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We've rounded up some of the silliest, weirdest, most absurd vintage period ads. They won't make you want to buy tampons, but they will give you a laugh.

QUESTION: Know of any beer so proud of its ingredients that it lists them on the label?

“Still one of the greatest car ads of all time. Porsche, 1989.”

Despite being almost 100 years old, the world’s most popular sneaker is still a resonant signal of nonconformity

There might still be whiff of 'boys toys' about cars but it's nothing when compared to the advertising that went on years ago

Here are a whole bunch of brilliant automotive ads over the last 50 or 60 years. It shows that the art of copywriting in advertising isn't what it used to be,

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"

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