Funny Vintage Ads (29)
Advertising has always been an interesting way to look at history. But when you see these vintage advertisements, the past seems a lot stranger than you thought. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 In April of 1969, the MK 1 edition of the Raleigh Chopper went on sale to the general public. The Chopper copied the high-rise handlebars, long seat backs, and sissy bar of "chopped" motorcycles and included a 3-speed gear shift that was positioned right where a boy's tender bits were likely to land during a crash. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 "Easy to Build and Fly" -- Easy to crash too. In 1953 Dr. Igor B. Bensen started Bensen Aircraft Corp., in Raleigh, North Carolina, with the goal of developing a mass-producible “People’s Flying Machine” capable of door-to-door transportation. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 In 1949, DC (National Comics) produced this image and text originally for a 12 x 18” brown paper school book cover that was distr...