Bad Relationships

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“Before I found your product, I found that my dick was so large it was adding an extra three months to every bad relationship.  However, since getting them, I’m happy to say that my bad relationships end exactly on time.”

– Coz Mark

The placebos worked on her!

Posted by richard

”I do have the problem with a large penis. My girlfriend is always bringing to my attention that she hurts after we have sex because of the size of my penis. A very good friend of mine, who knows about this, bought some of your pills for me as a joke. I left them out on the bedroom night table.  One night I saw her with the bottle in her hand. She told me she thought it was very thoughtful of me to take  these pills just for her. Now ever since she thinks I’ve been taking these pills the sex is “GREAT” and she never says that I’m hurting her anymore. I’m sure that it’s all in her mind. But I have to give thanks to where thanks is due!! So thank you guys for the pills. Some of us need to show our woman we really care about them.”

-Michael G.

Misaddressed mail was never so fun!

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“For an extra bit of ego boost, I order these for myself but put in my nearby neighbor’s postal address. When they arrive, the neighbors bring them over to my house for me and I say ‘Thanks, they must have messed up the address.’

And, all my neighbors think I’m huge.”

— Stephen K., Iowa City, Iowa

An old ad that I found in the files…

Posted by richard

A couple days ago I promised I’d start scanning in and posting some of the ads that I’ve found in the files from when grandad and Uncle Piccilo were running the business.  Here’s one that must have run sometime in the late 1950s, because that’s when they were in Minnetonka and using the given PO box.  All I have is a tear sheet, but I suspect this ad ran in the back third of Popular Mechanics.

I suspect this ad was created by either Piccillo or perhaps by Baylord & Associates, which was the New York advertising firm that they worked with for most of the 1950s and early 1960s. Eventually they moved over to Grant & Grant, a different firm in New York, and sales took off around 1964.

Note that the price for a month supply was $3, which at the time included shipping.  Based on the customer records I’ve seen, I suspect that they were selling about 1500 or so bottles a month, although about 2/3 of those were to “repeat” customers.

Richard was also trying to get certifications from various medical societies around this time; maybe next I’ll post the ad I found showing a doctor who recommended that most of his male patients take these.

Picture of Grandpa

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Here’s a photo of my grandpa, Richard Magnus Sr. and grandma, probably taken sometime in the 1980s.  I think it was taken shortly before their fourtieth wedding anniversary, so he’d be about 65 years old in this picture.

I really look up to my grand-dad, because he was smart and funny and always on top of things.  When I was young I wanted to grow up an be just liek him.  Alot of this, I know, came because he ran such a successful business.

I can only hope that I have 1/10th of the success that he had.