I don’t know about the rest of the stuff, but I sooo want that plastic bowling ball ornament / keepsake / gift certificate holder shown at the bottom of this 1962 ad. Puh-leeze, Santa? (That ...
The “new woman” rode bicycles — and she smoked and likely even chewed tobaccie. So it makes sense that folks would advertise tobacco directly to her. In this antique tobacco...
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From the Corpus Christi Times , March 29, 1957, comes this frightful ad featuring scary movies boldly warning things such as “Do not judge by anything seen before!” and “Girls!...
Never one to shy away from a scandal, controversy or unorthodox marketing scheme, in 1994, Ikea aired a commercial featuring two men shopping for a dining room table, the first...
We vegetarians are currently having a good chuckle at the carnivores’ faux indignance at being served dead horse instead of dead cow as if the slaughter industry was previously a paragon of moral...
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Detail from a Fry’s Sandwich Chocolate ad from Picture Post, September 16th 1939.
My oh my, how things have changed. These 25 vintage tech ads are guaranteed to take you back -- and, in most cases, remind you how truly terrible our tastes once were.
"Noel Petter's concept paintings for 1930s consumer packaging sent a clear message to Depression-era shoppers -- forget your troubles, c'mon get happy"
An antique advertising or trade card for the “Comfort Hip” corset by Helm, Snorf & Watson of North Manchester, Indiana. I’m not sure if we’re supposed to sing it… I cannot; for some of the lyrics make me gag...
"Father’s Day advertisements are a peek into what we think dads are all about. As cultures change, advertising shifts too, giving us a peek into the social construction of fatherhood."
Vintage TV commercial for a pre-cold war cold cream preys on more than beauty fears... See a commercial for a cleanser which removes two and a 1/2 times the radiation of other cleansers.
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