Those executives on the hit TV series MAD MEN would have been trained during the 1950a.
They would have created ads such as these for the streamliner California Zeyphy, Cunard Line and the New York Central Railroad.
Unlike today, travel was elegant and had some class.
Getting there was half the fun!
California Zephyr magazine ad from early 1950s…
Cunard Line magazine ad from early 1950s…
New York Central magazine ad from early 1950s…
CRUISING THE PAST: “LUSCIOUS” LUCIUS BEEBE ON TODAY’S NEW YORK SOCIAL DIARY – “LUSCIOUS” LUCIUS BEEBE by Michael L. Grace
From the 1930s until his death in 1966, Lucius Beebe was the image of celebrity. An author, journalist, historian, raconteur, gourmet and bon vivant extraordinary – this extraordinary personality was one of the first gay men to have a publicly open relationship.
Columnist Walter Winchell called him “Luscious Lucius.” Beebe is perhaps best known for having coined the term “Cafe Society,” a group of which he was undoubtedly a member. A columnist for the New York Herald-Tribune in the ’30s and ’40s, he was elegantly turned out and very decadent for a journalist. More than 1.5 million New Yorkers read him every morning.
Beebe made the cover of Life magazine, owned a newspaper, private railway cars and is memorialized in the musical number by Rodgers and Hart.
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