From 1942 or so. Found on the back of a newspaper clipping.
So what exactly was in Carter’s Little Liver Pills? A laxative.
I guess not having calomel was a good thing since it often caused mercury poisoning.
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I know the retail world is rather volatile these days, but I’d still like to see the creative brief/strategy that led to Kohl’s new tagline.
I was so focused on this 1966 telephone newspaper ad this weekend that I didn’t notice it was next to Walt Disney’s obituary until today.
Continue readingSome business trade writers are objective and let the readers form their own opinions from the provided information, and then there was Truman A. De Weese.
Excerpted from an article in System – The Magazine of Business, July 1907.
“Blazingly bright and stunning, digital technology is revolutionizing the billboard experience.”
Found on the back cover of the June 1906 issue of The American Thresherman.
Product Not To Scale
The ad copy:
It Fills the Bill
J.L. Case Threshing Machine Co.
Racine, Wis.
USA
“That’s hot.” — Paris Hilton, forgetting to use her oven mitts again
— a 60s-era Fina petrol ad written by Howard Luck Gossage
“If you’re driving down the road and you see a Fina station and it’s on your side so you don’t have to make a U-turn through traffic and there aren’t six cars waiting and you need gas or something please stop in.”
1966 magazine ad for the Hohner Marine Band harmonica.
The first episode of the Batman TV series with Adam West (Batman) and Burt Ward (Robin) aired on January 12, 1966.
Did you know the harmonica got its start in China? Or perhaps Germany?
Not quite a harmonica.
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1974 magazine ad for Cordovox Electronic Pianos
“Suspiciously similar to the Selmer-Armon in having sliders for the 3 equally dismal sounds.”
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