What you'll find here:

This blog is a collection of vintage advertisements, posted Monday through Friday. All ads are scans from magazines in my collection (or those of my friends), so I claim no copyright over them. Remember, these ads are from bygone eras: don't get upset if you see something you don't like, nor excited if you see something you do.

If you particularly like an ad and want a hi-res copy for yourself, email or message me and I can send you one.

Friday, October 31, 2014

Cricket and French Shriner

Playboy Nov. 1967

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Tromblee Prevents Smoking

Playboy Sept. 1964
This interesting ad employs the unique and creative strategy of using anti-smoking to sell shirts. 
If you wear these shirts, and keep your cigarettes in a buttoned pocket, it'll be harder for your friends to steal them, so they'll be more likely to quit.  Tenuous logic, I think, but a strategy I've never seen before.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014