Phonograph Halloween Ad

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Contest Entry,,,

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

So you've got tons of bowling scores, and you're the bowling secretary! What to do?!?!?!?

MAN THEYVE GOT COMPUTERS FOR EVERYTHING THESE DAYS

Contest entry

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Overhead refrigerators. There must be a reason these did not catch on. Maybe trying to replace something that is practically built in?




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Contest Entry: Bufferin ad with Arthur Ashe (1988)

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

By-pass surgery seemed like a good idea at the time. Having a sports superstar like Arthur Ashe endorse your product seemed like a good idea, too. This one is rather sad, to say the least. Obviously, it's not the product that's to blame, but the ad copy seems rather poignant and ironic in retrospect. 


Tragically, AIDS doesn't care either. :( 

It Seemed Like a Good Idea: Disney DDT Wallpaper (1947)

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contest entry

[misstia]

uh, what? stretchy seat that stretches up and down....that line about broke my inner beavis and butthead....and how many men know about bias cuts??

contest entry

[misstia]

air on hips balances air in lungs? o rly?

contest entry

[misstia]

uh, okay, i find this sort of creepy, how could the marketing department think this was a good idea at all? 'hey, let's market this as tasting like his grandma's favorite recipes!!'....

Contest Entry: DIE-chloricide

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Paradichlorobenzene (moth killer).  Just sprinkle it all over everything.  May cause cancer.



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Bonus:

and a FURTHER AD.

contest entry

[misstia]

this OBVIOUSLY seemed like a good idea at the time....but how in the hell did it even work without the banana falling apart??

contest entry

[misstia]

hard to believe this ever sounded like a good idea....

The Addams Family (1991)

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

After all that scariness, I think it's time for something that the people in the film consider horrific, but what we consider good fun. And it just barely makes the vintage date cutoff!

( Da da da dum! *snap snap* )

Not a contest entry.

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

Evel.

Knievel.

contest entry

[superfan1.livejournal.com]

"Doped Youth"

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

Contest Entry

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

Just the thing I need for my tricycle..

General Electric ‘First’ Ads, 1953

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

A wonderful Series of GE ads.



( More ads after the cut )

For more please see this cool site.
http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2011/10/general-electric-first-ads-1953/

The First Television Remote Control (1961)

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Contest Entry - The Edsel

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Edsel (Ford) - 1959

Makes history by making sense.  Styled to last.  Built to last.

Contest Entry - Oil! It melts glaciers!

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Burning fossil fuels seemed like such a good idea.  Smell the burning irony?

Humble Oil & Refining Company / ENCO, February 2, 1962




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Original Ad can be seen HERE in Life magazine / Google Books
From an article on the worst oil industry advertising, two other "winners" HERE.

Contest Entry: AYDS diet candy (1980)

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

AYDS will make you thin! 



I wasn't aware this product was on the market this long, but I'm sure not too long after this. I remember my mother use to take these in the early 70s and no matter how well she hid them, I always found them and ate them! They were good! Kind of like Kraft caramels. 

Another Betamax Ad (1984)

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Not a contest entry because dandyxr had the good idea at the time, but I thought I'd toss this one onto the pile:

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I like the red! 

just because OMG the bunnies

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Sealtest Ice Cream,1956

"Triple-Treat" flavor: raspberry, vanilla, and orange-pineapple WANT
and pink felt bunnies SO VERY WANT


DIG THIS CRAZY MIXED-UP ICE CREAM! XD

from the amazing flickr pages of christian montone