tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post2992076943488688870..comments2024-03-28T13:20:29.156-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Come to Britain - Where Your Dollar Goes Farther Than EverRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-44602749097690188282015-04-21T00:13:52.493-07:002015-04-21T00:13:52.493-07:00Jeff,
it's just an example to show how the pu...Jeff,<br /><br />it's just an example to show how the pub was being used to market Britain in the US. The real ads were in American publications.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-64834251273158530642015-04-20T10:41:04.451-07:002015-04-20T10:41:04.451-07:00I once saw an article on Britain in a National Geo...I once saw an article on Britain in a National Geographic magazine from around 1950. One photograph was of an elderly gentleman supping a pint of mild in a pub. The comment was that when they went back some weeks later there was the same man in the same cap in the same seat and for all the world knows, the same pint of mild.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-39600693998537241992015-04-20T08:20:00.287-07:002015-04-20T08:20:00.287-07:00Why would an advertisement pitched to Americans ap...Why would an advertisement pitched to Americans appear in a British trade journal?Jeff Rennernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-18562223291170447632015-04-20T03:58:43.842-07:002015-04-20T03:58:43.842-07:00There were still bomb sites in the North East when...There were still bomb sites in the North East when I was a child in the 1980s. None of my friends in my 20s ever seem to believe this buts it's true.Stonchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07001578598975666535noreply@blogger.com