April
'Bread's better 'cause it's fresher in Cellophane...' reads the caption from the demonic tots section of the 50's advertising ephemera site, Plan59.
Best alternative received to date: 'Susie had worms..., even at tea-time'. Oh dear.
Heaps of other
interesting items include this visionary ad presaging the advent of
shopping the web....
...... and whilst you're there, you can half-hypnotise yourself by gazing at this stylised vision of venturing down other highways....
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.... was that clover leaf part of an Expressway?
Cue
one of the great pinball machines, Bally's 1970's Expressway.
This image of its backglass is one of thousands
available from the definitive and ad-free Internet Pinball Machine Database.
It is spookily identical to the machine at which I learnt to
play the silver ball.... ... That's before I graduated to playing all the pins located between Soho and Brighton, as they say.
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Of course, solid 1970
era solid state pins like
Expressway lacked the sophistication to record and store high scores.
This doesn't mean that thanks to CNN and this free image generator
I can't be economical with the truth.
A swag of fun sign generator sites have cropped up over the months. I like this one courtesy of Atom Smasher.
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