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Double Cola Posters
DarvishJo:
[img width= height=]http://www.musicman.com/00pic/rolf2b.jpg[/img]
[img width= height=]http://www.musicman.com/00pic/rolf1b.jpg[/img]
At first I thought these two were the work of the same artist but I changed my mind later. The top one is a 10" x 17" 1945 calendar done with a 1942 design called "Make it a Date" by Rolf Armstrong, using his most famous model Jewel Flowers as the lady with the two telephones. Armstrong himself posed for the picture of the sailor at the bottom and the soldier at the top was someone he met on the street. This information comes from a book about Armstrong called Pin-Up Dreams by Janet Dobson and Michael Woolridge (2001). The beat-up "Worth Fighting For" poster on the bottom, measuring 27.5" x 21.75", is not in Pin-Up Dreams and it doesn't look like Armstrong's work to me, but both are obviously wartime ads for Double Cola. The back of the one on the bottom was later used as a sign listing sandwiches and prices. A hamburger was 20 cents and a hot roast beef sandwich with potatoes and gravy was 35 cents!
erik1925:
I love the pin-up graphics on these, John. thumbsup.gif
Thanks for posting them along with the info and title of that book.
brude:
The brush strokes on the bottom poster look like the work of Gil Elvgren.
Where you at Darvish?
DarvishJo:
--- Quote from: brude on August 14, 2015, 07:00:25 PM ---The brush strokes on the bottom poster look like the work of Gil Elvgren.
Where you at Darvish?
--- End quote ---
Ann Arbor MI
brude:
Good to see you here.
I -- and others -- miss your regular posts.
cheers
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