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Vintage Moments: Comic Relief from Fabulon

Karly McMillan
Nov 20, 2013
Vintage wood flooring ad

In the middle of the last century, many wood flooring ads centered on making your wife happy (a timeless theme, really). This Fabulon ad from 1959 was sent to us by Jeff LaShomb of Middletown, Del.-based Delaware's Finest Hardwood Floors.

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