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Do you think ads today are racy? Too revealing for young children? Offensive? You have no idea.
A bit hat tip to Mark for this link, to some of the most dated ads from the mid-20th century I have ever seen. I have actually used a significant portion of these in the past week of my New American Studies class, in a unit that I call "Selling the Sixties: Advertising Social Change in an Age of Free Love." For the intro lesson, I provided students with a certain advertisement, and had them inform me what decade they believed it was produced in, and justify their answer.
Some of the reactions not surprisingly were pretty amusing among the students, who were really amused at how outdated the ads were, and how ineffective they would be at selling anything today
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