Mad Men - Ephron On Media Article Archive - off-center thinking about the advertising business by Erwin Ephron


	Mad Men
	Mad Men is set in the 1960’s, the decade of the creative agency. I visited the One Club exhibit out of nostalgia and curiosity. Nostalgia because I ran media at two of the 60’s most creative shops, Papert, Koenig, Lois, the first agency to go public. And Carl Ally the only agency that fired clients. As I remember the experience it was like being Accountant to the Mob. . . .

	CLOTHES MAY MAKE THE MAD MEN But We Still Called Them “Suits” One of the few miss-steps of TV’s celebrated series is how agency people dressed. The mad men of the 60’s and 70’s looked more like Woodstock than Brooks Brothers and often went shoeless in the office. Only clients and account people dressed for daily business and for doing that we called them "suits."

	COMFORT THE AFFLICTED, AFFLICT THE COMFORTABLE Dedicated To Carl Ally The TV series Mad Men set in the 1960’s, has been an invitation for many of us to remember. This is about Carl Ally, the agency that fired clients and often thought that advertising deserved a life of its own. These memories are dedicated to Carl.

	GEORGE RENTS A SUIT More Advertising Tales from the 1960’s Memories lead to biography, but only if writer and reader are patient. I’ve tried to capture what it was like to work at a small agency in the 1960’S where creative was king, media did dishes and a suit meant the client. Which reminds me. . .

	DATA IS THE NEW CREATIVE Whatever Happened to People? Why has the program Mad Men so enraged advertising? The staid One Club, keeper of the Creative Hall of Fame, just opened a counter-exhibit at the NY Public Library. They want to correct the idea that the only thing admen do is drink, scheme and lust by showing they also pose for pictures.