Columbia Ad 1920

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Columbia Ad from July 1920 Farm Journal.

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Columbia Ad 1920Black and white 7 3/4″ x 10 3/4″ ad for their Grafonola Gramaphone. The ad has a picture of a dapper young man carrying one of these units onto the porch of a vacation house on a lake. The porch is filled with excited people who rush to greet him and the headline has them saying “Now we can dance”. The ad text claims that “With this Vacation Model Columbia Grafonola you can dance to the very last note of every record. It is equipped with the Columbia Non-Set Automatic Stop which operates on any record, long or short. Nothing to move or set or measure”. The ad claims that the standard models sold for $300 and the Period Designs were priced up to $2100.

Source:  July 1920 Farm Journal.