Retro Ads.

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Leroy Brown

Hey, cool ICECUBES readers, here’s a new feature I’m including for 2012! Retro ads. They often have great illustrations, funny copy and hilarious tag lines. They are so cool I thought we could feature them in the ‘Cool Pix’ section of the ‘Icebox’. If you didn’t know it already, the ‘Icebox’ is the blog section of ICECUBES. Take a look here and explore more than 120 pages of random coolness! Thanks and tell me what you think! 🙂

Leroy Brown
1947
Here’s our first entry. It’s a Bendix washing machine ad from 1947 featuring a great cartoony illustration by ‘Pony’. If anyone knows who that is please share it with us. Note the machine is also available in Canada and Mexico! 😉

2 thoughts on “Retro Ads.”

  1. Mazzy

    I wonder who the illustrator – PONY – is?

  2. Mara

    I have researched PONY but so far not a lot of success – he/she drew an entire campaign for the Bendix washer, I am emailing you some of PONY’s other illustrations including one where Santa is chilling out in his slippers recommending a Bendix washer over the phone with a headline “so if you can afford a washer, you can afford a Bendix”. I have found at least one other example of a ‘serious’ illustrator adopting a nom de plume for advertising work – professional illustrator Carl Erickson (Academy of Fine Art, Chicago) adopted and signed with the name ‘Eric’ for advertising work for Coty and Vogue from 1917 forward. By the way, the president of Bendix Home Appliance Co, Judson Sayre, was an extremely proactive marketer and believer in the power of advertising. He died in 1986 – perhaps he took the secret of PONY with him? Will keep digging –

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