Category: Vintage Advertising

13
Feb
2024

Embrace the Romance: Celebrating Valentine’s Day with a Vintage Twist

categories: Vintage Advertising, vintage holidays, vintage images

Happy Valentine’s Day to all those who are celebrating!

Today’s blog post is a collection of vintage Valentine’s Day photos, images, magazine covers, greeting cards and vintage advertising.

Let the romance begin!

1950s vintage photo of a 1950s Valentines Day Dance featuring 2 couples sitting together in 1950s fashions with Valentine decorations on the wall.

Photo: Taking a break for a chat at the dance.

Further Reading: Vintage Valentines Day 1920s-1960s Archived blog posts

Disclosure: Some of the links on my blog from Etsy , eBay are Affiliate Links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.

The Valentine’s Day Dances:

1950s photo of two couples posing in a giant heart with streamers all around at their Valentine’s Day Dance.

What fun decor! Great idea for your next 1950s party.

1950s vintage photo of a Valentines Day Dance decoration of a giant heart with streamers and 1950s couples posing in the heart

Source: Etsy-JakeRoebucks

1947 Daddy, Daughter Valentine’s Dance featuring in the photo an adorable girl with a heart dress. Love it!

1940s vintage photo: 1947 Daddy, Daughter Valentine's Dance featuring in the photo an adorable girl with her heart dress.

Source: eBay

1956 Valentine Dance with teenagers and a young man dancing with a broom made to look like his date. ha!

Further Reading: Vintage Photos Of The Social Dance

1950s vintage photo of a Valentine's Day Dance featuring young teenagers and a young man dancing with a broom made to look like his date.

Source: Flickr-The Library of Virginia

Vintage Valentine’s Day Photos

1930s photo of two smiling teenagers sharing a special Valentine’s Day moment with a box of chocolates.

1930s vintage photo of two teenagers sitting on a couch together on Valentines Day. The young man is giving a box of chocolates to the young woman with the 1930s hairstyle

Source: Time.com

1943-Even during WWII, US soldiers overseas were able to send Valentine’s cards to sweethearts back home.

1940s vintage photo of US soldiers looking at valentines day cards to send back home in 1943

Source: Taste of Home

Canadian Women’s Army Corps (CWAC) Valentine’s Day 1944 -Young military couple chalking hearts onto a tree during WW2.

Source: Flickr

1950s photo: Giving a Valentine’s Day heart.

LOVE the 1950s dress on our beaming 1950s University student.

1950s vintage photo of a young woman university student in a 1950s dress receiving a box of heart chocolates on Valentines Day at the door from her date.

Source: Kenneth Spencer Research Library University Archives Photos. Call Number: RG 71/0 1950s

1957 photo of a young woman serving punch in the cutest punch bowl with fun & kitschy Valentine decorations.

Source: Redbook

Valentine’s Day Cards

Further Reading: Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards (archived blog post)

1950s / 1960s “Valentine Greetings…Just ‘Cause I kinda Likes Ya!”

1950s 1960s vintage Valentine's Day Card featuring an adorable little Black girl illustration playing on the grass.

Source: Pinterest

“My Valentine..I’ll never you , ‘The Gate’. 1940s card.

1940s vintage valentines day card featuring an illustration of a girl in a 1940s dress at a gate

Source: Etsy-Russellsvintage

“I couldn’t BEAR to lose you dear Valentine”. Ahhh! 1930’s card.

"I couldn't BEAR to lose you dear Valentine". Ahhh! 1930's Valentines Day card featuring two cute Black Bears hugging. Fun vintage valentines day.

Source: Etsy-Adawegamig

The Valentine’s Day Magazine Covers

Further Reading: Vintage Valentines Day Magazine Covers (archived post)

1928’s NeedleCraft, February Issue featuring a girl holding Valentine’s while putting on her coat.

1920s vintage magazine cover for Needlecraft magazine on valentines day featuring ani llustration of a girl holding a heart

Source: Alamy

1939 issue of Woman’s World with a colorful Valentines Day cover with Cupid, flowers, hearts and doves.

1930s Vintage Magazine: 1939 issue of Woman’s World has a colorful Valentines Day cover with Cupid, flowers, hearts and doves

Source: Etsy-paintedpony99

Jeanne Crain, on the Modern Screen magazine cover, February 1944.

1940s vintage magazine cover for Valentines Day featuring Jeanne Crain, Modern Screen magazine cover, February 1944

Source: Alamy

February 7th, 1943-“First Kiss” as seen in ‘The Detroit Free Press Parade’ weekly picture newspaper.

The image according to Parade, said that the little kids were unaware that they had an audience when the little girl laid a kiss on the cheek of her little crush. Adorable.

Source: Parade Magazine

Now not really Magazine Covers but I love a good Romance Comic book (I own a few, mostly to drool over the 1950s & 1960s fashions) and thought I would slide in ones you can purchase right now (in PDF format).

Then when you have time, take a look at my archived post, Romance Comics of the 1950s and 1960s.

Source: Etsy-VintageComicBoutique

Vintage Valentine’s Day Advertising

1940s ad for a ‘Lane Cedar Hope Chest’. “Step into her heart forever. Give her a LANE this Valentine’s Day.”

1940s vintage ad for a Lane hope chest for Valentines Day featuring a man helping a woman in 1940s dress and 1940s hairstyle threw a heart with cupids all around.

Source: Pinterest

“It’s “Remembering Day”…Remember?” Whitman’s Chocolates ad from the 1950s reminding all those who need remembering about Valentine’s Day on February 14th.

Source: Pinterest

1959 ad for Coca-Cola…”Be Really Refreshed….Love That Coke!” as seen in the February National Geographic.

1950s vintage ad for Coca-Cola., Valentines Day featuring a couple sharing a coke inside a giant heart, as seen in February 1959 National Geographic Magazoine

Source: Etsy-The Ad Agency

1954 advertisement…”to my candy kid, Milky Way Chocolate bars”. YUM!

1950s vintage ad for Milky Way Chocolate bars on Valentine's Day. 1954 advertisement..."to my candy kid, Milky Way Chocolate bars".

Source: Redbook

“1950s underwear advertisement with a Valentine theme. “Mother-Daughter favorites with the famous Lollipop Cuffing-Cotton Brief.”1950s underwear advertisement with a Valentine theme. “Mother-Daughter favorites with the famous Lollipop Cuffing-Cotton Brief.

1950s vintage ad for womens and girls underware, cotton briefs with a Valentines Day theme.

Source: Pinterest

Vintage Valentine’s Day Pin-Up Photos

1940s vintage photo of a pin-up for Valentines Days dressed up as a painter. -Vintage Valentine Pin-up photo.

Joyce Mathews (actress) in 1939 as vintage Valentines Day pin-up.

1930s vintage photo of Joyce Mathews in 1939 as vintage valentines day pinup

Source: Pinterest

Jet Magazine, February 17, 1955, “Be My Valentine” photoshoot featuring 22 year-old model Cynthia Willburn.

1950s vintage magazine Jet Magazine featuring a beautiful Black Pin-up model posing for a Be My Valentine photo shoot February 17, 1955

Source: Flickr

I will end this post with this funny 1968 Valentine’s Day commercial for Scope (video link).

I hope you enjoyed this fun read and I hope you have a lovely day celebrating all things LOVE!

Thanks for dropping by!

Liz

01
Feb
2024

Vintage Butter & Margarine Advertising

categories: Vintage Advertising

I can’t believe it’s vintage butter & margarine advertising from the 1920s-1950s! If you know the reference then this post is for you. If you don’t and you love vintage ads, then this post is also for you. So sit back, and enjoy!

1940s vintage ad for Parkay Margarine from 1942.

Note: The history of the world butter and margarine and the battle between the two is a long and very interesting read, but too long for my blog (cliff notes: butter hated margarine for being fake & looking like butter). So I encourage you to read some of the links I have provided thru out this post to get caught up.

Disclosure: Some of the links on my blog from Etsy , eBay are Affiliate Links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.

Vintage Butter & Margarine Advertising 1920s-1950s

Butter leaflet front cover to encourage the consumption of butter for good health in the 1920s.

1920s vintage leaflet promoting the use of Butter for cooking featuring an illustration of a 1920s mother with her child baking

Source: National Archives

‘Sainsbury’s Rich Dairy Butter -Back to Pre-War Prices!’

Butter ad from the 1920s. Includes the price of ‘1’4 per pound. Also includes the text: ‘A Sample Purchase will convince you of the exception Quality and Value’.

Source: Sainsbury Archive

1920s ad for ‘Morris Supreme Margarine’. “On baked potato-that’s a good test for the flavor of a spread”.

Further reading: The History Of Margarine Goes All The Way Back To Napoleon

1920s vintage advertisement for MORRIS SUPREME MARGARINE featuring a stick of margarine and a baked potato.

Source: Periodpaper.com

May 1930 vintage ad for ‘Brookfield Butter’ & ‘Brookfield Eggs’ from ‘Swift’s Premium Quality featuring buttery biscuits. Yum!

Source: eBay

FACT: During the Depression, people had less money to spend on butter, so production and usage of margarine increased. By the mid 1940’s, butter shortages during WWII caused the sale of margarine to surpass that of butter (source).

1931 ‘Meadow Gold’ Butter ad – “ Thousands of homes learned today the deliciousness of “june Flavor” butter”

1930s vintage ad: 1931 Meadow Gold Butter Ad featuring an illustration of a 1930s mother feeding her kids.

Source: Atticpaper.com

1930s advertisement for ‘Nucoa’ Margarine, the “Thrift Spread”. “Save you up to 14 cents a pound”.

1930s Vintage Advertisement for Nucoa Margarine featuring an image of 1930s kids running from school with the illustration talking about affordable spread for the kids bread.

Source: Etsy-AmericanCenturyShop

“5,000,000 dairy farmers are doing their part to win the war….There’s plenty of butter for America’s lunch box”.

American Dairy Association butter ad from 1942.

Source: Etsy-VintageAdCorps

1947 ‘Allsweet Vegetable Oleomargarine’ ad. “There’s nothing artificial about the flavor of this margarine-delicate natural flavor!’

1940s vintage advertisement: 1947 'Allsweet vegetable OLEOMARGARINE' ad. "There's nothing artificial about the flavor of this margarine-delicate natural flavor!'

Source: Etsy- SwellVintageAds

‘Cudahy’s Delrich’ brand of margarine used a “color berry” to color its white vegetable-based margarine yellow. This 1948 advertisement demonstrates how to color the margarine inside the package (source).

Note: Why color the margarine? Let’s just say that this is part of that “long history” I mentioned above that had to do with the battle of butter being yellow (it’s original color) and margarine not having a yellow color without help to it. Take a read here on ‘Food Dye Origins: When Margarine Was Pink‘.

Source: Wikipedia

1949 ‘Parkay’ margarine print ad featuring a vintage recipe for ‘Orange Fluff Frosting’ perfect for the topping of that perfect cake.

1940s vintage ad: 1949 Parkay margarine print ad featuring a vintage recipe for 'Orange Fluff Frosting' perfect for the topping of that perfect cake.

Source: Etsy-AmericanCenturyShop

“Flavor! Nutrition! Econom-e-e! Blue Bonnet Margarine gives “All 3”.

1950’s ‘Fleischmann’s Blue Bonnet Oleo Margarine’, “Winter Snowman” newspaper ad.

Source: eBay

1950s butter advertisement (1952) from the American Dairy Association featuring recipes for ‘Almond-Asparagus’ & ‘Butter-Browned Chicken’. “…then you add Butter for flavor!”

950s butter advertisement from the American Dairy Association featuring recipes for 'Almond-Asparagus' & 'Butter-Browned Chicken'. Vintage recipe.

Source: Alamy

1950s Danish margarine advertisement – ‘Kloster Margarine’.

1950s Danish Butter Margarine vintage Advertisement - Kloster Margarine featuring an illustration of a 1950s housewife.

Source: Etsy – OutofCopenhagen

1957 British ad for ‘New Zealand Butter’. “Be certain-order it by name’.

1957 British ad for 'New Zealand Butter' featuring an illustration of a 1950s housewife with a stick of butter.

Source: Alamy

1950s “nutritious” margarine ad from the ‘National Association of Margarine Manufacturers’.

Further Reading: Margarine Bootlegging in Canada (FACT: between the 1880s and 1950s, margarine was outlawed in Canada and margarine-hungry Canadians bootlegged the stuff).

Source: Etsy-CalypsoCollecting

1953 American Dairy Association featuring “2 Easy Butter Sauces to make meatless meals sing!”. Vintage recipes for ‘Deviled Eggs Dinner-In-One-Dish’ & ‘Salmon with Easy Hollandaise”.