History GRAPHIC DESIGN WHEN RACING WAS DANGEROUS AND SEX WAS SAFE!

Tire spun generator to run lights on your bike. My father made me put one on the bike I used to deliver papers EARLY in the morning when it was still dark.

 

This is bound to be a huge thread. I like the early color printing best and the limited palette used with litho and silk screen. Here's some old Essex stuff.

 

Steffen, I don't know if you wanted to include food labels as well as auto related. If not take this one out. It's for all my Texas friends.

 

Is it a fake or a joke? Isn't "gay" homosexual? Funny name ...

 

What a great black&white graphic of a spark plug!

 

Gay didn't mean that in the 50s. It meant happy and care free. Modern groups often hijack words and images for new purposes. It's real. My cousin Johnny from Texas doesn't like it though. It was a label for the end of a wooden crate. There are hundreds if not thousands of can and crate label from 30s-60s just from California alone. Most used lithograph print process. That means a different drawing for each primary color overlapped to make secondary colors and shading.

 

I know. As a student I worked in a print shop.

 

This is a sticker gracing the windshield on the hotrod and I really like it. It harkens back to the early to mid sixties perhaps its older.
Perfect for the kook behind the wheel with a big smile on his face...

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Model kit box design rocks!

 

Just Beaching
Fast




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if already posted


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I Dunno




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Any Curve...
Any Curve











Annette and the Giant Hotwheel

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& Original Posters

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The following ads are from my collection .
Removed from National Geographic Magazines.
Just a sample of various companies.
Tire and spark plug manufacturer's

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Change of the seasons ads by Champion..

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Tire ads from early 20's into the colorfulness ads of the 30's- 40's and 50's

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Remember these anyone.... I wasn't around when these came out but I do have a couple sets....

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Now back to the tire ads... had to recharge battery...
Here's a couple of early Firestone ads ..Note the race car loosing it on the turn of what could be Pike's Peak....?On one of the ads...

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The General Tire Company had some nice ads full of color and touched on event's in people's every day Life....

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This one would be considered quite controversial today.....

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Same here. I had one of those on my Sublime Green Schwinn delivering papers.

 

Another eye-opener for me. I had no idea that Strombecker made train models before their big success with the slot car sets.

 

It's that internet-magic - everyday you learn something new from wich you thought you know it all!

 

I like this so much! It should be reprinted!

 

A mixed batch today




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1961



Bell Co



Budd Trains



Grumman

 

Stolen from @loudbang - but I musted do it - IT'S SO COOL!