Advertisement for clothing by Len Stuart and sold in Franklin Simon department stores, featuring the illustration of a fashionable young woman in a hot air balloon (c. 1960).
Scientific balloons and futuristic helicopters fly through the air with the greatest of ease!
(Part of an educational booklet published by Coca-Cola for use in school classrooms, during World War II. This one focused on all aspects of American transportation. The booklets included factual information and beautiful stickers which children could paste in various areas of the book.)
is anybody else getting this awful ad that plays a sharp balloon popping noise when you scroll away? when it shows up it pops at max volume in my ears while i'm not even looking at it
GIANT 12 ft. PLAY BALL
Playing with one of these is great fun for everybody! Actually a brand-new government surplus meteorological balloon, it's made of the finest long-lasting neoprene rubber, inflates easily with gas or air to from 12 to 18 feet high. Kids love them. Terrific advertisement for bazaars, great fun at the beach. $2.95 ppd.
First thoughts:
Man, the outgassing on that neoprene
Some little kid getting completely knocked down/squashed by this giant ball
A good beach wind sending this down the shore like a ground-level cannonball, battering people and umbrellas alike
I suppose you could actually use this as a (weather) balloon if you had enough helium
Inflate it before dawn, paint a big face on it, and roll it to your neighbor's window so it's the first thing they see when they open the curtains/blinds
Exercise ball for giants
DIY UFO and screw with the UFO nuts' minds
1968 July Better Homes and Gardens
$3 in 1968 is ~$25 in 2022 which seems an excellent bargain for this sort of thing