Celestron marketing scheme..in pictures...

[emadmoussa]

But...seriously...!!

Celestron and others...

[emadmoussa]

This one is kind of cool actually...

[Schorhr]

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[Space Dragon]

In the 70's and 80's marketing men thought that if you put a smiling woman next to anything it would sell. ooohhh...errrrr....how big is your scope ?

I remember going to the Motor Show in London when I was a child and there were women in bikinis draped over all the cars.....hilarious.

[emadmoussa]

In the 70's and 80's marketing men thought that if you put a smiling woman next to anything it would sell. ooohhh...errrrr....how big is your scope ?

I remember going to the Motor Show in London when I was a child and there were women in bikinis draped over all the cars.....hilarious.

Totally. I remember buying a fridge few years back and there was a half naked woman's picture to advertise it. Nobody told me how many shelves that woman had though

[Beulah]

The Spock ad is the best. Funny how advertising fashions come round again. That quirky kind of endorsement would not be out of place these days.

[Nakedgun]

 women in bikinis draped over all the cars.....

Works for me.

[pete_l]

In the 70's and 80's marketing men thought that if you put a smiling woman next to anything it would sell

They still do. It was not many years ago that Myleene Klass appeared in some advertisements for telescopes.

[Pig]

The female sales reps we have at work have very good figures, their sales are pretty good also

[John]

There are more vintage scope catalogs here for those interested. Some vintage scope manuals too:

http://geogdata.csun.edu/~voltaire/classics/

[JamesF]

Most of the people look woefully underdressed for a decent night's observing.

James

[Bhm2344]

I remember seeing an orange tube Celestron on a film called Silent running. I recorded it months ago, funny thing is it was polar aligned on a star ship that is close to Saturn! (Or if it wasn't polar aligned, it looks it to me) You can just make it out above Bruce's head..

[jnb]

Prices are interesting. On that 1973 ad a celestron 8" SCT is listed at $900. Adjusted for inflation that would be about $9000 now! and it hasn't even got goto!!

[philhas]

Nice sunset.....

[pete_l]

Prices are interesting. On that 1973 ad a celestron 8" SCT is listed at $900. Adjusted for inflation that would be about $9000 now! and it hasn't even got goto!!

I have some adverts from the early 1960s for binoculars, somewhere. One of them IIRC is for a pair of 8x30s and has a price of  30+ Guineas ( 1 Guinea being £1.05) At the time, the weekly pay of a secretary in London was about £14