Popular Mechanics
Issue: Feb, 1954
Posted in: Advertisements
Posted: 09/16/2008
9 Comments

Are you too old to learn? (Feb, 1954)

Yup, that’s it, no further context…

Are you too old to learn?

not at all, new tests show!

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9 comments
  1. rev pj says: September 17, 20087:14 am

    The guy on the left is an old-school Cylon learning new tricks.

  2. kar says: September 17, 20084:24 pm

    i dont get it

  3. Rick Auricchio says: September 17, 20084:43 pm

    Heck, I’m trying to read the message that bled through from the back of the page. But I’m too lazy…hoping Charlie will tell us.

  4. nlpnt says: September 17, 20086:09 pm

    Placeholder to make a full page without empty spaces?

  5. Anne says: September 17, 20086:44 pm

    I think it’s an advertisement for a woodworking kit or something? Definitely hard to see exactly. It says:

    How YOU

    SAW
    DRILL
    GRIND
    TURN
    ???

    with SUPERSHOP

    ???? POWER TOOL ???

    http://i8.photobucket.c…

  6. Anne says: September 17, 20086:53 pm

    Oh, I see now…

    How YOU

    SAW
    DRILL
    GRIND
    TURN
    SAND

    with SUPERSHOP

    5 new(?) POWER TOOLS in 1

    Looks like stuff’s still missing, though. :-)

  7. Charlie says: September 17, 20089:02 pm

    Unfortunately it’s in one of the 35 boxes of magazines I’m about to ship off to NYC.

  8. Rowan Bulpit says: September 23, 20085:55 pm

    This had my dying with laughter. Very, very odd.

  9. Don says: September 24, 20085:50 am

    Supershop is still around:

    http://www.smithy.com/p…

    I imagine it’s changed since 1954 . . . .

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