Vintage Ads ~ Family Business, Family History ~ Genealogy

It is fun to find a family member or your family business in an old advertisement. At least a couple of times a month, I hear from a customer that their uncle, father or grandfather owned the company in one of our vintage ads.  Or, that the ad features their family endorsing a product, like Lux Soap. Some families have a famous relative, a movie star from the 20's or race car driver.

I had one gentleman call me that his father, a Midwestern bottler, was in a Ford advertisement, and no one in the family even knew until he came across it on eBay.  What fun!

A great web site for preserving family memories and including the vintage ads as part of the story is Afterglow Media. Check it out, pretty cool.

And now, some family business ads:

The owner of Afterglow Media has a family relationship with this company.

Who out there is related to Owen Curd, Dr. Pepper Bottler, Owensboro KY?

And, what about all those babies? They grew up to be someone's mom, dad, aunt, uncle...like little Betty Jane Fivel of Galveston, TX: