I don’t remember when I first saw this in my research, but it came up on my Facebook memories and it continues to just amaze. Yeah we know. We definitely know these days.
Tag: advertisements
In the late 70s, Subaru entered the U.S. market big time and ran this fascinating ad that found Americans with last names of American car makers to admit that Subarus were better. It closes with Geral
This is a genuinely astounding document. An hour of interviews with old musicians concluding with them playing the Dr. Pepper theme song. Doc Watson, Muddy Waters, Maybelle Carter, Bill Monroe, Bo Did
There are so many amazing clips of the last century plus of filmed material online and the news sucks so bad these days that I thought it would be a good idea to start having some evening thread examining artifacts of our filmed past. Sometimes I may provide some below the fold analysis and sometimes […]
1947 wisdom is the best wisdom.
If you were facing a loathsome Tory such as Theresa May and you had the great leftist filmmaker Ken Loach at your disposal, wouldn’t you use him? This is amazing. The Ken Loach ad is great but h
There is not a single one of you who couldn’t benefit from seeing this collection of advertisements for cocaine and cocaine accessories from the 1970s.
This ad seems less than effective.
I do love truth in advertising. From 1962
Monsanto. Everyone’s favorite chemical corporation. This is the first national advertisement ever placed by Monsanto, a 1939 campaign in Fortune. Good times.
In comments yesterday, heckblazer alerted me to this brilliance of 1865 advertising. That is now one of my favorite advertisements of all time. Can’t wait to use it in a class.
I’ve been putting together a lecture for tomorrow’s U.S. Environmental History class on atomic nature and I came across this ad, which I just could not resist sharing with you. Good times.