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Marlboro Country
The Market-Frankford El had made an unscheduled stop along the rails due to one of those mysterious and omnipresent signal problems. Fortunately this delay afforded me the opportunity to shoot the three-dimensional cigarette sign I had always admired as the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures in Commuting, Philadelphia
Tagged cigarette advertising, cigarettes, commute, elevated, Joe Williams, Marlboro, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, SEPTA, train, USA
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She’ll Be Right With You
Twenty fourth in a series creating a collage using five elements.
Posted in Collage, Friday Five
Tagged briefcase, cabinet cards, cigarettes, collage, flocked wallpaper, Illustration, Tina Garceau, vintage
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Happy Birthday Mr.C!
We interrupt today’s regularly scheduled program – today would have been Perry Como’s 100th birthday! He was best known for his smooth as silk crooning and gave us treasures such as “Dream Along With Me”, “Don’t Let The Stars Get … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, News
Tagged 100 years old, 100th birthday, 1952, Chesterfield, cigarettes, crooners, Family Circle, Happy Birthday Perry Como, Perry Como
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Racket Squad!
Here’s a relic from the early 1950s that I had never heard of until the lovely and talented Tina Garceau had bought me one of those inexpensive DVD gift sets of old television shows that had lapsed into the public … Continue reading


