Advertising
Knox Gelatine
Odd choice of photo to advertise their product, since this Big Red team member seems to be suffering from some kind of intestinal distress. From the Cornell Alumni News - Oct 19, 1939
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 07, 2014 -
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Category: Advertising, 1930s
When Barbie Met Ken
Who ever knew it happened at a dance?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 02, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Toys, Teenagers, 1960s
5-Day Deodorant Pads
Do you have to abstain from washing your pits for five days to make this work and get your money's worth? I note this item still exists. Any experience with it among WUvies?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 30, 2014 -
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Category: Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, 1950s
The Nicotine Fairies
Unless he was smoking something else.....
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 29, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Delusions, Fantasies and Other Tricks of the Imagination, Tobacco and Smoking, Cartoons, 1930s, Europe
Look for the Sanforized label!
From Life magazine - Sep 15, 1941:
GEORGE: I've been choking all day in a shrunk-up shirt because you forgot to look for the right label.
JULIA: What label?
GEORGE: The 'Sanforized' label, dumb-puss. The one that says the fabric won't shrink more than a little 1% by standard tests.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 23, 2014 -
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Category: Advertising, Marriage, 1940s
Ancient Recorded Laughter Used as Movie Promo
The narrator explains the circumstances in the video.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 23, 2014 -
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Category: Humor, Movies, Advertising, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Follies of the Madmen #222
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 22, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Cats
Follies of the Madmen #221
Family lives in eerie black hole environment, stores floating possessions at many levels but without formal order.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 15, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, Family, 1950s
VertiBird!
Kids these days, with their miraculous untethered toy helicopters! How could they ever know the true joy of a helicopter at the end of a rod?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 10, 2014 -
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Category: Flight, Toys, Advertising, 1970s
Avoid Scalp Scum
I'm not exactly sure what "scalp scum" is, but it definitely sounds like it's worth avoiding.
This ad ran in Time, Newsweek, etc. in the late 1940s. via Duke Libraries.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 05, 2014 -
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Category: Advertising, 1940s
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