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tob1303

tob1303

This post was inspired by my deep love of baseball, my stumbling across a gallery of old ballparks (gallery here)...and my recent puchase of a 1912 GEM SE.

These ADs are all for GEM. It must have been nice to live during a time when baseball ADs were all for mens clothing, razors, cigarettes, boot polish and beer.

Sorry if pics didn't work, I'm new here and doing this worked earlier...and I don't know how to delete the post. So I provided links to the pics in the names of the parks.

Fenway Park (Boston) in what is likely the late thirties:
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Fenway Park 1942:
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Sportsmans Park 1951 St Louis Cardinals:
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1957 Ebbets Field Brooklyn:
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dwestenk

dwestenk

tob1303 said:
This post was inspired by my deep love of baseball, my stumbling across a gallery of old ballparks (gallery) ...

It must have been nice to live during a time when baseball ADs were all for mens clothing, razors, cigarettes, boot polish and beer.

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Perusing your gallery took me back to the days my father would take me to Briggs Stadium to watch the Tigers play. Thanks!

(Unfortunately todays ads are all for beer, pickups, and erection pills!)
 
Sal

Sal

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at 45 secs in there are a couple

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baba

baba

Great post. Die hard Cubs fan here.

Baseball and shaving have been intertwined for many years.
 
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synapticmisfires

What's that next to the GEM ad in the first Fenway picture? It looks like a puck of soap?

Can anybody recognize it or make it out?

Cool ads. I love baseball. :thumbup1:
 
tob1303

tob1303

Appears to be an Ad for Lifebuoy Soap....a regular soap I believe.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lifebuoy is a brand of soap containing phenol marketed originally by Lever Brothers in England beginning in 1895.


History
Popular for over 100 years, the light red soap is still available in the United States, in specialty shops that import it through Jupiter Imports (UK) in England. Though Lifebuoy has ceased to be produced in the U.S. and the UK, it is still being mass produced by Unilever in Cyprus (for the UK, EU and USA). In India, it is the main value brand there as well as in some other South Asian and South East Asian countries like Malaysia, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Indonesia.[1]

Catchphrases
When the Philadelphia Phillies played at the Baker Bowl during the 1920s, an outfield wall advertisement for Lifebuoy stated, "The Phillies use Lifebuoy". One night a graffiti artist sneaked in and added to the ad, "And they still stink". Variations of the joke were also employed by detractors of other losing teams.

The term "B.O.", short for "body odor", was invented by Lifebuoy for an advertising campaign. The Lifebuoy radio ad, parodied by several Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes cartoons, used a foghorn-type sound to create the "B.O." sound.




Ha...thank you Wiki, that's a great story.
 
DunEdinRanger

DunEdinRanger

I love the old ballparks. Thanks for posting this.

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Lights were installed at Sportsman's Park in 1940, yet there are no light stanchions visible over the 3rd Base/Left Field stands. You can see the supports for the light tower behind the GEM sign, but not on the roof of the stands.

However, in this photo, it is evident.

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So I'm not really sure how the 1951 date was arrived at.
 
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synapticmisfires

tob1303 said:
Appears to be an Ad for Lifebuoy Soap....a regular soap I believe.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lifebuoy is a brand of soap containing phenol marketed originally by Lever Brothers in England beginning in 1895.


History
Popular for over 100 years, the light red soap is still available in the United States, in specialty shops that import it through Jupiter Imports (UK) in England. Though Lifebuoy has ceased to be produced in the U.S. and the UK, it is still being mass produced by Unilever in Cyprus (for the UK, EU and USA). In India, it is the main value brand there as well as in some other South Asian and South East Asian countries like Malaysia, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Indonesia.[1]

Catchphrases
When the Philadelphia Phillies played at the Baker Bowl during the 1920s, an outfield wall advertisement for Lifebuoy stated, "The Phillies use Lifebuoy". One night a graffiti artist sneaked in and added to the ad, "And they still stink". Variations of the joke were also employed by detractors of other losing teams.

The term "B.O.", short for "body odor", was invented by Lifebuoy for an advertising campaign. The Lifebuoy radio ad, parodied by several Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes cartoons, used a foghorn-type sound to create the "B.O." sound.




Ha...thank you Wiki, that's a great story.
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Wow. I've heard reference to that Foghorn thing somewhere, and I never knew where it originated. That is...so cool! :biggrin1:
 
jadam318

jadam318

I love this post! Thanks, man!

I'm certainly no die hard baseball fan, but there is absolutely nothing like the atmosphere in a crowded baseball stadium on a warm, late summer afternoon. I would have loved to visit some of those old stadiums when Gem had their ads flying!
 
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