Sepia Saturday

-

 


This week's prompt has inspired me to digitally dig through the internet archives looking for nostalgic car ads from the past. Here's what I found.


I'm surprised children wanted comfort. I would think they'd love having the wind blow through their hair, that feeling of speed.



Don't forget. Ford wasn't the first car. Mercedes Benz was and here's an early ad. 

I had no idea this is what the world's first car looked like. 



What a difference 50 years make!


I miss how colorful cars used to be.














Comments

  1. La NightingailFebruary 20, 2022 at 9:23 AM

    You chose some neat pix of the early cars and the one of the colorful Dodge Lancer sure points out the difference from cars nowadays! I agree with you about today's cars having no particular or unique style or color to them. Rarely (if ever?) do you see any two or three tone combinations. The '50s, '60s, & even '70s had some great looks for cars. You knew right away from the style and color what kind of car you were looking at - even to the year it was manufactured! Not any more. Today, the only way I can tell for sure what kind of car it is, is by the company's logo. What a shame.

    ReplyDelete
  2. KristinFebruary 20, 2022 at 11:20 AM

    The first car reminds me of my grandfather's car. He bought it during the 1920s and he was still driving it in the late 1950s. I remember it well. We called it Lizzie.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. smkelly8February 21, 2022 at 2:15 PM

      I love it when people give their cars names. Thanks for visiting.

      Delete
  3. Molly's CanopyFebruary 20, 2022 at 11:34 AM

    These are great nostalgic ads! I had to laugh at the first two for Ford. My Dad would always say, "You know what Ford stands for? Fix Or Repair Daily."

    ReplyDelete
  4. Mike BrubakerFebruary 20, 2022 at 6:32 PM

    Those first cars were only a few steps up from a horse-drawn hack and the Mercedes really looks like a horse-less carriage. The Dodge Lancer made me laugh to see it marketed with a British theme background. I don't think any Dodge every tooled around Buckingham Palace. The Queen has a better choice of cars anyway.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. smkelly8February 21, 2022 at 2:17 PM

      The Queen's got a top shelf livery of cars.

      Delete
    2. smkelly8February 21, 2022 at 2:20 PM

      I guess the first car was bound to be basic. I wouldn't be swayed to buy that. I'd prefer the horse and buggy.

      Delete
  5. AmyFebruary 20, 2022 at 9:30 PM

    I really like old vintage ads, some of them crack me up.

    ReplyDelete
  6. SharonFebruary 21, 2022 at 3:01 AM

    This is why I love Sepia Saturday. I learn so much. I thought Ford was the first car and did not realise that Mercedes Benz was named after a person! Where have I been???
    Thank you

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. smkelly8February 21, 2022 at 2:19 PM

      It is a good bit of trivia. You might win a prize or game for knowing that. Ford invented the assembly line and Americans infer that he invented the car. Schools I went to didn't divest us of that notion.

      Delete
  7. AnonymousFebruary 28, 2022 at 3:10 PM

    Susan - I want you to know that your Sepia Saturday link for 2/26 is just to the sepia saturday website, not to your post.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sepia Saturday

-
Image
 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas For this week's Sepia Saturday I thought I'd share photos from my visit to Old World Wisconsin. Last week a friend and I visited this historic site in Eagle, Wisconsin to see it's Christmas festivities. Old World Wisconsin is a place where they've gathered and restored buildings from the 19th Century. In December on the weekend's they're open to show visitors how Christmas was celebrated over 100 years ago. In the town's church, which was the first Catholic church in Milwaukee, visitors could sing carols. The performers read a Christmas passage from a Little House on the Prairie book. They also brought kids up from the audience and they read "The Night Before Christmas." Ready for Christmas morning. This room is set up for a cobweb party. Each guest has a color of string and they have to unravel the string to get to their Christmas gift. I wonder what other kinds of parties they had back then. This l
Read more

Mural Monday

-
Image
  Pilsen, Chicago Every Monday Colourful World invites bloggers to share a mural in the Monday Mural Challenge. Click here to see many, many more murals.
Read more

Sepia Saturday

-
Image
  The photo above inspired me to find some photos of people riding donkeys. Here's what I found in the Library of Congress archives.  Horydczak, Theodor, photographer.  Soldier and child. Man in uniform with child riding donkey . United States, None. ca. 1920-ca. 1950. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019677714/. he Ambulance of the Hillmen. American Red Cross nurse at Tirana, Albania, unloading a patient from the mountain ambulance of the hillmen, a donkey. Riding astride a donkey is the smoothest and easiest method of travelling in the rough trails of the mountain country. There are few roads in Albania many miles to the American Red Cross hospitals . Tirana Albania, 1920. [January Date Received] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017671326/. Dalrymple, Louis, Artist.  Our Don Quixote / Dalrymple . , 1899. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012647373/. Pughe, J. S. , Artist.   Transformed / J.S. Pughe . , 1904. N.Y.: J. Ott
Read more