What describes a great advertising art director is his ability to come up with good selling ideas, designing and laying out award winning ads and have the know-how to work within a tight budget. Jack was all of the above.
When it came to budgets, he was especially creative.
Jack discovered two poor struggling art students (Dave Sanchez & Mik Kitagawa) from the Ad classes he taught at night.….and interviewed them for a position in his department at the prestigious Young & Rubicam advertising agency. Unbeknownst to these young fledglings, Jack’s budget called for just ONE art director. Mr. Allen, at his creative best, took that one salary and split it!.…..Two for the price of one. Hence the term “two-fer” will always be associated with Dave and Mik! Thanks to one Jack Allen.

Good to hear from you, after so many years. It was a pleasure and lots of fun working with you on that assignment. We were lucky to have been in a career that overlapped and gave us so many great memories. I couldn’t imagine, working all my life in a bank, as an accountant or any other routine type of job.

I haven’t been to any Geezer picnics yet, but will try to make the next one, and hope to see you there.

Thanks for the great work on that calendar, and by chance, do you have a sample of the calendar? I lost mine.
Cheers,
Tom Watson

Thanks for bringing back a great memory from the past. That was a very fun project and I too was somewhat enamored with Suzanne. However the rest of the cast were not “chopped liver” as the saying goes. That assignment, although challenging, opened the door to some of the larger production shoots that I later became known for. Thanks for offering me the opportunity to work with you.

Go Geezers,

Jim Blakeley