EnmebaraGuesser

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It just doesn't seem like a very good idea. (1969) in c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works
[–] EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

The past is stranger than I am even capable of imagining.

The decline of this practice and the recognition of the harmful effects of tobacco led to the figure of speech "blowing smoke up one's ass", which means lying to someone to flatter them.

TIL.

Kodak Girl (lots! 1910's - 1930's) in c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works
[–] EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

You are welcome. I also found this, after I made the main post. Kodak Girl has got a pretty comprehensive wikipedia page -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Girl

Lots of talk about the cultural impacts, even the impact it had on real life fashion where her striped dress style was in for a while.

It just doesn't seem like a very good idea. (1969) in c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works
[–] EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Haha yeah that got me too. "Might be 4 plus a half cigarette remainder. Might be 5 and 2/3. But around 5 somewhere, we are pretty sure."

It just doesn't seem like a very good idea. (1969) in c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works
[–] EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

is code for you wanna do it right now

Different times I guess. Hard for me to imagine anything less sexy than getting, or for that matter giving, a snoot full of cigarette smoke at close range.

Maybe it's something that makes sense if you're a smoker?

It just doesn't seem like a very good idea. (1969) in c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works
[–] EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca 4 points 11 hours ago

Haha yeah I thought just after I hit post, she probably got WAY less than $1000. Even inflation adjusted, probably still not.

Kodak Girl (lots! 1910's - 1930's) in c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works
[–] EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

Range of sources, I didn't save every URL but here's one from the Univ of Toronto,

https://library.torontomu.ca/asc/files/2013/10/DSC_0329.jpg

Main image in the post from,

https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/310000/velka/kodak-camera-vintage-poster.jpg

Also I didn't know it at the time I made the post, but there's a whole wikipedia page about the Kodak Girl. I'm off to read it now! It has a few other examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Girl

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Kodak Girl (lots! 1910's - 1930's) (media.piefed.ca)
 

In the early 1900's, Kodak ran a whole series of these ads featuring Kodak Girl, who would take her Kodak into various situations. The image above was a typical example. I like the style. Although, it is hard for me to imagine high heels as a beach shoe.

Some other examples, mostly the 10's and 20's.

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In the 1910's, they even put a live action Kodak Girl on top of a gigantic camera and drove it around. I hope she was well harnessed into that, because a single sudden stop and Kodak Girl goes plummeting to her death from that height!

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It just doesn't seem like a very good idea. (1969) in c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works
[–] EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca 17 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

I want to know how that photoshoot went down.

"Hey, Yolanda, we'll give you a thousand bucks if you let some guy who couldn't make it in Hollywood blow smoke in your face from a few inches away. But you have to pretend you like it."

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It just doesn't seem like a very good idea. (1969) (media.piefed.ca)
 

So much nope in a single ad.

Grow big and strong with corn syrup (1952, + bonus 1917 wartime ad) in c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works
[–] EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just noticed in the 1917 ad, the Karo Lady is literally an anthropomorphized ear of corn. And not shy about showing off her rows of shapely kernels, haha!

Frankly I don't want anthropomorphized food. Feels too close to cannibalism!

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Grow big and strong with corn syrup (1952, + bonus 1917 wartime ad) (media.piefed.ca)
 

Bonus 1917 Karo ad, use Karo to save sugar for soldiers at the front.

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For all the Casablanca fans in all the gin joints in the world (1982) in c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works
For all the Casablanca fans in all the gin joints in the world (1982) in c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works
[–] EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Haha yeah the Bogie guy would totally fool me from the side view! It's the 2nd ad where you see him from the front, where I can tell it's not actually Bogie.

I agree about the Ingrid lookalike. She's pretty, but not really a ringer for Ingrid. Ingrid had a unique look, and might be very hard to find a lookalike.

For all the Casablanca fans in all the gin joints in the world (1982) in c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works
[–] EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The Bogie lookalike is not too bad. Especially in the side profile, less so from the front.

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For all the Casablanca fans in all the gin joints in the world (1982) (media.piefed.ca)
 

More,

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Closeup of Casablanca fan,

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Better than whiskey for the flu. (1928) in c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works
[–] EnmebaraGuesser@piefed.ca 14 points 3 days ago

Yeah... I wonder if it might've said on the back of the bottle? I don't see it on the front or the ad.

The reason I wonder about the back is, this was 1920's, and in the USA, the legal requirement to disclose the ingredients of medicines was passed in 1906 under Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy was all about pure food and drugs.

Normally I think of the 1800's or early 19-aughts as the era when ingredients were a total mystery.

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Better than whiskey for the flu. (1928) (media.piefed.ca)
 

Photo of a bottle from the Museum of American History,

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Safe action in every step. (1950s?) (media.piefed.ca)
 

Date unknown, but $5.95 got you a pair of these bad boys including postage east of the Mississippi.

Also, no zip on the address. 5 digit zip was introduced nationwide in the US by 1963. So this may be 50's or at most very early 60's.

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7-Up has the youngest customers (1950s) (plus several similar hoax ads) (media.piefed.ca)
 

As far as I am seeing on Snopes and CBS News, this 7-Up ad was a real ad in the 1950's.

NOTE! There is almost the same image circulating that claims to be about giving beer to infants. That is a FAKE ad. It looks virtually identical as this one, but replaces 7-Up with beer. Same baby etc.

There is also a "Soda Pop Board of America" fake ad, with the tagline, "For a Better Start in Life, Start Cola Earlier". It also features a photo of a baby, but looks different from this. That ad is also FAKE -> Hoax Ad

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New: Rectangular TVs! (1950s) (media.piefed.ca)
 

Older ones had round picture tubes.

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Does mom overreact to moths? Dad to stumbles? Simply sedate them! (1959) (media.piefed.ca)
 

Mom doesn't like moths? No problem, just have her sedated.

Does dad overact to a stumble? He can be sedated too.

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The most important health mechanism ever produced (1885) (media.piefed.ca)
 

The company also claimed that it would cure "cripples, paralytics, the corpulent, the insane, and the blind."

This appears to be a modern photo of a surviving example.

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Funeral Car (mid/late 1800s or really early 1900s?) (media.piefed.ca)
 

Unclear if this is an ad for the rental of a funeral car, or the purchase of affordably priced coffins, or both. I'm not spotting a motor or a place one would be hidden, so I guess this must have been a horse drawn vehicle that R.F. Dorr would use when you hired their services.

I would think that by the aughts, these would be motorized, putting this ad in the 1800's. But maybe tradition held out, and horses were used in the 10's or 20's in funeral duty? I could see that, since it's more stately and cars were noisy and undignified. In which case this could be early 1900's.

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Talking Viewmasters! (date unknown, 1970s?) (media.piefed.ca)
 

More Viewmasters, but this time with sound!

I never knew there were talking Viewmasters. I wonder how many talkie reels were produced. I guess probably not very many, compared to the many thousands of photo only reels.

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