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Pitch perfect: toys

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As the Pitch Perfect series continues, we today feature a collection of 1949 advertising slogans used to market games, toys, and dolls.

Always your dependable source of supplies for toys (Riemann, Seabrey).

BICYCLE is the card player’s choice (playing cards).

Dad played marbles, too (Akro Agate Co.).

Engineering for boys (Meccano toys).

For your children’s sake (slides, merri-go-rounds), Mettemaker Corp.

Heart’s desire for every youngster, The (Reliable dolls).
Home of toys, The (F. A. O. Schwarz), New York.

It must be good to be a Gund (toys).
Ives Toys make happy boys (Ives Mfg. Co.).

Made by the tiny Arcadians (toys), Arcade Mfg. Co., Freeport, Ill.
Made in America for American boys and girls (Kiddie-Kar), H. C. White Co.
Make men of boys (toys), Structo Mfg. Co.
Makes happy boys (toys), Ives Mfg. Co.

Playtime Pals for the nation’s kiddies (toys), Coronet Toy Mfg. Co., Seattle.

Reliable doll, A (Cuddles).
Roller skate with three lives (Chicago).
Roll on rubber (Chicago Roller Skate Co.).

Skate with a backbone, The (Winchester Repeating Arms Co.).

They look real (toys), Arcade Mfg. Co., Freeport, Ill.
Tiny Arcadians, The (toys).
Toys that are genuine (A. C. Gilbert Co., The).
Trains that railroad men buy for their boys, The (Lionel).
True and beautiful, The (George Revilo Carter).
Twice as much fun (Loco-Builder electric trains), Dorfan Co.

Pitch perfect: auto parts

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As the Pitch Perfect series continues, we today feature a collection of 1949 advertising slogans that were used to market auto parts and accessories, especially tires. Lots and lots of tires.

Add miles to tire life (Tirometer Valve Co.).
All steel and a car wide (Stewart-Warner bumpers).
Always the right answer with a Wayne (pump).
America’s biggest-selling brake lining (Raybestos).
America’s supreme ignition system (Bosch).
Analyze the 5-point law of Ford lubrication (R. J. Brown).
An eye for your gas tank (Marquette Mfg. Co.), Ford gas gauge.
Any day, any hour, anywhere, any weather (Packard Renting Corp.).
Aristocrat of auto jacks, The (Duff Mfg. Co.).
Around the world on Dunlops (Tires).
Asbestos brake lining, The (Thermoid Rubber Co.).
Asks no favors, fears no road (Olds Motor Works).
As necessary as brakes (Bosch), windshield wiper.
Automotive distributors (Norman Sales Corp.).

Battery charging equipment for every purpose (Automatic Elec. Devices).
Bear for wear, A (Gillette Rubber Co.), Tires.
Bear in mind (Grizzly brake lining).
Beauty, service and comfort (Haynes-Hunt Corp.). Motor car bodies.
Best in the long run (Goodrich tires).
Better business bodies (Hercules Corp.).
Better tires for every farm need (U. S. Royal).
Big difference in tires is action-traction, The (General).
Big three lines of the defense, The (Sheldon Axle & Spring Co.), bumpers.
Bites deep, stays clean, like a plow (Seiberling tires).
Blowout-proof tire, The (General).
Brake inspection is your protection (Asbestos Brake Lining Assn.).
Brake linings tailored to the needs of your brake (Multibestos).
Broad, black and a brute for wear (Cupples Co.), tires.
Builder of business (Service Motor Truck Co.).
Built better to wear better (Gutta Percha & Rubber, Ltd.), tires.
Built from the road up (Biltwell tires).
Built layer on layer (Miller tires).
Built to excel (Savage tire).
Built to last (Armstrong tire).
Built to wear better (Gutta Percha & Rubber, Ltd.), tires.

Chief of the tire tribe (Standard Four Tire Co.).
Chosen by the majority (Fordson governors), Strand Mfg. Co.
Clark equipment is found only on good motor trucks (Clark Equipment Co.).
Cleans the oil the cleans the motor (Fram filter).
Commands the car (Russell Mfg. Co.), Brake lining.
Costs more by the gallon, less by the winter (Prestone anti-freeze).
Cuts down delivery costs (Steinmetz Elec. Motor Car Corp.).
Cut your tire upkeep with a Diamond.

Dependable for every engine (Champion spark plugs).
Dependable in service (Walker Mfg. Co.), Jacks.
Dipstick tells the story, The (Fram oil filter).
Does not boil away (Prestone).
Don’t be a dead-eye Dick (American Chain Co.).
Don’t wait ’til it storms (Trico windshield blades).
Doubles your ability to handly your car (Ross Steering Gear).
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Pitch perfect: tobacco

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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

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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

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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.