Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Vintage Kitty Subway Posters Promote Courtesy and Kindness




Our friends at BuzzFeed found these amazing posters from the '60s that used a black and white kitty to playfully encourage NYC subway riders to be polite and considerate of their fellow passengers. The well-mannered feline, known as Etti-Cat, also had his own book published in 1965, called Etti-Cat The Courtesy Cat.

The signs, which some are calling "proto-LOLcat" are currently on display at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn, NY.

Update: Urlesque tracked down a copy of the book and posted some amazing excerpts, which can be seen here!

6 comments:

  1. These are so cute! I think we could use those even now!

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  2. great posters, i could use them as inspiration for my next line of weeble hamish posters!

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  3. I have a copy of the Etti-Cat book! He's the best!

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  4. Oh I love these! But you have to hope that people can read the text....

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  5. Etti-Cat is sooo cute. I'm going to get my Mom to get hims book!!

    Katie Kitty Too

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