This ad for Camel cigarettes appeared in the November 23, 1936 edition of LIFE magazine. It earnestly demands that you smoke a Camel after each course of Thanksgiving dinner — “for digestion’s sake.”
Some quotes include, “smoke a camel right after the soup,” “By all means enjoy a second helping, but before you do — smoke another Camel,” and “My own personal experience is that smoking Camels with my meals and afterwards builds up a sense of digestive well-being.”- via
The products are/were the real problem, I suppose.
Offensive & Politically incorrect advertising and propaganda:
No fuss, to the point racist packaging. What you see here is an old Norwegian brand of tar/varnish used on wood burning ovens. It’s been out of production for a good while now, but boxes like this can still be found tucked away in old dusty closets in Norway.
In the US and the UK, the word nigger featured in branding and packaging consumer products, e.g. “Nigger Hair Tobacco” and “Niggerhead Oysters”, Brazil nuts were called nigger toes, et cetera. As racism became unacceptable in mainstream culture, the tobacco brand became “Bigger Hare” and the canned goods brand became “Negro Head”.
Really weird.
Look what (or should I say ‘who’) I came across while browsing through vintage ads at found in mom’s basement…
Slash’s mom, Ola Hudson! Sounds like she was one classy lady.
I kind of love
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”- Henry Ford
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”- Henry Ford
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.”- Henry Ford
“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.”- Henry Ford
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”- Henry Ford
“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”- Henry Ford
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”- Henry Ford
“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.”- Henry Ford
“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”- Henry Ford
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”- Henry Ford
“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.”- Henry Ford
“What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.”- Henry Ford
“You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.”- Henry Ford
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