Retrotisements

Retrotisements — Marlboro Cigarettes

Chris Holmes
posted on July 13, 2007February 11, 2013
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Wherein I present a gallery of vintage Marlboro cigarettes advertisements from the days before the Marlboro Man. These are from the "Mild As May"

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Retrotisements – Telephone technology

Chris Holmes
posted on June 24, 2007April 27, 2016
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Today's retrotisements are a pair of ads from the 1960s, each heralding an exciting telephone technology of the future - satellite and

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Retrotisement – Career Club Shirts

Chris Holmes
posted on May 20, 2007April 6, 2011
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I’m willing to accept that ‘fashionable’ is a relative term, one whose definition changes almost daily. So I can see how his ugly-ass belt — as well as her entire outfit

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Retrotisement – 1967 Magnavox TV

You can have your fancy-pants plasma HDTVs — for my money ($339.50 to be precise) there is nothing better than this Magnavox beauty. It’s everything a TV should be – large, wooden,

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Retrotisement – Skippy Peanut Butter

One of the trippiest vintage commercials you'll ever see was this late 1950s entry from Skippy Peanut

Who's winning, the dashes or the lines? I can never tell.

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Retrotisement – NFL Deluxe Electronic Football

Chris Holmes
posted on March 1, 2007September 15, 2011
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Hot on the heels of the wildly popular Mattel Football handheld game, Tudor Games released NFL DELUXE Electronic Football in 1980. Toy companies are certainly no stranger to hyperbole, but I think

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Retrotisement – Triumph cigarettes

Chris Holmes
posted on February 25, 2007March 29, 2011
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I say any time you can incorporate your company’s name with an advertising slogan, that’s a stroke of genius. So what exactly is the “UMPH!” in Triumph cigarettes? Carbon