Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/11

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Subject: advert. anachronism (?)
From: Stanley E Yoder <syoder+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:20:30 -0400 (EDT)

Good Morning Lugnuts,
    Apologies in advance for this non-Leica-specific post, but thought
(some of) you might find the following interesting, in that we are
sometimes accused of being aficiandos of an anachronism:

    In the current (6/16) issue of TIME, on the first page of
letters-to-the-editor (TIME does not number its pages) is an ad for Blue
Cross/Blue Shield (the middle of a sequence of three on successive
right-hand pages). It shows a man with a panicky expression, the
background suggesting the running of the bulls at Pamplona. His camera
is NOT the latest P&S, NOT an M6, NOT an R8, NOT even a Minilux,
but........... ta-da!........ a Kodak Pony 135. Hey! I bought my wife
one of those in the 50s!
    Now why d'you think the ad agency did that?
Stan Yoder
Pittsburgh