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.
🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 "...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. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
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!" 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
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. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
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. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
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. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
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." 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
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. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
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. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
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. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
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. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
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. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
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. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻
McDonald's introduced their first salad in 1967. Heavy on meats and cheese, there was some actual lettuce hidden underneath.
At 17, actress Mildred Harris was Charlie Chaplin's first of four wives and the marriage only lasted 2 years. 
