Inspired by our recent post celebrating the coming of spring, Gary Faules started to dig through his collection of National Geographic ads to share some with us. Gary writes:
I love the old NG not only because of the beauty of the cars but it’s equally interesting to what verbiage was used back then to motivate people to buy their brand. With regards to older adds like found in the 30’s and so on when travel by car was becoming the rage it’s interesting how many adds there are from specific states inviting motorist to come see their state. In turn NG would do well written exposes about places like the Redwoods, or Niagara falls and so on which in turn motivated NG readers to travel. In short, NG had more to do with travel by car than one might think.
All of these pages are from a single NG. (March 1936)
Thanks, Gary!
