1950s ads

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Now's the time for Jell-o. 1952. Dink Siegel art.

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

Vintage cosmetics ad

This is a fake advertisement for Hardees made to mock the gender roles of the past. It states, "Women don't leave the kitchen! We all know a woman's place is in the home, cooking a

Budweiser advertisement published in the August 1956 issue of Family Circle magazine.

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…