The reader below is absolutely correct. The Tiech Archive cited is an excellent resource for anyone who wants or needs to use vintage postcard images as part of their work. If I was not so late in submitting my articles, I could have looked up the url and made a link. The Curt Teich & Company did an outstanding job in capturing an icredible era in postcard production. It is fortunate that their resources are being preserved so well, and I hardily recommend support of any effort to save vintage images.

The images I showed in my article as an "homage" were, in fact, just that! They came from my personal collection of postcards, not from images on the Teich site. They have always been among my favorites.

GG

I have been guilty of this myself, but it usually was as pratical jokes more than for profit.

As far as parodies of ads go, you shouldn't forget Mad Magazine (I grew up reading it, I guess that accounts for my mental instability). Also, does anyone remember the newspapaer parody that I believe National Lampoon had something to do with? The newspaper was the "Dacron Democrat Republican" (or something like that) that had an insert for a store called "Swill Mart". We put it in with a bunch of inserts that our ad art instructor was having the class review for examples of newspaper advertising. By the way, my favorite "item" in that was the Family-sized Salt Lick.