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home | buy ukulelia stuff | gary | email gary | suggestions | email craig | rss feed Tuesday, January 26, 2010Sell $2 in Magazine Subscriptions, Get a Banjo-Uke Back in 1926, you could get this banjo-uke for selling only $2 worth of subscriptions to Everyday Life magazine. Was it a come on? Let's check.Are all these claims true? Is the Banjo-Uke an open invitation to join every social circle? And then, about all those subscriptions you have to sell. How much is that in 2010 dollars? Well the good new is that all the claims are absolutely true, as we all know. And $2 is only about $24 in today's dollars. Could you sell $24 worth of stuff today to get a banjo-uke and become the Jazz King of your town? Yes, you could! Link posted by Gary at 9:14 AM permalink 7 comments :: click here to comment! 7 Comments:
I absolutely LOVE this! You breathed new life into that brittle, crumbling ad. Thanks!
By And thank you for posting it! What do you know about this magazine? I couldn't find anything on the web about it.
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If I sell $24. worth of subscriptions
By Oh, and you can learn to play it in 5 minutes..... Ukester Brown
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Ukester Brown: okay, there was ONE lie in the ad.
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Will you have more fun with it than anything you've ever owned?
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About the magazine "Everyday Life" - I found it in an Oklahoma local antique/junk shop that carries a lot of ephemera. I liked the faded cover, and felt the ads were a quite interesting glimpse into the past. It was a 20 page affair printed on cheap paper out of Chicago.
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