(Pics) From Life Magazine on 1948

We always had three magazine/books to look through at our hoouse and I paged through them with enthusiasm - Look, Life and National Geographic!

absolutely loved them Mike, thank you. Using babies, horses and grandpas to sell cars and oil hey?

@perrone1   Same at our house.  My maternal grandmother gave my brother and I a shared subscription to National Geographic when we were barely able to walk.  Later, when I was on my own, I took out a subscription and continued with it for years.

Yep, Tony, Geoff and GDH, those magazines were a part of my folks and our families home back then, too !

I enjoyed the pictures. Thanks Mike.

Those National Geographics could be heavy when so many households subscribed when I was a letter carrier !! Thanks Mike, I enjoy perusing old magazines 👍

The National Geographics were great .... both the articles and the advertisements. My parents had a subscription since the mid-1960s and a neighbor gave us a collection of them since the late 1930's. Many cool car advertisements !

Cool.  I especially like the Packard and Nash ads.

They are terrific ads ! Artists renditions were used more often in those days.

@mikedetorrice You just can't beat this period artwork.  So much more "soul" vs a photo.

That's a good point ! One could control or set anything in an artists rendition. Special FX changed some of that in photography, as does some A.I. renderings, although truth in advertising laws and guidelines attempts to put limits on that.

Position and placement of the subject in visual depictions can make a significant difference. Also, quite a while back, a hood scoop on a particular replica and/or real automobile was deliberately made about 1/3 taller or narrower on a certain photograph and it was either un-noticed or people went with opinions (many times negative) they already had.