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Category Archives: ads from the 1940s

The Great Escape

I saw this commercial some time ago (in shorter form) and the concept is most clever. It’s a nice little double entendre happening with the music from The Great Escape playing and the players moving toward their own…outdoor escape. From the comments on the youtube page, someone wrote: “i love tis commercial its so hilarios […]

War Stomach

Now this ad caught my eye. It was buried deep in a corner column near the bottom of a back page, one or two from the end. Of course, there was much to worry about in those days (OCT 1944), and modern day worriers need only swap out the term that best suits them. For […]

Ads from the 1940s, #1

For about last two or so months, I’ve subscribed to a news archive for access to wartime articles. While the basic searches I’m doing are mostly to confirm things I’ve written, I have found other interesting things, namely the ads. More than a few have made my jaw drop just a little (“Are you miserable […]