Vintage 1957 Magazine Ads: Gilbey's Vodka & Kentile Floors Random Tones Tile

This scan shows a two-page spread from a vintage 1950s magazine containing two full-page consumer advertisements — it is not automotive documentation. The left page is a Gilbey's Vodka ad featuring a bottle of Gilbey's Vodka beside a glass of orange-colored drink and fruit. The copy explains that Gilbey's is made by a costlier method that selects only the "heart" of each vodka distillation, and states the vodka is 80 & 100 proof, distilled from 100% grain by W. & A. Gilbey, Ltd., Cincinnati, Ohio, and distributed by National Distillers Products Corporation. The right page is a Kentile Floors ad promoting Random Tones asphalt tile, showing a family room with rose-toned tile flooring, a fireplace, and colonial-style furniture. The copy highlights subtle shadings of rose, gray, or green, a smoother easy-clean surface, low price, and availability in asphalt tile, solid vinyl, vinyl asbestos, cushion-back vinyl, rubber and cork tile in over 150 decorator colors, from Kentile, Inc., Brooklyn 15, N.Y. A copyright line appears to read 1957. Readers can learn period advertising language, product claims, and manufacturer details, but nothing related to any vehicle.