If I can sum it up: the whistles indicate factories; the envelopes are pay envelopes. It’s 1932, and employment is up Up UP! So buy a tuxedo!
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Paymaster Office! I had mentioned payroll office… Couldn’t remember the correct term.
Puttin’ on the Ritz, eh?
“stirring basement offer”…if there was something stirring in the basement, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a tuxedo.
It might have ben the “Famous Stonewall Twist” that caused the stirring (?)
Egad–the last “stirring basement offer” I had was for help getting to the stationary tubs in time(so as not to “shout for Wyatt” all over the floor), after a rare epic booze-up during my teenage years(I lived in the basement then).
I should note that that “stirring basement” then morphed into the more traditional “spinning mattress”.
Was this ad on the back of a “Parade” magazine?
Haband!
Laxatives!
Am I late? What’d I miss?
Your right, it’s for Northwest Laxatives. They come through!!
Pretty Thin Ad. Hope against hope.
“Hey, this silly ‘depression’ thing – oughta be over any day now, since FDR is In Charge Now – And Bringing Some BIG Changes! Happy Days Are Just On The Horizon! Just Look At The Stock Market, Wa-a-a-ay Up Now! So Come Over And Buy Some Stuff!”
(Anything about that sound distressingly familiar?)