70s ads advertising

I wish that phone was real. that is so awesome.

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, ...

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"

The power of testosterone unchecked by taste.

The 40s, 50s and 60s were days of homes with white picket fences and happy families with 2.4 kids. But it was a disturbing world by many of today's standards, as we see in the ads of those days.

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