Retrotisements — Marlboro Cigarettes
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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” campaign.…
Category: Retrotisements
Vintage (and some not-so-vintage) advertisements from print, TV, and radio.
Retrotisements – Telephone technology
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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 picturephone!…
Retrotisement – Career Club Shirts
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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 — might have been…
Retrotisement – 1967 Magnavox TV
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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, and… well, large…
Retrotisement – Skippy Peanut Butter
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One of the trippiest vintage commercials you’ll ever see was this late 1950s entry from Skippy Peanut Butter.…
Retrotisement – NFL Deluxe Electronic Football
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 even by their…
Retrotisement – Triumph cigarettes
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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 monoxide? Formaldehyde? Whatever it is, it’s…
Video Game Daze: Coleco Tabletop Pac-Man
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Here’s a vintage home arcade commercial for Coleco’s Tabletop Pac-Man game.…
The Best $9.99 I’ve Ever Spent (Part 1)
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What could be better for a fan of vintage commercials than a set of DVDs containing nothing but them? Not much, really. Here’s a handful of my favorites.…