Vintage Beer ads, anyone?
Seth Godin mentioned vintageadbrowser.com - an online gallery of vintage advertising posters and signs - on his marketing and ideas blog, so I gave it a go. A search for 'beer' returned 1,971 results (although for some reason I could only access the first 1,000). Mostly ads dating from the 1930s - 1980s, mostly American brands like Pabst, Ballantine's, Schlitz, Goebel, Blatz, Hamm's and of course, Budweiser.
Here are a few slightly odder ones that I found on a quick trawl of the search results (click the images for larger versions):
 In the Old Days they pretended to give the fox a sporting chance by getting properly pissed-up pre-hunt. |
 That explains what happened to the pretzel guy and the balloon seller, but whose hat is that..? |
 Recyclying? What's that, then..? |
 Bud and MEAT - making Americans hefty since the 1950s |
 The slogan apparently reads: 'The Beer from the Spring Hops Has Arrived, The Enemy is Surrendering' |
 Just what the world needed back in the '50s: an in-car beer dispenser! Spoof or genuine, I wonder? |
Plenty more where these came from: www.vintageadbrowser.com
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I was properly confused by that Carling ad. It looked like a Guinness bottle and I had a moment of brand anxiety.
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That's pretty cool. I'm going to be spending some time on that site - I love that old stuff!
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Ha! Love the pretzel munching, baloon wearing Lowenbrau lion! So is that what happens to man at Oktoberfest?
Enjoying a Baltic blonde tonight, Svyturys, suggest you pick up a bottle for a review some time!
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