August 1954


 
Adjusted for inflation, a three-minute phone call from Birmingham to L.A. would be an easily-affordable $15.51!

After getting your picture made, if Britling's isn't your thing, just walk another block or so to Morrison's to have a steak.

Shake hands, but afterward you're liable to get waterlogged by his seltzer bottle.
 At 4:00 he'll say, "G'bye, kids."

It's a documentary on the life of the
humble stork.    
Really.    It is.



Your money back,
into your melted hands.


Incidentally, the phrase "good neighbor" wouldn't widely appear in State Farm's advertisements until 1971, when the famous Barry Manilow jingle made its debut.



"What it was, was Sun Crest.   It's the best sodee water
in the whole danged Air Force!!"


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