Beehives, bell bottoms and James Brown: Newspaper ads from the 1960s | RTD 175
In October, the Richmond Times-Dispatch will be marking 175 years since its first issue in 1850. Here's a look at some of the many advertisements from the paper's archive.
Agees
Aluminum lawn chairs
Ann Margret
B.C. comic strip
Barksdale Theatre
Berry Burk
Cars Cadillac
Cars Chevy
Cars Fiat
Cars Oldsmobile
Cars Plymouth
Cars Rambler
Cars Volkswagen
Cigarettes Salem
Cokesbury bookstore
Concerts James Brown
Concerts Johnny Mathis
Concerts Merle Haggard Jerry Lee Lewis
Concerts Soul Spectactular
Concerts Turtles Canned Heat
Dolly Madison ice cream
Downtown
Fashion bell bottoms
Fashion Flair
Fashion fur
Fashion Italian knit shirts
Fashion Miller and Rhoads coats
Fashion Miller and Rhoads dresses
Fashion plaid sport coats
Fashion Summer Berry Burk
Fashion Thalhimers beehive
Fashion Thalhimers dresses
This print advertisement for women’s fashions at Thalhimers is from 1960.
Fashion Thalhimers summer specials
Galeski photo center
Helene Curtis hair spray
Homes Bon Air Hills
Homes Crestwood Farms
Homes Five Lakes
Homes Greenfield
Homes Lake Shawnee Estates
Homes Old Gun Estates
Homes Olde Coach
Homes Swift Homes
Homes West End Manor
Homes West Lawn
Homes Westhampton
How to Protect Yourself
Ideology and Coexistance
J Sargeant Reynolds
Lawn furniture
Miller and Rhoads diamonds
Miller and Rhoads mail order film club
Motorcycle races
Movies Ben Hur
Movies Colonial Theater
Movies Glen Circle
Movies Neighborhood Theatres
Movies Sound of Music
Movies The Lost Man
Municipal bonds
Peoples
Pocket radio
Portable electronics
Redskins at City Stadium
Schwarzschild
Sears pools and boats
Standard Drug
Standard Drug tennis shoes
Swingset
Tape decks
Top of the Tower restaurant
Travel ads
Travel ads
Travel Hotel Mountain Lake
Travel The Homestead
TV WRVA 12
TV WTVR becomes CBS
Wards
Wards TV
Zayre
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