Springtime At Dragonfly Farms

iPhone shots from another fun visit to Dragonfly Farms with Scott.

The amount of color, attention to detail and artistry that goes into the displays and decor of this 

store is nearly art-gallery like, bordering on installation art rather than retail merchandise staging.

Well done, guys... Your space always beguiles me.  Happy Spring!

1960s Ads: Pleased As Punch

It's 1965 and everyone is THRILLED.

Collage: "Luxury Dusting" (2011)

CHRISTIAN MONTONE

"Luxury Dusting"  

Collage.  18 x 24 inches.  September 2011.

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Charmin Squeezers Of The 1960s... Fetish Culture?

Just as he could always be counted on to scold shoppers out of squeezing the Charmin, 

Mister Whipple could also be counted on to be caught red-handed in that very same illicit act.

 "Mister Whipple!" the mortified housewives would cry in a chorus of exasperation.

It seems the squeakiest wheel is indeed always the one that wants to get greased the most.  

If Moustache Daddy Whipple were around today, he'd probably be running an internet fetish 

community for squeezably soft toilet tissue enthusiasts.  They'd probably call themselves Charmies.

1969 Commercial Stills: Maureen Arthur For Cheer Detergent

Here we see noted film actress Maureen Arthur (no stranger to the odd TV cameo or, as it turns out, even odder commercial) bringing her specific brand of perkiness to an ad for Cheer Detergent.  In a performance which registers somewhere between Kristin Chenoweth and Amy Sedaris on The Plucky Imp Scale, Miss Arthur plays a suburban Mom who is lamenting the less-than-vibrant tones of her children's school togs.  Frustrated and bereft of a solution, she is visited by an extraterrestrial bearing an uncanny resemblance to the vulcan Spock from the 1960s television enterprise known as Star Trek.  Through the magic of what passes for special effects in 1969, a box of All-Temp-a-Cheer materializes in a ribbon of flashing lights set upon a bed of otherworldly moog trills and (as so frequently happens) a cute white lady from the 'burbs has all of her domestic problems solved by a tall, imposing alien creature with fierce brows.

Clean & Creamy: Camay Ladies Of The 1960s

The most demure dames of this (otherwise turbulent) decade knew how to lather up and stay soft.

1960s Milk Commercial Stills: Energy, Wow! Vitality, Yeah!

I'm gonna guess that the casting call for this ad went something like...

WANTED: 

Four fresh-faced punters... Two gadfly gals and two dandy dudes.

We're scoping for the charm and electricity of The Mamas & The Papas with 

clean cut looks that could get you work as an extra in an episode of That Girl. 

 Previous modern dance training a plus, but let's keep it clean.

She-Monsters, Acid-Eaters, Zombies & Beatniks

 1950s, 60s and early 70s Cinerama: 
Images culled from various on-line galleries promoting the history of cinema
as told by vintage promotional graphics and street-level, eye-grabbing visuals.