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Serenska posted:

Once again, I am updating my own post with another ad from the same online group.  The caption someone added on the vintage advertising group was: "Hey son!  Let's climb into our underwear and play trains!"

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Steven J. Serenska

 

****, I've been doing it wrong, I'm usually fully clothed.  This weekend I'll try your method. 

Stu

ScottV posted:

(1)  Does the cigarette train come with a smoke unit?

(2)  Beside the fact that they're in their undies, what does the kid have on top of his leg with a wire coming out of that he's staring at with a weird grin?  ....it's reminding me of the Addam's family ....is he about to set off the explosives?

It looks like the external wire that goes with the Lionel Generator car (the blue and white one).

https://www.tandem-associates....30_operating_car.htm

But, yeah, a strange looking scene.  

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ScottV posted:

(2)  Beside the fact that they're in their undies, what does the kid have on top of his leg with a wire coming out of that he's staring at with a weird grin?  ....it's reminding me of the Addam's family ....is he about to set off the explosives?

Well, it is an underwear ad after all. Nothing creepy about that.  No different than the bazillion underwear ads we see today in print, online, and tv.

Robert S. Butler posted:

Serenska - that Winston ad really took me back - the version of that ad kids in my neighborhood used to sing was  - "Winstons taste bad like the one I just had. No filter, no flavor, just cotton-pickin' paper." 

RSB:

Funny, we had a similar version of the song in my neighborhood: "Winston tastes bad like the one I just had.  No filter, no taste, just a bunch of paper waste."

In hindsight, it's a pretty well-crafted melody, seeing how it's stuck with us all these years....

Steven J. Serenska

NOT LionelLLC posted:
Serenska posted:

Once again, I am updating my own post with another ad from the same online group.  The caption someone added on the vintage advertising group was: "Hey son!  Let's climb into our underwear and play trains!"

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Steven J. Serenska

 

****, I've been doing it wrong, I'm usually fully clothed.  This weekend I'll try your method. 

Stu

Go ahead - try and drink that visual out of your mind

Paul

Updating my own post once again with a new ad from the same online group devoted to vintage ads.

This one is a little disturbing.  I'm not too appreciative that Lionel was trying to get kids to be this conniving.  Given the catalog images, I'm going to place this from in the mid- to late-1960s.

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The best comments from viewers of the thread had the father pause to reconsider his words:

...But, for gosh sakes, DON'T tell Mom this is the most fun i've had in years!

and

...Well, the most fun since that weekend last year with Cindy from accounting!

Enjoy.

Steven J. Serenska

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the colorful ads of 40’s 50’s really are really creepy, I agree.
Did everyone smoke in the 50s?
In 1950s America cigarette smoking was the epitome of cool and glamour. ... By the late 1950s around half of the population of industrialised nations smoked - in the UK up to 80% of adults were hooked. The product was cheap, legal and socially acceptable.
Most  died a horrible death from respiratory insufficiency, COPD and Cancer affecting lung, bone, bladder, kidney and brain infiltration. Nothing quite like a smoking related  tumor.
Part of what I do for a living is respiratory therapy and this includes  tobacco intervention, and pulmonary rehab.
smoking still kills, suffering is still evident, I see this daily.
there are no more cigarettes smoking advertisements.
now, the young vape community is poisoning its self Big Time
Sorry, I had to write this.
but thanks for the color advertisements.

Leroof, our posts crossed.  I don't know how old your are, but I clearly remember the cigarette ads from the 40's, that 9 out of 10 doctors smoke [brand], and ads saying that doctors promoted smoking to help one relax.  I leave it to the reader to draw analogies to what is being touted today as medically beneficial.

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