Cigarette ads

[Matt Deckard]

Controversial now, yet the choice of doctors and the president then.

They had some of the largest advertising budgets in the world, and they had an addicted clientele which had a hard time figuring out which brand was better.

 

[Feraud]

My favorite ad was the Camel sign at Times Square. It blew actual smoke rings and changed with the times.

 

[Matt Deckard]

Aw... the good old days.

 

[Tomasso]

My favorite ad was the Camel sign at Times Square. It blew actual smoke rings and changed with the times.

I remember that sign from when I was a little kid.

Here it is in action (0:42):



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[Feraud]

Cool. Is that Phil Silvers on the billboard?

 

[Fletch]

http://freshmedia.ca/media/marlboro_ads/marlboro4.jpg

The cig without a "country"

Up to 1954, Marlboros were marketed ONLY to women - because of the filter. The Red Pack / Marlboro Man era was Leo Burnett's campaign to change their appeal. And brother, did it ever work - it had an impact far beyond smokers.

 

[Tomasso]

Cool. Is that Phil Silvers on the billboard?

Nope, it's Bilko.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Times Square 27 years earlier --

Camels and Chesterfields are the main cigarette sponsors visible. This was Chesterfield's heyday as the mild, light choice of refined middle-class smokers. By the time I became conscious of such things, however, it had become the favorite smoke of skeezy old men who sat in cars down by the docks making young girls feel very uncomfortable. Milder indeed.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Bunch of cig ads I've scanned:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=cigarette&w=77176338@N00#page=0

 

[Amy Jeanne]

This is my fave. I wouldn't want her to make me a dress!! lol

 

[Feraud]

Nope, it's Bilko.

Touche! :cheers1:

 

[HadleyH]

Certainly!

 

[Fletch]

This is my fave. I wouldn't want her to make me a dress!! lol

Ah, little Lisa, panther girl of the needle trades.

I really like the idea of Elizabeth Hawes. I like that she existed in the era she did, and that she wrote a book called Eashion Is Spinach, and said the hell with it. I think they ought to make a movie about her; I wonder who could play her.

 

[Nik Taylor]

Started young....lol

 

[Feraud]

Times Square 27 years earlier --

A beautiful photo!

 

[swinggal]

I have some design books that are about 4 inches thick called 'Advertising of the 1930s' and I have the 40s one as well. They are full of old cigarette ads and so many of them are such beautiful designs.

The ones that crack me up are the 'More Doctors smoke Camels!'...how times have changed.

 

[swinggal]

And a Flintstones ad to get the kids thinking about it early

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c

 

[Mario]

Lucky Strike, May 1932

"The extra protection to my throat"... :eusa_doh:

The model is June Collyer.

 

[swinggal]

I adore this one. Very Cassadre-ish.

 

[HadleyH]

this is adorable too [angel]

ever so gentle!