Bumper stickers - not popular any more (store, company, NYC)

[Teddy52]

Originally Posted by Pitt Chick

Bumper stickers were never common in my area. Not even in the 50s.

I guess people prized their cars enough to not mar them with paper and adhesive.

Were you even around in 1952 ?

[motormaker]

Just plain tacky. Enuf said.

[nancy thereader]

Bumper stickers were very popular during the seventies. (War is not Healthy for Children & Other Living Things, No Nukes ) et. al.

I had a rainbow on my 1970 VW and recently when I showed my daughter a photo of the car, she said, "Wow, Mom. You used to be gay ?"

[Stratford, Ct. Resident]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

Bumper stickers were very popular during the seventies. (War is not Healthy for Children & Other Living Things, No Nukes ) et. al.

I had a rainbow on my 1970 VW and recently when I showed my daughter a photo of the car, she said, "Wow, Mom. You used to be gay ?"

[harry chickpea]

Bumper stickers didn't used to be bumper stickers. They were made of cardboard and had wires at each end that wrapped around the bumper. They also were some of the first users of day-glo paint. Roadside attractions were the most prominent users and they would attach them to all the cars in the attraction parking lot.

[Teddy52]

All the bumper stickers I saw in the 1950's had an adhesive backing.

I never saw a cardboard bumper sticker attached with wires.

They certainly would have been too clumsy and expensive to mass produce.

[cloven]

Originally Posted by swagger

Not popular?

Above post showed photo of car message-plastered within an inch of it's life, w/Mass. license plate.
Perhaps it's a regional difference (OP observing that bumper stickers are less popular nowadays),
because here in VT almost every car I see seems to have some bumper sticker or other, if not several.
So maybe bumper stickers are still alive and well, thriving in New England, but not so much so elsewhere ?

[wit-nit]

Who said tacky ... Trade in your car and see how much value is deducted from it trading in.

[SUPbud]

the bumper sticker gave way to the vinyl window decal, applied to the INSIDE of the window.
For those of us with tinted windows, not enough contrast.

I still put a "sticker" on my laptop, to differentiate it from the identical model all my coworkers have.

[elnina]

Stickers are not so popular anymore. Today, you see more window decals, religious symbols and their Darwin counters attached to the rear of the vehicle, not the bumper, and with license plate frame sayings.
Lately I see a lot of windows decals with the family head count:
http://gonereading.com/newshop/wp-co...ndow-Decal.jpg
listing everyone even dogs, cats and other family members
Many include their first names.
Too much info in my opinion, especially when people put additional decals from their kids schools.

People don’t have bumper stickers because there aren't many chrome bumpers anymore. Trying to get them off of cheap plastic bumpers that are painted to match the rest of the car is a nerve wracking experience. Body shops charge ghastly amounts of money.