Greetings vintage mates!
Whether you are a high street shopper, a mega-store moocher, a mail-order junkie, a catalogue queen or a flea-market freak… make sure you pick up these items* the next time you go shopping!
*time-travel to the 1960s may be required for certain items subject to availability.
Shopping list: Ajax cleaner, Pax washing powder, Palmolive washing-up liquid, Mir washing powder, Orlane and Juvena cosmetics, Banga orange juice, Gayelord Hauser Vitamin Pills.
Don’t forget to pick up…
Some Zip-Snip mini-secateurs for your fingers and thumb! Roses are red, violets are blue, ouch, it’s off to Accident & Emergency for you!
Don’t forget to pick up…
Some new special transistor batteries, preferably from Wonder. Pow!
Don’t forget to pick up…
New kitchen appliances!
In fact, why not go the whole hog and pick up a new kitchen!
And while you’re at it, get some new tableware too!
Don’t forget to pick up…
A Ronson lighter, for those special cigarette, cigar and candlelight moments! (this advert is dedicated to Chris Hall and ‘Mr Patterson’)
And whatever you do, make sure you don’t forget to pick up…
A most very handy Very-Table! Very good! Verily we say it is a most veritable Very-Table that is in vogue right now!
For goodness sake, please, please, please don’t forget to pick up…
The Cornflakes and some new Eumig film cameras!! How on Earth are we supposed to make arthouse movies on an empty stomach!
Ah!
I think that’s all…
No, wait…
Don’t forget to pick up…
Some new View-Master reels! Like View-Master? Then TVTA has you covered!
Don’t forget to…
Fall in love 😍
Don’t forget to…
Think! 🤔
TVTA thinks…
Or…
That’s all folks. Thank you for shopping with us 😊
Images from: Jours De France #750, 1969 and Marie France #118, 1965.
The Vintage Toy Advertiser 
Hi TVTA, my dad used to have a few cigarette lighters and we had a Ronson 500 similar to the one in the bottom right corner of your ad but ours had real Tiger’s Eye inlay panels. For a cigarette lighter it was quite a beautiful object. Sadly it got lost (as a lot of objects did in my home due to my brother) sometime over the years.
And finally that first image of a supermarket aisle reminds me of the supermarket stores I used to shop at as a kid….Leo’s and Hillards…..back when they “stacked ’em high and sold ’em cheap”!
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Thanks FT. My nan and grandad had a fair few Ronsons like those in the ad, plus some very nice tabletop ones.
Haven’t heard of Leo’s and Hillards. Our local small supermarkets back then were Finefare and Liptons (yes, Liptons of the tea fame).
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Ajax! I’ve got some of that still, somewhere! 🙂
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😁 Do they still make it? If your Ajax is an old one from vintage days then it’ll probably go nuclear if you open it!
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Not sure if it’s still made; I had the cream cleaner, though, and not the scouring powder. I think. I’m now having flashbacks to Vim!
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Vim! Scouring pads! Brillo pads. Those little rubber tea towel holders that you stuck to the wall. Erm… Brasso… my great grandmother used it to clean the brass ornaments once every week. Can still smell it now 😀
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I’m sure Brasso’s still made… I can smell that now myself! 🙂
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Oh my gosh, I love love love these so very much!!! The view finder ad was my favorite.
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Glad you love them! Me too, always a treat to see these old ads! Thank you 😊
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Oh, memories…
(Patterson and I thank you)
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Cheers Chris and Patterson 😎
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WOW, viewmaster, I remember having one of those! Such a cool little toy!
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Agree! I loved my View-Master when I was a kid.
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Lol! Some of these products are still around.
I have to say…love that kitchen. It’s much cooler than the “bells and whistles” kitchens of today.
I’ll take that kitchen! Thanks, Ford!
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I love it too. You have excellent taste in kitchens! It’s all yours dear Resa 😊😊
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😊😊😊😊
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I adore these old ads! Did I ever tell you, I wrote my final paper on masculinity in print? For months I was the crazy lady sitting in the library with old Playboys, Esquire & Co.
Looks were prizeless 🙂
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Thanks Jeanine. No, you never told me that!! What an adventure and story to bring back 😀
Cool kid A+ 😎
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Merci! It was a lot of fun actually … but look at my non-exsisting career 🙂 Don’t get an arts degree kids!
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But I imagine it was interesting studying the arts, and all the wonderful creativity and history you were exposed to? Even if it didn’t lead to a career.
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Qui savait? Pere Noel peut transporter un lave-vaisselle dans la cheminée !!
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😂🤣 He is a man of extraordinary talents and large sacks!
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