Vintage Ads That Would Never Be Allowed Today

[med_cat]

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 vintage_ads)

Edited to add:

Thanks to <ljuser="deverbative"> on 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 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

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Almost unbelievable today!

[med_cat]

Indeed...although some of them _are_ fake, see links in the entry

[duathir.livejournal.com]

Obvious fake. There was never a Soda Pop Board of America; also 'lifestyle' was not a common term in the 50's.

[med_cat]

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...