Has Mr. Weiner heard the one about Wisk and the Florida-shaped swimming pool?

I worked on Madison Avenue in the mid 1960s and have some interesting stories to report, including the sexism that was

prevalent in those days. I worked in production at a famous TV show, and then in creative departments at a MAJOR ad agency. If my experiences would be of

interest to your story lines, please contact me by e-mail. Karen

Great show!! Love to old time language

As a child born in 1950 to a father who was an sucessful industrial designer, your show is very familiar. He was sucessful and lived the life! It was a fat time, but for him, it didn't last./ Sucessful business to bankrupcy.The only thing he left to me is interetsing stories and his original numbered Eames Chair! You have captured the essence of an era! Bravo

Dear Mr. Weiner:

The show "Mad Men" attempts to portray the morays of a society undergoing profound change on the eve of the death of our innocence. But your creation fails to provide in vulgar, narcistic display the very product of the ingredients you have thrown into this cauldron - "the advertisement."

Why don't you insert each week, in the middle of the episode just before a regular commercial, an ORIGINAL 1950's 10-15 second commercial featuring such "MAD" ads as:

"Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should;" "L.S.M.F.T. - Lucky Strikes means fine tobacco;" or, the famous icon of the business-suit attired man flying into a car with the voice over: "Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat."

These combination visual/mantra pre-focus group, pre-digital effects messages would serve the "Mad Men" audience with a real iconic connector with your show when starkly contrasted to the parade of very handsome/beautiful actors showcased in color. These ads would provide in substance the premise of your show. It would stir the audience, particularly of that generation; pointing out the smoking and drinking ad campaigns of that time. History is context.

Just several other (albeit) cosmetic suggestions: in the pre-flouride age with

the children (such as Draper) of the Depression, I suggest showing several of the regulars with poor teeth/dental work and severe with acne or small pox (pocked) facial skin.

Thank you,

Bradford J. Novak

Mad Men is brilliant! Thank you, Mr. Weiner, for recreating an era which I remember well. And thank you also for giving us more than a time capsule. The characters and their situations are complex while being engaging and repellant at the same time. No surprise you worked on The Sopranos.

Its verisimilitude reminds me of a program last year on BBC America (sorry, I can't remember its title), about a cop who is comatose after an injury and finds himself back in 1972. It had a different approach, but the sense of deja vu, and recognition of how horrendous acceptable behavior was in my lifetime, is similar.

The ad agency is the perfect vehicle for exposition of the era, as ads are so interconnected with our culture and mores.

The BBC show was "Life on Mars". I love Mad Men as it is. Jerry Della Femina wrote a book many years ago which I read in high scool around 1972 titled "From Those Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Pearl Harbor". The title comes from the question of how to sell Mitsubishi cars in the States, given the fact that Mitsubishi built the Japanese Zero fighters.Funny book and great insight into how Madison Avenue worked at the time.

If Mr. Weiner needs more ad agency information, my father worked for JWT on the Ford account in Detroit. He worked for them for 39 years (1946 - 1985). He occasionally worked in New York, but mostly in Detroit. He has some great stories for all the years he spent in the biz and I'm sure would love to share them.

I heard Mr. Weiner on Fresh Aire this morning. If he would like to contact me, pls. forward my email. My mother & her sister were young secretaries at J. Walter Thompson in Manhattan in the 60's, she has terrific stories about her experiences there, and her "wildman" boss. She loves to retell the stories. I'm sure she will be thrilled to watch the show, she loved going to work, and misses the era. Thank you :)

AMC is obviously very proud of their waste of time and money they call "Mad Men" as quality films have to take a back seat to back-to-back showings of this irrelevant piece of garbage that few people can relate to. At least with "The Sopranos", most everyone has an idea about gangsters, the mob, etc. The exciting world of 1960's ad agencies just doesn't reach out and grab anyone that I know. I guess I just don't run in the right circles. Whatever. I do hate that someone had to go to all those yard sales to find vintage ash trays, typewriters, etc. You could have scored big time in my mom's basement. Hopefully it'll get cancelled soon and you can have your own yard sale. Please stop wasting perfectly good movie watching time with this crap. Thanx.

I have been hooked on Mad Men since it began but was so dissappointed in last weeks show. It was sooooo bad that I will only give it one more week..It reminded me of the last season of The Soprano's. No meat!!! I hope this was only a fluke because up till then the writers did a wonderful job. What were they thinking when they wrote last weeks show?

Thank You Matthew Weiner for writing this show- I am a burlesque dancer/actress from Toronto ON CANADA and I love Mad Men. The Casting is wonderful! it so nice to see so much original programming doing so well. For someone born in the 1970's I find the sexism so odd and funny. It reminds me to respect what my mother and grandmother went through to earn a living. Who was the dancer used in the nightclub scene??? in Canada Check me out doing burlesque work on the new series "Across the River to Motor City"in NOV also set in the 60's.