Vintage commercials

Fifty years ago, the way women and mothers were portrayed by the male-dominated media was a bit absurd and a lot sexist. So if you find a certain joy in getting angry at offensive things out of your control, take a look at the next eight vintage advertisements that get so many aspects of women’s lives—especially motherhood—so wrong.

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It's not a secret that ads are around in order to push products. But what's interesting is that oftentimes, we find the male gaze in ads that are trying to move merchandise for women. Whereas male-skewed ads usually revolve around becoming more…

It's been awhile since I did a "Throwback Thursday". I've just had too much other stuff to post. Maybe I should start posting every day instead of every other day? I picked this ad because

1954.

I've seen a number of these in my many years of watching TV since at least the 1990s. These are commercials for some random mail order product, and right before the ad ends, the screen cuts to some...

This is an example of testimonial propaganda. Testimonial propaganda uses a famous person to advertise the product , like how Einstein is for mentos.

Vintage ads are like embarrassing high school year book photographs for our entire culture, offering glimpses into the dumb asses we used to be. We asked you to show us some of our modern products as they would have been pitched by those dumb asses.

Quaker’s new cereal Diet Frosted is so deliciously sweet you can’t believe it has no sugar. Cloister in a speech balloon for a Quaker ad from 1965, featuring Elizabeth Montgomery, “star of ABC’s new televison show ‘Bewitched’”.

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Vintage innocence.

POST-Feb 1967

My scans of vintage advertisements from the 1950s. Mostly from Look Magazine.

Never forget your pink short sleeved vintage candy striped shirts...oh and a coke, obvs.

1969 Magazine Advertisement "The Can Bag" Campbell's Soup USA

Even if you’ve never smoked a cigarette, you know that…sound. It happens when the stainless steel lid pops open under the pressure of the cam spring—a crisp, metal-on-metal “click” that precedes the snap of the flint wheel. This is the sound of someone—most likely a Humphrey Bogart-type with stubble on his chin—firing up a Zippo lighter.