Life Magazine – February 7, 1930 (# 2466) – Last car driver, Ed Price of Kenosha

– Full page color Marmon car ad with a very interesting art style black on white with colored line highlights, people disembarking an airplane.
– Curious full page ad for Skookum apples, with art that includes Eve and Robin Hood, famous apples of history 6.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Kemp Starrett (Let not they right hand … disarmament begins at home … mail order guns), R. B. Fuller (Lake Superior, my eye!  This is one of the canals on Mars! … crashed aviator in fantastic scene), Edwina (Sinbad : daring hold-up in broad daylight … eating a toddler’s sucker), Gardner Read (The man who knew him when -), Ralph Barton (Bobby Clark, Paul McCullough and cigar), Dr. Seuss (Life’s Little Educational Charts : Seekers of the bizarre in aural sensation).
– In the News : Kenosha, Wisconsin : “Ed Price, having run out of gas on a country highway, many miles from town tried in vain to get cars to stop as they passed him.  Finally he started lighting matches and holding them up to his face as he saw a car approach.  One car slowed down and a hand was thrust out the window.  An envelope was tossed at his feet.  He picked it up and found it contained $500 in bills.”
– Fiction : Willingdrift by Eric Hatch, Chorus Lady.
– Two page centerspread art by Gluyas Williams (The end of a birthday).
– Full page color White Rock sparkling water ad with dinner club art by C. F. Peters.
– Full page color Lucky Strike cigarettes with text promoting reaching for a cigarette instead of food as a way of staying thin.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1930 content – fun!