Raquel Welch

It's Tuesday and time for the classic Hollywood beauty of the week. Seriously, would I really need an excuse to post Raquel Welch pictures?

New Departure Ball Bearings

Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s General Electric released a series of ads hyping their line of "New Departure" In the ads, potential products of the near future were made possible by New Departure. The future was a utopia of easy to use products/services that made "modern" life a breeze.

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Nabisco Showcase

From the awesome collection of Jason Liebig:

Dating from the late 1960's (based on a few included items that were only introduced in 1967), this "Nabisco Showcase" was something sales people would have probably used, to show grocers the Nabisco line at the time, as well as various in-store display pieces available.

This particular example was passed from salesman to salesman, and ended up with a gentleman who worked as a Nabisco sales rep in the 80's. He held onto the binder, and recently offered it on Ebay

National Accounting Machines

In the 1950s and 1960s the National Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio ran a series of ads that showed their products being used by workers (secretaries) of nationally recognized companies. These workers and companies were so excited about these machines that weighed two tons and had the memory capacity of a Hannah Montana candy-filled cell phone that they couldn't wait to share the news of their good fortune.