Humorous images collected from all over the U.S.A.

There are so many signs that grab our attention that our minds can't focus on and absorb all the messages that are bombarding us continuously. The creative ones among the throngs of "sign-makers" figured out the attention problem long ago, and have crafted signs that are "attention-getters." They found that by using catchy phrases or word combinations in naming their businesses or products, they were more likely to grab our attention for that important second to ensnare us and entice us to visit and spend some of our money.

Early Beauty Advertising

 Women at the beginning of the twentieth century wanted long hair.  They could buy potions that promised to make it grow, or one purchase long hair from a magazine.

Charles Dona Gibson creates the century's first pin-up girl with his drawings published in Life magazine.  The Gibson Girl represented the ideal "liberated young woman" and sported long locks swept up into a pompadour.  This hair was rolled from temple to temple over a horsehair "rat" to give it width.

Man longed to find a real life counterpart of the Gibson Girl who enjoyed the new freedoms of outdoor sport and indoor flirtation.
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Beauty Aid Magazine Ads From 1907

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 About 1910, a campaign was begun to stop the practice of women wearing "rats" or false puffs of hair.  Public outcry claimed that with the use of such "preps", women were living a fiction that would pervade other areas of their lives

Beauty Aid Magazine Ads From 1910

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Beauty Aid Magazine Ads From 1914

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Beauty Aid Magazine Ads From 1920

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Beauty Aid Magazine Ads From 1922

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Beauty Aid Magazine Ads From 1924

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Beauty Aid Magazine Ads From 1926

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Beauty Aid Magazine Ads From 1930

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Beauty Aid Magazine Ads From 1934

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Beauty Aid Magazine Ads From 1938

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Beauty Aid Magazine Ads From 1941

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Beauty Aid Magazine Ads From 1944

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Beauty Shop Signs to Remember

Happy Nails Ultimate Hair Designs Snappy Nails Visible Difference Visible Changes Saloon Spritz and Glitz
Huntsville, Alabama Huntsville, Alabama Huntsville, Alabama Huntsville, Alabama Guntersville, Alabama Jeffersonville, Indiana
Attitudes Golden Razor Hair Gallery Talk of the Town Beauty Salon Clipper Ship Salon
South Haven, Michigan Ludington, Michigan Huntsville, Alabama Huntsville, Alabama South Haven, Michigan
Shear Difference Super Cutters Total Look En Vogue
Ludington, Michigan Huntsville, Alabama Ludington, Michigan Nashville, Tennessee
The Hair Stop Fancy Nails Tip Nails Heads Up Sensations Salon
Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee
Shear Wizardry Fairways Tanfastic Todays Image
Nashville, Tennessee Sevierville, Tennessee Sevierville, Tennessee Sevierville, Tennessee
Sassy Scissors A Cut Above The Golden Touch Hair Chalet Creative Images
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Sevierville, Tennessee Sevierville, Tennessee Sevierville, Tennessee Holland Michigan
Public Image Claudia Hair Works Reflections
Holland, Michigan Sevierville, Tennessee Bowling Green, Kentucky
Nail & Face Gallery Ladees "N Gents Family Hair Design Hair Extraordinaire Hair-Em
Nashville, Tennessee Fountain, Michigan Bowling Green, Kentucky Bowling Green, Kentucky Bowling Green, Kentucky
Heads Upp Salon Reflections Beauty Salon Renaissance Hair Design Rumors Styling Salon Classic Touch
Bowling Green, Kentucky Brenan, Georgia Bowling Green, Kentucky Bremen, Georgia Newnan, Georgia
LA Connection Hair Salon Headlines Hair Care Hair Gallery Hair Boutique Hair Art Salon
Bowling Green, Kentucky Bowling Green, Kentucky Newnan, Georgia Newnan, Georgia Carrollton, Georgia
Crown & Glory Beauty Salon Trend Setters Hair Styling Shear Image Little Gem Barber Shop Total Image Hair Salon
Carrollton, Georgia Franklin, Georgia Carrollton, Georgia Carrollton, Georgia Carrollton, Georgia
Style Center The Hair Store International Hair Studio Precision Haircuts Hair
Carrollton, Georgia Newnan, Georgia Carrollton, Georgia Villa Rica, Georgia Carrollton, Georgia
Mane Event Classic Cuts The Upper Cut Scissor Hands Hair Cuttery
Sharpsburg, Georgia Tallapoosa, Georgia Turin, Georgia Newnan, Georgia Carrollton, Georgia