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| "Luckies-A Light Smoke" | March 24, 1936 Grand Rapids Herald |
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$4.50 | View Lucky Strike 1 | |
| "Each puff less acid-A light smoke of rich, ripe-bodied tobacco" | March 17, 1936 Grand Rapids Herald |
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$4.50 | View Lucky Strike 3 | |
| Full color 9 3/4" x 13" ad with a large photo of Independent leaf buyer, Andrew Wright showing a tobacco leaf to an interested lady. The ad headline has him claiming "I keep track of who pays what". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad are not visible in the scanned view. |
June 9, 1941 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 12 |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad with a photo of Tobacco Warehouseman J. M. Talley showing a dried tobacco leaf to a lady in a green suit. The ad headline let's us know that "Lucky Strike means fine tobacco". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 27, 1941 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 15 |
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| Full color 10" x 12 1/2" ad features the painting Outside the Curing Barn by Thomas Hart Benton. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view.
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August 1942 Ladies Home Journal |
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View Lucky Strike 7 |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" ad with a picture of a broad shouldered young man standing in a field of tobacco while holding a giant leaf in his hands for examination. This picture has been used in other Lucky Strike ads with different text. At the top of this ad are the words "Defend the Constitution" and the insignia "For Victory Buy United States War Bonds and Stamps". At the bottom of the ad are the words "You said it! L.S./M.F.T.". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
July 2, 1945 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 34 |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 12" ad has a drawing of a farmer with wide shoulders standing in his tobacco field holding a golden tobacco leaf up for inspection. The ad headline reminds us that the "Quality of Product is Essential to Continuing Success. L.S./M.F.T." This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 21, 1946 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 19 |
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| Full color 10" x 13" ad shows a bride on a stairway throwing the bouquet. The headline tells you that you should "Smoke a LUCKY to feel Your LEVEL best!" This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
June 13, 1949 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 6 |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 12" ad has a photo of Independent warehouse operator Dan Currin holding up, for your inspection, a quality leaf of tobacco. The ad headline claims that "Luckies Pay More to give you a finer cigarette!" This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
August 15, 1949 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 18 |
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| Full color 9 3/4" x 13 1/2" ad shows actress Marlene Dietrich sitting on a couch with her Lucky attached to a cigarette holder. The ad headline has her saying "I smoke a cmooth cigarette - Lucky Strike". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
May 29, 1950 Life magazine |
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$5.00 |
View Dietrich 2 |
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| Full color 9 3/4" x 13" ad has a photo of Phil Harris lying on an outdoor lounge chair having his Lucky lit by Alice Faye. The ad headline claims that "Scientific tests prove Lucky Strike milder than any other principal brand!". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
August 21, 1950 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
View Lucky Strike 16 |
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| Full color 9 3/4" x 13 1/2" ad with a Christmas-time drawing of a car filled with the Lucky Stars, the TV and Radio stars of the day who were sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes. The ad headline has them wishing you "A Happy Christmas and a Lucky New Year!". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
December 11, 1950 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
View Lucky Strike 13 |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad for their Mild cigarette. The ad has the headline of "Be Happy - Go Lucky" and has pictures of three people that are doing just that. The largest picture is of a lady in a green dress with a crown who is at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. There is another picture of a lady smoking away while she rides up on a ski lift and a picture of a man wearing the garb of a Shakespeare player smoking as he recites his lines and sweeps out his arm. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
February 5, 1951 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
View Lucky Strike 31 |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for this popular brand of cigarettes. The ad has several drawings, including the biggest one of a causally dressed lady who is fishing with a stick and a can of worms and has caught more and better fish than a man using the latest and greatest of fishing gear. The ad headline encourages you to "Be Happy - Go Lucky". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
April 30, 1951 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
View Lucky Strike 25 |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad has a drawing of a lady dressed in a red suit and a serviceman who are staring at the back end of their car which now has shoes tied to the bumper and a sign that says "Be Happy - Go Lucky". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
June 25, 1951 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 14 |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad with a picture of a lady in a purple bathing suit at the beach with her 'man'. She has just come out of the water and he, while kneeling by their picnic basket, is offering her a Lucky Strike cigarette. The ad headline claims that "Luckies taste better than any other cigarette!". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
August 20, 1951 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
View Lucky Strike 26 |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for their Cleaner, Fresher...Smoother Cigarettes. The ad has a picture of a couple, showing just their heads, smoking cigarettes while the woman is holding a tennis racket under her chin. The ad headline claims that "Luckies Taste Better!" and that "Nothing - no, nothing - beats better taste!". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
August 3, 1953 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
View Lucky Strike 28 |
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| Black and white 7 3/4" x 10 3/4" ad with Baseball superstar, Ted Williams being shown fishing in several photos. The ad headline calls this a "Lucky day for Ted Williams". |
February 1955 Argosy |
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$4.50 |
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| Black and white 9 1/2" x 13" ad for the cigarette that is better because It's Toasted. The ad has a picture of a man who is busy putting up the storm windows and his wife has stopped him to light the cigarette he is holding in his mouth. The ad headline calls this "The best-tasting cigarette you ever smoked". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
November 21, 1955 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 33 |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 12" ad that shows just how easy Christmas Shopping can be. The ad contains a photo of a couple sitting around their Christmas Tree with nearly all of their presents opened. With just a few packages left to unwrap there are, at least, twelve cartons of Lucky Strike cigarettes that have been unwrapped. The ad headline tells you "This Christmas give cartons of Luckies." This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
December 19, 1955 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 22 |
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| Black and white 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" ad that shows how to have summertime fun. The ad has a photo of a lady in a white bathing suit kneeling at the edge of a swimming pool handing a cigarette to a man in the pool who is holding onto the ladder. The ad headline says "Light up a Lucky - it's light-up time!" This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
July 30, 1956 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 21 |
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| Full color 7 1/2" x 10 1/2" ad that tries to answer all of your questions about what to do for Christmas. The ad has a picture of a couple standing at a Bus Stop holding Chrisatmas decorations, a bag full of items and cartons of Lucky Strike cigarettes. There are several smaller pictures of this couple in action with the captions "Give Luckies", "Serve Luckies" and "Enjoy Luckies". There is a tag on a Merry Christmas carton of Luckies that has the phrase "Light up a light smoke - Light up a Lucky!". |
December 1957 Outdoor Life |
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$4.50 |
View Lucky Strike 36 |
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| "Light Up A Light Smoke-Light Up A Lucky" shows a couple standing in front of an aquarium | April 1958 Farm Journal |
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$4.00 | View Lucky Strike 2 | |
| Full color 10" x 13" ad shows a Forest Ranger sitting atop his lookout tower enjoying a "Lucky" as he scans the horizon. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. | May 11, 1959 Life magazine |
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$4.00 | View Lucky Strike 4 | |
| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for the manly taste of Lucky Strike. The ad has a photo of two Firemen working on washing one of their fire engines. They are each smoking a Lucky Strike and one man is working on scrubbing while the other man is hosing down the front tire. The ad headline encourages you to "Get the honest taste of a Lucky Strike". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
September 28, 1959 Life magazine |
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$4.50 |
View Lucky Strike 32 |
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| Black and white two-page 19" x 13" ad that describes Lucky Strike as being a cigarette for Men, successful Men. The first page has a picture of a smiling man in racing coveralls still wearing a helmet with goggles pulled up as he holds a racing car trophy in his hands and a Lucky Strike between his lips while a group of excited men crowd around him. The ad headline on this page tells us that "Lucky Strike seperates the men from the boys...". The second page shows this same man with the helmet and goggles still on his head, still holding the same trophy but with the Lucky Strike between his fingers. And, in a desireable change of pace, he is being crowded closely by an attractive dark-haired woman with the headline relieving us by claiming "but not from the girls". Both pages of this ad are larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
August 24-31, 1963 Saturday Evening Post |
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View Lucky Strike 37 |
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| Full color 10" x 13" ad has two photos of a man smoking Lucky Strike The top photo shows a man hard at work driving a bulldozer and the bottom photo shows this same man, clean shaven and wearing a sport coat while being driven somewhere by an attractive young lady in her convertible. The as headline assures us that "Lucky Strike separates the men from the boys...but not from the girls." This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
September 13, 1963 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 17 |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 12" ad for this popular brand of cigarettes. The ad has a very close-up photo of a man who has an unlit Camel in his lips and a lit match about to make a connection. The ad describes this as a "Bullseye!". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
November 28, 1964 Saturday Evening Post |
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View Lucky Strike 29 |
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| Full color 10" x 13" ad shows a man wearing a hat with a piece of the brim missing and the words "What I said was: Show me just one filter that won't take away the taste and I'll eat my hat" |
March 12, 1965 Life magazine |
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View Lucky Strike 5 |
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| Full color 9 1/4" x 12 1/2" ad has a picture of a man wearing a red shirt and a Fireman's Hat from Engine 1 with a large bite out of the front of the brim. He is holding a Lucky Strike cigarette and the ad has him saying "What I said was: Show me just one filter that won't take away the taste and I'll eat my hat!" This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
June 1, 1965 Look magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 27 |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13" ad for their good-tasting Filter Cigarettes. The ad has a picture of Famous Tobacco Auctioneer L.A. Speed Riggs looking at the camera as he holds up two hats, each with a large bite taken out of them. The caption on the photo has him saying "Couple of fellows said: Show me a filter that really delivers taste and I'll eat my hat!". The ad headline claims that "New Lucky Strike Filters put back the taste others take away". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
June 11, 1965 & June 18, 1965 Life magazine |
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View Lucky Strike 30 |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 12" ad has a photo, from the nose up, of a Marching Band member who has a bite out of the brim of his marching hat. The ad has the familiar saying, "Show me a filter that really delivers taste and I'll eat my hat!" This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
November 16, 1965 Look magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 20 |
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| Full color 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" ad for their Filter Cigarettes. The ad has a photo of an attractive blonde who is looking at the camera through the bite mark that has been taken from the brim of her brown hat that is covered with yellow roses. Clenched between her lips is a long-stemmed yellow rose and the ad caption has her saying "I said, 'Show me a filter cigarette that really delivers taste and I'll eat my hat!'". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
April 15, 1966 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 35 |
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| Full color 10" x 13" ad with a Halloween theme. The ad features an attractive dark-haired lady wearing a witch's hat with a large bite taken out of the brim, right where her left eye can be seen. The ad headline says "Show me a filter cigarette that really delivers taste and I'll eat my hat". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 21, 1966 Life magazine & November 1, 1966 Look magazine |
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View Lucky Strike 8 |
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| Three color 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" ad for the Lucky Strike Green menthol cigarettes. The ad is printed on a green background and shows a hand holding up a pack of the cigarettes. |
April 21, 1967 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 10 |
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| Full color 9 1/4" x 12 1/2" ad shows a pack of
Lucky Strike being held upside down. The ad headline says "Lucky Strike introduces the Lucky Strike that doesn't taste like a Lucky Strike". |
September 29, 1967 Life magazine |
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$4.00 |
View Lucky Strike 11 |
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| Full color 7 3/4" x 10 1/2" ad with a photo of a man standing apart from his friends to pull a Lucky Strike from it's pack. In the background are three other men taking a break from a recording session. The ad headlines claim that "Lucky Strikes again" and "New! It's filtered!" |
June 1983 Penthouse |
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View Lucky Strike 23 |
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| Full color 7 1/2" x 10 1/2" ad shows a young lady in a blue bathing suit squatting down on a rocky surface as she holds her cigarette next to her right shoulder. In the ad headline she is asking you, the reader, to "Light my Lucky". |
June 1985 Playboy |
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View Lucky Strike 9 |
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| Full color 9" x 11 1/4" ad for theirLights. The ad has a photo of an attractive young lady wearing an orange dress and a jean jacket over her shoulders. She is looking toward the camera while she holds an unlit cigarette in her hand. The ad headline has her thinking "Light my Lucky". This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view. |
October 22, 1987 Rolling Stone |
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View Lucky Strike 24 |
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