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Is that a bowl of cigarette packs?
I believe they were called “candy dishes” at the time.
Is that a bowl of candy dishes??
Mad Men wasn’t exaggerating.
I was trying to decide if it was playing cards or cigarettes, and decided on cigarettes.
The official sponsor is prominent.
And no one has mentioned the IBM mainframe stereo behind him?
Trying to make it run Doom?
And a dvd collection in the bottom right corner, this man’s a time traveller.
Looks like some PS2 and Wii games, too. A time-traveler who clearly knows when console gaming peaked.
Pre-recorded reel-to-reel tapes (and 8mm movies) were packaged in thin cardboard boxes like those. My grandfather had a few.
Maybe you were joking. Sorry.
Edit: In fact if you search Ebay for “reel to reel album” there are tons of listings with pictures.
I started out looking for his cocktail, immediately got sidetracked by that enormous bowl of cigarettes 🤣
Don’t sleep on that mainframe reel-to-reel in the background. It’s like a satellite control system in a Bond movie.
The station to control the space laser
We’re gonna need a bigger ashtray
