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Vintage Ads That Would Never Be Allowed Today

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For better start in life, start Cola earlier

Came across this in the article by Groovy History and thought I'd share with this comm; several of the other ads are even more unbelievable; take a look over here at their website


(cross-posting from [livejournal.com profile] vintage_ads)

Edited to add:

Thanks to <ljuser="deverbative"> on [livejournal.com profile] vintage_ads for pointing this out:

This ad is fake.

http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/start_cola_earlier_says_the_soda_pop_board_of_america
https://grist.org/article/food-vintage-soda-ads-can-you-spot-the-fake/full/
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=59204

Further edit from
[livejournal.com profile] dandyxr:

That Hardee's ad that says "women don't leave the kitchen" and the Winston ad with the pregnant woman smoking are pretty obvious fakes

But.. a lot of the ads on there are real. Basically all the ones that have a husband spanking his wife are legit. Palmolive "men ask is she pretty not is she clever", even the Marlboro one "have a cigarette before you scold me"

Comments

Jul. 23rd, 2017 01:44 am (UTC)
Almost unbelievable today!
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Jul. 23rd, 2017 02:51 am (UTC)
Indeed...although some of them _are_ fake, see links in the entry
Jul. 23rd, 2017 05:28 am (UTC)
Obvious fake. There was never a Soda Pop Board of America; also 'lifestyle' was not a common term in the 50's.
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Jul. 23rd, 2017 09:26 pm (UTC)
You are right; the same for the low birth weight tobacco ad, that connection wasn't made till later, I should've realized at the time.

Some of the genuine ads in the links in the entry, though...