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 Advertising has always been an interesting way to look at history. But when you see these vintage advertisements, the past seems a lot stranger than you thought.

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Before color TV became affordable in the late 1960s, the low-budget alternative was a color filter for your screen that had blue on top, red in the middle and green on the bottom.

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"...you can't escape being nervous, irritable, crabby, if your system is clogged with poisonous wastes.

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Granny is in a very good mood after a wholesome and uplifting glass of Pabst Extract, the "Best Tonic" -- a malt extract containing over 5% alcohol.

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The National Dunking Association was started by the Doughnut Corporation of America in the 1930s to help popularize doughnuts in North America.

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In 1946, Scripps-Howard says that they are shining a light on the "nation-wide scourge of labor strife" because "IT'S TIME TO DO SOMETHING!" 

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 The "5 cent cigar" became the major source of competition in the cigar business in the US starting in 1921 after Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall famously said “What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.” 

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At $1 a pair, that gold plating must have been pretty thin.

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 Once considered "The Staff of Life" we now know that the highly processed flour and additives in white bread make it a very poor source of nutrition.

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At 17, actress Mildred Harris was Charlie Chaplin's first of four wives and the marriage only lasted 2 years. 

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How are people supposed to panic buy toilet paper in response, if substandard paper is the cause of the quarantine?

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The average cigarette lasts only five minutes. "Churchman's No. 1, the 15-minute cigarette" (1920-1950) must have been stuffed with wood chips.  

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US soldiers were sent to Siberia in 1918-1919 to protect US interests and take sides in their civil war, joining a loose confederation of anti-communist forces that fought the communist Bolsheviks,.  

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In 1892, pharmacist Frederick Ingram introduced the world to Milkweed Cream, a pioneering product celebrated for its sun protection, redness reduction, acne-fighting, and wrinkle-smoothing qualities. 

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Dad beats the kid with a shoe because he isn't shining his shoes fast enough. Maybe not a great sales tactic.

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 STAYDRY managed to increase the humiliation associated with bed wetting by calling their product "panties."

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Sugar Puffs, with a sugar content of almost 30%, inadvertently tried a little Truth in Advertising in the 1980s.

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Early cleaning fluids were were very flammable and dangerous. Carbona Cleaning Fluid was made totally safe and first sold from a horse-drawn cart in NYC in 1908.

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 River Phoenix was very talented and charismatic, but he died tragically just 5 years after "A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon" was made. 

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 Keds were a product of United States Rubber Company starting in 1916, and their original shoe design was the first mass-marketed canvas-top sneaker.

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"Best monochrome reception of all programs, including COLOR!"

Emerson TV's "portable" TV in the 1950s weighed in at a hefty 30 lbs. 

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From 1942 to 1945, Cadillac produced 10,670 Tanks and Armored Vehicles. During the war, not a single passenger car for civilian use left the assembly line at any GM plant. By the end of the war, GM had delivered more than $12.3 billion in total war goods.

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Necco the USA’s oldest continuously operating candy company, began as Chase and Company, founded by brothers Oliver R. and Silas Edwin Chase in 1847.The company went bankrupt in 2018.

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"As yet, no harmful effects have been reported from these injections which have been going on for four years." In 1959, when this article appeared, there were already many reported problems with injecting silicone directly into the breasts. And that was only the beginning; many more complications, including hardening of the breasts took years to develop.  

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 This offering from the Popular Mechanics Book Department in 1915 was full of truly useful information in an age when most people, and especially those in rural areas, had to rely on their own mechanical skills.

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If Santa is bringing you prunes, you might just be full of you know what. 

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Based in Marion, Ohio, Huber tractors were produced from 1898 until 1942, when the U.S. War Department made Huber stop making farm equipment and concentrate instead on road construction equipment in support of the war effort.

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 "Here's a beautiful ashtray that's useful in dozens of ways"
That may be overstating it a bit.

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In the 1970s, apartment living seemed a lot sexier.

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 In 1871, Thomas Adams invented chewing gum by rolling chicle, made from the sap of the sapodilla tree into balls and calling it "Adams New York Snapping and Stretching Gum." It was an instant success. In 1884, Adams invented BlackJack Chewing Gum by adding licorice to chicle. It was the first gum sold in sticks and the first to be sold from a vending machine.

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 McDonald's introduced their first salad in 1967. Heavy on meats and cheese, there was some actual lettuce hidden underneath.

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Funny Vintage Ads (86)

 

 Advertising has always been an interesting way to look at history. But when you see these vintage advertisements, the past seems a lot stranger than you thought.

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Claims that a product could turn black people white was a common way to advertise cleaning products until the 1950s.    

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The American Expeditionary Force, Siberia was involved in the Russian Civil War in Vladivostok, Russia, after the October Revolution, from 1918 to 1920.

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$1.25 was quite the bargain, if you didn't mind having a rough ride with "steel tires" instead of rubber. 

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 America has changed a lot since WW2, when most Americans would willingly cooperate when asked to use less resources for the benefit of everyone. Now, the Blue team always has to oppose the advice and goals of the Red team, and vice versa. 

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Lea and Perrins invented the first Worcestershire sauce in Worcester, England in the mid 1830s. Holbrook's Worcestershire Sauce was first produced 24 miles away in Birmingham, in 1875. 

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"Spectacular new novelty tie creation for men who demand the distinctive and unusual!"

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"Who says dieting can’t be delicious"

The unfortunate people who tried these diet wafers hated them. Liquid Metrecal was wildly popular in the early 1960s, despite its awful taste. As sales began to decline in the late 60s, attempts to repackage the formula didn't help.

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Autocar built America's very first gasoline-fueled truck that was sold commercially in 1899. 

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  Given how painful childbirth can be, if men were the ones having babies, there would be a lot less carefree sex. 

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 The original Listerine smelled almost as bad as bad breath and the fact is that mouthwash doesn't actually cure bad breath. It kills bacteria on contact, but the alcohol content dries out your mouth and without your normal flow of saliva, the returning bacteria and associated odor actually gets worse.

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Produced in 1982, the Franklin ACE was one of the earliest commercial clones of the Apple 2 computer. Franklin openly acknowledged that it had copied Apple's ROM and operating system code and a court battle with Apple followed. Franklin won and the case established important legal precedents regarding copyright and reverse engineering, then Franklin declared bankruptcy. They lingered on for a few more years with new products before Apple was able to force them out of the desktop computer business.

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 During WW2, as war weariness set in, the demands for War Bonds got pretty intense.

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Ann E. Leak the “armless wonder” was born in Zebulon, Georgia in 1839. Until the middle of the 20th Century, people born with physical deformities had few options for earning a living and often ended up in "freak shows." 

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"Hide! She's here to hit us up again!"
Tupperware was founded in 1942 by Earl Tupper and sold though direct marketing.

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  Did it "Make Headaches Fly" or Make you high?

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 Free Anal O-Scope!
No thanks. I'll pass.

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Looks like an ad for deodorant, but since it's in French maybe he's reacting to her armpit hair. 

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Flock-Kraft Suede Paint added tiny "flocking" to their paint to create a textured finish of tiny bumps.

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Reclino-Specs were invented for people with disabilities, but distributors soon saw the potential profits in expanding the market to lazy Americans.

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In the 1960s, playing "Spicy songs packed with teasing wit and lusty humor" at your party was about as racy as it got.

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 The irony of a cigarette named “Life” is a lot more obvious today than when it was first introduced in the 1950s.  

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In 1897, Pearle Wait, a carpenter in New York, was developing a cough remedy and laxative tea in his home. He experimented with gelatin and came up with a fruit flavored dessert which his wife, May, named JELL-O. In 1899, he sold the idea for $450.

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"People don't put a price on sentiment when it comes to their pets" so Bob did.  

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 If the men are avoiding her at the end of the evening, she should buy them some drinks.

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From 1927 until 1956, when it ceased producing them, Servel was the only American manufacturer of gas refrigerators. 

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"So whether your boy works for someone else or becomes his own boss, business profits will always play a big part in his welfare." The National Association of Manufacturers asserting that their profits are totally reasonable and good for male employment prospects -- they don't mention females.

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This "Nasenformer" or nose shaper didn't fix your nose, but it did attract a lot of unwanted attention. 

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To meet the post-WW2 housing shortage, The Aladdin Company was the first to offer true kit homes composed of precut, numbered pieces. 

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Statistical Analysis was never made easy by writing your own programs in BASIC, but Radio Shack's TRS-80 was one of the first mass-produced personal computers in the US.

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Bubble Boy's "Magic" was made possible by Alka Seltzer 

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