We aren’t sure who “the now chicks with more imagination than time” are, and we’re fairly certain that if that were even a real thing, “the now chicks” would not order free fried onion cookbooks from coupon flyers. Not even in 1970 when this piece of copywriting horror was printed. [More]
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This 1976 Commercial Shows How People Never Used To Feel About Kmart
By 10.23.13
In the company’s early history about a hundred years ago, a now-familiar brand was called Kresge. That doesn’t roll off the tongue very easily, so in the ’60s they changed their name to Kmart. You know, that store where other kids in school made fun of you for buying your clothes there. It’s still around, of course, but people just aren’t as enthusiastic about it as they apparently were in this 1976 commercial. [More]
Long For The '70s? This Vintage Hilton Ad Will Cure That
By 1.21.11
No person in their right mind should ever long for the ’70s. In case, they do, however, we offer as counter-argument this incredibly weird Hilton ad, which features a magician, a Scott Bakula impersonator, and a bunch of hotel maids dressed in what later became the Munchkin costumes for a community theater production of “The Wizard of Oz.”
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