More fun in advertising

Two weeks in a row we’ve returned to the section of the site that looks at my grandfather’s books! If we do it next week that’s called a streak!

Anyway, we’re now sneaking into a 1961 issue of Reader’s Digest that I picked up in a big pulp grab a few years back. There are a stack of other magazines, too, and pretty soon we’ll be working our way through some classic issues of Popular Science. I’m sure the ads there will be great. The ads in the Digest are pretty good, but we’ll only see a few in this issue unfortunately.

Some child scrawled in crayon on a lot of them. A child that favored orange and purple, by the looks of it. So the ads and clip art we’ll see from the January 1961 edition of the Reader’s Digest over the next few weeks will be ones that escaped the toddler Picasso.

Four images to see today; click the book cover below to get started.

To see all of the stuff I’ve posted from his books so far, start here.

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