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Hahaha, you thought women couldn’t vote. (Joke’s on us for the first two, I guess?) That’s why I like these Christmas commercials from the 1950s and 1960s so much.
Based on the supercut above, it's clear that advertisers in the 50s and 60s had a clear-cut message they were trying to convey in regards to coffee: "Ladies, you coffee is atrocious.
Cue up the jazzy trumpets, bikinis, and polyester suits as we rank the car commercials that moved the metal down memory lane.
1950S-1960S COMMERCIALS By Jerry Beck | 03/23/2005 9:31 am | Be the First to Comment! Stay informed with free updates: Sign up to get our news digest — delivered directly to your inbox twice a week.
Revisiting Consumer Reports tests of car record players from the 1950s and 1960s, including the Highway Hi-Fi, Victrola, and Norelco Auto Mignon.
Two of the most significant physical changes to the neighborhood—the construction, in the mid-1950s, of the Bishop Markham public housing development, to the west of Gorham Street, and the building, ...
Larry talks with author Gerald Nachman about his new book, Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s (Pantheon). It profiles rebel comedians of the 1950's and 1960's like Mort ...
When Stacey Lopis' friends see the bathroom in her 1960-vintage Hawthorne ranch, they all say the same thing: 'You have to get rid of the pink tile.” Pink bathrooms. They were built by the ...
Modern day computer artist, [Amy Goodchild] surveys a history of Early Computer Art from the 1950s and 1960s. With so much attention presently focused on AI-generated artwork, we should remember ...
China is starting to see today what the U.S. saw in the 1960s, that economic prosperity might undermine social stability rather than promote it.
In the U.S., far-reaching advertising trends were established in the cultural and economic environment of the 1950s. Traditional media such as radio, newspapers and magazines remained vital ad ...
KING -TV has been around for a while -- since November 25, 1948, to be exact, as KRSC-TV. A KING viewer shared some terrific photos on the KING 5 Facebook page from the 1950s and 60s, when her ...