ext_343650 ([identity profile] cactuswren.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] vintageads2010-05-08 02:42 am
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1936: take your vitamins

Only three years after the repeal of Prohibition, I really don't see how they had to use vitamins as a selling point:

Beer.  Vitaminized beer.

[identity profile] dredpirateleena.livejournal.com 2010-05-08 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm... health beer... My favorite kind!

[identity profile] donnalee-kiss.livejournal.com 2010-05-08 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
IDK...they could have used the argument in winter that people don't go out enough, hence missing the vitamin D....but out walking on a boardwalk is being outside usually in the sun.

[identity profile] caerfrli.livejournal.com 2010-05-08 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
but they're wearing clothes

[identity profile] 1silver-seraph.livejournal.com 2010-05-09 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
They're on a boat.

[identity profile] whiskeredangel.livejournal.com 2010-05-09 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Clothing robs you of sunshine...so get naked and drink beer? That is what I'm gathering from this ad.

I'd rather drink Guinness naked anyway.

[identity profile] aikea-guinea.livejournal.com 2010-05-09 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Fills your Q-zone with real-beer goodness!

[identity profile] murakozi.livejournal.com 2010-05-10 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Now available in cans that strongly resemble the kind that power steering fluid comes in!