 1950s danismm.tumblr.com/post/619134057…
Easter Starts at Breakfast! And golden, sizzling Treet helps make it gay!
1946 Armour Treet canned ham ad
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From the 1967 Soviet book The Milestones of the Space Epoch 70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/619136826…
The Ernst Bircher bookshop in Bern, Switzerland 1920 danismm.tumblr.com/post/619136887…
Jon Juan #1 (1950)
Art by Alex Schomburg
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1967 Ford Motor Company ad introducing the new Mercury Cougar! advertisingpics.tumblr.com/post/619180585…
Lynda Carter in Wonder Woman gameraboy1.tumblr.com/post/619181036…
Bird’s Custard Powder. 1896. advertisingpics.tumblr.com/post/619138037…
Ramona Fradon, the artist most associated with Aquaman in the Silver Age. wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/619138344…
Ads from a “Farming Magazine” found in an old schoolhouse (1950s) advertisingpics.tumblr.com/post/619138734…
Cadillac 1959 danismm.tumblr.com/post/619124334…
ivor de wofle, kenneth browne - the inner marina, civilia, england, 1971 cosmicinspirocloud.com/post/619121732…
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Before the pandemic, the music industry was making more money than ever, exceeding even the incredible revenues of the CD era in which audiences bought all their favorite music in a new format.

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I have a weird soft spot in my heart for Hertz, because they were the first company to offer satnav systems, and since I have a sense of direction so bad that it verges on a cognitive impairment, this saved my ass a million times in the 90s and 2000s.

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Leaked internal Facebook docs reveal that top company execs were told that the company's "engagement algorithm" was sowing division among its users, by feeding people ever-more-fringe versions of their own beliefs.

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