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Follies of the Madmen #295
So that's where corporate executives come from! It's something in their breakfast cereal as kids!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 01, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Children, 1960s
Post Toasties
Here's an ad campaign over the course of a decade or so that shows the Mad Men flailing around blindly. Whom do we appeal to? Kings, Indian Chiefs, housewives, nursery-rhyme characters, despotic sea captains, or cartoon animals? Or, in the end, the anti-hippie conservatives embodied by Andy Griffith and his fancy-neckwear disparagement?
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 30, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Food, 1950s, 1960s
Man in Tent for Deep Woods OFF
Apparently, this commercial featuring a guy in a tent filled with biting insects has attained a certain minor cult status I was not aware of.
The original is in the first video at the 3:40 mark.
Here's the guy, now revealed to be Bill Clement, still stuck in the tent fifteen years later.
But most recently, he (or a younger surrogate) finally gets to come out of the tent--and he's got a sexy woman with him. That's progress!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 15, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Insects and Spiders, Nature, 1970s
Don’t guess about your future… Analagraph it!
The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company marketed its electronic analagraph service from the late 1930s to the 1970s. They described it as "a scientific device that lets you chart the family and its retirement needs." They even had an "analagraph school" in Newark, New Jersey where their employees would be sent to get trained as analagraphers.
More recently, Electronic Development Labs has marketed an "analagraph recorder" for use by chiropractors. I found an explanation of what this device does in the book Pendulum Power:
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 12, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Insurance
Shore Dinner
It's worth clicking through to appreciate the expressions on the people, at larger size.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 07, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Cannibalism, Food, Myths and Fairytales, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #294
My favorite part is when this fellow puts his clasped hands to his cheek like a maiden about to faint.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 30, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1950s
Thai Commercial for Sylvania
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 16, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Giant People in Ads, Products, Horror, Foreign Customs, Fictional Monsters
UFO Noodles
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 04, 2016 -
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Category: Aliens, Business, Advertising, Food, Pop Art, Surrealism, Science Fiction, Asia
Follies of the Madmen #291
Rockabilly, R&B Sharpie the Parrot is an authority on shaving. Or maybe you would pay more attention to Sharpie's barbershop-quartet incarnation.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 14, 2016 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Cartoons, 1950s, Facial Hair
Follies of the Madmen #290
Worst. Pun. Ever.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 05, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Music, 1980s, Puns and Other Wordplay
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