The Codger Cabin

[Columbo]

From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):


“Look what I married! … A bent pipe! It comes with slippers! And we can’t have that!”

She feeds him processed cereal from a box, so who’s the awful one?

Maybe that’s why he smokes a bent. Keep on puffing, buddy. You might want to go smoking with Ed in the upcoming Post ad.

 

[Columbo]

From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):

 

[Benzadmiral]

Ah, yes, the '39 World's Fair! From what I can tell, the WF (and the artist) had it close to right in depicting the expressways of 1960. Though there don't seem to be any cars -- so they didn't predict our traffic jams.

 

[Columbo]

From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):

 

[RookieGuy]

Ah, good old Kellogg from back when they were still a health food company. They really did try, and they came up with some pretty advanced ideas in their day. And they were right about Pep. A steady diet would straighten out his pipe right quick.

 

[Salty O'Rourke]

From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):


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It didn't take Union Leader's ad agency long to dump those worn-out old geezers reminiscing about discovering Union Leader in 19 aught twelve or whatever....or maybe it was the agency that got dumped.

 

[Salty O'Rourke]

Ah, good old Kellogg from back when they were still a health food company. They really did try, and they came up with some pretty advanced ideas in their day. And they were right about Pep. A steady diet would straighten out his pipe right quick.

I think that's what the mrs was hoping for....

 

[Salty O'Rourke]

From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):


“Look what I married! … A bent pipe! It comes with slippers! And we can’t have that!”

She feeds him processed cereal from a box, so who’s the awful one?

Maybe that’s why he smokes a bent. Keep on puffing, buddy. You might want to go smoking with Ed in the upcoming Post ad.




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Tell your grocer "I'd like some of that cereal that's loaded with Vitamin B.D. for my husband! And maybe a box for the milkman, too!"

 

[Columbo]

From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):

 

[Columbo]

From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):

 

[Benzadmiral]

A buck for 3 tins of tobacco and a nice pipe in '39? Probably equates to about $15-20 today? Sign me up! (If you bought 3-5 oz. of Edgeworth Match and an entry-level new briar on Smokingpipes, you'd probably pay about $65 now.)

 

[Salty O'Rourke]

From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):


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I'm glad I don't have this ad's nerve in my tooth - nothing screams "cheap pipe" louder than a Yello-Bole.

 

[steveclarkus]

A buck for 3 tins of tobacco and a nice pipe in '39? Probably equates to about $15-20 today? Sign me up! (If you bought 3-5 oz. of Edgeworth Match and an entry-level new briar on Smokingpipes, you'd probably pay about $65 now.)

$19.37.

 

[Columbo]

I'm glad I don't have this ad's nerve in my tooth - nothing screams "cheap pipe" louder than a Yello-Bole.

These last two ads provide an interesting $1 buying comparison (perhaps set up by coincidence ).

For the guy with just a single spare dollar to spend: spend a buck on that Edgeworth pipe package ... or spend a buck on a Yello-Bole?

I know where I'd be spending my dollar.

 

[Columbo]

From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):

 

[Benzadmiral]

The McGregor Sportsman Guy looks like John Payne! The artist could have been inspired by JP, as he'd been in movies for about 3 years by 1939.

 

[Columbo]

From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):

 

[Columbo]

From The Cabin Coffee Table — An occasional look back at what the old Codgers saw and smoked (with a little detour and frolic, here and there):

 

[Benzadmiral]

With the Hudson ad, you have to read the fine print to see that the extra-long car in the campfire scene is $854 (with fresh air and heat extra), not the $695 touted in big print. And I'm willing to bet the artist carefully left out the front seat in the illustration of the leg room (pun gleefully intended). Mercedes did it in ads in the Fifties, making the Ponton sedan look roomier all around and especially in back than it actually was.

 

[KellyG]

I don't know about the rest of you, but Ol' Judge Robbins has about worn me down. I'm ready to go out and buy a tub of that Smoking Joy. I think I may have some stashed in the cellar; I'll be checking.