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Carousel Kitchen
Did anyone ever actually want this, or build it, outside of the ad man's imagination?
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Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 06, 2021 -
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Category: Domestic, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Advertising, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #498
This is a fine example of pushing a metaphor to the point of absurd surrealism.
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 29, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Miniature People in Ads, Television, Surrealism, 1950s
The Frito Twist
NOTE: the text below calls it a 78, but it looks pretty much like a 45 to me.
This 78 rpm record was made by the PAMS (Production, Advertising, Merchandising Service) production company in February 1962 for the Frito-Lay company to promote its Fritos snack food with a dedicated jingle, the “Frito-Twist.” The disc’s white paper label bears the Fritos and PAMS logos on both sides. Side A plays “The Frito Twist,” and Side B contains the instructional “How to Twist.” (In earlier versions of this promotional record, side A featured “Dallas: My Home Town” with “The Frito Twist” on side B.) The music for the “Frito Twist” was written by Euel Box, a Dallas-based composer and arranger best known for his work on the “Benji” movies of the 1970s and 80s, and a music director for the PAMS company. The sound engineer on the recording was Dick McGrew (as noted in the fine print along the edge of the record).The Dallas-based PAMS production company was founded in 1951 by William B. Meeks, Jr., often credited as the creator of the musical station break. In the 1950s-1970s, advertisers looked to music and dedicated jingles to help promote their products. They aimed branded dance fads in particular at teenagers and young adults.
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jan 20, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Music, Junk Food, 1960s, Dance
Mary Mild
Disney released Mary Poppins in 1964. The next year Ivory Liquid Soap debuted a new mascot: Mary Mild, a flying maid. Seems like an obvious Mary Poppins rip-off to me, though I can't find the similarity mentioned anywhere.Mary Mild didn't last long. Within two years, Ivory had canned her.
The ads below ran in 1966 in magazines such as Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 18, 2021 -
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Category: Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #496
Tarzan chews Dentyne.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 03, 2021 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Foreign Customs, 1940s, Teeth
The World’s First Color Commercial
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 17, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Television, Tobacco and Smoking, 1950s
Follies of the Madmen #495
These tires only available in Lilliput.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 08, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Giant People in Ads, Motor Vehicles
The Singing Wastebaskets
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 07, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Surrealism, Junk Food, 1970s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
The Door-Knobs Threaten Them
Another example of the early 20th-century advertising industry trying to terrify customers into buying their product.Although they were right that door-knobs can transmit disease.
Ladies Home Journal - 1926
Posted By: Alex - Sat Dec 05, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, 1920s, Disease
Follies of the Madmen #494
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Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 28, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Slavery, Bondage and Indenture, Nineteenth Century
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