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Vintage Nudevertising: The Art of Selling in the Buff

Vintage Nudevertising: The Art of Selling in the Buff

Why is there a naked woman in a comb advertisement?  No clue.  It's a thing ...
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Days of the Shaggin’ Wagon: A Look at 1970s Custom Vans

Days of the Shaggin’ Wagon: A Look at 1970s Custom Vans

The streets of the 1970s were littered with a variety of vehicles: badass muscle cars, massive ...
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I dream of Aurora Monster Kits: Plans for building your own Frankenstein, Dracula and Wolfman

I dream of Aurora Monster Kits: Plans for building your own Frankenstein, Dracula and Wolfman

  There they were. Beckoning me on. Calling my name. Letting me know they were ...
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30 Terrifying Images Of Children In Adverts And Books From the Mid 20th Century

30 Terrifying Images Of Children In Adverts And Books From the Mid 20th Century

Children are so delightful. Aren't they? Well, not always, no. Sometimes there is nothing creepier ...
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Cigarette Pants & Condom Tees: When Fashion and Product Brands Collide

Cigarette Pants & Condom Tees: When Fashion and Product Brands Collide

Can your brain even comprehend how a pair of "hip-huggin', flare-bottomed, all-season fun-wear for guys ...
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Kodaks Are For Men: Vintage “Sex Sells” Camera Advertising

Kodaks Are For Men: Vintage “Sex Sells” Camera Advertising

  Somewhere back in the Mesozoic Era, mankind used something called "film" in their cameras. ...
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Lost in Translation: Japanese Advertising in the 1960s-80s

Lost in Translation: Japanese Advertising in the 1960s-80s

Nothing makes me want to buy chocolate more than a man being attacked by creepy ...
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Enchanted Elsewhere: Selling Sex and Hedonism in Retro Travel Advertising

Enchanted Elsewhere: Selling Sex and Hedonism in Retro Travel Advertising

 "I don't know what time it is or even what day it is.  I guess ...
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Everything’s Gone Disco! Books, Fashion, Toys and Other Products of Disco Fever

Everything’s Gone Disco! Books, Fashion, Toys and Other Products of Disco Fever

It started as an underground gay nightclub movement in urban America; and it used the Philadelphia sound ...
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Like Punk Never Happened – Kays Catalogue Menswear from 1977

Like Punk Never Happened – Kays Catalogue Menswear from 1977

  Kay and Co Ltd was actually originally founded in Worcester in 1886 when William ...
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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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