Monday, April 1, 2024

Funny Vintage Ads (87)

 

 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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Color TV Filter - 1956
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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Ex-Lax - She's a Wildcat
"...you can't escape being nervous, irritable, crabby, if your system is clogged with poisonous wastes.

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Pabst Extract - 1905
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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Dunk a Donut
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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ScrippsHoward 1946 - industrial strife
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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El Moro Cigar Company
 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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Buckaroo Gold
At $1 a pair, that gold plating must have been pretty thin.
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Start With Bread - 1943
 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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Charles Chaplin and Mildred Harris - 1918
At 17, actress Mildred Harris was Charlie Chaplin's first of four wives and the marriage only lasted 2 years. 
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ScotTissue - Quarantine
How are people supposed to panic buy toilet paper in response, if substandard paper is the cause of the quarantine?
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Churchman's No. 1 - 1953
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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Our Soldiers in Siberia Poster
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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Milkweed Cream - 1916
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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Cherry Blossom Shoe Polish - 1957
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 Panties
 STAYDRY managed to increase the humiliation associated with bed wetting by calling their product "panties."
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Sugar Puffs - 1980 - Look like Me
Sugar Puffs, with a sugar content of almost 30%, inadvertently tried a little Truth in Advertising in the 1980s.
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Carbona Cleaning Fluid - 1917
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 - Jimmy Reardon - 1988
 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 - United States Rubber Company - 1922

 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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Emerson TV - 1954
"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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Cadillac Tanks - 1945
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 - Easter - 1952
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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Bosoms can be increased - 1959
"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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The Boy Mechanic - 1915
 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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Prunes for Christmas
If Santa is bringing you prunes, you might just be full of you know what. 
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Huber Light-Four - 1919
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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Barbcue ash tray - 1954
 "Here's a beautiful ashtray that's useful in dozens of ways"
That may be overstating it a bit.
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Renters - 1974
In the 1970s, apartment living seemed a lot sexier.
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Black Jack Chewing Gum
 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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McDonalds Salad - 1967
 McDonald's introduced their first salad in 1967. Heavy on meats and cheese, there was some actual lettuce hidden underneath.
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