Vintage Singer Center Ad/Pamphlet (1965)

As mentioned yesterday, I ended up finding something cool in my Singer 328k’s manual. It was a neatly folded Singer Center Ad/pamphlet.

Singer Center Ad from 1965

Just like I tell everyone, if your vintage machine came with a physical manual - be sure to flip through it. This time I got a bonus just for doing that. I love old ads. Maybe it’s the nostalgia bit in me - I grew up circling my hopes and Christmas dreams in the annual Sears Wishbook. Now as an old crone, I definitely prefer ads in print rather than online. Print ads are a fun time capsule. As a collector of vintage sewing machines that pre date me, it is fun to see the original release promo information the manufacturers released.

Singer Ad from 1965

Up close on the White Featherweight

By today’s fandom standards for the more uncommon Featherweight colors, you’d think that the original ad would have holographic touches or something else just as glitzy on the pamphlet.

Singer made, record players, dress forms, typewriters, vacuums and more.

I especially love seeing ads for products that were made that are less known now. As mentioned in my Short about this ad, I have seen a Singer branded tv out in the wild at a thrift store. As well as a Singer brand projector. Both were priced very high or I might have considered grabbing them. One of the most collectible items Singer made is a pistol. They produced a run of 500 pistols in 1939-1940.

I wish I could visit a Singer Center now.

I hope I didn’t hype this up too much. I personally love this sort of stuff.

xo-Thea