Drive-In Market 1959?

    A week's shopping in minutes! And you haven't moved from your car! It's that simple in the drive-in of tomorrow!

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      Tiki Lisa, Ad Rapscallion, presidentadow, Drive-In Mike, and 43 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. Tiki Lisa (34 months ago | reply)

      Somebody should really jump on this long overdue idea...people would sooooo go for this! Especially those of us with whiny, demanding kids :/

    3. The Pie Shops Collection (34 months ago | reply)

      I agree with that completely! It would make shopping a lot more pleasant!

    4. Wiles Side Graphics (34 months ago | reply)

      Man Alive! What a concept, and I really like this illustration.

    5. justlaura (34 months ago | reply)

      Agreed - I would totally shop at this place. (Especially if bread were still $.23/loaf.) :)

    6. JennRation Design (34 months ago | reply)

      Love the illustration as much as those prices!

    7. jwbear61 (34 months ago | reply)

      If those were flying cars, then it would be perfection!

    8. sds70 (34 months ago | reply)

      HARRIS-TEETER here in Charlotte offers something close to this . . Of course, you have to order ahead of time via PC and then go pick it up :) :) . . .

    9. landseer312 (34 months ago | reply)

      If only.......

    10. Zoom Schwartz Profigliano (33 months ago | reply)

      According to a little web search I just completed (so it must be true, right?) the average price for a gallon of milk in 1959 was $1.01 and a loaf of bread was 20 cents. I know prices vary by area but if this was from 1956 they underestimated milk futures by 500%.
      Maybe that's for a fifth of milk.

    11. The Pie Shops Collection (33 months ago | reply)

      The image was published in 1956. Maybe they are expecting tiny, future sized bottles of milk.

    12. Ernie Uszniewicz (33 months ago | reply)

      It looks like the artist originally wanted "greek" unreadable text. I swear the first three lines look like children, chile, and turpentine. But then somebody thought there should be something readable and they whited out a couple of lines and wrote in the bread and milk.

    13. landseer312 (33 months ago | reply)

      They also underestimated the size that tailfins would be in 1959. Wouldn't milk have been sold in quart bottles back then? I make the 2nd 3rd 4th lines at left as ooze, tungsten, and arid pion.

    14. blizzy63 (33 months ago | reply)

      Ultra-Populuxe!

    15. tomtiger99 (30 months ago | reply)

      We had a drive in liquor market in a big garage, now it sells beauty supplies.

    16. Wiles Side Graphics (30 months ago | reply)

      Now that I think about it, here in the Portland area we used to have a chain of drive-in milk stores called Senn's Dairy. My mom rarely shopped there, but I know they sold milk and juice of some kind, and possibly eggs, or some baked goods, maybe. Sadly, they're all gone now.

    17. markdpodmore (24 months ago | reply)

      AWESOME AD!! As a teenager in Mount Pleasant, SC (just across the bridge from Charleston, SC), we had a drive-through beer & wine store.

    18. OldDogNewTrick (18 months ago | reply)

      @jwbear - I'm glad I am not the only one missing the flying cars.

      And while we are at it, whatever happened to whitewall tires?

    19. fun old new (18 months ago | reply)

      I like this!

    20. baldpipeguy (18 months ago | reply)

      Whatever happened to service attendants in white uniforms with hats and snappy bowties? Nowadays they'd be wearing just a grubby golf shirt or some sort of unflattering indestructible smock.

    21. Dia-trib3 (18 months ago | reply)

      Awesome picture...ludicrous idea. Americans are too fat and lazy as it is!

    22. Robot Communicator (18 months ago | reply)

      If you think grocery shopping was easy back then, you should have seen Christmas shopping. Your selections came out already wrapped.

    23. micky the pixel (18 months ago | reply)

      great illustration - nice marketing idea - but the future is now :-)
      >>>
      www.leshop.ch

    24. Rx Eman. (16 months ago | reply)

      I wonder what they would of thought of Ebay. lol Great find.

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