RETRO ADVERT ARCHIVES

I've put dozens & dozens of local ads up on Retro over the years which have been really useful when referring to a place I don't have any photos of.

There are quite a lot of old publications you can find ads from the past in, obvious ones like a Courier, Tele, football programme, What's On mag, theatre programme, school mag and so on, but the 2 sources I have probably raided the most are Gladmags and Official Dundee Guides.

Above are a sample of some of the 60's to 80's ones I've been dipping into.

RAG WEEK GLAMOUR - 1968

Adding a touch of glamour to Rag Week 1968 were these 6 finalists in the University beauty contest.
They are - Gillian Pairman - Jeannie Alexander - Muriel Harris - Eileen Walker - Ann Keillar and Robin Swanney.
Not sure if there was one eventual overall winner, or all 6 shared the limelight!

THE GLADMAG - 1968

The Gladmag was a Dundee University publication, sold to the public to help raise funds during Rag Week.

This one here is the 1968 one.

Inside, there is a special message from the Queen Mother, who sends her good wishes for the campaign.

I take it they didn't send her an advance copy of the Gladmag cover!

A lot of students in the 60's did adopt leftist politics, but there is not much of a mention of it in the magazine's contents, it being a light-hearted publication. So the material is mainly a mix of amusing stories & observations, loads of cartoons and lots of local ads.