Vintage advertisements?

[Gigi]

A few days ago I found a website that contained a huge wealth of high quality images of vintage advertisements. It might have even been all illustrated advertisements. I cannot find it again for the life of me. Most of them were from the 40s-50s. I'm desperate to find it again. Does anyone know what site I'm talking about?

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Was it this? http://www.adclassix.com/
Al I did was Google vintage ads and this was the first site up. There are lots of 'em out there.

 

[Gigi]

Nope, that's not it. I googled several terms and can't find the site. I swear I found it via google image search as well. I know there are several of these sites out there, so I'm just hoping one of the ones someone might mention ends up being the one I'm looking for.

 

[Mr Vim]

Cracked.com posted this story today, of vintage advertisements and how they are really wrong by today's standards... warning the article includes foul language as this is an adult humored website. Safe for work, but be forewarned.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18772_13-wildly-irresponsible-vintage-ads-aimed-at-kids.html

 

[HepKitty]

Mr Vim thansk for the laugh. Of course it's a kind of shake-your-head type laugh but still :eusa_doh:

 

[Mr Vim]

But of course, I'm glad to keep threads alive.

 

[Diamondback]

Two years between posts isn't "keep alive", it's outright "necromancy."

Zombie Thread! RUN AWAAAAY! lol

 

[lord_k]

Let's Keep It Alive!

I can recommend some really valuable resources.
Vintage Poster is my all-time favorite.

paul.malon's Flickr photostream is fantastic.
Found in Mom's Basement & PostersPlease are very good.
And don't forget to check the photostream of Boston Public Library

 

[HepKitty]

Two years between posts isn't "keep alive", it's outright "necromancy."

Zombie Thread! RUN AWAAAAY! lol

lol I didn't even notice the date on the first few posts... Nice job Mr Vim in not contributing to thread redundancy

I've found that google's image search brings up lots of wonderful vintage ads, aviation, perfume, etc

 

[LizzieMaine]

SPIT is a Horrid Word -- But It's Even Worse At The End Of Your Cigar.

 

[HepKitty]

Cool link LizzieMaine thanks

 

[lord_k]

Baby Rolls, 1959

From Vintage Scans (Nice blog, but don't try it at work / when the kids are around).

 

[Mr Vim]

I just saw on Foxnews they have a large article of about sixty vintage ads, ranging from the 1920s to the 1980s I believe, some are from the cracked article I posted earlier, others are... much more enjoyable and others are just plain wrong.

 

[MissHawthorne]

Anyone from Minneapolis might be familiar with James Lileks' columns in the local paper, but he has a whole site dedicated to midcentury....detritus, I guess. Anyway, this part is my favorite. You'd think there wasn't a depression on!

http://www.lileks.com/30s/index.html

 

[HepKitty]

From Vintage Scans

Please warn if links are NSFW, not that the link itself would set off any internet warnings which explain why bored people at work would be looking at it, but some of those ads may get someone in trouble unintentionally. Say, if someone of higher sensitivity or authority were to walk by...

 

[lord_k]

Please warn if links are NSFW, not that the link itself would set off any internet warnings which explain why bored people at work would be looking at it, but some of those ads may get someone in trouble unintentionally. Say, if someone of higher sensitivity or authority were to walk by...

I beg your pardon.

 

[lord_k]

Women's swimsuit ads from the 1940s

See more @ Found in Mom's Basement

 

[lord_k]

Blue Devil

Paul Colin, Philips lightbulb ad, 1920-30s

from Vintage Ads blog

 

[lord_k]

How Grand!

via paul.malon @ Flickr

 

[lord_k]

Maidenform

via POUR 15 MINUTES D'AMOUR (Warning: the source contains some adult concepts)