THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG — adcola

I did smile when I saw this advert and the provocative text that titles this blog entry.  Just the thing to make the electronics enthusiast of 1956 sit up and take notice.

Really....... Well whatever did you expect????   Obviously it wasn't the soldering iron shown here in a 1957 advert - I'll bet this little number outsold a staid Solon - Henley, or Adcola at a ratio of 100:1 For those of you who were expecting a nice expose (in more ways than one) on Mena Suvari or some other American sweetie, I am sorry to disappoint you. For those of you that do not understand the above reference, it relates to American Beauty, the 1999 American film, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball in which Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham,...