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Life Magazine – June 28, 1929 (# 2434) – Grandma in Finery
$49.00
Magazine Condition : Good (light soil on cover)
Out of stock
Description
Cover : Grandma all dressed up in Sunday or dining-out finery waiting for a companion who is late, “Grandmother’s Clock,” art by James Montgomery Flagg.
– Interesting full page Mohawk Rubber Company tires ad, “Putting 252 shoulders to the wheel.”
– Full page color Packard car ad with man at wheel of boat, The log of Packard achievement records the sailing of many uncharted waters.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Garrett Price (The idle class … people playing on the water), J. R. Shaver (Izzy, the notorious banana bandit is pinched), R. B. Fuller (Heaven help the sailors on a night like this!), Gardner Rea (Impressions of Magazine Offices : Popular Mechanics), Stylized H (Intimate Moments with famous people : Sabin Carr forgets his key … pole vaulter).
– From the news : In Sikeston, Missouri : A tornado which demolished the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hargraves, twelve miles east of Sikeston, carried Mrs. Hargraves’ school diploma across the Mississippi River to Broughton, Illinois, eighty miles away. The paper was found recently by Mrs. Lille Kerr.
– Curious full page Metropolitan Life Insurance ad with Cancer and Ostriches, Beware of Plausible Quacks.
– Two page centerspread art by Strothmann, “Teacher’s pet,” boy bringing flowers to teacher sees her kissing her beau.
– Full page color Coca-Cola ad with woman in fancy gold dress talking on the telephone, “Meet me at the soda fountain,” art not signed.
– And much, much more.
– Full page color Packard car ad with man at wheel of boat, The log of Packard achievement records the sailing of many uncharted waters.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Garrett Price (The idle class … people playing on the water), J. R. Shaver (Izzy, the notorious banana bandit is pinched), R. B. Fuller (Heaven help the sailors on a night like this!), Gardner Rea (Impressions of Magazine Offices : Popular Mechanics), Stylized H (Intimate Moments with famous people : Sabin Carr forgets his key … pole vaulter).
– From the news : In Sikeston, Missouri : A tornado which demolished the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hargraves, twelve miles east of Sikeston, carried Mrs. Hargraves’ school diploma across the Mississippi River to Broughton, Illinois, eighty miles away. The paper was found recently by Mrs. Lille Kerr.
– Curious full page Metropolitan Life Insurance ad with Cancer and Ostriches, Beware of Plausible Quacks.
– Two page centerspread art by Strothmann, “Teacher’s pet,” boy bringing flowers to teacher sees her kissing her beau.
– Full page color Coca-Cola ad with woman in fancy gold dress talking on the telephone, “Meet me at the soda fountain,” art not signed.
– And much, much more.
