My Dinner With Fluffy

"Just what are you insinuating?" Blue Bluster snapped at the press corps. "Those puppies don't resemble me in the least. Next question!"

"Hey put away that damn can. We're here for the crawfish boil!" From March's Good Housekeeping. (Originally posted to flickr on April 5th, 2011.)

Cuddly kittens + peppy cursive typeface + SCIENCE!! + grisly fish dissection = Everything I love about ads from before I was born. Clipped from September's Good Housekeeping.

That bottle has The Yellow Kid getting an awkward waltz lesson from a rejected Greek amphora gal c.1000 b.c. Why didn't they just make the cat their logo?

"C'mon, Scruffy! Finish your dessert and then we'll go hang out at the drugstore!" The back of the cardboard base and several of the calendar pages also had more promos for the remedy and for Tums, too. ("Relieve without griping! without purging!") Some fun, eh?

In his younger years, Chewbacca had stage parents who pushed him to take some really embarrassing jobs. From the August issue of Family Circle magazine.

The Pyrex Pet Dish fad was short-lived. From the November issue of American Home magazine.

Ah, yes... the majestic elephant herds of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! More about the history of Dylite, etc. if you're in the mood to feel even more depressed about the future here . (Probably originally from Time magazine.)

Shown slightly larger than actual size. Albina Fuel Co. still exists, though not at this address . I haven't had any luck pinpointing a decade for this promo, so I've just guessed. Additional info would be welcome.