Advertising
One of These Ads Is Not Like the Others
I think Dad would rather look at the last ad in this sequence.
All taken from the same 1951 issue of BOYS LIFE.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 09, 2014 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Magazines, Advertising, Sex Symbols, 1950s
Wrapped in coil
Problem: how could advertisers make a new cooling line for an air conditioner interesting?Solution: wrap the cooling line around a young model, take a photo, and then distribute the photo to newspapers, which dutifully ran the image back in September 1966.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jan 03, 2014 -
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Category: Advertising, 1960s
Groucho Sells Bonds
Who would buy anything that Groucho was trying to sell? I can't imagine this campaign moved too many bonds.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 31, 2013 -
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Category: Government, Money, Advertising, 1940s
Cigarette Karaoke
Plus, millions of free cigarettes for our hospitalized fighting men!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 26, 2013 -
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Category: Addictions, Business, Advertising, Hospitals, Television, Smoking and Tobacco, 1950s
Dry-Tabs
As you might suspect, these pills eventually met with Federal displeasure.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 23, 2013 -
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Category: Bathrooms, Body, Medicine, Advertising, Body Fluids, 1950s
Happy Hotpoint
Even eventual superstars had to start somewhere.
At the age of 17, Mary Tyler Moore aspired to be a dancer. She started her career as "Happy Hotpoint", a tiny elf dancing on Hotpoint appliances in TV commercials during the 1950s series Ozzie and Harriet.[9] She appeared in 39 TV commercials in five days, ultimately earning about $6,000 from her first job.[10] Her time as "Happy Hotpoint" ended when it became difficult to conceal her pregnancy in the dancing elf costume.[9]
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 22, 2013 -
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Category: Celebrities, Advertising, Appliances, 1950s, Dance
Follies of the Madmen #213
"Three out of four furries choose our suits!"
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 06, 2013 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, 1950s
Big Whiskey
My, what a big bottle you have!
From Life - Mar 31, 1961.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Nov 23, 2013 -
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Category: Advertising, Alcohol
Johnny Seven O.M.A. Gun
Wow. Able to give the parents of 2013 seven kinds of frenzied PC headaches with one toy!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 14, 2013 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Guns, Toys, Advertising, Children, 1960s
TV Bank
Oh, the rage and tears and blossoming cynicism when this item finally arrived in the mail!
Original ad here. (Jump to page 28.)
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 03, 2013 -
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Category: Scams, Cons, Rip-offs, and General Larceny, Advertising, Comics, 1950s
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