# Looking for a vintage night mare ad **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-night-mare-ad/941305 "2021-05-03T16:52:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-night-mare-ad/941305/1 "2021-05-03T16:52:30Z")
I used to have an image of a magazine ad from circa a hundred years ago. It is for a “night mare” (in large text, with other descriptive text that followed) and has a drawing of several people sitting on a weird dragony thing. It was some sort of ride-able (or at least sit-on-able) novelty thing that was either 7 or 9 feet long. I lost the image years ago and have never been able to google it up again. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-night-mare-ad/941305/2 "2021-05-03T21:43:49Z")
Was it [this](https://blog.fantagraphics.com/catalog-no-439-preview-at-io9/)? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-night-mare-ad/941305/3 "2021-05-03T22:02:10Z")
Wow. That sent me down a rabbit hole of vintage “lodge paraphernalia”. Apparently stuff like this was used for initiations and hazing in fraternal orders. The “Lodge Goat” looks even more frightening. [https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cms/10.1086/518920/asset/images/medium/fg19.gif](https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/cms/10.1086/518920/asset/images/medium/fg19.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-night-mare-ad/941305/4 "2021-05-03T22:12:14Z")
Yep, got it in one. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-night-mare-ad/941305/5 "2021-05-03T22:23:02Z")
> **[Torture Devices For Your Frat House And Lodge From A 1908 Catalogue - Flashbak](https://flashbak.com/torture-devices-for-your-frat-house-and-lodge-from-a-1908-catalogue-440484/)** > > Before getting to the fun instruments of torture used in sadistic initiations to frat houses, clubs and gated communities, a word from your suppliers, DeMoulin Brothers & Co. of Greenville, Illinois, as stated in their catalogue of 1908: “WE MAKE... ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-a-vintage-night-mare-ad/941305/6 "2021-05-04T03:18:23Z")
They really enjoyed electrocuting people. The whole catalogue is on [archive.org](http://archive.org): > **[\[Catalogue\] : Demoulin Brothers and Company (Greenville, Ill.) : Free...](https://archive.org/details/catalogue00demo/mode/2up)**