Tag: Ads
Get A Horse
A Wonder Horse ad from 1966. One of my fondest memories as a toddler is having one of these spring-mounted horses. As an adult, I look at this and think, “oh my god, that looks dangerous.”
Star Wars Immunization PSA
In 1977, the US Centers for Disease Control released print and television public service announcements featuring R2D2 and C3PO urging parents to get their children vaccinated.
Raise Giant Frogs
No, thank you. This ad was from 1936. Giant frog farms were apparently all the rage in the 1930s.
As the craze grew, though, so did skepticism about the frog business. The industry, the Los Angeles Times wrote, was “somewhat ephemeral.” A Midwest paper compared it to rabbit farming, another get-rich-quick scheme meant to harness the reproductive potential of small food animals. In 1933, the USDA released a bulletin on frog farming that warned, “Within the past fifteen years the bureau has received thousands of inquiries concerning frog raising, but to the present time it has heard of only about three persons or institutions claiming any degree of success.
Kleenex Man-Size Tissues Ad, 1956
Kix / L’eggs Cross-Promotion Ad
OMG, the 1980s.