Good-morning and welcome to the latest edition of All Things Vintage, kittens and dawgs! I got more than my share of smiles while researching my #A2Z theme and so I decided to file these vintage ads under Laughs…
There’s something strangely disturbing about soda pop ad and cellaphane ad.
Oh, the things we’ve learned since this time. Another site, Need Designs (broken), spotlights more vintage ads that are too funny to be taken seriously. When I think of vintage comedy, I think of Jack Benny and the laughs his radio show (click the link to hear shows as early back as 1932) brought into homes in the 30s. That was many years before my time, but I faintly recall watching his show in the late 60s.
Jack Benny demonstrates the difference between a cheap and expensive violin…
He portrays a great horrible violin player, but he actually did play rather well. He began lessons at age 6 and while he loved the instrument, he hated to practice. Sounds familiar, you say? Well, I guess somethings never change. lol
It’s strange and funny how bad things were once thought of as good or acceptable. We have a lot of trial and error under our belts since those times. It makes me wonder what researchers tomorrow we find that we are doing today is wrong. One can only imagine! What’s the oddest or funnest ad you’ve seen?
Special thank you to the incredibly gifted A2Z Team who many are now my good friends.
Arlee Bird @ Tossing it Out
Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh
Heather M. Gardner
Jeremy @ Hollywood Nuts
AJ Lauer
Pam @ An Unconventional Librarian
Damyanti Biswas @ Daily Write
Zalka Csenge Virág @ The Multicolored Diary
Joy Campbell @ The Character Depot
John Holton @The Sound of One Hand Typing
Now, I invite you to hop with me in checking out some of the amazing A2Zers playing along this year and I hope you’ll come back tomorrow to for a 2-in-1 special with Moonglow – a vintage #BoTB showdown.