Advertising
Mystery Illustration 14
What orgasmic product was this illustration touting? Vibrators? Lingerie? Diamond rings?
The answer is here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 23, 2016 -
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Category: Advertising, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #272
Please spend half a minute to contemplate the subtext of this imagery. A pagan housewife (prefiguring BEWITCHED?) performs black magic to seduce and beguile a priest, with hubby nowhere in sight. Happens in 1950s suburbia every Sunday.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 17, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Food, Mass Transit, Religion, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #271
Female sexuality illustrated.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 11, 2016 -
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Category: Body, Fashion, Sexuality, Advertising, 1950s, Women
Thai Parkour Commercial
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 09, 2016 -
Comments (4)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Asia
Follies of the Madmen #270
Message: Colt 45 habit produces stupefied oblivion to everything but next drink.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 05, 2016 -
Comments (8)
Category: Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Advertising, 1960s, Alcohol, Brain Damage
A Woman’s Best Friend
Is this deliberately suggestive? Or do I just have a dirty mind?
Source: Newsweek - Sep 1964
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 27, 2015 -
Comments (6)
Category: Advertising, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #269
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 26, 2015 -
Comments (4)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Tobacco and Smoking, Husbands, Wives, Air Travel and Airlines, 1970s
Buchstein’s Vulcanized Fiber Limb
It's "soothing to your stump."
via Bifurcated Rivets
Posted By: Alex - Thu Dec 24, 2015 -
Comments (9)
Category: Advertising, 1910s
Santa Claus Is Dead
How would it be for you if your car had killed Santa Claus?
Source: Kansas City Times - Dec 9, 1969
Posted By: Alex - Wed Dec 23, 2015 -
Comments (7)
Category: Advertising, 1960s, Christmas
Follies of the Madmen #268
This was one of a series of postwar ads for magnesium, which illustrated how the miracle metal would allow consumers to do things nobody would ever want to do, like carry a baby carriage on your shoulder.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 21, 2015 -
Comments (8)
Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Technology, Babies and Toddlers, 1940s
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