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Comments Off on The Sweetest Feeling – Sugary Retro Sweet Advertisements
Time for a real pick ‘n’ mix selection of advertisements for those with a sweet tooth. In our cyber candy store we have an assortment of advertisements, some of the sweets and chocolate bars may be more familiar to our American friends....
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Comments Off on 1970s Lee Jeans Lion Head Adverts
“Lee can change your image” they certainly can, especially if you’re wearing a huge scary lion mask. These six adverts come from an advertising campaign from the Jeans company in 1971. We’re not sure where the idea for the adverts...
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Comments Off on On The Soul Side – Concert Posters
With the way music is sold changing dramatically over the past few years it seems artists make more money nowadays from touring than they do from CD sales and digital downloads. Live performances are not so much a means to an end now but rather a means in...
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Comments Off on Shop Around – Retro Retailing
Now it’s time to go back and look at retailing in more jubilant times. Back to when the phrase ‘Credit Crunch’ was unheard of and every shopping centre wasn’t a carbon copy of the one in the next town or city. In this post we...
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Comments Off on Pedwin Shoes Are In – Groovy 1968 TV Advert
Shoe adverts on television are a rarity these days, so when this swinging sixties advert for Pedwin shoes popped up on our radar we thought it would only be fare to share this slice of footwear grooviness. The clip features a Monkees style band...
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Comments Off on Hygiene For Hipsters and Hippies
In these sixties and seventies magazine ads there are some fabulous fonts used in the Ultrabrite adverts and the Kleenex Boutique tissues, a few pieces of groovy art work promoting deodorant and hair sprays and a young Barbara Bach (Mrs Ringo Starr/Bond...
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Comments Off on Brimful of Sixties Record Adverts
Now in its 5th year, the annual Record Store Day has become something of an international phenomenon. Falling every year on the 3rd Saturday of April it is a celebration of all the good things your local record store can supply you with (mainly vinyl records)...
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Comments Off on Cool Vintage Pictures From Calendars
Usually on January the first most people have binned their previous year’s calendar in favour of a fresh new one to go with their New year’s resolutions. Luckily for us (and you) some people decided to hold on to the Opel 1970...
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Comments Off on Groovy Kitchen Appliances of Science Adverts
Previously we’ve featured some bold and brassy seventies kitchens in Home Cookin, this time we turn our attention to kitchen appliance adverts from the mid-sixties to the early eighties. As you can probably guess these ads predominately show ladies...
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Comments Off on Up in Smoke – Cigarette Adverts
As the UK government cracks down again on smokers by banning cigarette displays in shops, we thought we’d better get this published before the authorities ban smoking related blog posts. Now that advertising cigarettes and cigars is virtually...
