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Hey baby, are you into hot fomentations?

1946 magazine ad for Battle Creek Equipment Company’s Battle Creek Thermophore

Mmm… Moist heat… Continue reading

I think I know why we don’t hear much about sky driving these days.

1973 magazine ad for Canadian Club Blended Canadian Whisky

Did people really call Canadian Club “C. C.” back then? Do they now?

Me: “A CC on the rocks, please.”
Bartender: “What the hell is that?”
Me: “It’s what you drink after sky driving.”
Bartender: “What the hell is that?” Continue reading

Sometimes a little cigar isn’t just a little cigar.

Well, at least the balls are big.

1974 magazine ad for Winchester

Looks like several of the gals weren’t willing to ruin their hairdos for a guy with a little cigar.

Oh well, at least the balls are big. Continue reading

Spend a billion bucks on anti-smoking ads… or just show teens this print ad from 1974.

1974 Salem cigarette magazine ad – back cover

Boom. No more smoking teenagers.

You’re welcome, America. Continue reading

Perhaps you should start out with some nice card tricks instead.

1964 magazine ad for House of a Thousand Mysteries

Great expressions.

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English was different back then.

Frankenstein ad found in a 1964 Outdoor Life magazine

I’m bringing “muffs the scene” back. Continue reading

Five bucks says it got stuck in the sand.

1964 magazine ad for Ford Fairlane

I wonder who had to ride in the trunk? Continue reading

The new definition of horror: Vincent Price selling kitchen carpeting for Sears.

This should not be.

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Damien Thorn? Total wuss.

At first glance, this is just another stereotypical late-1950s magazine ad.

Blue Bell Clothes, 1959

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This was one effed-up foundation.

1958 magazine ad for The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

1958 magazine ad for The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

For all your crippling children needs.