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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Has anyone ever failed an art talent test?
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includes training wheels?
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"If you're fat and forty, forget it." But if you're desperate and 39 you'll fit right in.
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This early electric wheelchair looked more like a go-cart.
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This 1950s-era ad attempts to portray Coca-Cola as a reliable and wholesome way for consumers to quench their thirst. Sugary sodas like Coca-Cola are a major source of empty calories (those lacking in nutritional value) in the American diet.
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DDT has been linked to diabetes, thyroid
disfunction, a fivefold increase in breast cancer incidence for women who
were exposed to DDT earlier in life, damage to the reproductive system
and reduction of reproductive success, and reproductive toxicity which
causes developmental problems for children that include decreased
cognitive skills and retarded psychomotor development.
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In tests, Space Ranger inventor Richard Timewell started a few bush fires, hit some trees and his brother John broke a rib while crash landing. But he had taken one ride to 200 feet and decided that was enough to go into production. Only one production unit was ever sold.
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"The missing link between food eating and fat making has at last been discovered."
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In 1953, Quaker Oats featured "Space Flight to the Moon" on the back of Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat Cereal. They were three dimensional images you could cut out and assemble to make your own space dioramas.
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During the production of radium dials in the first decades of the 20th century, many young women who painted clock or instrument dials with radium developed cancer of the mouth and jaw because they were taught to "point" their brushes regularly by putting them in their mouths.
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High-water bell bottoms were all the rage in 1969.
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Research indicates that high heels don't affect balance -- as long as you're standing still -- but you can still break an ankle trying to walk.
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"Not represented as a permanent 'cure.'"
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Chrysler engineered the first push-button automatic transmission with their two-speed Powerflyte, introduced in the 1954 models and offered until 1965.
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You don't need to lose weight, just stuff your flab into our straight jacket for the belly.
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Doc Sendof prescribes his groovy Turn On Kit for your bug, board and boudoir.
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OCD Approved - if you've been obsessing over a nuclear holocaust.
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In 1947, in response to growing concerns about the safety of guns, Daisy, manufacturer of the famous Red Ryder BB gun, answered the challenge with a "Bill of Rights for American Boys."
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The "spaceman" looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy in a space suit.
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"boned with non-rusting protected steels"
Even the "most comfortable nursing corset on the market" was still a corset and not all that comfortable after having a baby.
Even the "most comfortable nursing corset on the market" was still a corset and not all that comfortable after having a baby.
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Metallic End Suspenders, "strong enough to help your daughter elope."
Suspenders were invented in the 1820s after men began wearing high-waisted pants.
Suspenders were invented in the 1820s after men began wearing high-waisted pants.
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The Orb computer was designed and made by ABS Computers Ltd in England in the early 1980's. It was one of the first multi-user microprocessor systems.
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The Star Trek Astro Helmet had nothing to do with Star Trek, but at least it had a "chin protector" in case you fell on your face from trying to walk while looking though those bug eyes.
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If you're going to teach your kid to smoke, why mess around with chalky candy cigarettes?
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The Teilhol Citadine Electric Car was made in France in the 1970s.
Only 28 of these unusual vehicles were produced over a two-year period.
Only 28 of these unusual vehicles were produced over a two-year period.
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