Kitchen Magic

Comment by SydTheSkeptic on October 31, 2008 at 9:23am

Jim, ya know what's so fascinating about viewing pics from this time...it that it presents the ideal of what America was striving for...the iconography; plenty, nourishment, material things, family life, owning an automobile and a home w/a dishwasher, watching baseball on the television...it's what still defines us today and it remains the ideal. Forget the Cold War, the rise of the mafia, McCarthyism, and all that under-the-surface shit that was the reality...THIS is the dream, and remains so even today

Comment by JD on October 31, 2008 at 11:48am

The expectations put forth by the advertisers, when compared to the abilities of the many, resulted in a staggering increase in attendance at local AA meetings. Oh, to sit and drink and smoke to my heart's content in my heated Lanai in January...

Comment by TYRANNOVISION-BaronDIxon on November 1, 2008 at 2:33pm

Another excellent marriage of montage and music, Jim!

Comment by JD on November 1, 2008 at 5:56pm

Thank you, sir. I would imagine the music came from the Melachrino Strings and Orchestra's "Music to Read Popular Science By"

Comment by Jim on March 19, 2009 at 10:26pm

Just catching this one now, Jim. I wonder if that "good to the last drop" gesture caught on. If so, it was free advertising for Maxwell House. =) I remember another one from the 1950's like that: the Posturepedic Mattress gesture. In my family, if anyone were slouching, someone would form a letter P with both hands and say, "Posturpedic!" to make them sit up straight. =)

Funny how the picture of the man washing dishes is such a significant statement. It should really be an ordinary occurence, wouldn't you say? Love the yellow formica table and the biscuit daydream. That OJ girl could be a precursor to Anita Bryant. =)

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