This is one of those ads that just makes you say, “huh.” It was all so catchy and innovative and trendy (?), but now it looks old-school and overly formal, wordy, and not-enough-white-spacey. Would love to see the contemporary version of that ad. Though it would have to be about a shaving app you could download so you wouldn’t really even have to shave on your spaceship ride. Or whatever. Love all of your finds, Kerbey 🙂
Yes, you’re right; it would be a shaving app now. I’m always surprised by how “wordy” the old ads are. Many I don’t even post because they are 8-10 paragraphs long, and nobody has that attention span anymore. There was no TV to distract them, so they read. The National Geographic articles are usually like 20-25pp, so that tells you how committed people were to reading.
This post works right along with my guest post at Greatest Generation Lessons! I’ll have to leave a link over there!!
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Great!
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Great graphics. I would love to take a train cross country.
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Me, too!
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Wow, wonderful graphics!😍
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🙂
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This is one of those ads that just makes you say, “huh.” It was all so catchy and innovative and trendy (?), but now it looks old-school and overly formal, wordy, and not-enough-white-spacey. Would love to see the contemporary version of that ad. Though it would have to be about a shaving app you could download so you wouldn’t really even have to shave on your spaceship ride. Or whatever. Love all of your finds, Kerbey 🙂
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Yes, you’re right; it would be a shaving app now. I’m always surprised by how “wordy” the old ads are. Many I don’t even post because they are 8-10 paragraphs long, and nobody has that attention span anymore. There was no TV to distract them, so they read. The National Geographic articles are usually like 20-25pp, so that tells you how committed people were to reading.
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Great poster .. I wonder how many people really considered who made the locomotive, though…. 😀
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What’s weird is that GM didn’t even sell Electro-Motive until 2005.
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It musta been a real money maker !!!!!!!!
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