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Ivory Snow Equal Time for Fetishists
Disregard the false caption claiming this is a Charmin commercial. Only Ivory Snow is responsible. They can add this to their claim to have used Marilyn Chambers as "the Ivory Snow Girl."
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 30, 2022 -
Comments (2)
Category: Hygiene, Advertising, Fetishes, 1970s
The marriage of industry and electronics
I like the image, but it seems like it belonged on the cover of a science-fiction magazine, not in an ad for Revere kitchen ware. After all, a woman marrying a robot raises a few intriguing questions.
Saturday Evening Post - Nov 15, 1947
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 27, 2022 -
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Category: Advertising, AI, Robots and Other Automatons, Marriage, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #542
Which booze does your doctor recommend?Source.
Source of second ad.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 27, 2022 -
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Category: Medicine, Advertising, 1950s, Alcohol
How to smoke fewer cigarettes
This reminds me of the old joke about how to drink fewer glasses of wine a day — get a bigger glass."It's wacky, but it works!"
image source: Trinkets & Trash
contemporary source: Photoplay - Nov 1976
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 26, 2022 -
Comments (4)
Category: Advertising, Smoking and Tobacco, 1970s
Asleep in the deep with a jeep
A 1943 AP story about a jeep that traveled around the Pacific tied to a submarine became the centerpiece of an ad for ice cream the following year. The somewhat tenuous connection between the two was that the submarine crew eventually sold the jeep to a warship in exchange for three gallons of ice cream.
Nebraska State Journal - Aug 6, 1943
National Geographic - July 1944
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 16, 2022 -
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Category: Military, Advertising, 1940s, Cars
Bill Cosby, on the Right Side of the Law
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 15, 2022 -
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Category: Hygiene, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Advertising, Children, 1970s, Comedians
Girl Gang Dodge Ads
This campaign was kinda genius, because they never explained what brought these three or four or five or six "wild & crazy" women together. Were they a troupe of actresses? Bank robbers? Insane asylum escapees? Rogue fashion models? You could stare at the ads all day in wonderment.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 14, 2022 -
Comments (3)
Category: Unsolved Mysteries, Advertising, Women, Cars
The Hypnotic Powers and/or Memory-wiping Drugs of Cool Whip
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 10, 2022 -
Comments (0)
Category: Family, Hypnotism, Mesmerism and Mind Control, Money, Propaganda, Thought Control and Brainwashing, Advertising, Junk Food, 1970s
Follies of the Madmen #541
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 06, 2022 -
Comments (1)
Category: Advertising, Women, Weapons, Motorcycles
Sugar Rice Krinkles
You will of course detest the word "krinkles" by the end of this commercial, especially since it's pronounced "kuh-rinkles."
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 04, 2022 -
Comments (2)
Category: Clowns, Advertising, Cereal, 1960s
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