Advertising
Moving Advertisements for Devices and Vehicles
Are you tired of screens at the gas pumps that flash ads? Or perhaps screens on buses and taxis that display same? You can perhaps blame Elias Atherton Lyon, who patented such a notion in 1910.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 30, 2022 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, Advertising, 1910s
Follies of the Madmen #540
Not sure how pajamas could cause or cure bow-leggedness...Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Aug 21, 2022 -
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Category: Fashion, Advertising, 1930s, Men
Burma Blockade Deodorant
Nothing like naming your product so that it sounds like a military operation, then touting it with a stereotyped "Oriental" gal.Of course, we'd have to relaunch this as "Myanmar Blockade" today.
Bonus video: the same gal touting the more famous Burma Shave.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 12, 2022 -
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Category: Ethnic Groupings, Hygiene, Stereotypes and Cliches, Advertising, 1960s, Asia
Follies of the Madmen #539
Source: Times Colonist (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)29 Feb 1956, Wed Page 13It's worth taking a look at the other more-legible images after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 08, 2022 -
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Category: Fashion, Advertising, Cats, Dogs, North America, Mental Health and Insanity
Follies of the Madmen #538
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 28, 2022 -
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Category: Hygiene, Advertising, Surrealism, 1950s
Barbarian Men’s Fashions
The famous painter Boris Vallejo once did a series of ads for the clothing chain Chess King. What's your opinion? Does sword and sorcery imagery sell men's clothing?Here's a neat small essay on this campaign.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 22, 2022 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Fashion, Advertising, Fantasy, 1980s
The Tonight Shirt
NOTE: Positively not endorsed by Johnny Carson!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 20, 2022 -
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Category: Fashion, Television, Advertising, Twentieth Century
Follies of the Madmen #537
Police brutality!
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 11, 2022 -
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Category: Hygiene, Police and Other Law Enforcement, Advertising, 1930s
What is Mrs. Ed Flynn doing to her husband tonight?
She's polyunsaturating him.
National Geographic - Sep 1969
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 05, 2022 -
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Category: Advertising, 1960s
A Touch of Magic
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 01, 2022 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Cryptozoology, Surrealism, 1960s, Dance, Cars
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