The best vintage finds of my week were the ads in Ladies’ Monthly, a late-Victorian women’s magazine published in Toronto. I found it on microfilm just by chance, while poking around in the library filing cabinets. The public ones I mean, I wasn’t snooping in the back. There is all sorts of stuff in libraries that mostly just sits there, and no one much pays it any attention. It is such fun when one of those things turns out to be crammed with gloriously loopy ads. Chatelaine magazine is wonderful too, only the microfilm is SO dark…I will either have to hunt down the originals or else just edit and Picnik them as best I can. The latter probably, there are a couple that are just so good I have to share them with you soon!
All right, deep cleansing breaths. Centering self in non-retro way. Carrying on with Vintage Thingies Thursday, thanks to the Apron Queen who rules the VT Thursday most benificently. Today she has a fabulous 1950s ad for a washer/wringer/dryer that even a man can use!
Well, here’s a mop for him after he finishes up the laundry.
I like the design of this mop. And having “a well-regulated household” would also be a big plus. All for fifty cents too! I’m going to march right down to Canadian Tire and demand a TARBOX. “I will TAKE NO OTHER,” I’ll say, as I hand over fifty cents.
Yeah, that’ll work.
That kind of looks similar to my Michael Graves mop. You can wring it out without bending over. Just goes to show you – there’s really nothing new under the sun.
I love reading old ads.
Love this! We have a restaurant that has all kinds of vintage women ads in the ladies bathroom. I can spend an hour in there alone just reading the funny ads, lol.
Hmmmm … that looks kind of like the ones they sell today. Hope the inventor of that mop is getting the royalities, lol!!! Thanks for stopping by my site
hmm I wonder how she cleans wearing that big heavy outfit?
1. Blue Castle – It does look rather modern, doesn’t it?
2. Ginny – I would be in there reading them all, too!
3. Gretchen – I meant to look up Tarbox, it sounds SO familiar. I think they may still be around. Will check this when I have a minute.
4. Amy – I was also wondering that! And she looks WAY jollier than those undershirt girls. Mind you, they didn’t have a Tarbox mop.
I love vintage ads, too! I am putting together a set to hang in my powder room.
A lot of places down here in the south are still having Memorial Day sales, because discount prices are a sure-fire way to honor dead military personnel. I’ll bet one could obtain a Tarbox mop for even less than fifty cents if one acts with alacrity.
I always dress just like this woman when I do housework, which explains why it is so rarely performed here on Planet Bill.
Tarbox. It’s just one of those names where they just didn’t try very hard to find something that sounds appealing.
Bricklump. Lardbucket. Sludgepit. Great names in cleaning products.
I’m so glad you stopped by my blog, so I could discover yours! I love these old ads! I added you to my blog reader.
I picked up a stack of 25 early-1950s Workbasket magazines at a garage sale a few weeks ago, for $2 for the whole stack! They were just too “precious” not to share. So I’ve been scanning some of the best articles and ads and posting them on my blog once a week.
Hi Lidian! A mop called tarbox, makes me wanna
buy ten. Not really. I enjoyed your info about
the old magazines. I would love digging through
all that stuff, I swear I have a librarian in me
some where…… Have a great day!!!
Love this! I shared a vintage ad about washing today too. Aren’t you glad for all the modern progress! Made me laugh. Thanks!
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Would you be so kind as to pick up one for me too, while you are out! LOL! Looks like a miracle mop…even better than the ones today! Great post! ~Rhonda