Spring has officially arrived and I am so ready for a change in temp. I used to love winter but as I have gotten older, it’s been pushed to the back. I’m just tired of being cold, bundling up in 60 million items of clothes (okay a total exaggeration but sometimes it feels that way), and I miss all the beauty of trees and flowers in bloom. I’m just tired of it. AND I would not be a true Canadian if I did not complain about it, ha!

For today’s post I wanted to cheer myself up and maybe some of my readers who are in the same boat and share some lovely Vintage Spring magazine covers and advertisements.

Ready Friends? Lets Polka into Spring!

1950s vintage ad for Avisco showcasing a couple in 1950s fashions dancing together. Ad is from April Harper's Bazaar 1959 — April Harper’s Bazaar 1959. Source: Flickr

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Vintage Spring Advertising

1940’s & 1950’s

June 1950 vintage ad – “Spring is Motorola Portable Radio Time”.

1950s Motorola portable radio featuring an illustration of a couple together. Print Ad is from a "Coronet" magazine ad June 1950 — Source: Pinterest

April Showers-1944 Saturday Post. Illustration by Alex Ross.

1940s vintage magazine cover: Original 1940s Saturday Evening Post cover art by Alex Ross — Via Etsy

Scary clown alert! Thanks 1950’s Texaco, now I won’t be sleeping for a month but I will remember to take my car in for a spring check-up.

1950s vintage ad for Texaco featuring an illustration of a clown — Source: Found in Mom’s Basement

Spice Berry Layer Cake recipe from “Woman’s Day” magazine-April 1956. This is so spring! The ad is right!

1950s Vintage Ad for Spice Berry Layer Cake recipe from Woman's Day magazine APRIL 1956. — Source: Pinterest

This ad is actually from 1938, but the desserts (for different kinds of Shortcake) look so yummy and the ad is all about “Spring” that I thought you would forgive me for adding it. Crisco Shortening Ad – 1932 From the May 1932 issue of Better Homes & Gardens.

1930s Vintage Ad featuring a 1930s Dessert Recipe: Crisco Shortening Ad - 1932 From the May 1932 issue of Better Homes & Gardens. The Vintage recipes are from Shortcakes

Source: Flickr

Easter was traditionally a time, when women and men donned their best “Easter Bonnet“

1950s vintage ad for women's Easter Hats — Source: Pinterest

1930s Catalog Page: “Spring Begins with a New Hat!”. Which one would you chose?

1930's Vintage millinery, fashion catalog page. 1930s women's fashions. — Source: Pinterest

Stetson Hats 1940s vintage ad.

Vintage Stetson Hat 1940s vintage mens clothing ad — Source: Mister Crew

April 1944 cover of Harper’s Bazaar Magazine. “Spring Beauty”.

1940s vintage magazine cover: April 1944 cover of Harper's Bazaar Magazine — Source: Pinterest

April, 1947 Life Magazine Cover featuring two young women holding spring flowers wearing 1940s hairstyles.

1940s Vintage Magazine Cover: April, 1947- Life Magazine Cover – Vintage Ladies Holding Dogwood Blossoms — Source: Etsy

Life Magazine Ford Advertisement from 1947. It features the latest Ford Sedan (I will take 2 please).

1940s Vintage Ad: April, 1947- Life Magazine Ford Advertisement – Vintage Ford Automobile Ad — Source: Etsy

1950’s rain gear for the whole family! For more images like this, check out my blog post “What to wear when it’s Raining“.

1950s raincoats for the whole family vintage ad

Women’s “Spotlight on Prints” Dresses-Sears & Roebuck Spring and Summer Catalog from 1938.

1930s vintage catalog: Sears & Roebuck Spring and Summer Catalog from 1938 featuring women's 1930s dresses — Source: Flickr

Ahhh I feel so much better, after putting together this blog post and I’m ready to put this winter behind me. How about you? What is your favourite season? Share in the comments below, I love when my readers reach out.

FURTHER READING: Vintage Advertising 1920s-1960s (Archived Blog Post)

Have a great day!

Liz

The Photo Booth, the precursor to the “Selfie”.

Now in this day in age photo booths while fun at weddings (we had one at ours), are mostly sitting empty in malls across the world. There is just no need for them with camera’s on our phones to document every moment in our lives. However in days gone by, the photo booth was popular by all walks of life to capture whatever moment in life they wanted (no different from what we do today).

Therefore for today’s ‘Vintage Photo Tuesday‘ I wanted to showcase various photo booth photos that were taken by kids, lovers, friends and families. Photos that would of eventually ended up in wallets, on dresser tables and on walls, reminding the subject or the holder of the image of a special moment in time.

Let’s begin!

Further Reading: Vintage Photo Booth Images – Part 2

1950s vintage photo of 2 young men getting ready to take photos in a photo booth

1950s Photo. Source: eBay

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Vintage Photos of People in a Photobooth

1930’s – 1950’s

Young couple in love. Vintage photo Late 1940s Early 1950s young woman and soldier in photo booth.

1945 Chicago International Sportsmens Show. Twins I believe in the photos.

Vintage Photobooth Photo 1945 Chicago International Sportsmens Show — Source: Etsy

Late 1940s, early 1950s vintage photo booth image of two young women posing together.

Source: Etsy

Not sure what the numbers on the hats mean, but it’s a fun 1930s vintage photo of these two ladies (possibly something to do with their school?).

1920s vintage photobooth image of two women wearing novelty hats. — Source: Etsy

Capturing the special moments. Like a Graduation! Great Smile!

"Graduation Smile" vintage photo of a young Black Man in a graduation cap and gown posing in a photobooth. — Source: Etsy

Mountains and hair bows. 1940s Photo of a pretty woman wearing a very classic 1940s Hairstyle.

1940s young woman vintage photo taken in a photobooth. Great 1940s hairstyle. — Source: Etsy

“Red”. The hat photo is a good one. Vintage Arcade Photo Booths circa 1940s.

Vintage Arcade Photo Booths circa 1940s vintage photo — Source: Etsy

1940’s side profile beauty.

1940s photo booth photo of a pretty Black woman

Source: eBay

The little girl with the pretty hair (Check out the Milk Maid Braid. Cool!). Circa 1930s/1940s.

1930s photo 1940s photo of a young girl with milk maid braids posing in a photobooth. — Source: Etsy

1930’s photo of a dapper man, mastering the art of the “side profile”.

1930s photobooth vintage image of man wearing a hat and glasses. — Source: Etsy

Look into the camera and give your best “don’t mess with me impression”. Mission accomplished. The young woman is wearing a pretty hair flower in her 1940s Hairstyle. I like it!