1950s ads

These ads had almost as much style as the vacuum cleaners they sold.

Gender stereotypes in Alcoa Aluminium Ads

The history of Tootsie Rolls, once America's favorite candy (and Tootsie Pops, too)

Vintage cosmetics ad

In the first year of this blog's life, 2009, I wrote a pair of posts each of which shone the spotlight on the history and ads of a particular product and/or brand (one was about toothpaste, the other Green Giant Vegetables). Back then, these two post didn’t necessarily intend to start a series, but I did hope to put up future editions of "Adventures in vintage advertising" as time went on. Well, on and on and on time went, and it wasn't until this week that a third post of this nature…

again with the pink! this is realllyyyyy fabulous pink.........