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Follies of the Madmen #361
From THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE for June 1959.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 23, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, 1950s, Skin and Skin Conditions
Follies of the Madmen #360
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 20, 2018 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Food, 1970s
Kotex Kotique
"Kotique?"
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 19, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Hygiene, 1970s, Women
Follies of the Madmen #359
Source of ad.
"Susan Smart," Woolworth's spokeslady, is definitely one of those characters I refer to as Lesser-Known Ad Icons. It might have helped her longevity if the ad people could have settled on one particular appearance for her.
Second ad from MODERN SCREEN for Feb 1952.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 12, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, 1950s
Tavern Trove
With over 35,000 items, ranging from beer cans to cocktail napkins, matchbook covers to letterheads and many other tchotchkes, the Tavern Trove site provides many happy hours of browsing into the weird niches of the liquor biz.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 10, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Retailing, Collectors, Alcohol
Aeroflot Advertisement
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 07, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Air Travel and Airlines, 1970s
Avoid Saying Hello
Wall Street Journal - Apr 25, 1983
Posted By: Alex - Thu Apr 05, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Telephones, 1980s
Follies of the Madmen #358
These people look abnormally happy, considering that they have such mutual bad breath and are in close proximity.
Original ad, alas, now locked away behind the CHICAGO TRIBUNE paywall.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 05, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #357
Implicit message: drinking beer is the same as being a scientist.
Source of ad.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 27, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, 1950s, Alcohol
Follies of the Madmen #356
The metaphor is so strained and odd, that the reader will surely just go, "Huh?"
Source of ad. (Scroll forward one page.)
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 22, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Surrealism, 1940s
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