The Evolution of Fast Food Logos

It's rather a quickie of an article but I love to see vintage logos.

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Cereal Ads In Comics

John K. Stuff has posted a short article with some great examples of vintage General Mills cereal ads.

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Scampd - Contemporary Advertising Illustration

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Vintage Rollerskating Ads

Is that the Juice? His life has changed markedly since then...

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Many Nurses Say YES to...

from Photoplay magazine, June of 1954

(posted at Modern Mechanix)

The 20 Worst Bootleg Products of All-Time

This stuff is pretty hilarious! I used to collect bootleg Batman toys from the dollar store but there haven't been any in a long long time so I gave that up. I did spend some time in Asia back in my Navy days and the titles and captions on the bootleg VHS tapes and Cassettes were usually quite amusing.

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Life Magazine's Journey To the Moon Puzzles From 1970

I don't know how many people do puzzles these days but our family does them every once in a while and they (we) seem to like it!

100 Years Ago Today

Keeney's BOWLING CHAMP (1950)

I used to love these fake bowling games in the arcades!

Skee Alley Ad (1950)

Anyone ever seen one of these? I sure haven't.

Evans' TEN STRIKE (1951)

Bowling games must have been pretty popular in 1950?

Early 1980's Tom Baker (Dr. Who) Computer Ads

Tom was THE Doctor Who when I was growing up. In fact, I didn't really know that there had been (or would be) others playing the role.

Boris Karloff Williams Shaving Cream Ad

From Cool-Mo-Dee

Boris Karloff Heublein Cocktails and Spirits Ad (1956)

From Cool-Mo-Dee

Things Go Better With Coke (a Collection of 60's Musical Coca-Cola Ads)

Wow!  Lots of great 60's bands lent their talent (or at least their managers did it for them) to these short snippets of Coca-Cola ads.  Featured bands include:  The Left Banke, The Moody Blues, The Bee Gees, Petula Clarke, The Easy Beats, The Box Tops, Roy Orbison, Vanilla Fudge, Neil Diamond, Marvin Gaye, and many more!

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Monster Cereals Blog

If you are or were a 70's kid you MUST go to this blog RIGHT NOW!

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Interesting Matchbox Collection

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Test Your Knowledge of Useless Pop Culture Junk (Vintage Advertising Category)

I got 7 out of ten and a couple of those were probably lucky guesses. After you take the quiz you are presented the option to watch all of the original commercials.

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Fake Cereal Boxes

I know that old cereal boxes are highly collectible but did you know that they were so popular that there would actually be a demand for reproductions? ($18 each!) They do look good and he even does 'fake' cereal boxes (like KISS).


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Irony in Vintage Advertisements

The Consumerist has posted a nice collection of advertisements that, to our present day eyes, now look like complete disasters!

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