Vintage Frito's Ads

Love the Frito's. Not sure about the characters they chose in the past to be their "mascot" though...

The first one is from 1954. The second, I'm not sure of.

Weird Beech Nut Ad and Lifesavers Ad

 From 1940 comes this Mr. Fantastic version of...a cop? The mailman? Some random army guy?

I can't tell why I find this irrationally-happy moon ad creepy, but it just is. That moon is going to swallow that lifesaver, and then go murderin'.

Creepy Weird Green Giant Ad/Creepy Kid/ Creepy Mask

From 1945 comes "the Big Corn and Pea Man", and what I imagine will be a horrible rape or murder.

Then, not sure what this is but I'd guess it's French weirdness.  From 1948. Yeah, go ahead and put lipstick on your mask, cuz that's perfectly normal.

And here's this 1952 ad featuring a young sociopath who's eating his can of Pork and Beans before he commits his third murder of the day.

I guess this passed as cute back then...

Vintage Burger King and Chicken Dinner Ads

I remember these ads from my early childhood...they're both from 1976.

Then we have a pretty funny Chicken Dinner Candy ad? What exactly is that? I'm not sure what year this came out.

Finally a funny photo of the Chicken Dinner-mobile. Sure, I'll totally buy your chicken-flavored candy from your chicken-shaped car...

Vintage Candy Ads

I don't know what it is about vintage candy ads that fascinate me, but even the ones not from my past are pretty cool. Here's some more uncommon ones I've found.

 First up is this 1933 Butterfinger ad. Tell you the truth I didn't realize this candy was THAT old. And only a nickel!

 Then a 1939 Doublemint Gum ad. This gum was a favorite of my dad.

 Then a 1953 Butterfinger ad.

Finally a 1956 Nestle Milk Chocolate ad. Talk about another time--all of these are clearly from that!

Hairy Chests and Honey Sugar Puffs Cereal

Yes, you NEED a hairy chest, and for just ten dollars you could have gotten one! Man, that guy is emanating all sorts of sex appeal, isn't he?

Then from 1956 comes this Golden Honey Sugar Puffs cereal ad. I guess this morphed into the Sugar Puffs--they both have a bear for the mascot, right?

btw: I just found out that Sugar Puffs has been renamed to "Golden Crisp"? When did that happen?

Not that I care--never really liked them. I'm more of a Pebbles or Peanut Butter Captain Crunch kind of guy.

Okay, I'll admit I wish these would make a comeback:

Now I'm aware they TECHNICALLY made a comeback and are around, but as many have pointed out the product's not the same at all. Basically they just took the name, and made a new product.

I want what we had back then! One of my favorites. Cookie Crisp cereal!

Valentine's Day and Douches

Yeah, not really a theme in this post unless you wanna make some big leaps but here you go.

First a very cool Valentine's Day Coca Cola ad from 1954!

And then a pretty funny in a ridiculous douche ad. Not sure of the year, but I think it's the 80's.

Lifesavers Loves Ads

 These are all from the 1930's. I have more from later years, but man did they have a TON of ads over the years. I couldn't turn a magazine page without running into a new one...

Sometimes I forget just how long Lifesavers have been around...

Vintage Computers - Atari, Apple, TSR-80 and more

Computers. I was around for basically the dawn of the personal computer.

My parents had that pong game that Sears sold. It only played Pong. And then of course we got the Atari 2600, which began my lifelong love of Atari.

 But then...

I can't remember the exact timeline, but somewhere around 1980 my parents got us(my brother and I) an Atari 400. It was this clunky computer whose keyboard was a flat piece of plastic--no individual keys. It made typing a challenge.

But my dad showed me some Basic commands, and I was off to the races. I started teaching myself Basic from books.

Shortly thereafter we got Apple II computers at my school. Our teacher showed us a text-based adventure game and man, did it even blow my brain up. I could MAKE games like this. Basically, create stories that people could play.

Creative-me was super excited.

We got the Atari 800XL soon after that. My buddy got a Commodore 64. Much as I hated to admit it, the Commodore had much better graphics but was SO much harder to program. At this point I was tinkering between Basic and Assembly language, and had programmed some Infocom-like games.
(If you don't know what Infocom was...man...good times...)

But I wanted to move more into things like Alternate Reality or Bard's Tale, where there was graphics and text.

 

Anyway, I could bore you with pages and pages of my adventures in computing. But I temporarily forgot this is just for vintage ads, so there you go! Some of the late 1970's-1980's computers!

Christmas meant the Sears Wishbook

When I was a kid the big thing was for our parents to hand us the Sears Wishbook and say "Tell us what you want for Christmas".

We'd page through the amazing toys and select everything, and let our parents figure it out.

Here's a couple of pages that really remind me of being a kid, plus some older ones.

1975

1983

1979

 1958

1966 cover

And finally, a bunch of ads for stuff that I would have killed you for in 1979. From Star Wars to Star Trek, to Atari(which you'll hear more about in upcoming posts) to robots--man, I LOVED the old Tomy Robots...