There was a wonderful series of PRR ads for the Broadway Limited.in 1965 or so. One went something like, "The Broadway Limited is serving Duck a l'Orange. Please don't try to balance it on your knees." I know there were more. According to Joe Welsh.s book on the Broadway, PRR even advertised in Good Housekeeping, suggesting that women's husbands might be away from home longer if they tookk the train, but they'd be in a better mood when they came back. Any help with finding these ads would be appreciated.
One Broadway Limited showed a businessman climbing the stairs of a airplane boarding ramp with its top end out in space and below a streamlined passenger train, front and rear not in the picture, avoiding the need to decide to use a GG-1 or some E-8's. Just sleeping cars lettered Pennsylvania or Broadway Limited, forget which. The caption: "No, it's not a propjet, a jump-jet- or a jet-jet. It's a train." Ands then something like: "And lots of people like it. So try it!"
You'll have to check antique shops and old book stores for the magazines in which these ads would have appeared. The good news is that there were a lot more magazines then than now: LIFE, LOOK, COLLIERS, SATURDAY EVENING POST, CORONET, READERS DIGEST, plus dozens of "woman's" magazines and dozen more "men's" puclications weekly and monthly. Finding the magaizine will probably be easy onece you find the right shop or fleamarket stall!
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Keep an eye on E-bay, "Broadway Limited", they have cut out magazine ads posted on occasion. I recall seeing some of the ones mentioned.
The one I mentioned was in the New Yorker magazine
I remember seeing that series of ads in the now-departed "Chicago Daily News", Chicago's last afternoon newspaper. They may have appeared in other newspapers as well.
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