15 Creepiest Vintage Ads

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15 Creepiest Vintage Ads

two examples of the creepiness

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Sa-NAXwzFm8/SkqgE3v4W3I/AAAAAAAAAtA/53syhIUWsPw/s400/Murder.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Sa-NAXwzFm8/Skp8JJ6Kc9I/AAAAAAAAArw/8DJTW9FSBQs/s400/SlicedPig.jpg

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@djjd62,

Awesome. Interestingly, although I'm the right age, I don't remember a single one of these specific ads. I wonder if any of 'em could be phony?

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@djjd62,

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I would take that guys necktie and crank it right into that postage meter.

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thanks for the laugh...lotsa funny stuff on that site

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@djjd62,

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Bitch is askin' fer it.

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@Merry Andrew,

don't know, i remember as a kid seeing the hathaway eye patch guy in ads

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@djjd62,

Oh, yeah, the eye patch was standard Hathaway. I remember that. Not that particular ad but the guy with the eye patch was all over the place. No, I'm talking about some of the more outrageous ones, are they for real?

(The eye patch was for Hathaway what the tattooed cowboy was for Marlboro cigs.)

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they seem to be real, here's a great camel ad, i found while checking out the thank you links on the original site

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1294/953431868_cc6eb87bee_o.jpg

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i'll let this one speak for itself

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3501/myg2001.c2/0_2806c_528ae45_L.jpg

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I remember the Love's Baby Soft ad. Someone in the comments section thinks the model is Brook Sheilds - could be.

Who knew Lysol could save marriages? I would be happy if my husband just used it to clean the toilet.

So I don't get why the guy wants to murder the woman over a Pitney Bowes postage meter. You stick the envelope in and pull the lever, no big trick.

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@djjd62,

thinking that could get rather strange looking if worn in the freezer section at the store...

Shocked

(4 headlights?)

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http://www.first-magazine.net/wp-content/themes/mimbo2.2/images/jemima.jpg

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@George,

i have salt and pepper shakers very similar to those, i got them when we were clearing out my grand mothers house after she died

http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr73/djjd1962/100_0728.jpg

the chef was broken and i had to glue him back together, i'd never get rid of them, but i wonder what they might be worth

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@djjd62,

Wow, those ads are just downright weird! Never seen them before, either.

I like this idea for a topic. Nothing like a bit of nostalgia to bring out the old farts in the closet. Wink