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Originally Posted by ngcles
....Celestron did the "Leonard Nimoy" thing along a slightly similar thought line but then later on they did the attractive (usually) blonde girl with the shortish skirt/shorts, wind-blown hair beside the 'scope thing. You know what's implied: buy the telescope and you may/might/will get the girl (gender and sexual orientation is both assumed and strongly stereotyped). These ads were not too dissimilar to a lot of car ads of this era.....
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Everytime I visit BinTel, they never have those 'scopes on the showroom floor with the blonde leggy models standing next to them??? Mind you the way the dollar has gone recently, I probably can't afford them now anyway
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Yeah you have got to wonder about what the marketing departments were thinking back then. Fast cars and blondes - yes I can see the connection. Fast telescopes and blondes...??
It's great these magazines are a real time capsule into both the hobby and society in general.