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Good Things in Du Pont Cellophane
Things you can wrap in Du Pont cellophane: fresh fruits, vegetables, babies...Source: Saturday Evening Post, 1955 - via Hagley Digital Archives
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 26, 2021 -
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Category: Babies, Advertising, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #520
I have never thought of a percolator as sexy before, but I guess I was misguided...
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 22, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Appliances, Magazines, Sex Symbols, 1970s
Drive-In Movie Ads
With over 100 items like this one below, you can easily waste hours at the Internet Archives page called Drive-In Movie Ads.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 21, 2021 -
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Category: Movies, PSA’s, Advertising, Twentieth Century, Cars
The Climax Couch
Surely even in 1910 the name must have been suggestive.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 20, 2021 -
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Category: Furniture, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Advertising, 1910s
Follies of the Madmen #519
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 11, 2021 -
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Category: Sexuality, Advertising, Twentieth Century, Double Entendres and Nudge-Nudge, Wink-Wink
Strictly feminine is the woman devoid of superfluous hair
The more often I say that sentence, the stranger it sounds.
Pittsburgh Press - July 30, 1939
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 05, 2021 -
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Category: Advertising, 1930s, Hair and Hairstyling
Follies of the Madmen #518
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Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 27, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Hygiene, 1930s, Skin and Skin Conditions
Howard makes clothes for men who make babies
Howard was a New York clothes store for men. The theme of their 1966 ad campaign was that they made clothes for virile men.The ad claiming that they made clothes "for men who make babies" was refused by every New York paper except the Times, which ran it once, and then never again, due to a complaint from the "Improvement of Advertising Content Committee".
New York Times - Mar 4, 1966
NY Daily News - Mar 3, 1966
NY Daily News - Mar 24, 1966
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 24, 2021 -
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Category: Babies, Advertising, 1960s, Men
The Damsel In Undress Campaign
A series of lingerie ads from the 1960s.Many more pics here, also from the same company's other campaigns.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 22, 2021 -
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Category: Movies, Advertising, Underwear, 1960s
Kentucky Roast Beef
Here's a neat article about this failed venture by Colonel Sanders.You won't find the image below at that page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 21, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Food, Success & Failure, 1960s
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