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.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Johnnie Walker Red


Playboy Nov. 1967
This is a good, straightforward advertisement for selling scotch.  This is a good product, and you should buy it.  None of this "our scotch is exclusive and inaccessible to the common man come back when you grow up" nonsense we get from Grant's.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Tigress perfume

Playboy Oct. 1968
Giver her Tigress - if she's wild enough to wear it.

Impulsive.
Unpredictable.
Uninhibited.
Always different.
Never tame.
Give her tigress - when life gets too civilized.

Friday, January 3, 2014

Campus slacks

Playboy Oct. 1968
   I think the first thing is that the girl's dress gets wet?  I guess so it gets clingy, and we can steal middle-schoolish glances at her bosom? Tee-hee!

I'd also point out that these pants are SO GOOD that they even keep his shirt and hair perfectly dry as well.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Harley Davidson

Playboy Oct. 1968

Ad text:  The new Rapido explodes into 1969! Here's a  125cc stick of dynamite that weighs in with the 80's and 90's, but accelerates past the 175's.  This year, Rapido comes in two models - a swinging street version and this hot new scrambler with high pipe, perforated heat shield, large sprocket and special off-the-road tire.  Either way, Rapido will turn out the crowd and turn in the winning performance.  Low end torque, wheelies and effortless top speed - $400 in the street version.  This is the one they'll be talking about all year long.  Get in on the conversation.  Your Harley-Davidson dealer has the cycle, low-cost financing and insurance. Harley-Davidson Motor Co., Milwaukee, Wis.

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Tareyton Cigarettes

Playboy Sept. 1964
Ahhhh, Tareyton.  This is one of the many such ads Tareyton ran featuring bruised and battered people (men and women alike, put down your feminism pitchforks) defending their favorite smoke.  I referenced these ads in this ad a while back.  Now, I understand the sentiment that Tareyton is trying to express with these ads, but seriously, when was the last time punches were thrown over which brand cigarette to smoke?