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I’m Talkin’ Hallidie Machin’y Co.

December 28th, 2007 @ 12:37 am by Cliffe | Sorted Vintage Adsborder
Hear, hear! Attention, all you fans of iron working tools, wood working machin’y, earth moving machin’y, grinding machinery, dynamos, generating sets, heaters, laundry machinery, brick machinery, saw mills, shingle machinery, gasoline engines, all kinds of boilers, all kinds of engines, air compressors, rock drills, centrifugal balls, rock crushers, mine hoists, mine pumps, centrifugal pumps, triplex pumps, quartz mills, blowers, and exhausters — have I got a vintage advertisement for you. It’s a turn-of-the-century ad for Seattle’s Hallidie Machin’y Co for all you engineers, machinery dealers and manufacturers agents. Perhaps one area where “progress” has actually been made… advertising. Click on the thumbnail for a larger image or just write for a catalogue and prices.
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Hallidie Machinery Co., Seattle, Wash.

5 Responses:

  1. Cliffe wrote:

    Oh, I forgot to mention:

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dynamo

    Cliffe

  2. Jonathan Shipley wrote:

    Funny you should post this ad because for Christmas I got a set of centrifugal balls.

  3. Derek L. wrote:

    Actually such contractions were pretty common back in the day. Are they any worse than today’s ubiquitous acronyms and buzzwords?

    I’ve even seen that kind of advertisement (”here is a general list o’ crap we make/repair/deal in”), today. Check your yellow pages or the front page of many a Big Company website for examples.

  4. Didi wrote:

    Damn! I had rock drills on my Christmas list and no one knew what they were so they didn’t botehr getting any for me. I am bummed.

  5. Cliffe wrote:

    Ya, I was being facetious about the “progress” — though it is on the hardcore end. These days instead of associating their product with “strength and vigor” they use the modern equivalent (”it’ll get you women!”).

    Cliffe

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