Sales Ad Saturday- Dinner at Romanoffs
The Mr. and Mrs. are headed to Valentines Day dinner this weekend in their Cadillac for this week's 'Sales Ad Saturday'. They have not headed just anywhere for dinner, they're going to Romanoffs on Rodeo Drive. A five-star restaurant that catered to all the biggest names in Hollywood throughout the '40's and '50's, Romanoff's was owned by a notorious tinsel-town con man of sorts, a Lithuanian immigrant named Hershel Geguzin. Hershel came to Hollywood in the late '20's, and ad
Sales Ad Saturday- Oldsmobile Rocket 8- The New Thrill
Taking a look at “The New Thrill” for this week’s ‘Sales Ad Saturday’. 74 years ago this week, on June 4th, 1947, Oldsmobile’s revolutionary new overhead valve V8 engine was first shown at the summer meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Nineteen months later, the very first 303 ci. “Rocket” engines would roll off the line. Initially offered only in the Oldsmobile 98 when introduced in January of ’49, Oldsmobile almost immediately decided to offer the same engine in
