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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In the 1930s, the Wilson Chemical Company perfected the art of recruiting young children nationwide via advertisements in comic books and newspapers to sell their White Cloverine Brand Salve door-to-door. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
Just don't play on the teeth side, or you will not have a bow left.
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",,,men are so quick to judge. Especially when the lady in question has "gap-osis."
Yes, men hate it when women show a little skin. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
Forget about tiresome exercises! Just rub some of our special cream on this belt before wearing it and the pounds will melt away.
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Encouraging young girls to act like adult women, including wearing lingerie, isn’t a brand-new phenomenon, but it's still creepy. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
You would think that by 1939 most folks in Britain would have electric washing machines, but apparently an iron washtub with a spout and a soap dish was considered a major improvement for many.
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Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which premiered 27 June 1949 on the DuMont Network, was the first science fiction, space adventure program on television. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
In a bid to meet the growing demand of women drivers, American automobile manufacturer Chrysler rolled out cars specifically designed for and marketed to women in 1955 and 1956.
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Why? Because they paid her to pose with a cigarette.
Lind Darnell died at the age of 41 from a fire that the coroner's inquest said was caused by her careless smoking. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
In World War II the Fifth Column was the name given to Axis agents who carried out subversive work on the home fronts of Allied countries. The Sixth Column was the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities.
This WW2 era insurance ad tells Americans that there is also a 7th column -- "carelessness."
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60 years later and football helmets still don't prevent serious injuries or disease. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive brain condition that's thought to be caused by repeated blows to the head and repeated episodes of concussion. The symptoms of CTE include memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, impulse control problems, aggression, depression, anxiety, suicidality, parkinsonism, and, eventually, progressive dementia. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
"I once looked like this. Ugly hair on face..."
Nah. The only ugly hair I see is on your head.
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Reddy Kilowatt was created in 1926, by Ashton B. Collins for the Alabama Power Company. He soon licensed the trademark to power companies across the US. In the following years, Reddy would also be licensed extensively in the Caribbean, South America, Australia, Africa, and Asia. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
Get that "Gay Look" in a Hillman auto. Hillman was a British automobile marque created by the Hillman-Coatalen Company, founded in 1907 and renamed the Hillman Motor Car Company in 1910.
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Get that bouncy moon feeling in Earth's normal gravity!
Ideal Space Boots from the 1960s were just inflatable snow shoes. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
Crosley began making refrigerators in the 1930s but it was the 1940s innovations "Shelvador" (shelves in the door) and water dispenser in the door that really caught on.
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Cutting new grooves deep into your old worn tires? What could possibly go wrong? 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
While Western leaders were telling their people that they could survive a nuclear war in the 1960s, Khrushchev, the leader of the USSR from 1958-1964 said it best;
"The living will envy the dead."
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In 1951, Kellogg's offered Rocket Rings inside Pep cereal, one per box. So if you wanted to collect all of them you had to eat 12 boxes of Pep. Rocket Rings were associated with the Tom Corbett Space Cadet show (1950 - 1955). 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
In the '60s, the Harley-Davidson Topper "tops them all," according to the advertisements at the time. The Topper (1960 - 1965) was the only motor scooter that the Harley-Davidson Motor Company ever produced.
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"Would you believe an apron with sex appeal?" Maybe, but that ain't it. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
Clean up after making some fake tears to manipulate your sugar daddy...Kleenex cuffs...Kleenex as napkins -- In 1941, Kleenex printed excerpts from customers' "True Confessions" regarding their odd uses for the product.
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"Slim" cigarettes for women first appeared in the 1960s, and by the end of the decade "Silva Thin" cigarettes were created for men. TV commercials showed a man in sunglasses always dodging women who were trying to get his cigarettes.
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Now we know what's behind that speaker cloth -- a miniature orchestra.
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Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, better known as "Fonzie" or "The Fonz", was a fictional character played by Henry Winkler in the American sitcom Happy Days (1974-1984). The Fonz was originally a bit part, but became a lead character when he began surpassing the other characters in popularity. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
"Constipated Since Her Marriage" and a joy to be around.
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Moto-bot was one of the many low-budget Transformers knockoffs.
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Pennyroyal has been known since antiquity as a powerful abortifacient. When prepared to be consumed as a drink, this plant was employed to promote menstruation and expulsion of the placenta and fetus.
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With the introduction of affordable, mass-produced cars in the 1910s, more and more people left their horses at home and became automobilists.
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Women who wrote to Woods for the free book because they were worried about their husband's drinking and then didn't buy his "treatments" could expect Woods to write back constantly with horror stories about other women who meant to order the treatments, but their husbands died before they got around to it.
"Would you believe an apron with sex appeal?" Maybe, but that ain't it. 
Pennyroyal has been known since antiquity as a powerful abortifacient. When prepared to be consumed as a drink, this plant was employed to promote menstruation and expulsion of the placenta and fetus.
