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vintage ads and brochures Archive
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![It’s time for Volume 3 of this series exploring travel-related ads that feature automotive themes, as well as some of the backstory for each ad. For today’s installment, we’re journeying […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Vol-3-Featured.jpg "Vintage Ads: Automotive-Related Travel Ads Vol. 3 – South Africa, Malta, England & Wales")
Vintage Ads: Automotive-Related Travel Ads Vol. 3 – South Africa, Malta, England & Wales
Posted on September 23, 2023 | 16 CommentsIt’s time for Volume 3 of this series exploring travel-related ads that feature automotive themes, as well as some of the backstory for each ad. For today’s installment, we’re journeying […] -
Vintage Advertising: Choose a Plymouth, or Dodge. Maybe an Imperial? – Avis Rent-A-Car 1970
Posted on September 20, 2023 | 21 Comments -
![We’ve recently covered several taboo subjects that seldom appear in vintage car ads: Smoking and Religion. To me, these topics that are (mostly) off-limits to advertisers are far more interesting […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1955-Desoto.jpeg "Vintage Ad Non-Trope: Guns")
Vintage Ad Non-Trope: Guns
Posted on September 14, 2023 | 21 CommentsWe’ve recently covered several taboo subjects that seldom appear in vintage car ads: Smoking and Religion. To me, these topics that are (mostly) off-limits to advertisers are far more interesting […] -
Vintage Advertising: 1970, Year Of The Great Birds – Who’s Got The Biggest Beak?
Posted on September 11, 2023 | 31 Comments -
![Other than love, nighttime has to be one of the most popular topics of popular music. In the Air Tonight. Nights in White Satin. Sunglasses at Night. We can […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1960-Pontiac-2.jpg "Vintage Ad Tropes: Nighttime")
Vintage Ad Tropes: Nighttime
Posted on September 8, 2023 | 25 CommentsOther than love, nighttime has to be one of the most popular topics of popular music. In the Air Tonight. Nights in White Satin. Sunglasses at Night. We can […] -
![For our second installment of vintage auto-related travel ads, we’ll travel back to the 1950s and visit several places throughout North America – two ads from Canada, one from Bermuda, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/v2-featured-image.jpg "Vintage Ads: Automotive-Related Travel Ads Vol. 2 – Canada, Bermuda, Las Vegas & Valley Forge")
Vintage Ads: Automotive-Related Travel Ads Vol. 2 – Canada, Bermuda, Las Vegas & Valley Forge
Posted on September 4, 2023 | 40 CommentsFor our second installment of vintage auto-related travel ads, we’ll travel back to the 1950s and visit several places throughout North America – two ads from Canada, one from Bermuda, […] -
![Churchgoing peaked in the US in the 1950s with roughly half of Americans attending church regularly in 1955 (by 2021 that number was down to 33%). However, to go by […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1959-Edsel.jpeg "Vintage Ad Non-Trope: Cars in Front of Churches")
Vintage Ad Non-Trope: Cars in Front of Churches
Posted on September 3, 2023 | 20 CommentsChurchgoing peaked in the US in the 1950s with roughly half of Americans attending church regularly in 1955 (by 2021 that number was down to 33%). However, to go by […] -
![It’s confession time; in my daily driving, I resent the drab gray interior of my mid-90s VW Golf. I also had a chance to board a modern Cadillac SUV recently, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/4687294450_19b3b4f7bb_h.jpg "Vintage Brochures & Ads: The Joy Of Colors – A Small Gallery of Joyful Interiors")
Vintage Brochures & Ads: The Joy Of Colors – A Small Gallery of Joyful Interiors
Posted on September 2, 2023 | 41 CommentsIt’s confession time; in my daily driving, I resent the drab gray interior of my mid-90s VW Golf. I also had a chance to board a modern Cadillac SUV recently, […] -
![While GM can lay claim to inventing the pantheon of automotive brands that Alfred P. Sloan gathered into his eponymous ladder, that didn’t stop other manufacturers from also trying to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/39frd.jpg "Vintage Ads: 1939 Ford Motor Company – Ford Attempts to Build Their Own Sloanian Ladder with Mercury")
Vintage Ads: 1939 Ford Motor Company – Ford Attempts to Build Their Own Sloanian Ladder with Mercury
Posted on August 31, 2023 | 16 CommentsWhile GM can lay claim to inventing the pantheon of automotive brands that Alfred P. Sloan gathered into his eponymous ladder, that didn’t stop other manufacturers from also trying to […] -
![Vintage travel advertisements are often delectable to admire. Awash in sentimentality and devoid of any hassles involving travel, they conjure up exactly what they’re supposed to – a longing to […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Vol-1-Featured-1.jpg "Vintage Ads: Automotive-Related Travel Ads Vol. 1 – New Mexico, Germany & Oregon")
Vintage Ads: Automotive-Related Travel Ads Vol. 1 – New Mexico, Germany & Oregon
Posted on August 23, 2023 | 17 CommentsVintage travel advertisements are often delectable to admire. Awash in sentimentality and devoid of any hassles involving travel, they conjure up exactly what they’re supposed to – a longing to […] -
Vintage Promo Shots: MGAs In Crates, Ready For Shipping
Posted on August 20, 2023 | 12 Comments -
![Smoking is a smelly, dangerous habit, one that I luckily have never felt the urge in which to partake. However, last century smoking was a much more socially accepted practice […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/window.jpg "Vintage Ad Non-Trope: Smoking")
Vintage Ad Non-Trope: Smoking
Posted on August 17, 2023 | 56 CommentsSmoking is a smelly, dangerous habit, one that I luckily have never felt the urge in which to partake. However, last century smoking was a much more socially accepted practice […] -
![After staring at literally thousands of vintage car ads, one of the most striking differences between vintage and modern ads is how much vintage ads focus on the simple pleasure […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1961-Oldsmobile-F-85.jpg "Vintage Ad Tropes: The Joy of Driving")
Vintage Ad Tropes: The Joy of Driving
Posted on August 15, 2023 | 39 CommentsAfter staring at literally thousands of vintage car ads, one of the most striking differences between vintage and modern ads is how much vintage ads focus on the simple pleasure […] -
![This image was meant to appear on my Rides For The Upscale Cowboy post a few days ago, but on second thought I felt it should stand on its own. […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Scan-230725-0001.jpg "Vintage Ad: Cadillac DeVille – Taking’em Bales Of Hay In Style")
Vintage Ad: Cadillac DeVille – Taking’em Bales Of Hay In Style
Posted on July 26, 2023 | 31 CommentsThis image was meant to appear on my Rides For The Upscale Cowboy post a few days ago, but on second thought I felt it should stand on its own. […] -
![Everyone here remembers the brand bloat of pre-bankruptcy General Motors of the early 21st century with no less than nine distinct brands: Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, Saturn, GMC, Hummer, […]](https://www.curbsideclassic.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/GM-brands.jpg "Vintage Ad: The 9 Brands of General Motors – Too Much of a Good Thing?")
Vintage Ad: The 9 Brands of General Motors – Too Much of a Good Thing?
Posted on July 25, 2023 | 58 CommentsEveryone here remembers the brand bloat of pre-bankruptcy General Motors of the early 21st century with no less than nine distinct brands: Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, Saturn, GMC, Hummer, […]
