Funny Vintage Ads (48)

  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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Accessories include a ball gag and a riding crop.  

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"Lysol's great spreading power means it reaches deeply into folds and crevices to search out germs."
“Feminine hygiene” was a euphemism for birth control since the 1900s, and by 1940, Lysol was the most popular contraceptive in the US.

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 Interwoven - "Announcing the best-dressed men in America" ... are Gay!

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Hey kid. Shut the hell up!

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Silly Putty was invented during WW2 when the US needed to come up with an inexpensive substitute for synthetic rubber.

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Catering to people's insecurities has always been a gold mine for entrepreneurs.

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Thunderbird and Mustang Jrs. were available for purchase with either an electric or gas-powered engine, starting at $550 and $600, respectively. The miniature cars were produced until 1967.

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Standard Tank Cars were part of the Standard Oil empire; John D Rockefeller's monopoly on the Oil business beginning in 1880.  In 1906, the U.S. government brought suit against Standard Oil Company under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890; in 1911 the company was ordered to divest itself of its major holdings — 33 companies in all.

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"Space Phone" With all the modern technology of two tin cans tied together with a string.

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 "Past six years superintendent Edgemoor Old Folks Home"
Yeah, those are adequate qualifications for a coroner.

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"Sparkies give you the great health bonus of Vitamin Rain..." with fruit and a glass of milk.

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"Are they rationing love too?"

 Nope. You reek of body odor.

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Most shampoos aren't designed to kill germs, but the oil in your hair already does a good job of keeping bacteria at bay.
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The 007 attaché case was released in 1965, and is based on the briefcase featured in the 1963 film ‘From Russia With Love’ which included a sniper rifle and a throwing knife.

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Yes friends, your guests will know you think they are special when they see this gleaming white toilet seat in your bathroom.

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The French apparently have a "Famous French Method" for a lot of things, including losing weight with bath salts.

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 Bill felt good about telling off his boss until he hit the job market and found out that a correspondence school education doesn't actually qualify you for the "pick of good jobs."

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Teijin's "Practically Perfect Hair" makes you look like an idiot.

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1959's "New Slim-silhouette Hoover" was only for slim-silhouette ladies.

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"Stay down for at least one minute" and all will be fine!

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Sold by Burk & Braun of Germany from 1931 to 1936, this candy was made with radium water and promoted for its "rejuvenation power."

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Apparently in Peru, the women prefer to wear a hat box instead of a hat.

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Mattel's Shootin' Shell Guns actually propelled a plastic "slug" a short distance using a spring mechanism.

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The Parents Association "Traits that Wreck Children's Lives" includes "cowardice" because nothing better predicts that you'll be a failure as an adult than getting beat up by some bully after school.

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In 1914, Philip Baur and Herbert Morris opened the Tasty Baking Company in Philadelphia with a new idea: instead of regular family-sized cakes, they produced individually-wrapped snack cakes.

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This ad refers to the "heartless treachery of a band of vicious Miami Indians" in 1812, as if the Indians weren't at war to protect their homes and families
from white invaders who were conducting genocide against them.

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In the early 20th century, it was widely believed that dirty bathrooms spread diseases, particularly sexual diseases -- which became a convenient excuse for philandering husbands.

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NuTone Radio gives you True Luxury plus...a laundry chute. 

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