Probably not the sort of advert you'd see today.

Posted by: Tony Lockhart on 22 April 2012

 

 

I've recently inherited a collection of military books, and among them was a load of Royal Air Force Flying Review magazines from 1957/8. This advert really tickled me. Such innocence among the ads for nuclear bombers!

 

 

Posted on: 22 April 2012 by GraemeH

My mother in law still drinks a can of stout a day based on the ethos of that time.  Must be something in it, my x4 great grandmother lived to 101, dying just before the start of ww2 and she swore by a can of stout too (and smoked like a chimney.  If you type in 'Life magazine covers 'centenarian'' to google image search she appears in all her glory).  When she reached 100 newspaper clippings reported 'celebrated smoker reaches 100.  She received a telegram from the queen and hundereds of packets of cigarettes from wellwishers.'. The nurses in her care home thoughtfully built the packets into a display behind her hospital bed for when the local press came to photograph her!

 

Changed days indeed.  G

Posted on: 22 April 2012 by Kevin-W

Love this - babies used to advertise fags...

 

Posted on: 22 April 2012 by Kevin-W

Definitely NOT the sort of advert you'd see today...

 

Posted on: 22 April 2012 by Kevin-W

And some delightfully sexist ads from yesteryear here...

 

 

Posted on: 23 April 2012 by GraemeH
Originally Posted by Kevin-W:

And some delightfully sexist ads from yesteryear here...

 

 

We found a 1972 'World of Wonder Book' which predicted in a chapter 'Into the Robot Age AD 2000 -an age without drudgery' a female robot Miss Roberta.  All metallic but still in a miniskirt with a Hoover in her hand.

 

Amazing how accurate some of these predictions were.  G