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The toothpaste your parents never told you about

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If Mayor Bloomberg wants to help hobos (and high functioning alcoholics) please get Crest to make this toothpaste!

Copyranter posted this found ad from a 1961 House and Garden magazine. 1961?!? How can I go there?

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How to make yourself more attractive. In 1938.

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With advice like this, how did our grandparents ever manage to not end up being a bunch of miserable misogynists trapped in loveless marriages? Oh wait…
A great find by Coudal Partners, Prose before Ho’s Tumblr features this pricelessly hilarious cache of images from a guide on finding love in the 1930’s. Just one question: did [...]

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