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Chris Holmes
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They're popular, they're plastic, they're...sitting in a box at some garage sale. Yes, it's the Beverly Hills 90210 dolls! Self-esteem sold
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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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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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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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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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One of the trippiest vintage commercials you'll ever see was this late 1950s entry from Skippy Peanut
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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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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
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Here's a vintage home arcade commercial for Coleco's Tabletop Pac-Man