Posts by Greg Marsh
Memory of the Month: I’ll huff and I’ll puff
By Greg Marsh on January 31, 2012 at 10:53 AM
Each month, we share an image from GEICO’s past and invite you to exercise your caption-writing skills. We had such a good time with these photos from GEICO’s past during our 75th anniversary year, we’ve decided to keep this feature going. Here’s a summer-fun photo to brighten a late-January day! Today, GEICO employs more than [...]
Posted in: Odds & Ends
Memory of the Month: Deep thoughts
By Greg Marsh on December 29, 2011 at 11:19 AM
In honor of GEICO’s 75th anniversary, we’re sharing an image from GEICO’s past each month this year and inviting you to exercise your caption-writing skills. In this mid-1970s photo, there are clearly some Deep Thoughts going on in this group. But are they all on the same page? Maybe not. The fellow in the middle, [...]
Posted in: Odds & Ends
Memory of the Month: Celebrate good times … come on!
By Greg Marsh on November 30, 2011 at 3:55 PM
In honor of GEICO’s 75th anniversary, we’re sharing an image from GEICO’s past each month this year and inviting you to exercise your caption-writing skills. We’re coming to the end of our yearlong celebration of GEICO’s 75th anniversary, so it seems only appropriate that this Memory of the Month involves a photo of a celebration. [...]
Posted in: Odds & Ends
Safe driving: one more reason to give thanks
By Greg Marsh on November 22, 2011 at 3:30 PM
Having recently had my beloved 2003 Hyundai Sonata totaled while it was parked innocently on a suburban neighborhood street, I’m a bit more familiar than I’d like to be with the scourge of unsafe driving. I still can’t figure out how the guy who hit my car could have been going that fast on that [...]
Posted in: Safety
Memory of the Month: They don’t make ’em like they used to
By Greg Marsh on October 28, 2011 at 2:56 PM
In honor of GEICO’s 75th anniversary, we’re sharing an image from GEICO’s past each month this year and inviting you to exercise your caption-writing skills. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, with the company growing by leaps and bounds, GEICO executives realized that paper storage of policy information would eventually become impossible to manage. [...]
Posted in: Odds & Ends
Memory of the Month: Look it up!
By Greg Marsh on September 28, 2011 at 2:39 PM
In honor of GEICO’s 75th anniversary, we’re sharing an image from GEICO’s past each month this year and inviting you to exercise your caption-writing skills. Once upon a time – OK, it was up until the 1970s – GEICO underwriters would refer to the enormous rating manuals you see here to find the proper rate [...]
Posted in: Sales and Service
GEICO: 75 years young today!
By Greg Marsh on September 9, 2011 at 8:43 AM
Strike up the band and let’s get this party started! It’s GEICO’s birthday today! Yes, the company Leo Goodwin had the nerve to launch during the Great Depression is now 75 years young. I say young because, unlike some septuagenarians, GEICO still acts like a brash upstart in many ways. Our ads amuse some and [...]
Posted in: Marketing & Communications
Memory of the Month: I’ll connect you!
By Greg Marsh on August 30, 2011 at 2:46 PM
In honor of GEICO’s 75th anniversary, we’re sharing an image from GEICO’s past each month this year and inviting you to exercise your caption-writing skills. GEICO has always prided itself on its use of the latest technology. Back in the 1950s, the switchboard hardware you see here, operated by swift and sure-handed employees, comprised a [...]
Posted in: Sales and Service
Memory of the Month: A place for everything, and …
By Greg Marsh on July 28, 2011 at 3:04 PM
In honor of GEICO’s 75th anniversary, we’re sharing an image from GEICO’s past each month this year and inviting you to exercise your caption-writing skills. These days, GEICO keeps most of its records electronically, but back in the 1970s, the business was much more paper-intensive. Records were stored in boxes – lots and lots of [...]
Posted in: Odds & Ends
Memory of the Month: Mmm, mmm, good!
By Greg Marsh on June 17, 2011 at 12:20 PM
In honor of GEICO’s 75th anniversary, we’re sharing an image from GEICO’s past each month this year and inviting you to exercise your caption-writing skills. They say an army travels on its stomach. Well, the same could be said of GEICO. Those who serve the military, as GEICO proudly has throughout its history, need to [...]
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