MAD MEN'S Don Draper sends the 1960's out with a bang... Maybelline changed hands in 1967

While Sterling Cooper and Partners continue adding clients

Don Draper is one hot mess. Sleeping until noon, eating Ritz crackers for breakfast and living with his new roommate... a gigantic cockroach  

Don Draper is still trying to pretend he’s not an unemployed alcoholic.

Last Season of Mad Men will decide Don Drapers fate.

Here is what I was doing during 1964 as a teenager living in Southern California... trying to break into Hollywood.

Went to the TV Premiere of Marlo Thomas’ “That Girl” and loved it!!!

by saffronsrule

August 25, 1964. Tuesday. Went to a TV Premiere.

The rabbit got out so we called the SPCA. They said they found one so we went to get it, but it wasn’t ours. It was next door the whole time. Pearl got sick so we didn’t go to the beach. Nana came over and let us use her car. My sister Donna, her friend Teri Thompson and I went to Toes. It was ugly and cold. Tonight Pearl, Donna and her friend Linda Kline and I went to a TV Premiere. It was really good! We got to rate the show. It’s called “That Girl.” After, we drove around Hollywood and went to Pandora’s Box. We saw the Marauders playing there. I was so sad because it wasn’t Byron’s band the Marauders. We went to the Purple Onion, but couldn’t get so finally went to Woodies and got Hot Fudge Sundaes. Also, Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins was released today.

Marlo Thomas “That Girl”  became my all time favorite TV Show as a Teenager.  I wanted to be just like her in every way and I never missed a show. I loved her clothes, shoes, make up and hair.

Pandora’s Box The Club was a very cool club that let teenager’s in.  It was actually more of a Coffee House and a Hollywood hot spot in 1964.

Woody’s SmorgasBurger was the best burger joint ever and you could make up your own burgers and your own Sundae’s with the works.  My family had been going there since I was a little kid in Grammar School.

I still hadn’t given up hope of snagging Byron Ferguson, the drummer in the Marauders… from Westchester High School.  But this wasn’t his band.

Ultra Lash was launched in 1964, featuring a Black Girl  endorsing the new product.

Tom Lyle Williams, founder of The Maybelline Company
1915-1967,

click on Maybelline sells to Plough Inc. December, 1967

Check out my hilarious 1964 High School, Saffrons Rule Blog at  http://saffronsrule.com/

Mad Men's Don Draper continues to represent Maybelline in 1966 and 68 and Roger Sterling identify's with Beach Boys song "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" while taking LSD in 1966

I just happened to catch this scene on Mad Men a few weeks ago and was surprised to see this 1960's Maybelline ad still up on the active client bulletin board.

 (in the upper left corner.) 

Mad Men takes place in 1968 this Season. My great uncle Tom Lyle Williams had just sold the Maybelline Company to Plough Inc. December 29th, 1967. 

The same Maybelline ad appeared on Mad Men,

 last Season in 2012.

Roger Sterling, ‘Mad Men”s sophisticated sliver-haired ad executive, went on an LSD trip with help from the 1966 Beach Boys classic ‘I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times

LSD - Beach Boys scene

Beach Boy's I Just Wasn't Made For These Times....
My cousin Chuck Williams BB1 and The Beach Boys

Next week I will be posting the entire 1960's chapter of Maybelline Story, (the chapter that was glossed over in my book.)  It is by far the most extensive "behind the scenes view" of The Maybelline Company ever told, by one of the last living  Maybelline 'Mad Men,' Executives,

 Harris A Neil Jr.  Be sure to check in on Monday.

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I paused the TV and yes it was in fact a very recognizable ad from 1962 before Ultra Lash was presented in 1964. 

Here is the actual Maybelline ad used on the show. Maybelline's advertisements were handled by a Chicago based agency called Post Garner Keys and the agent's name was Rory Kirkland.  There is quite a bit written about Kirkland and the agency in my book, The Maybelline Story.

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My great uncle Tom Lyle Williams coined the word ULTRA LASH and brought out the first tube of Maybelline with a Duo-Taper brush, in 1964.  

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advertising industry on the East Coast.

Maybelline, Mad Men... Tom Lyle Williams, 1964.

TV Show, Mad Men's, Don Draper, 1964.

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While the Advertising industry was manipulating the

All American image, I was a Junior, at Culver City, High School... totally involved with my girls club,

SAFFRONS, in 1964. 

I became very popular, having a blue and white,

1957 Chevrolet Belair 4 dr Sedan, Hot Rod, Muscle car,

and a house with a swimming pool. 

My best friend Pearl Peskin and I were what you called Beach Bunnies, when Surfers Ruled the West Coast Beaches, in the 1965.  You could see us cruising down to Playa Del Rey, in my 57 Belair, with a car full of Saffrons... cruising for parties on the weekends... or spending 2 hours... everyday... to look model perfect.
I never went in the ocean... just basked in the sun, all day long, while adjusting my tan line.

So that's what I was doing, in 1964 and 65, while my great uncle, Tom Lyle Williams, was creating beautiful Maybelline advertisements... that brought teenage girl's, like me,  into the dime stores to buy ULTRA LASH...


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Do you remember, Maybelline's Magic Mascara, with it's totally new Spiral Brush in 1960.

and the bubble hairdo.  That was my life as a teenager. Big rollers, mascara, pale lipstick and looking for the perfect guy to make all my dreams come true!!!

1960 Maybelline ad in Glamour Magazine. 

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Maybelline ad, 1960.

 According to Maybelline marketing man, Rags Ragland, "A woman's greatest asset is a     

          man's imagination."....."

That sum's up, early 1960s advertising and a woman's role in a man's world.

Read all about my life in the 1960s and how I was so influenced by Rags Ragland's phrase... Maybelline... and advertising...  Pick up your copy of The Maybelline Story today.  You won't be able to put it down.