Posts Tagged: satire

Vintage illustration couple checking into hotel

Vintage Advice For Cheaters

For generations Valentines Day presented a quagmire for cheating spouses. Not anymore. There may not be Hallmark cards for this holiday but February 13 is known as Mistress Day, the day wandering husbands and cheating boyfriends set aside for the

Vintage illustration couple checking into hotel

Vintage Advice For Cheaters

For generations Valentines Day presented a quagmire for cheating spouses. Not anymore. There may not be Hallmark cards for this holiday but February 13 is known as Mistress Day, the day wandering husbands and cheating boyfriends set aside for the

Colds & Cigarettes

What a Drag Under the weather? Try a smooth smoke. Why let a pesky head cold, sore throat or cough  get in the way of enjoying a cigarette or two? Folks back during the 1940’s had the right idea. With

Colds & Cigarettes

What a Drag Under the weather? Try a smooth smoke. Why let a pesky head cold, sore throat or cough  get in the way of enjoying a cigarette or two? Folks back during the 1940’s had the right idea. With

vintage illustration couple smoking cigarettes

Smoking and Pregnant – Just What the Doctor Ordered PtII

  1954 was a good year for smokers and an even better one for the big tobacco companies. For a baby in utero…not so much. After the previous years blistering reports on the dangers of cigarettes,  1954 new years resolutions

vintage illustration couple smoking cigarettes

Smoking and Pregnant – Just What the Doctor Ordered PtII

  1954 was a good year for smokers and an even better one for the big tobacco companies. For a baby in utero…not so much. After the previous years blistering reports on the dangers of cigarettes,  1954 new years resolutions

Smoking- Just What the Doctor Ordered

In mid-century America more doctors may have smoked camels, but pregnant women preferred Philip Morris. At least as far as my own baby-bound mother was concerned. In 1954  it would be a good tens years before the Surgeon General’s landmark

Smoking- Just What the Doctor Ordered

In mid-century America more doctors may have smoked camels, but pregnant women preferred Philip Morris. At least as far as my own baby-bound mother was concerned. In 1954  it would be a good tens years before the Surgeon General’s landmark

vintage illustration WWII soldier kissing girl

Winter War Time Romance PTII

Moonlight Becomes You “The breathless night. The moon burning on its billion watt radiance. Multiplying mystery, quickening the pulse. Stirring up a suddenly sweet tumult. Heady stuff this. To look into his eyes and know that you were never lovelier.

vintage illustration WWII soldier kissing girl

Winter War Time Romance PTII

Moonlight Becomes You “The breathless night. The moon burning on its billion watt radiance. Multiplying mystery, quickening the pulse. Stirring up a suddenly sweet tumult. Heady stuff this. To look into his eyes and know that you were never lovelier.

vintage illustration 1944 girl and soldier embracing

A Winter War Time Romance

The winter of 1944 was a blustery one. ..but it would soon turn torrid. Christmas break, my 18-year-old college freshman mother Betty hopped on a Pullman, joining her family for a well needed vacation in balmy Miami Beach. The glow

vintage illustration 1944 girl and soldier embracing

A Winter War Time Romance

The winter of 1944 was a blustery one. ..but it would soon turn torrid. Christmas break, my 18-year-old college freshman mother Betty hopped on a Pullman, joining her family for a well needed vacation in balmy Miami Beach. The glow

John Kennedy Cartoon

Coloring In The Truth

Color me Conservative It’s a Christmas miracle! Just in time for that All-American holiday Christmas, appears the perfect gift- just right for your right-wing child. Forget Flutterbye Fairies, Furby Boom or Big Hugs Elmo. This years “gotta have” present for

John Kennedy Cartoon

Coloring In The Truth

Color me Conservative It’s a Christmas miracle! Just in time for that All-American holiday Christmas, appears the perfect gift- just right for your right-wing child. Forget Flutterbye Fairies, Furby Boom or Big Hugs Elmo. This years “gotta have” present for

housewife in suburban home

Heating the American Dream

  As the winter chill begins to set in and we reluctantly turn up the costly heat, its hard to imagine that in mid century America oil was still the biggest bargain in American’s budget. The second Sunday in October

housewife in suburban home

Heating the American Dream

  As the winter chill begins to set in and we reluctantly turn up the costly heat, its hard to imagine that in mid century America oil was still the biggest bargain in American’s budget. The second Sunday in October

Vintage Right Wing Propaganda

What Was The Right Brewing Before The Tea Party?

  , George Washington Small’s biggest bugaboo was big government. It was, he felt, the duty of every American to build down Washington’s bloated bureaucratic government. Alarmed that the expansion of the government to regulate almost every aspect of American

Vintage Right Wing Propaganda

What Was The Right Brewing Before The Tea Party?

  , George Washington Small’s biggest bugaboo was big government. It was, he felt, the duty of every American to build down Washington’s bloated bureaucratic government. Alarmed that the expansion of the government to regulate almost every aspect of American

vintage car ad women

Who’s Driving This Country?

Step on the Gas Nervous Dot the Democrat  is sure glad that Bette’s husband  Dick drives a Chevrolet. Men can be real speed demons on the road but with Republican Dick every ride is big and steady! Dot and Bette

vintage car ad women

Who’s Driving This Country?

Step on the Gas Nervous Dot the Democrat  is sure glad that Bette’s husband  Dick drives a Chevrolet. Men can be real speed demons on the road but with Republican Dick every ride is big and steady! Dot and Bette