Best Retro Kitchen Finds on Etsy - Atomic Age Decor

Home may be where the heart is but you'll always find them 

... in the kitchen at parties. The 1950s - when America was driven

to make life faster, easier and brighter.

Here's a collection of 10 essential Must-Have Items for an authentically

Atomic Age Kitchen.

Kitchen Basics for the Retro Lover

 Washing Up is a Must

Protect yourself

Drain Issues - No worries.

Keeping things tidy

The Classic Chrome Dinette Set

The Power of Pyrex

We can thank Bessie Littleton for her tenacity in pursuing

a more durable option for cooking and baking. 1915 - Introducing

Pyrex. By 1919 more than 4 1/2 million pieces of Pyrex

Bakeware had been sold in America.

Introducing Tupperware: Waste Not, Want Not

The Age of Plastics - Invented by Earl Tupper who convinced his

employer Dupont to sell him polyethylene slag. Enter

Brownie Weiss who worked for a company called 

Party Plan. She saw the potential to sell the product

in homes. And voila - The Tupperware party was born.

Television meets Salt and Pepper Shaker

Between 1949 and 1969 the number of households in America

with a television set rose from 1 million to 44 million.

Now, that's serious stuff.

Kitchen Magic 

Pyrex Bottle

But the Milk Bottle needed to say Goodbye.

Try to Keep Cool Under Pressure

Atomic Age Advertising - Appliance Department

Mid Century America making life faster and easier at every turn.

Introducing Advertising's Cold War

I recently had to go and purchase a new stove and fridge. 

Not the most exciting way to spend your day. It occurred to me that

this is probably why Advertisers spun the illustrations and rhetoric

for household appliance ads with such flare.

One thing's for sure. They don't advertise like they used to. 

Check out these appliance ads in my collection.

ACME Vintage Limited

Opening Her Eyes

Sell. Sell. Sell.

Homemaker Horror

All's Well that Ends Well

ATOMIC AGE ADVERTISING - Keeping Laundry Clean in 1950s America

Keeping America Clean

There's no getting around it - Atomic Age Advertising is over-the-top - exaggerated, bombastic and loud. And, that's why we love it. America during its finest period of unadulterated idealism.

Some of the priorities - a gas-guzzling beauty on wheels, all mod cons and a house that's spic and span. And what do the ad pitches for virtually every product share? The colourful boasting of speed, greater efficiency and brighter results.

Some of the greatest bragging rights belong to household cleaners. Witness the ecstasy, the shock and the endless joy that Tide, Oxydol, Spic and Span, Cheer, Duz and SOS deliver to the consumer ...

And we all know who that is ... the iconic 1950's Hausfrau. The very picture of happiness. Window into the '50's mindset here.

Because ... Clean = Good = Decent = Healthy = Respectable = Happiness

So, what to do in 50's America? Heck - make it easier for the woman doing all that dreary housework and while you're at it - convince her that it's actually fun.

Vintage Detergent Ads are becoming some of the most collectible print ads - known for their vibrancy, their hyperbole and their ... good clean fun.

To collect more original vintage ads, drop by ACME Vintage Limited.




Here comes the spin ...

Laundry Days

The war's over and now we've got Seismotite

Serious Stuff - Laundry

Felso - not named to last

The Agony and The Ecstasy

Oxydol - born in 1914. In the 1930s, Oxydol was the sponsor

of the Ma Perkins radio show. Yup, the first Soap Opera.

"You're about to see an accident happen ..."

To watch a great OXYDOL Commercial click here

DUZ - Because it duz.

"My husband, Bob's, shirt looks cleaner but it's

got a deeper kind of dirt. Body dirt - the dirt

that digs inside clothes."

DASH works on body dirt. Watch commercial here.

Soilax

Rinso defies Gravity and Dirt

Dooby

Promises of better days to come ... 

More TIDE - You never had it so clean!

Nothing short of a Miracle

Next week ... Cleaner Surfaces