Retro Reveries celebrates fun vintage advertising art and illustrations from midcentury America. Browse thousands of advertisements and magazine covers for a fun walk down memory lane.
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Vintage 1940s Florida Grapefruit Juice advertising art Because every crew must have Victory Vitamin C" - maybe your canned grapefruit juice is aboard Pear Harbor's swift avengers! A beautiful watercolor illustration of the US Navy's PT-27 motor torpedo boat flying through the deep blue sea with planes and other boats in its wake. The PT-72 was a real boat, measuring 78' long and destroyed 2 years after this ad was published. The watercolor art is by Hardie Gramatky. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DETAILS: Published in June, 1943, this vintage grapefruit juice ad measures 9.75 x 12.75". You can hide the faint print from the other side with dark paper as I did for the photos here. There is a tape repair at the bottom (very subtle - a frame would keep all eyes on the art). This vintage advertising art would make a cool gift for someone who had or has ship duty in the Navy or Coast Guard. The art is so dynamic and exciting. It would look great in your retro kitchen decor or man cave. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TIPS: Browse more retro advertising art / home decor ideas here in my shop: https://etsy.com/shop/RetroReveries. Vintage advertising is fun because of the nostalgic factor, but it's also helpful for recreating a particular decorating style. Most people frame the ads to further set the tone for their decor, remember someone special, or tell a story. Follow Retro Reveries on Pinterest for even more fun mid century nostalgia: https://pinterest.com/RetroReveries
...or, it may not. You'd have to be well over thirty to remember National Airlines (not to be confused with a cargo and charter carrier based in Ypsilanti, Michigan), which was founded in 1934 and merged into Pan American World Airways in 1980. Pan Am went into bankruptcy and ceased operating in 1991. In its heyday, National was strong on two routes: the East Coast route from the Northeast to Florida, and the Southern Tier transcontinental route connecting Florida, Texas, and California. AirNikon The ad shown in the clip at the top, which aired on TV in the early 1970s, continued a tradition of sexual innuendo that began in the '60s and culminated in the 1970s with the "fly me" (perhaps riffing on the old "Coffee, tea, or me?" gag) campaign, during which National painted women's names on its planes (see "Elaine" in photo above), and also aired ads like this: As this Time article reported, some flight attendants (then commonly called "stewardesses"--male attendants were rare in those days) objected to this campaign; in particular, to the company's requirement that they wear "fly me" buttons on their uniforms. The article quotes National's PR director: "We had no preconceived idea of injecting a suggestive leer into the campaign." Um-hmmm. According to one of the comments on the "I'm Maggie, Fly Me" video, the campaign was the brainchild of Dick Wolf, who went on to create the TV series Law and Order.
