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The Art of Selling Smokes: 11 Vintage Tobacco Adverting Techniques

The Art of Selling Smokes: 11 Vintage Tobacco Adverting Techniques

Let's face it, it wasn't too hard to sell a highly addictive toxin in the ...
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What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? The Ultimate Male According to the Bunny Magazine

What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? The Ultimate Male According to the Bunny Magazine

Anyone who has opened a Playboy magazine from the 1960s-70s will recognize the "What sort ...
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Boozvertising (Part 2): More Vintage Alcohol Adverts

Boozvertising (Part 2): More Vintage Alcohol Adverts

As we learned in Boozvertising Part 1, the art of selling alcohol is often a ...
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Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Look at the Vintage Secretary

Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Look at the Vintage Secretary

  The "secretary" as the mid-century once knew her is forever gone.  Like the stewardess, ...
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Vintage Japanese Beer Adverts: Hand-Painted Maidens

Vintage Japanese Beer Adverts: Hand-Painted Maidens

Before the Second World War, adverts in Japan, including Japanese Beer Adverts, were often produced by ...
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Totally Rad 1980s Video Game Advertising

Totally Rad 1980s Video Game Advertising

Clearly, this game is just too much to handle.  The RGB color graphics and the AY-3-8910 PSG sound ...
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Selling It With Speech Bubbles: 14 Vintage Comic Book Style Adverts

Selling It With Speech Bubbles: 14 Vintage Comic Book Style Adverts

If you're selling your product in a comic book, it makes sense to have your ...
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Viva Las Vegas! Adverts and Ephemera from Sin City in the 1960s-70s

Viva Las Vegas! Adverts and Ephemera from Sin City in the 1960s-70s

The over-the-top opulence here would make Henry VIII blush, but that's what Vegas is all ...
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You Deserve a Break Today: 1960s-1980s McDonald’s History in Advertising

You Deserve a Break Today: 1960s-1980s McDonald’s History in Advertising

  Today, McDonald’s has flooded seemingly every nook and cranny of Planet Earth with cheap ...
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Peace, Love & Hush Puppies: Far-Out Men’s Footwear from the 1970s

Peace, Love & Hush Puppies: Far-Out Men’s Footwear from the 1970s

  He's tightening his big-ass boot, which means he's already done the deed, and now ...
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Smutty Sex-For-Sale Teletext Pages From 1980s German TV

Smutty Sex-For-Sale Teletext Pages From 1980s German TV

Over on Flashbak, you can read how the Internet killed Ceefax, that BBC infomation service ...
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That Manly Scent She Craves: Vintage Cologne and Aftershave Adverts

That Manly Scent She Craves: Vintage Cologne and Aftershave Adverts

Vintage cologne and aftershave advertising consisted of two elements: (1) manly superstuds, the hairier the ...
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