cool images from pour15minutesdamour.blogspot

 I did not photo shop this, I think it's an original print

 Wow, Kevin Bacon before stardom was a model for roller skates... who woulda guessed?

 Huh, the famous car record player, but in a right hand drive car, first time I've seen that!

 The Pan Am Strato Clipper

 Not the Messerschmitt, it's the Heinkel Kabine

 paintings by Samuel Michlap

all from the wide variety of intesting things found on http://pour15minutesdamour.blogspot.com/

Great advertising photo of the optional record player in a 1950's car

Via: http://thisisnthappiness.com/

When radio bored the car owners of the 50's, they didn't have XM, Sirius, CD's or cassettes... they had record players!

http://ookworld.com/hiwayhifi.html has the most complete look at the press releases, magazine reviews, and sales brochures

You were limited solely to the releases made available by Columbia, and as you can see in the listings, these were somewhat limited. I'm no expert on what was available to them, but I'm guessing that many of these releases were remasters from Columbia's back-catalog. Note the complete absence of serious jazz, rhythm & blues, country and rock 'n' roll.

http://www.imperialclub.com/Repair/Accessories/HiWay/Chrysler.htm