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Vintage New Year’s Eve Advertisements & Party Announcements!

1950s vintage photo of a basement New Years Eve Party featuring a man and woman

2021 was another interesting year for all of us and we made do as much as we could. I was happy to have been able to squeeze in a bunch of fun activities with friends and families before the world changed again. So not all was lost! I hope all of you got to do the same.

For today’s post (and the last one of 2021), I want to showcase some lovely vintage New Years Eve advertisements & party announcements from the 1920s-1960s!

Let’s begin!


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Vintage New Years Eve Advertisements & Party Announcements from the 1920s-1960s!

Fantastic Art Deco New Year’s Eve 1920s poster. Such wonderful 1920s fashions!

Fantastic Art Deco New Year's Eve 1920s Poster

Source: Etsy

Vintage advertisement for Chesterfield Cigarettes January 1945.

Vintage advertisement Jan. 1945 Chesterfield Cigarettes

Source: Envisioning the American Dream

This 1930s festive New Year’s Eve poster features a couple in an embrace, preparing to kiss while celebrating the new year. The viewer is invited to “Make up your party now for the happiest fun-fest of the year.” 

1930s New Years Eve Poster-Gala Midnite Show New Year's Eve (American Display Co. Inc. NYC, 1930s)

Source: movieposters.ha.com

1963 newspaper ad for a New Year’s Eve party at the Triangle Bar. The party includes: Smorgesborg (YUM!), your liquor (cheers!), hats, noise makers & a full evening of fun. I’m IN!

1963 Vintage Newspaper ad for a new years eve pat at the Triangle Bar.

Source: Brady’s Bunch of Lorain County Nostalgia

1956 Cadillac Yellow-4 Door Sedan-New Years Eve vintage ad. Love the 1950s evening gown that matches the car.

1956 Cadillac Yellow-4 Door Sedan-New Years Eve Print Vintage Ad featuring a stylish 1950s man and woman at a New Years Eve Party.

Source: Etsy

“Celebrate New Year’s Eve at the Rainbow Room”. December 30th, 1940 Washington D.C. Evening Star NYE advertisement.

Celebrate New Year's Eve at the Rainbow Room". December 30, 1940 Washington D.C. Evening Star NYE advertisement featuring a big band and 1940s men & woman

Source: Chronicling America

1960s vintage ad for “Sparkling Champale Malt Liquour” featuring a very stylish couple (love that black dress, perfect for NYE).

1960s vintage ad for sparkling wine featuring a stylish Black Man and Black Woman

Source: Popsugar

Vintage New Years party announcement for Toronto’s Royal York Hotel. Ad from The Globe and Mail, December 29th, 1941. 

This fun NYE advertisement is from another vintage post I did on the topic which you can see HERE.

Vintage New Years Party Announcement for Toronto’s Royal York Hotel 1941.

1950s vintage ad for 7up. “Like the New Year and New Year’s Resolutions….you can’t separate the two ideas!”.

1950s Vintage 7up ad showcasing a New Years Eve theme.

Source: Alcohol Professor

1950s Vvintage New Year’s Eve party poster. “Bring your friends to our New Year’s Eve Party!”.

1950s Vintage New Year's Eve party poster featuring a woman in 1950s fashion and NYE party decor.

Source: eBay

1920 vintage ad for Wilson & Co Bacon reminding you to think about your New Year’s day breakfast.

1920s vintage ad for Bacon with a New Years Eve theme

Source: Mascola.com

1935 Syracuse Herald vintage newspaper ad. ‘Eddie’s New Years Eve Revue of 1936’ featuring..Clogging! How fun!

1930s Vintage New Years Eve Newspaper ad for a NYE party as seen in the Syracuse Herald | 1935

Source: Syracuse.com

HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS! Thank you for reading my blog this year (and all the years before this), it truly means the world that you have stuck it out with me all this time (new & long time readers). YOU ARE ALL THE BEST!

P.S. Next year is my 10 year blogging anniversary so stay tuned for alot more fun!

Liz

FURTHER READING: Vintage New Years Eve Posts by the Vintage Inn:

Blanche Calloway-1930s Jazz singer, bandleader, and Composer

To kick off Women’s History Month, I want to introduce you to an artist you might not be super aware of…Blanche Calloway. Jazz singer, bandleader, and composer.

1930s Vintage Photo of Blanche Calloway 1930s Female Band leader

Blanche is recognized as the first black woman to successfully lead an all-male Jazz orchestra under her own name!

She also just happened to be the older sister of Cab Calloway, yes that Cab Calloway the famous big band leader (seen below). Cab Calloway often credited her with being the reason he got into show business (Source).

In fact… Cab Calloway borrowed key elements from his elder sister’s act — her bravura vocal style and Hi-de-Ho call and response routines.  His 1976 memoir acknowledges her influence, declaring Blanche….

Vivacious, lovely, personality plus and a hell of a singer and dancer,” an all-around entertainer who was “fabulous, happy and extroverted.”

(Source).
Vintage Photo of Cab Calloway

Blanche Calloway-1930s Jazz singer, bandleader, and Composer

About Blanche Calloway

Born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 9th, 1904. She was the oldest of what would be 4 siblings in total (Cab, Elmer & Bernice).

Music was a tradition in the Calloway home with Blanche in her early days studying piano and voice and even singing in her church choir.

After a brief stay at Morgan State College, Blanche Calloway began her professional career in Baltimore as a singer in local revues, stage shows, and nightclubs. She was very successful in Chicago during the early 1920s at the prestigious Sunset Café and even made a blues record accompanied by cornet player Louis Armstrong (Source).  

Blanche Calloway, late 1920s or early 1930s -Jazz Singer

Blanche Calloway, late 1920s or early ’30s. Source: Old Times Blues.net

Blanche Calloway and Her Joy Boys, and later Blanche Calloway and Her Orchestra

1930s vintage photo of Blanche Calloway and Her Joy Boys

Source: Discogs.com

In 1931, while performing at the Pearl Theatre in Philadelphia, Blanche was heard by bandleader Andy Kirk. Kirk asked her to sing with his outfit, the Clouds of Joy. While touring with the orchestra she quickly found herself the featured attraction. Watching her popularity soar she made an attempt to steal leadership of the group from Kirk. When Kirk figured out the plot he quickly dumped her (Source).

Still determined to have her own orchestra, Blanche found an ally in Kirk trumpet player Edgar ”Puddin Head” Battle, who helped her put together a group. Between 1931 and 1938, Calloway headed her own all-male band—Blanche Calloway and Her Joy Boys, and later Blanche Calloway and Her Orchestra—which included some of the top musicians of the day. Appearing at New York’s exclusive black theaters, the band played the Lafayette, the Harlem Opera House, and the Apollo. With their theme song “Growlin’ Dan,” they performed across the United States and recorded frequently for Victor. They disbanded in 1938 due to financial difficulties.

Blanche Calloway and her orchestra performs at the Apollo

In a survey conducted by the Pittsburgh Courier in 1931, Calloway’s band ranked 9th of 38, only 5 slots behind Louis Armstrong. A reviewer for the Courier called her “one of the most progressive performers in the profession.” (Source).

1920s Vintage Photo: early photo of Cab’s sister, Blanche Calloway, the jazz singer and bandleader, taken between 1925-29,

Source: Lelands.com

Check out Growlin Dan below and if you know Cab Calloway’s music then you can 100% hear where he got his signature sound from.

The Later Years

Though her last official orchestra disbanded in 1938, Calloway ran an all-woman band briefly during World War II.  By 1944, she had tired of life on the road and settled in Philadelphia, where she became active in community and political affairs. After moving to Florida in 1953, she became a disc jockey on radio station WMEM out of Miami. She later founded and served as president of Afram House, a company specializing in cosmetics and hair preparations for blacks. Continuing her activity in politics, in 1958 Calloway was the first black woman in Miami to vote (Source).

She died in 1973.

Blanche Calloways Music

For a complete list of all of Blanche’s music, please visit HERE.

Here are some samples….

“Lazy Woman’s Blues”, 1925 with Louis Armstrong on Cornet (or maybe Trumpet, not sure). (Video Source)

“Catch On” Blanche Calloway and her Joy Boys Recorded 27th August 1934. Video Source

“I Gotta Swing”, Recorded 6th November 1935. (Video Source)

My final Thoughts:

Blanche while successful never achieved the same fame that her brother Cab achieved and this was most likely due to the time period she was alive. Who can say what would of happened to her music if she was born in our time? I like to think that she would of been as popular as her brother, maybe even more. Imagine the collaborations we would of seen?! Sadly we will never know, but I am very happy to have brought her name to all of you to read about today.

I know that before putting this blog post together that I have ZERO clue about her story and her music. Now that is not the case. Blanche Calloway lives on here at the Vintage Inn and I’m so glad she is here.

Thanks for reading friends!

FURTHER READING:


Liz