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Crisco is digestible
When the best that a company can say about their food is that "it's digestible," it sounds like damning with faint praise.
Better Homes and Gardens - Sep 1956
Better Homes and Gardens - Sep 1954
Better Homes and Gardens - Mar 1957
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 01, 2023 -
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Category: Food, Advertising, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #554
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 31, 2023 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Correspondence, Telegrams, Letters, and Other Written Communications, Advertising, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #553
In 1970, everything was psychedelic, including kids' vitamins. The subtext of handing out groovy pills could not be denied.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 22, 2023 -
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Category: Advertising, Children, Nutrition, Psychedelic, 1970s
People who know… buy Bigelow
The carpet for when you just got back from the clown convention and feel like lying on the floor.
Or for topless, indoor sunbathing.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 17, 2023 -
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Category: Advertising, Interior Decorating, 1960s
Native American Endorsements
A good, short essay, with many examples (but not including the two videos below), can be found here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 16, 2023 -
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Category: Advertising, Candy, Cereal, Twentieth Century, Native Americans
Follies of the Madmen #552
Please note the last cartoon in this ad (magnified below). Man attempts to kill mother-in-law by darkening the stairwell. Everything A-OK!Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 09, 2023 -
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Category: Death, Domestic, Technology, Advertising, 1950s
Merck satisfies your growing appetite for MSG
A full plate of MSG, but you already need more... MORE!Never fear, "You can depend on Merck for unlimited quantities of MSG." In Crystal or Fine Crystal form.
Food Technology - Sep 1958
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 06, 2023 -
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Category: Drugs, Food, Advertising, 1950s
Groovin’ with “The Glass Bottle”
Oh, man, what a flashback! I saw The Glass Bottle at Fillmore East!
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 06, 2023 -
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Category: Packaging, Wrapping, and other Protective Measures, Advertising, 1960s
Blast-Resistant House
Posted By: Alex - Fri Dec 30, 2022 -
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Category: Architecture, Advertising, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1950s
No Pink Tax in the 1950s
Proof that the past was a happier era. No "Pink Tax" in effect. Daintiness at a discount!Although of course the base prices were outrageous. See the screenshots below the video.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 30, 2022 -
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Category: Education, Hygiene, Advertising, 1950s
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