Vintage Ads: A Wheel Bargain
Rubber tires became a possibility with the discovery of vulcanization, a chemical process that made rubber more resistant to extreme heat and cold.
Rubber tires became a possibility with the discovery of vulcanization, a chemical process that made rubber more resistant to extreme heat and cold.
Hats – as healthy as they’re handsome.
The company was trying to make a soap that could clean animal fat from the floor of slaughterhouses.
The drink’s revised name might have referred to the seven ingredients in the drink, but the word “Up” would have referred to the lift that its lithium salts gave consumers.
In 1923, marketers tried to use scare tactics to sell more soap.
Introduced by the Milwaukee Road in 1935, the Twin Cities Hiawatha passenger train quickly gained national attention for its exceptional speed.
From Viv-O-Mint to Klenzo and Crest to Colgate, the makers of tooth brushes and tooth cleaners have been trying to convince people to buy their brands for well over a hundred years. Here are ads for tooth products going back to 1905.
When this Bell Telephone ad appeared in 1932, that transcontinental call was “just” $9 ($200 today) for the first three minutes.
Two hundred years ago, The Saturday Evening Post carried advertisements for an assortment of goods from saddles to syrup. The ads give an insight into not necessarily what people wanted to buy, but what vendors were trying to sell. Here are a few of the ads that appeared in our March 29, 1823, issue.
This 1934 Chrysler Airflow DeSoto was priced at $1,000.
The battery-powered light we know as a flashlight earned its name by not working very well.
The model introduced in this 1913 ad proudly claimed to be the first motorcycle with a kick-starter.
How do you convince women in the 1950s to try your product when using it was seen as vain and unladylike?
The first successful female ad writer broke ground by writing a tagline that was quite racy for 1911.
Music became more personal and portable with the cassette player.
A century before the iPhone, George Eastman and the Kodak camera brought on a revolution.