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The Nicotine Fairies
Unless he was smoking something else.....
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 29, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Delusions, Fantasies and Other Tricks of the Imagination, Tobacco and Smoking, Cartoons, 1930s, Europe
Look for the Sanforized label!
From Life magazine - Sep 15, 1941:
GEORGE: I've been choking all day in a shrunk-up shirt because you forgot to look for the right label.
JULIA: What label?
GEORGE: The 'Sanforized' label, dumb-puss. The one that says the fabric won't shrink more than a little 1% by standard tests.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 23, 2014 -
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Category: Advertising, Marriage, 1940s
Ancient Recorded Laughter Used as Movie Promo
The narrator explains the circumstances in the video.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 23, 2014 -
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Category: Humor, Movies, Advertising, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Follies of the Madmen #222
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 22, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Cats
Follies of the Madmen #221
Family lives in eerie black hole environment, stores floating possessions at many levels but without formal order.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 15, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, Family, 1950s
VertiBird!
Kids these days, with their miraculous untethered toy helicopters! How could they ever know the true joy of a helicopter at the end of a rod?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 10, 2014 -
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Category: Flight, Toys, Advertising, 1970s
Avoid Scalp Scum
I'm not exactly sure what "scalp scum" is, but it definitely sounds like it's worth avoiding.
This ad ran in Time, Newsweek, etc. in the late 1940s. via Duke Libraries.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 05, 2014 -
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Category: Advertising, 1940s
Goodbye to Garbage
The ominous opening music implies a problem at least equivalent to a serial killer loose in the neighborhood. But it's only some spilled coffee grounds.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 05, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Garbage, Trash, Waste and Other Detritus, Appliances, 1950s, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #220
What product can this staged photo from 1969 possibly be advertising?
For the answer visit the original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 04, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
Peter Penny and his Magic Dollar
Back in the 1940s, it became popular for business groups to put out "publicity comics" whose purpose was to instill in youth business-friendly feelings. One example was "Peter Penny and his Magic Dollar" put out by the American Bankers Association. The plot of the comic was that Bob, a schoolboy, wants to know about banks, so his mentor, Peter Penny, takes him around on a magic dollar to teach him about all the wonderful things that banks and bankers do.I can't find a complete copy of this comic online, but a few pages of it can be read over at lostsoti.org.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 02, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Comics, 1940s
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