1960s advertising

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

1962 Magazine Advertisement "This calls for Budweiser" Budweiser Beer USA

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.

No, this isn't one of those Retro Ads for modern websites. This look at a 1968 version of Skype is an actual ad for a Western Electric Picture phone. Ah, what might have been.

Carnation Evaporated Milk & Coffee Magazine Advertisement Ad February 1970 Vintage Retro

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1968 Magazine Advertisement "Test drive a 1969 stereo" General Motors USA

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1966 Quaker Oats Ad "Hot oatmeal is cool" | Vintage Magazines ...

These adverts made comments on sex, equality, race, mental health and body size that would get them banned in 2015.

Remember when you could buy a seatbelt at the Chevron? Your grandparents do.

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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"

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…