70s ads

Tobacco marketing has employed all sorts of effective (and often dubious) methods to get cigarettes into our mouths and tar into our lungs. One challenge they have faced it to get both men and women to inhale their carcinogenic fumes. For men, it’s fairly easy. We’ve covered this before: just feature a sexy woman, and … Continue reading "She Sells Smokes: 30 “Women-Only” Vintage Tobacco Ads"

1975–1976 Cooper Black Condensed with swashes.

A look back at the worst men's magazine ads from the '60s and '70s, showcasing outdated marketing tactics.

Camel cigarettes circa 1970

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1966 QUAKER OATS vintage magazine advertisement "Hot oatmeal is cool" ~ Hot oatmeal is cool. - Know what the beautiful people eat for breakfast? - Right! Big steaming bowls of it. - Because oatmeal swings. It really does. - On a cold wintry morning, ...

Crayola Crayons 1977 Ad

McDonalds and Burger King targeted African American Consumers in the 1970's by showing what they believed to be typical African American...

Perpetua in Use

live and let levi's

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’”.

pink is for girls!

The colors of the seventies were pretty drab in comparison to those of the psychedelic sixties. The country was recovering from the turmoil of the Vietnam War, and the desire for peace and calm was reflected in the dark wood and warm earth tones of the period.Avocado Green and Harvest Gold were important colors (especially in appliances), and were frequently mixed with toned-down versions of sixties orange.