Ads of yore #1

In honor of the festive season, I thought it would be fun to share a few advertisements that we would never see today...

First up: "Dorothy's Wedding," "Robert's Anniversary Dinner" or my favorite, "Susan convalescing from her operation!" All wonderful occasions, it seems, for a new Parker Vacumatic Pen... from the days when that hole and/or divot on high school desks wasn't just an ornamental feature:



Photo: Reminisce Online, http://www.reminisce.com/2011/DJ11/Ads.asp?RefURL=&KeyCode=&tdate=&PMCode=&OrgURL=, accessed 17 December 2010.