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Chevrolet Leader News
Calling this "news" is highly generous.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 24, 2014 -
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Category: Advertising, 1930s, Cars
Follies of the Madmen #230
From Look magazine for September 13, 1962.
Compare to Follies #227.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 22, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Surrealism, 1960s, Hair and Hairstyling
Follies of the Madmen #229
Upskirt photography: one of advertising's less-utilized tools.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 06, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Shoes, Public Indecency, 1960s
Truth in Advertising
Caution: many, many swears.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 04, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Television, 1960s, Cars, Swears
Double Throat
The Ventriloquist Journal explains that this ad used to run in the back of comic books. What you got, if you sent away for it, was "a capsule-sized metal whistle thing you were supposed to put in your mouth... it was useless for anything except making whistle sounds."
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 01, 2014 -
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Category: Noises and Other Public Disturbances of the Peace, Advertising
Follies of the Madmen #228
The cliche is: Swedes know everything about coffee--and sex. So that household should be a happy one, with busybody Mrs. Olson supervising the kitchen and, offstage, the bedroom.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 31, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Marriage, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, Busybodies, Snoops and Kibitzers, 1960s
Beer Maypole
The pagan worship of giant beer bottles. Ad from 1907. [via the Rainier beer collection at flickriver.com]
Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 30, 2014 -
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Category: Inebriation and Intoxicants, Advertising, 1900s
The Dog Exterminator
An advertisement in The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review, August 1893. This seems to be similar to the pepper spray that mailmen carry nowadays, but with a more colorful name. [via What the Apothecary Ordered]
Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 28, 2014 -
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Category: Advertising, Nineteenth Century
Destination Earth
Mars needs petroleum byproducts!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 21, 2014 -
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Category: Aliens, Business, Advertising, Products, Motor Vehicles, Politics, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #227
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Yes, our product is number one among insane vegan fashionistas!
From Woman's Day for April 1962.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 18, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Vegetables, 1960s
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