Braniff Airways Special

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 What a lucky group of students, off to fly the friendly skies in 1951.

But what’s going on here? Such eye-catching colors, he can’t help but be distracted.

http://brandedskies.com/
http://brandedskies.com/

Braniff had some great non-sexist ads as well. Check out the colors and the artwork on these!

http://www.dpvintageposters.com/
http://www.dpvintageposters.com/
http://frugalmaterialist.com/
http://frugalmaterialist.com/
wordsandeggs.wordpress.com
wordsandeggs.wordpress.com
http://www.retrosnapshots.com/
http://www.retrosnapshots.com/
http://www.dpvintageposters.com/
http://www.dpvintageposters.com/

Aren’t those fun? I could look at travel posters for hours. Maybe I will.

Double Drinking Dorothy Hamill

78 UT Cactus
78 UT Cactus

If you are too young to recall the famous wedge haircut made famous by 1976 Olympic figure skating champion Dorothy Hamill, consider yourself lucky. It was a trend amongst women of the late 1970s, and the immediate regret caused many to self-medicate with frosty longneck beers. Consider these two ladies, rocking the double H: the Hamill and highwaisted jeans. And just in case you can’t read their shirts, they say: Bored Martyrs. Indeed.

Being With You, Being With You

source: Always Home by Frank Coffey
source: Always Home by Frank Coffey

Sharp-suited Sgt Franklin Williams enjoyed being on leave (and sharing a treat) with his best girl, Ellen Hardin, in Baltimore, 1942.