Pitch perfect: tobacco
As the Pitch Perfect series continues, we today feature a collection of 1949 advertising slogans that were used to market pipes, cigars, tobacco, and smoking accessories.
Aged in the wood (Velvet Tobacco).
America’s finest pipe tobacco (Edgeworth).
America’s most distinguished cigarette holder (Kirsten Pipe Co.), Seattle.
America’s most popular cigar (King Edward).
America’s smoothest tobacco (Velvet), Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.
Aristocrat of cigars, The (Robert Burns).
Aristocrat of pipe tobacco, The (Old Briar), United Cigar Stores.
Aromatic in the pack, aromatic in the pipe (tobacco), Holiday.
Ashless ashstand, The (Smokador Mfg. Co.), New York.
Ask him why he smokes a Webster (Webster Cigar Co.), Detroit.
Ask your dealer, he knows (Garcia y Vega cigar).
Barking Dog never bites (Continental Tobacco Co.).
Best cigar in any case, The (Justin Seubert Co.), Syracuse.
Best for half a century, better than ever today (Admiration cigar).
Best in the Union, in pocket tins, The (Union smoking tobacco), Lorillard.
Best of the best (Optimo cigars).
Biteless blend, The (Briggs pipe mixture).
Brand with the grand aroma, The (Mail Pouch Tobacco Co.), Wheeling, W. Va.
Buy word of millions (King Edward cigar).
Caterers to the tobacco trade (Dillon Supply Co.), Raleigh, N. C.
Champion of blends (Sportsman pipe mixture).
Champion of pipes (Sportsman).
Change to Bond Street for fragrant smoking (pipe tobacco).
Choice of successful men, The (Blackstone cigar).
Cigar made with good judgment, The (Tom Keene), General Cigar Co.
Cigar that breathes, The (Roi-Tan).
Classic in wood, A (pipe), Kaywoodie Co.
Cooler on the draw (pipe), Royal Duke
Dependable all ways (Berkeley lighter).
Dignifying the pipe (One-Up tobacco case), Smokers Products, Inc.
Double-value cigar that guarantees more satisfaction (La Fendrich).
Everybody loves Admiration (cigar).
Every El Dueno cigar is smooth sailing (El Dueno Cigar Co.).
Every puff a pleasure (cigar), Gonzalez & Sanchez Co., Jacksonville, Fla.
Exclusive, not expensive (pipe, tobacco and men’s gift shop), Boyce, San Jose, Calif.
Executive America’s top cigar (Webster).
Faithfully maintaining quality at no advance in price (Dr. Grabow pipes).
Famous for quality (Dexter cigar).
Famous name in tobacco for nearly 200 years (Old Gold).
Filters the smoke from bowl to tip (Forecaster pipe).
First different smoking tobacco in a generation, The (Half & Half).
First in the social register (cigars), Webster-Eisenlohr, Inc.
For my pipe (Granger tobacco).
For real enjoyment (El Producto), Cigar.
For solid comfort (LHS pipes).
For young men and men with young ideas (General Cigar Co.).
Four inches of a 25-cent cigar (The In-B-Tween Co.), Baltimore.
Friendly smoke, The (Royalist cigar), Grabowsky Bros., Inc., Philadelphia.
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Pitch perfect: Cameras
As the Pitch Perfect series continues, we today feature a collection of 1949 advertising slogans that were used to market cameras and photographic accessories.
All-purpose film (Kryptar Corp.), Rochester, N. Y.
Better pictures, with less effort (G. E. exposure meter).
Big enough for any Kodak print (Engel Art Corners).
Forever yours (Kodak snapshots).
For superb personal movies (Filmo), Bell & Howell.
Gets great pictures (Graflex).
If it isn’t an Eastman, it isn’t a Kodak (camera).
In pursuit of happiness, Revere adds to your pleasure (movie cameras).
It deserves to be preserved (Dura Pictures Corp.).
Kodak as you go (camera).
Make every child a picture (G. H. & E. Freydberg).
Make the world brighter, send a smile (Hutton Photo Stamp Co.)
Negative for positive results, The (Gevaert film).
One pictograph tells more than a thousand words (Pictograph Corp.).
One picture tells more than a thousand words (Pictograph).
Only Eastman makes the Kodak (camera).
Pays for itself in the money it saves (Multistamp Co.).
Photographs live forever (Photographers Assn. of America).
Photographs live forever in loving hearts (Photographers Assn.).
Photographs of distinction (Bachrach, Inc.).
Photographs tell the story (Photographers Assn.).
Photography that tells and tells (McManus Studios).
Pictures that satisfy or a new roll free (Agfa films).
Putting ideas into picture form (Retlaw Visualizations).
Say it with pictures (Commercial Photo Service Co.).
Say it with pictures (Stereopticon Lantern Slides), E. A. Richter.
Say it with pictures, often (Photographers Assn.).
Sign of pretension, The (Skan), Exposure meter.
Snapshots you’ll want tomorrow, you must take today, The (Kodak).
Snapshots remain long after you go (Photographers Assn.).
Snapshots, often, are all that remain after your dear ones go.
When you picture moves, it lives (Cine Kodak).
YOU press the button, IT does the rest (camera film).
You press the button, we do the rest (Eastman Kodak).
Your snapshots look better enlarged (Sterling Photo Co.).
Your story in pictures leaves nothing untold (American Photo Engravers Assn.).
Pitch perfect: bug spray
As the Pitch Perfect series continues, we today feature a collection of 1949 advertising slogans that were used to market bug spray, insecticides, and flea powder.
Better things for better living, through chemistry (Dupont insect spray).
Bringing the marvels of science to your farm (Pestroy), Sherwin-Williams.
Concentrated insectocide, The (Elkay Products Corp.).
Dead moths eat no holes (Moth-Tox), Moth-Tox.
Doesn’t stun ‘em, kills ‘em (The Fly-Foon Co.), Toledo.
Don’t get bit, get Flit.
Don’t live in a “bug house” (Magic Mist), Bug spray.
Double doom to flies and mosquitoes (Fly-Ded insect spray). Midway Chem. Co.
Flit spray does not stain.
Forget the moth; save the cloth (Larvex).
Guaranteed moth protection (The Lane Co.).
It penetrates (The Black Flag Co.).
It’s a killer (Flak), Wilbert Products Co.
It’s bug tested (Black Flag Insect Spray). A. S. Boyle Co.
It’s the gas that kills them (American Cyanamid Co.).
Kills ants in the nest (Antrol), Antrol Laboratories.
Kills bugs wholesale (Colonial Chemical Corp.).
Kills flies by the roomful (Colonial Chem. Corp.), Reading, Pa.
Kills moth worms (The Expello Corp.).
Kills them off and keeps them off (Pulvex Flea Powder).
Look for the leaf on the package (Black Leaf insecticide).
Moth is more destructive than the flame, The (Keystone Chemical Co.).
98% kill-power (Whiz insect killer).
Protects your garden, and you (Ever Green garden spray).
Quick, Henry, the Flit (insect spray).
Quickly kills garden pests (Snarol), Antrol Laboratories.
Slays all insects (Slazol), Insecticide.
Spray “Jake” for safety sake (insecticide), Elkay Products Corp.
Sudden death to moths (Excello).
There is only one Fly-Tox (insecticide).
They kill them all (Wilson fly pads).
Treat the cloth and starve the moth (Larvex).
Weed exterminator, The (herbicide), Reade Mfg. Co.
Wipe ‘em out, don’t stir ‘em up (Sergeant’s flea powder).
Year ’round insecticide, The (McCormick & Co.), Baltimore.
Yellow package with the gable top, The (West Disinfecting Co.), CN.
Pitch perfect: Watches
As the Pitch Perfect series continues, we today feature a collection of 1949 advertising slogans that were used to market watches, jewelry, and silverware.
Accurate beyond comparison (Warren Telechron Co.), Ashland, Mass.
America appreciates good time (Ribaux watches).
America runs on Bulova time (watches).
America’s best-dressed women wear Coro jewelry.
America’s distinguished timepiece (Harvel Watch Co.), Newark, N. J.
America’s most distinguished timepiece (Elgin).
Art in diamond rings (B. & E. J. Gross Co.), New York.
Bejeweled by Gaylin (Gaylin Jewelry Co.), New York.
Beloved by brides for almost a century (Art-carved rings).
Best at the price, The (silversmiths), Wm. Rogers Mfg. Co.
Best-known name in sterling (Gorham).
Bright jewels bridge the gap, join the ideal and the real, dreams and love.
Bulova Watch time, the gift of a lifetime.
Choice you make once for a life-time, The (silverware), Wallace Sterling.
Clocks that most people want most, The (G. E. Heralder).
Day-Craft gifts are the gifts worth while (Day-Craft, Inc.), Springfield, Mass.
Deal with Diel means a good deal, A (Diel Watch Case Co.).
Dependable time (Sessions Clock Co.), Forestville, Conn.
Dessau diamonds true the wheels of industry (Maurice S. Dessau).
Diamonds win hearts (Loftis Bros. & Co.), Chicago.
Dominant influence in the jewelry industry, A (The Keystone), Philadelphia.
Do keep time (clocks), Phinney-Walker Co., New York.
Engineered for accuracy (Rensie Watches).
Every day is a gift day (Nat. Gift and Art Assn.), Philadelphia.
Everything in rings (Istby & Barton Co.).
Express your individuality (Continental Jewelry Co.).
Exquisite at America’s beauties (Rensie watches).
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Pitch perfect: toiletries
As the Pitch Perfect series continues, we today feature a collection of 1949 advertising slogans that were used to market women’s—and some men’s, too—cosmetics, deodorants and grooming products.
Adds life to years rather than years to life (face cream), B. S. Boss.
Always admired, the skin that’s Satinized (Chamberlain).
Always at your fingertips (nail polish), Lorr Laboratories.
Always faithful (Recoton).
American symbol of feminine charm, The (perfume), House of Tre-Jur.
And McKesson makes it (cleansing cream), Albolene.
Antiseptic baby oil (Mennen’s).
Antiseptic deodorant powder, The (Amolin Co.), New York.
As different from all other perfumes as you are from all other women (Emir).
As easy to use as to say (Mum), George B. Evans.
As masculine as their trade mark (Royal Flush Toiletries), B. Ansehl Co.
Beautiful hair doesn’t just happen (conditioning cream).
Beautiful skin is adored, A (Nu-Art Laboratories), South Orange, N.J.
Be beautiful with Tangee (G. W. Luft Co.), New York.
Beauty aid for every need, A (Marinello Co.), Chicago.
Beauty in every box (face powder), Celebrated Products Sales, New York.
Beauty insurance (Cocoanut oil shampoo), R. L. Watkins Co., Cleveland.
Beauty is only skin deep; Luminiere controls the skin (En-Ve, Inc.), Detroit.
Beauty’s master touch (Oriental Cream), F. L. Hopkins & Son.
Bedazzling new cosmetics for all your shining hours (Debutante).
Beforehand lotion, The (Trushay).
Be kind to your skin (Beaver-Remmers-Graham Co.), Cincinnati.
Be lovelier to love (deodorant).
Best for baby, best for you (Johnson’s baby powder).
Buy your beauty needs from beauticians (Contoure Laboratories), New York.
Cleanses the pores and softens the skin (Polar Ice Laboratories).
Color cocktails for your hair with Loxol extra (Sales Affiliates), New York.
Colors hair inside, as nature does (Inecto, Inc.), New York.
Considered essential by considerate men (Sportsmen grooming essentials).
Correct, right to the fingertips (cosmetics), Glass packaging.
Cosmetics of the stars, Hollywood (Sales Buildings, Inc.), Los Angeles.
Cream shampoo for true hair loveliness, The (Lustre-Cream).
Creates essentials of beauty (creams), Schiaparelli.
Creme cold wave, The (Toni home permanent).
Cutex nails are loveliest.
Cuticle vanishes, The (cuticle set), Softol.
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On A Simmery Summery Day
Give me a book that's entertaining
When I'm lying in the hay
To while away the hours
On a simmery summery day.
Want to be lazy like a daisy
In the middle of July
And watch the pretty pictures in the sky.
Ho-hum, dreaming in the sun,
I'm a lucky one, it's true.
Ho-hum, I'm not so very dumb.
I'll bet you'd like to dream there, too.
Beautiful butterflies are dancing
In the field across the way,
The nearest thing to heaven
On a simmery summery day.
What is the use of hustle-bustle?
Find a little time to play
And you'll never simmer
On a summer day.
---James Cavanaugh, John Redmond and Frank Weldon




