Think Draw - Picture - The Xmas They'll Never Forget

Title: The Xmas They'll Never Forget
created on 22 Dec 22

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1. chelydra wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageads/ comments/zjik2t/the_christmas_theyll _never_forget_cadillac_1955/
2. chelydra wrote: The artist has caught this little lady in the act of entering the Big Bourgeoisie (the owners of the means of production, e.g. investors in corporate stocks and bonds) —
3. chelydra wrote: Henceforth and forevermore she will be on the receiving end of proletarian sneers and jeers, or just blank empty gazes from the defeated poor waiting to die in their gutters...
4. chelydra wrote: But from other Cadillacs, other members of her class will toss sympathetic little smiles her way. What most people don't understand is that the Big Bourgeoisie think of themselves as an isolated and despised minority!
5. chelydra wrote: How do I know that? Because for a couple of days in the winter of 1974 I was the driver of Cadillac limousine! All the regular cars at Westhampton Taxi were recycled burnt-out cop cars. Sometimes all died at once.
6. chelydra wrote: Most days I'd sit in gas lines, watching my meager earnings get guzzled at the pump. Most evenings I'd go home to a rented room in a haunted house with no water, almost no heat, and a hungry dog named Spot.
7. chelydra wrote: I'd stop at the 7-11 across Mill Road to pick up cans dog food on my way back from work. I'd get a couple cans of Alpo for me and some cheap rubbish for Spot. I could see the love drain out of those big brown eyes...
8. chelydra wrote: ..., replaced by the the first inklings of smoldering resentment, with every bite I savored of good Alpo horse hearts or sheep lungs or whatever...
9. chelydra wrote: ...as he tried to swallow his adulterated watery nasty cereal byproducts. And that was the look I got on the streets of my home town when I drove around in my freshly-polished limo. Except from ....
10. chelydra wrote: )1) my customers, when I was dispatched up into the dead end road north of the highway where people barely survived and sometimes raised a few pigs next to their tar paper shacks
11. chelydra wrote: ...and gave big fat generous tips even when they were treated to a limo ride to the A&P. (The impatient important folks I picked up at the LIRR station...
12. chelydra wrote: ... who I took to their palaces on Dune Road—and gave a one-dime tip if I carried a lot of luggage for them—probably didn't notice the limo)... OOPS!
13. chelydra wrote: [[[ Yhe 'oop[s' is cuz I mean't to write in Chatbox #11 that the poorest folks tipped a lot even when they did NOT get a limo ride ]]]
14. chelydra wrote: TO BE CONTINUED & CONCLUDED BEFORE LONG
15. Daydreamer wrote: A masterful depiction! I thoroughly enjoyed the replay: those chins, eyebrows, fingers, lips, eyes--WOW! Warmest Wishes for the Season, chelydra!
16. chelydra wrote: Why, thank you, DayDreamer! You've provided the validation needed to carry on! If you notice there are 40 or 50 new comments added, that...
17. chelydra wrote: ...will probably be an indication that I finished the story ... if I can still remember where it was going; if not I guess it might go somewhere else) Seasons Greetings to thee & thine!
18. UNKOWN123 wrote: yES, TIS ME
19. UNKOWN123 wrote: POOR PEOPLE ALWAYS GIVE THE MOST,,, like the story and the art work... did you really eat Alpo? I like dry dog food myself
20. indigo wrote: These two remind me of actors from old films, like black and white especially the old guy. Just can't remember the name.