Ad from the Ladies’ Home Journal , December, 1917 In a previous post we displayed two ads from 1917 for Goodyear Cord Tires, featuring detailed pen-and-ink drawings of Nikko Inn. These clever bits of Jazz Age cross-promotion appeared in magazines

ranging from the Atlantic Monthly and The New Country Life to Travel and Forest & Stream . Tiny detail from the Ladies’ Home Journal ad. Now we’ve discovered a much more elegant ad from the same campaign, which ran in the December, 1917 issue of

Ladies’ Home Journal . The art was created by Myron Perley, an illustrator and art director who is remembered today for his work for the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company. Unfortunately the image of the Nikko is hard to discern in the background. We

suspect that the art was done in full-color and published here in black-and-white to save money. Maybe another version will turn up and we’ll get to see the Nikko in full-color glory. Until then we can try to imagine what an exotic and alluring

destination the Nikko Inn must have been in those days—and the “sharp and palpable difference” we would have “felt in the riding quality” of our car “shod with Goodyear Cord Tires.” For more on the Nikko, the Mikado and Harmon’s rich history, see

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October 12, 2014