Vintage Funeral Advertising
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Ron Devies
PCS Ohio Chapter President PCS Past Vice President
I used to love sitting around manning the phone reading stacks of old copies of Casket & Sunnyside and The American Funeral Director. Is Casket & Sunnyside still published?
Darren Bedford
PCS Member
Cool ! Love that '60 in the ad.
Last fall I inherited a large collection of funeral items and a bunch of 1930's funeral magazines. The hearse ads are fantastic and so are the embalming fluid ads, etc.
I will post photos of the ads asap.
Darren
Last fall I inherited a large collection of funeral items and a bunch of 1930's funeral magazines. The hearse ads are fantastic and so are the embalming fluid ads, etc.
I will post photos of the ads asap.
Darren
Doug Kelley
PCS Member / Funeral Director
Smoke
Coffee and a smoke...........Beer and a smoke..........Cavity fluid and a smoke....Oh, for the good old days !! did'nt bother me for years, now, I ( cough ) would ( cough ) do it ( cough, cough ) all over ( cough, cough, cough ) again if I could breathe...................................................................................
Coffee and a smoke...........Beer and a smoke..........Cavity fluid and a smoke....Oh, for the good old days !! did'nt bother me for years, now, I ( cough ) would ( cough ) do it ( cough, cough ) all over ( cough, cough, cough ) again if I could breathe...................................................................................
Keith Snyder
PCS Member
Unfortunately, like many other magazines in this field, Casket & Sunnyside - the oldest publication in funeral service,- is no longer being published. At one time there were quite a few such magazines available such as Mid-Continent Mortician, The Jewish Funeral Director and others. Now, to the best of my knowledge there are only two or three - American Funeral Director, The Director and Mortuary Management. I don't know if they still publish the Southern Funeral Director which was based in Georgia.
John ED Renstrom
PCS Member
add like this really help to date equipment. the earliest add I have for a 29 is 74 the 62 add helps date the Modal 27
I still have our model 26 One Man cot that I made hundreds of ambulance calls with. It has the bar in the back that slides out to give more lifting leverage but doesn't have the locking device to lock the wheels in the foldup position. I used to have to polish it and the other cots with that wadding stuff in a can because it had to shine when it came out of the combination. I wonder how many gallons of mud, blood and puke I have washed off that cot. It is still a better cot to guide than our mortuary cot we use today.
John Dorgan - Deceased - 1938 - 2012
March 05,1938 - May 13, 2012
Stuff
The wadding stuff in the can was probably "Never Dull".
JD
The wadding stuff in the can was probably "Never Dull".
JD
John Royark JR
PCS Member
Great stuff, I use it all the time.
Jeremy D. Ledford
PCS Volunteer Chapter President
I think the old Prie Dieu also known as a Prayer Rail that I have here at the FH is from the same company. It is a collapsible unit and dates to the 1940's that can be set up in the home as well. Next time I have it out and set up I'll make a picture of it.
Brad Ross
PCS Michigan Chapter President
1949 calendar from Brown Funeral Home of Flint Michigan:
Opening in the late 1930's, and later expanded into an enormous 5-chapel Funeral Home, Brown's held over 900 funerals per year at its peak. It was closed in 2007 by then-owner SCI due to declining business. It's final full year of business saw only 485 funerals.
Opening in the late 1930's, and later expanded into an enormous 5-chapel Funeral Home, Brown's held over 900 funerals per year at its peak. It was closed in 2007 by then-owner SCI due to declining business. It's final full year of business saw only 485 funerals.
ONLY 485.... damn!