Friday, April 15, 2005



Remember the Cold War?


This is part of an advertisement from 1965. Note the spy theme. There's a camera, deceptively described as "Instant Photography." Yeah, right.

I love those two nifty anti-spy gadgets. There's the Secret Agent 0/0/9 - "Enemy aliens, spies and subversive characters, your days are numbered" - and the cunningly-devised Secret Sam Spy-Catching Kit, which comes with a camera, rifle attachment, pistol, silencer, periscope, and message missile. It's not hard to tell that the Cuban Missile Crisis happened three years before this advertisement was printed.

I guess I am feeling nostalgic today.

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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:00 pm

    Not being quite the Younger Whipper-Snapper that yourself is, I actually remember ads like this. As a kid, I thought it would be so neat to have all that spy stuff.

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  2. how old are you again?

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  3. Anonymous6:11 pm

    Old enough to know better than to answer that question.

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  4. good answer, so it's a good thing that i have such a good memory.

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