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Vintage Ads: Mid-Century Winter Travel

As the Great Depression ended, roads improved, and air travel become more accessible, opportunities for travel – especially during the chilly winter months – were richer than ever.

Detail, Studebaker ad from the January 27, 1940, issue of The Saturday Evening Post

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In the middle of the 20th century, The Saturday Evening Post was filled with ads for travel, whether by bus, train, or car. The winter months in particular offered ads depicting full-color fantasies of escaping to a livlier scene.

Greyhound
January 20, 1940

 

1940 Studebaker Champion
January 27, 1940

 

Mercury 8
March 2, 1940

 

American Airlines
December 21, 1940

 

Pennsylvania Railroad
December 20, 1941

 

Pullman
March 20, 1943

 

All-Year Club of Southern California
January 17, 1948

 

Santa Fe System Lines
November 13, 1948

 

TWA
December 4, 1948

 

United Aircraft
February 25, 1950

 

Canadian National Railways
November 17, 1951

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