Funny Vintage Ads (60)
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 secret's in the circle!" Henry Plehn launched the Peter Pan line of brassieres in the 1930s, patenting a method of creating softer bra cups with stitched support. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Wait! Is this a multiple choice question? WW1 VD posters were not particularly effective. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 A clever way to sell a concoction that was basically disappearing ink. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Morphine addiction in the US began during the Civil War (1861-1865) when it was widely used as a painkiller. In 1905, when this ad was posted, heroin was being used to get people off of morphine. 🔻 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Originally produced by Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Co. Ltd. of Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1897, Vitos Wheat Food be...