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    Advertising has always been an interestin g way to look at history. But when you see these vintage advertisements, the past seems a lot stranger than you thought. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Fablon was a self-sticking vinyl shelf paper and wallpaper developed in the 1960s. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 In the early 1950s on the TV show Tom Corbett Space Cadet, Tom Corbett, along with his friends: Astro and Roger Manning, were cadets at the Space Academy who had many space adventures as they trained to become members of the elite Solar Guard. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 A "Saloon Car" sounds like a car with a bar, but in British English it just means a car with a trunk.   🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 "Just try all 3 sizes of Kotex; you'll find the one that's very personally yours."   🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 The Gold Dust Twins, the trademark for Fairbank's Gold Dust washing powder products, appeared in printed media ...