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Follies of the Madmen #261
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 06, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1960s, Cars
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 17, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Exploitation and Grindhouse, Avant Garde, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Martial Arts, 1980s, Dance
Climate Change Coke
As our poor abused planet whipsaws between extreme cold and extreme heat on a minute-to-minute schedule, only Coke can help soothe our pain. The "melting glacier" allegory at the end is effective, albeit unsubtle.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 09, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Nature, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #259
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 07, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Nineteenth Century
Follies of the Madmen #258
Ideally, shouldn't those four women playing "1-2-3 Redlight!" be dressed as Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall?
And shouldn't a fabric named "Glo-Weave" have some shine-in-the-dark properties?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 31, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, 1960s
1956 Commercials: 7 minutes Total Per Hour Show
Now, that's weird! Especially when compared to double that amount today.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 29, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Television, 1950s, 2010s
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?
What a fine joke! The gear-driven, proto-cybernetic hell world of 1958 now looks more like a paradise compared with our world of 2015. No digitization. Hardly any cars on the highway. Children interacting unsupervised with a living ice-cream man. A TV set that can be repaired with a home visit, rather than going straight to the landfill. Coffee perked at home instead of provided by Starbucks. Human interaction unmediated by screens....
Take me back there now!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 15, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Domestic, Marriage, Family, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #257
Housewife wielding an axe?!? Don't get your hopes up. There is no John-Waters-style carnage ahead in this commercial.
Man, that appliance is huge. Where would it fit in a modern urban kitchen? Maybe in a McMansion....
What do you think the cherry cobbler cooked adjacent to the ham and sweet potatoes is going to taste like?
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 12, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Appliances, Food, 1940s
Follies of the Madmen #256
What a simpler world...
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 01, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Disguises, Impersonations, Mimics and Forgeries, Food, 1960s, Australia
Follies of the Madmen #255
[Click upper and/or lower half of ad to enlarge]
Who knew that fresh coffee promoted dancing?
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 27, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, 1930s
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