Let’s see your memorabilia?!

[HotWheelsBurban]

I don't have any really cool stuff I found anymore, either thew it out to sold it off. One cool thing I bought at an estate sale was a dynamite plunger box from the early 1900's, the thing that sets the electrical charge for dynamite. I sold it on Ebay years ago.

I needed pictures for my office and didn't want to spend any real money for junk at the home store. I ended up framing old magazine automobile advertisements I found on Ebay. The '59 Cadillac one is an actual sales brochure from a dealer that has all the options and different models. I always considered those cars art especially compared with what is built today.

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This one is from WWII .

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This one is months before the market crash of '29

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I love looking through the old ads; we have crates of them that we used to take to every swap meet and car show we could get to(this is how we got so many square body Burbs, hauling this stuff!). Back then there was some real art in advertising, and all this stuff was laid out by hand and drawn by hand, before photography and, more importantly, the ability to reproduce and print color photography on paper, became easy and inexpensive. National Geographic and other magazines would have "color plates" or pages devoted to color photos, that had to be printed in a different way than the b&w pages.
We have a bunch of the WWII war effort ads , mostly from car makes but some from other companies too. They are really cool to look at, and think about the history involved. And if you think about how many car and truck manufacturers there were, before WWII, the statements about how many Chevrolets were on the road, is really saying something.
That Cadillac brochure might be being reprinted (many vintage ones are) but that is a VERY cool piece and would be so cool to look through! And the cover art....they really wanted to make a statement about how new and different the Cadillac was that year! Most of the brochures I've seen from Cadillac are a little more...subdued.
Great collection, thanks for sharing it!

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

I'm not picky lol. I assumed no one would produce raised letter signs anymore. The back of them look older, not the same type of metal as the repro'd signs. Maybe not old old, but a little old. Doesn't matter to me! I think I paid $20 for all 3 little ones. $15 or $20 on the interstate sign

There are guys who come to some of the bigger swap meets in Texas, that have the "salvage" highway and street signs...great stuff but I have things I want to spend my limited $$$ on worse. And I could paint a sign with the highway logo on it, and it's just fine on my wall and cost me only time and materials.

 

[WFarm]

I love looking through the old ads; we have crates of them that we used to take to every swap meet and car show we could get to(this is how we got so many square body Burbs, hauling this stuff!). Back then there was some real art in advertising, and all this stuff was laid out by hand and drawn by hand, before photography and, more importantly, the ability to reproduce and print color photography on paper, became easy and inexpensive. National Geographic and other magazines would have "color plates" or pages devoted to color photos, that had to be printed in a different way than the b&w pages.
We have a bunch of the WWII war effort ads , mostly from car makes but some from other companies too. They are really cool to look at, and think about the history involved. And if you think about how many car and truck manufacturers there were, before WWII, the statements about how many Chevrolets were on the road, is really saying something.
That Cadillac brochure might be being reprinted (many vintage ones are) but that is a VERY cool piece and would be so cool to look through! And the cover art....they really wanted to make a statement about how new and different the Cadillac was that year! Most of the brochures I've seen from Cadillac are a little more...subdued.
Great collection, thanks for sharing it!

I love the old ads too; great artwork. I pick up old Life Magazines and similar for a few bucks and remove the ads that catch my eye. Put them in a cheap Walmart frame and hang them in the shop. As you can see I’m a big fan of the old Mobiloil ads. (the metal hanging sign is a repro btw)

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[HotWheelsBurban]

I love the old ads too; great artwork. I pick up old Life Magazines and similar for a few bucks and remove the ads that catch my eye. Put them in a cheap Walmart frame and hang them in the shop. As you can see I’m a big fan of the old Mobiloil ads. (the metal hanging sign is a repro btw)

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Beautiful stuff! We could have a nice long chat about the Mobil and Magnolia signs and stuff my family used to have.....back in the early 80s we bought a Mobil Pegasus sign from the side of a building, was so big we had to take some of the leg and tail pieces off to fit it in the bed of the 78 Sierra shop truck. Brought it home like that from the Pate Swap Meet SW of DFW. Had to sell it and much of the rest a few years ago, before that, a lot of our signs got stolen in a burglary.

 

[1STLS1]

I love looking through the old ads; we have crates of them that we used to take to every swap meet and car show we could get to(this is how we got so many square body Burbs, hauling this stuff!). Back then there was some real art in advertising, and all this stuff was laid out by hand and drawn by hand, before photography and, more importantly, the ability to reproduce and print color photography on paper, became easy and inexpensive. National Geographic and other magazines would have "color plates" or pages devoted to color photos, that had to be printed in a different way than the b&w pages.
We have a bunch of the WWII war effort ads , mostly from car makes but some from other companies too. They are really cool to look at, and think about the history involved. And if you think about how many car and truck manufacturers there were, before WWII, the statements about how many Chevrolets were on the road, is really saying something.
That Cadillac brochure might be being reprinted (many vintage ones are) but that is a VERY cool piece and would be so cool to look through! And the cover art....they really wanted to make a statement about how new and different the Cadillac was that year! Most of the brochures I've seen from Cadillac are a little more...subdued.
Great collection, thanks for sharing it!

So I pulled it off the wall and out of its frame and looked on Ebay, there are 9 people selling them, I am going to guess it's a reprint. One guy on Ebay represented his as original and vintage, the cover colors are lighter and the pages appear whiter. The link has pictures of all the pages of the brochure.

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I am not upset as I bought it as art, it was the least expensive way to decorate my office with stuff I like. I am glad somebody else appreciates it. What got me started was I was at a swap meet and a guy had a '70 Road runner rapid transit ad framed with high impact colors I ended up buying for a friend back east. They take you back to a different time and era, the models in the Cadillac ad smoking, the optimism of Whippet months prior to the market crash. I have a couple more I never put up, I will post them when I find them again.

Grandpa's Old Car

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

So I pulled it off the wall and out of its frame and looked on Ebay, there are 9 people selling them, I am going to guess it's a reprint. One guy on Ebay represented his as original and vintage, the cover colors are lighter and the pages appear whiter. The link has pictures of all the pages of the brochure.

1959 Cadillac Brochure Catalog Manual, Vintage Original Collectible | eBay

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I am not upset as I bought it as art, it was the least expensive way to decorate my office with stuff I like. I am glad somebody else appreciates it. What got me started was I was at a swap meet and a guy had a '70 Road runner rapid transit ad framed with high impact colors I ended up buying for a friend back east. They take you back to a different time and era, the models in the Cadillac ad smoking, the optimism of Whippet months prior to the market crash. I have a couple more I never put up, I will post them when I find them again.

Grandpa's Old Car

I remember back in the 70s, my Dad was in the local chapter of the Classic Chevy Club(55-56-57). The reprint manuals had just become available and guys were "sunning" them on the dashboard, to make them look older.
Back when print media was how most of Americans got their information, the companies had to be more creative to sell their products. I think of these ads as the point where art and commerce meet....

 

[WFarm]

back in the early 80s we bought a Mobil Pegasus sign from the side of a building, was so big we had to take some of the leg and tail pieces off to fit it in the bed of the 78 Sierra shop truck

I would give my left testicle for one of those big Mobiloil Pegasus metal horses.

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

I would give my left testicle for one of those big Mobiloil Pegasus metal horses.

We had to sell it and other stuff to pay bills.... Mom cried because Dad bought that for her. Also had a huge Piggly Wiggly porcelain sign that Dad bought for my brother when he was little.

 

[78C10BigTen]

More auction stuff lol. The two little signs on the left have raised letters, the stuff on the left side of the big sign was dirt.

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That willys one is cool

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

We had to sell it and other stuff to pay bills.... Mom cried because Dad bought that for her. Also had a huge Piggly Wiggly porcelain sign that Dad bought for my brother when he was little.

We bought it for $375, I think Dad talked the guy down from $400. This was around 81-83..... I think the friend who sold it for us got around $2500 for it. He took several pieces of ours to Pate Swap Meet in 2016, to sell for us to have the money....for past due taxes.

 

[PrairieDrifter]

Sign people these days are the worst. They literally made their own market and now all of them are paying 1000's of dollars because they can't help themselves

Now no one else can afford them so it's literally all sign people thinking they can make some money off some other sign persons sign. It's quite a hilarious loop of financial mistakes/greed. People watched American pickers and every lamo thinks they can pay the rest of their life off with signs or antiques

 

[Travlr]

It's kind of interesting how advertising has become so comfortable that people will buy it as a collector's item. There are a lot of things I find interesting, and collectable... but advertising isn't one of them.
Personally, I'd like to know what would happen if advertising was made entirely illegal.

 

[Blue Ox]

It's kind of interesting how advertising has become so comfortable that people will buy it as a collector's item. There are a lot of things I find interesting, and collectable... but advertising isn't one of them.
Personally, I'd like to know what would happen if advertising was made entirely illegal.

I blame Antiques Roadshow.

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

I tell people all the time.... there is someone out there who wants what you have, it's just a matter of, are you willing to wait until y'all cross paths? Online shopping has helped here, but it's still a crapshoot.
And asking for a certain price, and getting that price, are two VERY different things, two paths far apart.....
"A bird in the hand, beats two in the bush" is an old saying for a reason: it's true.

 

[Blue Ox]

I tell people all the time.... there is someone out there who wants what you have, it's just a matter of, are you willing to wait until y'all cross paths? Online shopping has helped here, but it's still a crapshoot.
And asking for a certain price, and getting that price, are two VERY different things, two paths far apart.....
"A bird in the hand, beats two in the bush" is an old saying for a reason: it's true.

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