Ok, I should now what these advertisments are all about, but I just can not figure them out! In the past year and a half, there have been full page advertisments taken out in TRAINS by a “Diane Segal” for her mother Dorothy. They are usally accompanied by C&O locomotive pencil drawings with short discriptions next to each one!
Its all okay, but on several occasions, I have TRIED to figure out what it is that Mrs. Segal is trying to advertise! Is it a product or a service?
I would suspect she is trying to advertise the sale of her art work. With what it costs to get full page advertisments, I doubt that the art work would be cheap to purchase.
Using the theory of Occam’s Razor, which is that the simplest answer can often be considered the right one, perhaps she isn’t advertising anything. The page has “Advertisement” at the top because she is paying for the space.
But the wording is the type usually used in memorials in the Obituary section of the newspaper. So it may really be a memorial to her mother. I would think that if the lady were selling anything, we would have heard about it by now.
I asked Bergie about this a few weeks ago because, like just about everyone else, I was very nosycurious interested in the motive behind these pages. He confirmed they were a memorial to the artist’s mother, but did not know any more details.
These have been running for quite some time – over a year, I’d say – and I can also tell you the page rate for a BW ad in Trains magazine isn’t cheap – several thousand dollars, at least. Her mother must have meant a lot to her.
The question is, why take it out in a magazine, why not the local newspaper from where she lives? I figure that putting something like this in a newspaper is a whole lot cheaper than a specialty magazine like Trains. I have not seen these in any other publication.
The message I get (just my [2c]), is that her mother encourged her artistic abilities and since they happen to be trains, she put it in TRAINS magazine to “pay tribute” to her mother? It’s a guess…???