Advertising
Hanes Legs
A collection of seemingly unattached body parts.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 16, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, 1950s, Head, Legs
Follies of the Madmen #491
"Our gum will alter your irises!"
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 16, 2020 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Business, Advertising, Junk Food, 1910s, Eyes and Vision
Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific Shampoo
Source of print ad.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 10, 2020 -
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Category: Hygiene, Advertising, 1970s, Attractiveness, Sexiness, Allure and Personal Magnetism
Waymarking
The Waymarking site allows the user to add a geo-tag to any object or place to make it findable by anyone else.They have their entries grouped into categories, and certainly the Oddities subgroup will be of interest to WU-vies.
There you can find, among other things, giant commercial icons such as the one below.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 08, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Geography and Maps, Advertising
Follies of the Madmen #490
Our televised brainwashing will turn honest citizens into criminals.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 07, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Crime, Propaganda, Thought Control and Brainwashing, Television, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #488
Induces gagging sensations of sipping tobacco-flavored drink.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 20, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Tobacco and Smoking, 1960s, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
The Great Beauty Contest of Life
"Whatever you do—wherever you go—you are in a Beauty Contest."
Kansas City Times - Mar 12, 1932
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 16, 2020 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Advertising, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #487
This impossible freakish dog is a true representative of the species, and thus can be a fine judge of the sponsor's food.
Plus, cats are jealous of both dog food and cigarettes.
Ad source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 06, 2020 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Food, Cats, Dogs, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #486
Just a sample of the horrors you'll see after you drink enough of our booze.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 04, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Delusions, Fantasies and Other Tricks of the Imagination, Horror, 1950s, Alcohol
Why aren’t your feet as sexy as the rest of you?
One of life's great mysteries.The ad ran in Cosmopolitan magazine (and probably other publications) in the late 1960s.
I found it in The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe (1976) by William A. Rossi.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 02, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, 1960s, Feet
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