Alcohol
Follies of the Madmen #343
Why is hubby vacuuming during relaxed beer-and-pretzels hour? OCD? Submissive ritual with dominant mistress? Your guess is as good as the copywriter's!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 26, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, 1950s, Alcohol
Rusty Cans
It seems to me that you could spend many enjoyable hours at Rusty Cans, looking at the fotos and reading the highly informative and entertaining text.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 22, 2017 -
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Category: Collectors, Twentieth Century, Alcohol
Follies of the Madmen #335
Of course! Playing Monopoly drunk! It's the only way!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 20, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Games, 1970s, Alcohol
Follies of the Madmen #330
This wife has a problem bigger than an inconsiderate husband--he's a clinical alcoholic!
From THE ELKS MAGAZINE for November 1950.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 17, 2017 -
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Category: Addictions, Alcohol, Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, 1950s
Malvaz Malt Tonic
Oh, it's not beer, despite coming from Monarch Brewing--it's just a healthy Malt Tonic!As this site says of a similar brand from the same period: "the concoction—actually just simple beer with the addition of honey—was advertised as a 'liquid food' for the treatment of various ailments, from insomnia to 'old age' to 'expectant motherhood.'"
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 18, 2017 -
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Category: Advertising, 1930s, Alcohol
Follies of the Madmen #321
"Dead people like our beer."
From the American Legion magazine for May 1952.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 25, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Horror, 1950s, Alcohol
Beer For Her
A Czech brewer has introduced Aurosa, a "beer for her":How exactly does one transform a beer into a "beer for her"? Apparently you put it into a pink-hued bottle and charge more for it.
This isn't the first attempt to make a beer specifically for women. Back in 2011, there was Chick Beer.
More info: eater.com.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jul 23, 2017 -
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Category: Gender, Women, Alcohol
Newt Kook
Hard to believe that the largest-selling bourbon was once touted by a fellow named "Newt Kook."This timeline of Dant's history makes no mention of Newt. And Google comes up empty for any biographical particulars. Could he have been a fake, a corporate icon like "Betty Crocker?"
This January 30 1956 report from BROADCASTING MAGAZINE seems to say otherwise. Although who knows who was on the other end of the phone?
Original ad here.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 12, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Products, Alcohol
Vine-Grown Booze Fruit
Surely in this day of genetic engineering, science could help realize this dream of Samuel Untermeyer's.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 27, 2017 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Food, 1930s, Alcohol
Mink Can Opener
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 27, 2017 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Advertising, 1950s, Alcohol
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