VINTAGE AD: 1980 MCDONALD'S PLACEMAT FROM GERMANY

 

This is a photo of a placemat advertising McDonald's food that I picked up in Hamburg, Germany in 1980.

Most are the same you could have gotten in the U.S. at that time except they served Beer (Bier).

 

VINTAGE AD: 1964 SWIFT'S PREMIUM BUTTERBALL TURKEY AD

Photo:  Source

Usually, vintage ads make me nostalgic and give me warm fuzzies, but there is something about this one this creeps me out, even though I recall a Butterball turkey being a staple on my Grandma's table at Thanksgiving when I was a kid.

Is it that the kids look a little like the ones in the horror flick "Us"?   Or that it is reminiscent of Ray Liotta's character in "Hannibal?  Or that it makes it look like the kids share a giant turkey brain like a mad experiment?   It could because it seems a bit stalkerish saying I know how to cook and that I am expert shopper...how else could they know that?

VINTAGE AD: 1969 Hot Dr.Pepper

Photo:  obsequies/Flickr - Found in Good Housekeeping magazine, February 1969.

The above is an ad that first appeared around the Holidays in 1968, but the above is from Good Housekeeping magazine's February 1969 issue.

My Mom made this around the Holidays when I was a kid and it might be interesting to try at your own holiday get together to introduce a 50-year-old trend to a new generation.

I was initially not thrilled as we were only allowed to have a soda pop once a week and I was not thrilled to have it wasted on some trend she had read in a magazine, but after I got over the initial shock of wanting an ice-cold soda and being a hot one, it did grow on me.   

Heating it up does seem to bring out the spiciness more and could be a bit overpowering, but the addition of the lemon helps to balance it out the sweet and spicy taste of Dr. Pepper.

UNUSUAL AD: 1950'S DUPONT BABY IN CELLOPHANE AD

Photo:  Source via Reddit

Don't try this one at home folks! 

Even though it was different times back in the 1950's when children were told babies were delivered by storks, not sure why an ad like this was approved even back then, except it is jarring and captures your attention.

While the ad is to tout how you can see what you are buying, things stay fresh and sanitary.  

"You see what you buy so no guesswork."

"Foods come stay fresh longer-less waste"  (Next to a drawing of a baby?!)

 "And things in Cellophane are clean and sanitary." 

Note the tagline in the bottom right-hand corner ""Better Things For Better Living...Through Chemistry".  Ironic as it certainly wouldn't be better living (or life at all if in that Cellophane too long) for that baby.