Sunday, August 29, 2010

Mad for the 60's

I was reading on Emily's blog about her new hairstyle and Mad Men (Jon Hamm aka Don Draper is a St Louis boy)!  Series 2 has just started on SBS and I must admit, I'm kind of hooked.  I decided to go back and watch Series 1.  As I was watching it - the talk of advertising...etc, it reminded me of my parents - my mom and dad after all met at work.  My dad was a young exec at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati and my mom was a secretary...hmmm.  My mom years ago put together some photo albums for me and I was looking through them...this is my mom circa late 1950's looking very glam!!  My mom told me that my dad took the train to New York to see the Ad Agencies back then - I think one episode of Mad Men mentioned a trip by train from NY to Cleveland took 9 hours.  I love the stories my dad tells us of his time at P&G - the new products (cake mix, nappies [diapers]) - could be some Mad Men episodes in there... 
As I was looking through the old photos I remembered an online art challenge I did a few years ago - I had a weekly prompt - and was required to alter a playing card - here's the one from the prompt called "Parents".  My mom and dad look awesome - 4 kids at that stage - we were vacationing in Florida. 
Love the sunnies!

1 comment:

  1. I'm hooked on the show too. Love the photos. I think that year I was left at home with Grandma since I was just a baby. You all look so cute!!

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