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Xeni Jardin at 8:27 am • 
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Image Link. A cheerful, totally non-creepy ad from days of yore, scanned and uploaded to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by reader v.valenti.
Xeni Jardin at 5:22 pm • •
"Be the first on your block to know about nude psychotherapy." A 1970s-era magazine ad, scanned and shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by Boing Boing reader v.valenti.
Xeni Jardin at 8:55 am • •
Larger size here, so you can read all the text. Writing Tips from Kurt Vonnegut, 1980, sponsored by International Paper Company. Shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by vintage ad archivist MewDeep.
Update: Oooh, here's a PDF of the whole ad series.
Xeni Jardin at 2:44 am • •
"Think of it. You'll have more time on your hands (...) to make a pantsuit. To live a little."
Shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by vintage ad archivist MewDeep, and larger size here.
Xeni Jardin at 8:36 am • •
A late-1960s ad that ran in Scientific American, scanned and shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool by fdecomite.
The look is true to Mad Men, and the copy is true to life: I bet the Mars Curiosity team say stuff like that to each other all the time.
Give that dude a mohawk—oh, and increase NASA's budget so JPL can hire, instead of lay off?—and the ad could run today.
Xeni Jardin at 3:17 pm • •
Xeni Jardin at 12:50 pm • •
Image Link. From the excellent Flickr collection of MewDeep (lots of '60s-'70s ad scans), via BB Flickr Pool.
Xeni Jardin at 7:29 pm • •
I would totally buy this right now. "Includes one pickle and one tomato (pillowcases)." A vintage ad from 1970, in MewDeep's excellent Flickr stream. (via the Boing Boing Flickr Pool)
Xeni Jardin at 8:57 am • •
"Dynamite" by Munsingwear, 1973, shared in the BB Flickr Pool by MewsDeep.
