
Tag: advertisements

Today is Gene Hackman’s 93rd birthday. It took him a long time to become the big star he always deserved to be. So he had to do the kind of daily acting work to survive that is where most actors
Saw that Carl Hahn died. He was the head of Volkswagen in the U.S. and played a huge role in making the Beetle one of the all-time icon cars. Here’s an ad from 1972 for it.
It’s not cookies and milk that Santa wants tonight.
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.

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 exami
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.
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