Foxnews.com presents 41 advertisements from days gone by that you would never see today. There are many remarkable ads among them. For instance, in one ad, a little girl is shown lying in bed with a doll … and a revolver.
Many of the ads highlight how much the interaction between men and women has changed. In one ad, the husband consoles the wife who has burned dinner, because at least she “didn’t burn the beer.” (Actually, that sounds like something I might say.)
My very favorite, however, you have to see to believe. I’m surprised they didn’t shave her eyebrows as well.
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Obviously some of these from the 60s and 70s were created by the Mad Men. Seemed like good ideas at the time…..
Steven…some of these seem okay today. There are tons of these found by searching the Google digitizations of early popular magazines.
But one of my faves (and I wish I had a better copy of it ) is:
http://www.periheliondesign.com/downloads/tandy1989.pdf
Don’t worry… you didn’t burn your Schlitz
Why do I get the feeling these were presented by foxnews.com as a passive-aggressive way of saying “look how out of control Political Correctness has become”?
Notice that sexy women were used to sell all sorts of goods (generators?) even back then. No change in PC about that
#4 (James)
Why must you assign nefarious motives to Fox News? Do you really think that someone at Fox intended to generate nostalgia for the good ol’ days by showing these ads?
Over the past year or two I’ve seen similar sorts of retrospective spreads on other websites, such as Slate, MSNBC, and perhaps another I can’t bring to mind. I guess the conspiracy runs deeper than we had first imagined.
Thanks, I got a new Facebook profile picture (number 37).
I agree with #6 here. As many issues that I have with Fox News, thinking that this is a disguised attack piece on how politically-correct is being a little paranoid.
Features like this are fairly common….. and unfortunately always presented as a page-hit boosting slide show of ‘look what I found’ and never with any actual commentray on them.