50 MPH is thrifty

Item Information

• Description
  Billboard reference to vehicles slowing down to 50 miles per hour on the highway and thus conserving gasoline probably dates this from the "energy crisis" of the early to mid 1970s.

• Item ID
  AAA4830
• Source Collection
  Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) Archives, 1885-1990s
• Product
  energy consumption
• Medium
  Billboard
• Placement Company
  O'Mealia
• Title
  50 MPH is thrifty
• Company
  unknown
• Date
  [1970s?]
• Setting
  City Scene
• Genre
  advertisements
  photographs
• Tone
  Black & White
• Type
  outdoor advertising
• Subject
  Public Service

• Copyright & Usage
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