Funny Vintage Ads (35)
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. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 "If you are stout" then you won't look like our model in this dress. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 The Hercules Horse Action Saddle was a Victorian version of the exercise bike, and both men and women were encouraged to use it. It purported to alleviate 'hysteria' and insomnia, cure gout and rheumatism, and reduce obesity. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Andrew L. Riker, was an early pioneer of electric vehicles who also designed the Locomobile Company's first worm-driven gasoline-powered truck. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 This 1946 ad for Ron Merito’s Mountain Distilled Puerto Rico Rum promises "mountain flavor" from its "mountain distilled" rum, but the setting doesn't look anything like Puerto Rico and the mascot on...