Now, if you were lucky enough to grow up during the days of vintage ads, let’s say like the 1940’s or 1960s, then you can probably tell how drastically advertising has changed over the years.
Marketers have become a lot more clever these days but there’s something about the nostalgia that surrounds certain vintage ads. You can’t even watch a video online nowadays without a pre-roll advertisement stuck to it, but hey that’s the world we live, and it’s not necessarily a bad world.
Most ads you see below certainly wouldn’t be acceptable today and for good reason. Nonetheless, it’s shocking yet helpful to see how far we’ve come in the world of advertising. It’s also interesting to note what was viewed as acceptable back then.
The “Golden Age of Advertising” might be behind us but it was truly a remarkable shakeup in the way brands communicate with customers.
These vintage ads may be shocking and offensive but the good news is they’re behind us.
1. Kellogg’s Pep Vitamins
2. N.K. Fairbank Co. Soap
3. Chase and Sanborn Coffee
4. Toothache Drops by Lloyd Mfg. Co.
5. Chlorinol Soda Bleaching
6. Camels
7. Camels
8. Tipalet
9. Kenwood
10. Lucky Strike
11. Camel
12. Palmolive
13. Van Heusen
14. Orange Crush Soda
15. Weyenberg
16. Love Cosmetics
17. Leggs
18. Gillette
19. Drummond Sweaters
20. Total
21. Hardee’s
22. Pitney Bowes
23. SEGA
24. Co-Le Sales Company
25. Grove’s Chill Tonic
26. F.S.C.
27. Elliot Paint And Varnish
28. Mornidine
29. Captain Morgan
30. Du Pont Cellophane
31. DDT Is Good For Me
32. Lead Party
33. Lysol
Crazy how much has changed huh?! If you thought these were crazy, just wait until you check out these vintage ads for illegal drugs that were once used as medicine!
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