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Every idea for a story must be approached with the question: ‘What are the picture possibilities?’”\r\n\r\nhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rIle!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F329224e0-4cd6-402c-a631-9e9942c9f40f_1200x965.png\r\n*From the art collection of the Louisiana Yam Commission*\r\n\r\nEvery “week” involved a Herculean job of organizing parades, beauty contests, cook-offs, celebrity appearances, industry conventions, and photogenic gimmicks, often with children and/or animals. Professional food photography had to be staged, shot, and printed. Press kits had to be organized and sent out, and then someone had to follow up with those editors, one by one, back when long distance meant long distance.\r\n\r\nSills, or his team, also came up with narrative hooks for their products, like the claim that workers wouldn’t have been able to build the Great Wall of China without the healthful properties of sauerkraut. And statistics, like that Americans consumed 194 million gallons of chocolate milk in 1956. And practical ideas, like a “Macaroni Money-Maker” supper as a church fundraiser. If you were a “Ladies’ Editor” who needed column inches filled, Theodore Sills was your man.\r\n\r\nLet us now praise nurses and hoagies\r\n----------------------------\r\n\r\nHe knew what he was doing. Sills-promoted occasions like National Macaroni Week and National Pickle Week remained annual promo staples for decades, and the approach itself has grown far beyond what he could’ve imagined. 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I’ve never been much of a car guy. But in this [Shoddy Goods](https://shoddygoods.meh.com/), the newsletter from [Meh](https://meh.com/) about consumer culture, I flip through the back pages of a collateral automotive product I do have a soft spot for.**\r\n\r\nhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QlIU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F93688072-fb80-4561-b79e-2b73d3a49b10_1350x840.png\r\n*Station wagons are kinda like jazz*\r\n\r\nLast year I bought a car, which meant I spent time in car dealerships for the first time in years. And I noticed something there - or rather, something that *wasn’t* there: brochures. I don’t know why I was surprised. Like all the other paper ephemera of the 20th century, of course they’ve largely been replaced by websites, apps, and PDFs.\r\n\r\nBut I guess I thought anything as expensive as a car would still be sold with a premium-feeling piece of printed matter. When my dad sold cars in the early ‘80s, I remember leafing through a stack of brochures he’d brought home for various Toyota models. I didn’t really care about the cars. 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The other was planned obsolescence in automotive design, which led to the concept of the model year.\r\n\r\nThe original car companies just made the same models for as long as they felt like it. The Ford Model T stayed basically identical from 1908 to 1927. And if automakers did make changes, they didn’t follow a schedule or necessarily even make a big deal about it. It wasn’t until the early 1920s that General Motors President Alfred P. Sloan introduced annual styling changes, with the rest of the industry following suit in the 1930s.\r\n\r\nhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-g-_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F92abe517-a025-4208-a4a3-9745dd4d4760_986x1400.png\r\n*I keep saying I’m not a car guy, but maybe I was just born too late*\r\n\r\nAfter the disruptions of World War II, the annual ad campaigns for each model year really began in earnest. How to drum up excitement around design and engineering tweaks that often ranged from minor to imperceptible? By wrapping them in a whole creative concept, from slogans to visual aesthetics, as different from last year’s campaign as the cars themselves were the same.\r\n\r\nInto high gear\r\n----------------------------\r\n\r\nThe 1950s is when car brochures became a fully integrated part of the companies’ annual ad campaigns. If a magazine ad or a TV commercial lured you into a dealership, you could take home a brochure with the same look and sales pitch. GM’s head start meant theirs were the most elaborately produced at first, but other manufacturers soon caught up.\r\n\r\nHonestly, it’s hard to find a car brochure from the ‘50s or ‘60s that isn’t at least charming, and often spectacular. These were treated with the same seriousness as the rest of the companies’ advertising, with elaborate photo shoots or artwork by the premier commercial illustrators of the time. I could have included ten times more in this post that all look as good as these.\r\n\r\nhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RL5P!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9d54895-f5d7-4569-b37b-6c0c4834dc65_858x1218.png\r\n*From atomic power to flower power in five short years*\r\n\r\nAesthetics changed quickly - that was the whole point - but the form itself remained remarkably stable, decade after decade. Even if a luxury manufacturer like Ferrari or Rolls-Royce might dress theirs up with a hard cover and premium paper, at heart, the car brochure stayed itself: a couple of dozen pages of a marketing story, with slick graphics and spec details.\r\n\r\nEnd of the line?\r\n----------------------------\r\n\r\nThen came the Internet. As of 2026, auto manufacturers do still produce brochures, but distribute them almost entirely as PDFs. It’s extremely unlikely you’ll walk into a dealership and see them fanned out on a table. As with other casualties of the print wipeout, like paper maps and printed encyclopedias, you can probably get a paper brochure if you’re determined to. But there are going to be a lot fewer of them floating around for future generations to stumble upon.\r\n\r\nhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rERL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd36430db-fa6f-4b29-af17-ab2ff81d2d84_1435x1134.png\r\n*Will car brochures rise from the ashes like a Pontiac Firebird?*\r\n\r\nBecause yes, there will be at least a few people among those generations who would enjoy that. There’s a healthy market in [vintage car brochures on eBay](https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=1950s+car+brochure), with particularly coveted ones trading hands for three-figure prices. And luckily for me, a few determined enthusiasts have assembled online collections like [Love to Accelerate](https://www.lov2xlr8.no/), [the Old Car Manual Project](https://oldcarbrochures.org/), and [the Auto Catalog Archive](https://autocatalogarchive.com/). Thanks to all of them for the images in this story. If you’ve read this far, you’ll enjoy losing yourself in those pages.\r\n\r\nAs for future retronauts digging for information about the cars of the 2020s? I hope someone somewhere is filling up a hard drive with all those PDFs the automakers are putting out now.\r\n\r\n----------\r\n\r\n>*I had the cheesiest possible framed picture in my room. No, not my Paula Abdul picture, I'm still not embarrassed by that. It was a mansion on a hill with a garage that had a Lamborghini Countach, Ferrari F40, and Porsche 959 parked in it, above the words \"justification for higher education.\" Ugh. Did you have any exotic cars or other luxury material possessions you dreamt of one day owning? Let's talk about 'em in this week's Shoddy Goods chat.*\r\n>\r\n>*—Dave (and the rest of [Meh](https://meh.com))*\r\n\r\n*These previous Shoddy Goods stories are also unavailable in print form… for now:*\r\n\r\n - [You bet your sweet Aspercreme this commercial was real](https://shoddygoods.meh.com/p/you-bet-your-sweet-aspercreme-shoddy)\r\n - [Schlitz is dead but the party in these ‘50s ads never ends](https://shoddygoods.meh.com/p/schlitzfest-in-schlitzerland-shoddy)\r\n - [How French cars failed to break America](https://shoddygoods.meh.com/p/la-pire-voiture-shoddy-goods-036)\r\n\r\n*And if you like Shoddy Goods, don’t miss Jason’s new other newsletter, [Gnomenclature](http://gnomenclature.hammacher.com). Every week he digs into the 178-year-history of Hammacher Schlemmer, America’s oddest retailer. 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If by any chance you worked on this campaign or know someone who did, [email me, please](http://jason@stores.com)!\r\n\r\nThe memory-holing of this short-lived tagline was so total, its very existence fell into dispute. Blogger [Katie A. O’Reilly](https://strategicallycommunicating.com/2014/10/29/you-think-thats-funny/) wrote in 2014: “For years, I have been convinced that I once heard an ad for a product whose tagline ran ‘You bet your sweet Aspercreme.’ I only heard it once, but I loved it. 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And YA fantasy writer Anna Banks had one of her characters say it in the mermaid romance novel *[Of Triton](https://archive.org/details/oftriton0000bank/mode/2up?q=%22sweet+aspercreme%22)*.\r\n\r\nEven Aspercreme, under their new owners Sanofi, has softened their stance. In 2021, they debuted their “[Kick pain in the Aspercreme](https://www.mmm-online.com/home/channel/watch-aspercreme-rolls-out-kick-pain-in-the-aspercreme-spots/)“ campaign. It just goes to prove that you can suppress it, you can doubt it, you can try to bury it, but you can’t keep a bad pun down.\r\n\r\n----------\r\n\r\n>*What weird ads from your childhood are locked in your head forever? “588-2 three-hundred, Empire!” is a jingle I’ll never forget, though until I just looked I had no idea they sold carpeting. Got any favorites, good or terrible? 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I don’t know if people were poking fun at me? I will use me some Meh coupons and I have been asking about theme. I used a shit ton of coupons at Xmas. I probably wouldn’t have bought half the shit I did if I didn’t have a coupon (and if there wasn't a mehathon, so good job meh). I don’t throughly search my email everyday so I may have missed them from being lazy so please remind me. I am looking for a coupon right now bc I want to buy something so if you haven’t already put them out. HURRY THE HECK UP. 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