What are they advertising?

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Take your best guess - you'll probably still be wrong.  The answer awaits you

Comments

[dandyads]

It actually makes a lot of sense -- massive amounts of Seagram's is probably the only thing that would make me believe that the deserts would bloom thanks to atomic power.

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Now how can you not believe it when that picture clearly shows that there's a bumper crop of cotton candy and tree stumps?

You were right.

[teamrodent.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you're going to have a half-life, have a swinging one!

[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

Radioactive whisky?

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

That is... amazing.

After enough alcohol you'll forget how much radiation has screwed up the desert. (OK, there were bombs to blame for that, but still...)

I feel like this ad is something you find crumpled on the ground while playing a Fallout game.

[bluebear2.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing a Mechanix Illustrated article about using atomic bombs to heat up the Arctic and then we can build more suburbia there. Even as a kid I knew that it would cool off after and not stay hot.

I found these scans of the illustrations:
http://www.kschroeder.com/archive/Images/atomizethearctic
http://www.kschroeder.com/archive/Images/afterthebomb

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Well it would "stay hot", for sure.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

I never would have guessed booze!

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but what if atomic power caused the desert to pop up in the first place?

Man, those Tokamaks better pay off!

Love it

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

I love the art work.

[bzul.livejournal.com]

The power? Too cheap to meter.
Us? Too drunk to matter.

[fearandloathing.livejournal.com]

Oy vey. They say "bloom" and all I can see is a mushroom cloud.

[notxdeadxyet.livejournal.com]

This picture is actually supposed to be of the desert at night. But due to the glowing crops, you can't really tell.

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

I never would have guessed that it was an ad for booze.

Apparently, that farm is growing Hostess Snowballs.