Thursday, December 24, 2009

Season’s Greetings!

Let's escape to simpler times for a minute and enjoy this Holiday Greeting from Duke's archive of old advertising.
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Except . . . the early years of the Twentieth Century weren't simpler, were they? By 1914 the automobile was beginning to reshape the American way of life. Eleven years earlier, the Wright Brothers had come to North Carolina and made their airplane fly.

1914 was when the guns of August sounded. In a couple of years, Allied airmen would be dogfighting the Red Baron and his fellow pilots in the skies of Europe.

Fortunately, Season's Greetings are like the Nobel Peace Prize: all about aspiration. Forget stock market cycles, federal deficits and the crashing of commercial real estate. Go right ahead and have a Merry Christmas . . . and the happiest of Happy New Years!

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