Vanhoja mainoksia 5

Edelleen Taitokirjasta.

"Onko lietenne ylikuormitettu?" Oy Sytytin
Useiden yrityskauppojen jälkeen toimii nyt nimellä BMH Technology Oy, osa Hollming Oy:tä.

"Suunnittelemme ja suoritamme." Salaojitustyö Oy

Työpukimet / Ulkoilupukimet / Poikain pukimet. Turo Pukimia.
Yhä olemassa.

"Jokaisessa kodissa tarvitaan lääkekaappia." / "Miten sisustan lääkekaapin?" Instrumentarium
Liike ei ehkä nykyään ole tunnettu lääkevalikoimastaan.

"Se sanoo kaiken ompelusta." Minäpä ompelen itse.
Kirja meni taannoin Huuto.Netissä kolmella eurolla (helmikuu 2011).

"Kannattaa suorittaa kustannusvertailuja..." Myllykosken paperitehdas osakeyhtiö.
Nykyään Myllykoski Paper Oy.

Vanhoja mainoksia 4

Seuraavat ovat Taitokirjasta (alaotsikko: "Kodin Taitosanakirjan uusittu laitos"). Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava, 1952. Toimittanut Vilho Setälä. Kirjassa on 1216 sivua ja käsittelee kaikkia taitoja mitä ihminen nyt voikaan tarvita jos sattuu elämään ydintuhon jälkeisessä maailmassa. Ohjeet löytyvät matkasäkin tai paidan ompelemiseen, putkivastaanottimen (radio) rakentamiseen, pergamentin tekemiseen, polkupyörän korjaamiseen, piirtämiseen (kirjassa näyttäisi nopealla selauksella olevan peruskoulun koko oppimäärä), metsän raivaamiseen, eläinten täyttämiseen tai ukuleen valmistamiseen. Loppua kohti kirjasta löytyy sisältöön sopivia mainoksia, ilmeisesti jotta hinta pysyisi kohtuullisena.

"Tehokkalta [sic] ja taloudellisia INKI-kaminoita valmistetaan eri tehoisia." Oy Inkimo Ab

"Maan vanhin ja uudenaikaisin alallaan." Nyblin.
Yhä toiminnassa. Historiikki Museoviraston sivulla.

"Näin rakennetaan lämmin koti!" Oy Perma Ab

"Kello käy... lisää käy." K.Kallio, Kulta ja Kello Oy

Vanhoja mainoksia 3

Edelleen Hopeapeili 3/1957.

Oxygenolin tuotemerkin voi vielä tänäkin päivänä nähdä Hakaniemen torilla (ja tästä blogikirjauksesta). Aiemmin se oli kotimainen yritys, nykyään Bernerin suuhygieniatuotemerkki ainakin Suomessa (muumihammastahnaa, xylitol-suuvesiä).

Elanto (E-liike) koki vastoinkäymisiä alkaen 70-luvun omien tehtaiden kannattamattomuudesta, joka yhdessä 80/90-lukujen vaihteen pankkikriisiin ja 90-luvun laman jäljiltä yhdistyi vuonna 2003 Helsingin osuuskaupan kanssa HOK-Elannoksi (ja samalla siirtyi osaksi S-ryhmää). Tietää Suomen Wikipedia.

Rengas-Paidat ja Figura ovat ilmeisesti kadonneet historian hämärään. Vaasan kruunun jauhoja valmistetaan ilmeisesti yhä, mutta eivät ilmeisesti ole vaivautuneet perustamaan nettisivuja.

"En olisi uskonut, että se on niin helppoa." / Orient Henna shampoo. Elanto



Käsiol R. Oxygenol



Vartaloonne Figura varmuus. Kaksoistikattu Figura luo linjat.

Leipokaa kerran Ruotsalainen teerinkeli / Vaasan kruunusta voi tulla vain oikein onnistunut pulla.

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Pusero piristää... / Rengas Pusero. Rengas-Paita Oy

Vanhoja mainoksia 2

Edelleen Hopeapeili-lehden numerosta 3/1957. Tässä kohtaa olisi kenties hyvä kertoa miksi koen nämä mainokset mielenkiintoisiksi.

Mainokset kertovat aikansa arvoista. Ei ainoastaan siitä, millainen keho naisille oli tuolloin suotava (vaikka alla olevasta rintaliivimainoksesta sekin selviää), vaan myös siitä mitkä asiat olivat uusia ja mitkä itsestäänselviä (tarpeettomia mainita). Miten tuotetta pitää argumentoida, että se erottuisi edukseen kilpailijoista?

Nykyäänhän mainoksissa harvoin mainitaan mitään muuta kuin hinta, jos sitäkään. Kenties myös lause tai väite, jota on melkoisen vaikea, ellei jopa mahdoton, näyttää toteen. Tämä siis, jos sillä on minkäänlaista tieteellistä arvoa alkuunsakaan.

Jos yksikään näistä tuotteista olisi vielä myynnissä, niin olisi hienoa verrata uudempaan vastineeseen. D'OVO-saippuaa ei enää tehdä, sitä valmistanut yrityskin lienee konkurssissa (ei yhtään osumaa netissä, Kauppalehden haku tiesi nimen ja Oy Hornborg Ab'n yritystynnuksen (01408761), mutta asia jäi sitten siihen. Jos SOK (eli S-ryhmä) vielä valmistaa kahvia, minä en sitä tiedä. SSR'stäkään ei heti Googlella löytänyt mitään, en koe tarpeelliseksi etsiä pidempään.

Oletteko jo tutustuneet Mary-Anne kolmosiin / ...kolmeen askeleeseen kohti täydellisyyttä. SSR

-Nyt minunkin tukkani tulee kauniiksi! / Suomen suosituin munashampoo d'ovo. Oy Hornborg Ab

Hyvän tuulen kahvit / Johanna * Rosita * Katriina * Korona. SOK

Vanhoja mainoksia 1

Kävin taannoin kirjamessuilla ja ostin vanhoja naistenlehtiä. Pitänyt nyt useamman kuukauden skannata näitä blogiin, mutta jäänyt tekemättä. Seuraavat mainokset ovat Hopeapeili-lehden numerosta 3/1957. Saatan myöhemmin skannata tästä myös artikkeleita ja kuvituskuvia. En usko, että julkaisija (tai mahdolliset muut oikeuden haltijat) hirveästi välittävät.

Itse Hopeapeili sulautettiin Anna-lehteen vuonna 1971, kertoo Suomen Wikipedia. Syynä laskenut levikki (mikäpäs muu).

Sans égal. Teidän ja muotimaailman huulipuna.

Kuningas Boston saapuu. Yes Sir, siirry Sinäkin BOSTONiin - puhtaampaan tupakkaan.

Hän vangitsee katseet... Dr. N. G. Payot.

Yritän aktivoida tätä blogia pitkän hiljaiselon jälkeen. Osana suunnitelmaa pistän muutaman ajastetun päivityksen, jotta mahdollinen tielle tuleva elämä ei vaikuta blogiin välittömästi.

Picture of the Day

From National Library.

Kari Suomalainen

-Kuinka toiset jaksaa ja viitsii?
-Why do they bother? Where do they find the energy?
[The paper reads: "Massacre At Algeria" and "Indonesia Mobilizes"]

Kari Suomalainen (1920-1999) was a political cartoonist for the prestigious Helsingin Sanomat 1950-1991. He affected very strongly on the way different political parties were seen in Finland, and was an important opinion former.
Soviet Union tried to silence him several times as he poked on politically raw things.

His humour was based in stereotypes and making what seemed high and mighty into something small and ordinary; showing president Kekkonen (usually deciphered as a demi-god) as a normal (if demanding) man, the parties as avatars instead of people who got changed every four years and observing news through a small and old-fashioned village somewhere far from everywhere. Local news from Helsinki were often observed by two "men of the streets", who had been unable to fit back into civilian life after Continuation War, and had so become urban tramps. Sometimes he inserted himself into the commentary, as a small black wearing man wearing a ridiculous hat.

He continued on the paper long after his retirement age, and quit only after being forced to do so after several pictures that were too far out of line with paper's policy.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, when Finland was starting a new era in it's history without pressure from East, Kari critized very strongly on the decision to open doors to immigrants and war refugees, Somalis in particular (he drew them in a fashion that left little doubt of his opinions concerning blacks in general and Somalis in particular).

Kari continued publishing his pictures in local papers, but he was getting old which showed in his hand and in the jokes; the pictures weren't as funny as they used to. His views on subjects got more old-fashioned, to the point of bigotry. The avatars to which he based his humour on started to look old-fashioned, even antic (the tramps, the village stuck in the rural -40s). Those he tried to update ended up looking cluttered and forced (the political parties).

Kari's moral stance was firmly set on the early 50s, which shows ever more unfavorably as the decades went by. From there, he saw the country chance from a war-wrecked nation with GDP of average Third World country into one of the richest in the world.

-More important than riches is the quality of life, clean air, unpolluted water and beautiful scenery.
-If it's all right, I'll take that in money.




-You can no longer travel safely in this city.




-Hey guys, who was the one who first proposed consumer-protection law which says that bad promises are punishable by law?
[From left: Vennamo [?] who proposed the law and then the parties; Social Democrats, Rural Party (later Centre-Party, later Finnish Centre), Communists (later Left Alliance), Liberal Democrats (later dead), Swedish Party, Coalition (moderate right) and a cop carrying a box marked "Election promises". The size of the parties is relative to their (historical, exgenerated) power in the parliament. ]

I own several collections of Kari's work. Half the fun in them is seeing how the seeds of today (like the Green Party) slowly enter into the picture and how Kari tries to make fun of them, sometimes good naturedly, but often grumpily. And then the retrospect fun on his argument about "modern music" on 60s; Bach is still as popular now as he was centuries ago, but who will remember Beatles in the 1990s?

But after all is said and done, Kari was a person who was a master of his craft. After him, Helsingin Sanomat has been unable to secure a person to fill his place whose work is worth reading.

Happiness!

This post is update in my life, which consists of report about my life during the past few days. About how Salo was at school and kept a presentation; about how he got his permanent driving licence and lastly some ponderings about internet relationships.

On Thursday I had presentation (ten pages plus powerpoint) at school about Japanese culture. It was group project, there was four of us.. and I admid, we took Japan mostly out of my suggestion (I had done several presentations of the subject already, and I knew stuff without having to look up, which is always a bonus). As it goes, one person of the group stopped school 20 hours before the presentation - something about how he had studied too long and he couldnt continue, law said so. He didn't give us his notes, tho I know he had them, so suddenly we were short several pages.
Somehow making the powerpoint and collecting and editing the papers from the group became my task... We made some last minute modifications, but things really didnt go as we had planned, because second group member decided to drink alcohol the day before presentation and had a hangover (and therefore didnt come to talk at his cue). The presentation went just fine with only two of us, I was amazed how much I actually knew of the subject. Teacher asked a curve-ball question about employment (I dont think she hoped for an answer), and I think she was quite suprised that I could, after little thinking,give essey answer on the subject!
And then I had, at the same day, that driving lesson stuff (more of that later), so I gave the nearly-complete paper to the fourth group member, who promised to see it thru (there were some incomplete sentences and stuff like that yet to be edited, thanks to small changes we had done earlier in the morning). Felt like I was escaping from a sinking boat - only one person left, after me! But yeah, I did do my part, I feel. Most in the whole group, but I wonder what the fourth member feels..

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So, the driving stuff. The second stage (as its called) consisted of class in "How to drive during dark?" (read: nearly always on wintertime outside cities), of "grading drive" (where teacher put me driving around and wrote up my mistakes, what I should try to correct in the future), four hours of testdriving at arena, with road iced and water thrown over, hour or so watching two wrecked cars scraped from the road, also testing some Volvo-gadget which simulated (on low speed) how it feels like when car goes over three times before settling on its roof, and how hard its to get out thru window if this happens.
This morning had the last theory class, which was quite ridiculous, and I dont think I learned anything new; expect that getting driver's licence will be getting even harder at future; they are going to double the compulsory driving lessons! It isint like Finland wouldnt have one of the hardest driving schools in the world as it is! Well, that dosent really have anything to do with me, but my sister will be so pissed off when she has to go thru this "all new driving school" in seven or eight years.
So, got my studies for permanent driving licence finished and gave it to police. Said I can come to get it after seventh of January next year. After getting it to my hands, I can use it till Im 55 (my current one is ok only till next July). Also, I wont lose it after my first speeding ticket or bad parking.

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Bordering on my personal life; talking with a great personality (belonging to a female) always make me feel incredible happy for days after. Even if we talked via computer.
This also borders on pathetic; I think of her way too much even if Im not on computer. Definetly not good. Hope this rubs off. Though I have to admid, usually Im very gloomy this time of a year. Now I feel like I could dance.

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Should draw more, but somehow I dont seem to get anything orginal on paper. Just faces, and Im good enough with those already. Maybe should take some photos and practice drawing more from a model? To make art that is actually good enough to recongize the model from. Yes, that is definetly something I should practice more of.

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On other news. Do you know how it feels to hear that someone actually reads my writings? Without prompting? [HINT: so very good].