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  Advertising has always been an interestin g way to look at history. But when you see these vintage advertisements, the past seems a lot stranger than you thought.   🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 The most grotesque thing to ever sally forth on four wheels,the Sir Vival was a concept car created by Walter C. Jerome of Worcester, Massachusetts in 1958. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Erector was a brand of metal toy construction sets which were patented by Alfred Carlton Gilbert and first sold by his company, the Mysto Manufacturing Company of New Haven, Connecticut in 1913. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻  In the early days of automobiles, people had to repair their own flats. The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1900, in Akron, Ohio. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 The amazing technology advertisers show us in their "World of Tomorrow" never includes humans with updated fashions and gender roles. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 "But ...