Infamous Ads From The Past

[hcap]

Ah, consumerism the breakfast of champions.

http://www.rense.com/general80/ads.htm

[banacek]

My favourite cigarette ad:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqdTBDkUEEQ

[Boats]

My alltime favorite was 'A buck well spent on a springmaid sheet'.

These ads appeared in the 40's. Can you imagine an add like this today?

http://www.foundmedia.org/wb_8.html

[riskman]

Lose Fat:

Sanitized tape worms---easy to swallow--- jar packed :lol:

Might be what the doctored ordered !!!!!

[JustRalph]

My alltime favorite was 'A buck well spent on a springmaid sheet'.

These ads appeared in the 40's. Can you imagine an add like this today?

http://www.foundmedia.org/wb_8.html

That Lysol ad was scary


That "hour in a hammock" he had right............everybody should own a hammock!! :lol:

[bigmack]

There was a time when being in advertising was a pretty good gig.

The creative coming out of Mpls, Chicago, NY, SanFran, Seattle was really alive for a while. I'm still an adman and have to some degree liked the challange of making a point in 30 seconds for a long time.

Great copywriting was all over the place.

I ran into a good example of some exceptional ad copy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuiEKm5dDrY

[DanG]

A can of “homemade” noodles on the shelf at the local Piggly Wiggly.

“I don’t care if the CEO of the company cooked it on a hot plate in his basement…it’s not ‘homemade.” ~ George Carlin from his ‘marketing bit.