Gamers: 1950

June 6, 1950. Pembroke, Ontario. "Vis-O-Matic department store." A variation on mail-order shopping, the Vis-O-Matic system used color slides to display merchandise to potential customers, with orders placed by Teletype and delivered to your door. Photo by Bernard Hoffman, Life image archive. 

Vaporland left a comment possibly important enough to elevate into the post proper...

I call foul. That typeface on the left looks suspiciously like the original 1980 IBM PC font. I think this is a photoshop 'enhancement'...  Also, I googled on the Life image archive and nothing came up...

I trusted Shorpy.  If China can give us a fake Tiger to drum up tourist business, then someone could puff a Vis-O-Matic picture into existence.  Anyone else have info here?

http://www.shorpy.com/node/4969