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Beautiful Billboards #4: Mountain Dew and the St. Louis Cardinals, 1965

We have a special twofer in this edition of Beautiful Billboards. This great slide from 1965 features ads for Mountain Dew and baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals on KMOX-AM, which would seemingly

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Mascot Hall of Fame #1: Count Chocula & Franken Berry

A few years before advertising mascot classic Boo Berry and Fruit Brute entered the pantheon of Monster Cereal mascots, there was the original duo of Count Chocula and Franken

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Toon Time #2: Quick Draw McGraw for Kellogg’s

Chris Holmes
posted on May 16, 2019May 16, 2019
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From the age when corporations directly sponsored TV shows comes this color animation cel from 1959. It features Baba Looey of The Quick Draw McGraw Show on top of a wagon spiriting a Kellogg’s

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Now Playing: Vintage Movie Ads of the 1950s (Part 1)

Chris Holmes
posted on August 18, 2018August 18, 2018
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A gallery of vintage 1950s newspaper advertisements for

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Single Cel Organism #1: Quisp and Quake

Chris Holmes
posted on August 5, 2018September 10, 2020
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Here’s an interesting cel featuring some vintage cereal mascots, Quake and Quisp, with a third character I’ve not seen before. If anyone knows who the man in the black hat is, drop a