This first one's not one to not get, but I included it because although it's sold as wish-fulfillment it's actually surprisingly progressive for the fifties.
Hello Buddies, May 1955
Monsieur, September 1965
The poor reproduction doesn't help.
I have
disks of the complete New Yorker cartoons from 1925 to 2000. It's a good thing to have except in order to fit 75 years worth of cartoons onto two disks, they're not the highest resolution so you can't always tell what's going on. I don't even know where this is. A beach?
Rea Irvin
New Yorker August 15, 1925
Cavalcade, August 1942
Is this supposed to be a caricature of someone? I guess it's like if 100 years from now someone was trying to decipher a cartoon about Anthony Scarmucci. Who? Exactly.
Judge October 9, 1909
E, G. Lutz
Life February 16, 1905
Either they published a really small edition of the magazine or there were really big spiders then.
Charles E. Martin
Playboy, May 1968
I've mentioned before that views and humor about race have changed over time but here's a case where it looks like a stereotype has disappeared altogether. Is this what people supposedly wore in Hong Kong?
Playboy, December 1953
Punch September 26, 1915
Same issue of
Punch
Punch December 8, 1915
Henry Boltinoff
Real, January 1953
Donald Reilly
Playboy, April 1968
Regarding the "Nicotine and pure petrol" gag, I'm assuming since World War 2 was in full force, they're referring to a couple of items (cigarettes and gas) that were in short supply at the time.
ReplyDeleteTo follow on that,it's also a pretty "common" scent: not at all fancy.
ReplyDeleteThe pessimist one is hilarious, though.