Vintage Advertising

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
    -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
    -- Bill Cosby

* Please note that we've taken a somewhat liberal interpretation on the meaning of "vintage" when chosing these ads.

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Betty Boop

Hi, Im Betty Boop, Boop Oopy Doop! And would you belive that im from 1930? Don't I look good for my age huh?
    -- Betty Boop (Universal Studios)

Boop Boop a Doop, Boop Boop Be Doop,Boo Boo pa Doo!,Boopy Doopy Doopy Doo Poop-Oopy Doo,Boop Boop a Doop, Boop Oopy Doop
    -- Betty Boop

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Steampunk

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
    -- Voltaire

Do you think I am an automaton? – a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you – and full as much heart!
    -- Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

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Vintage Trains

Casey Junior's coming down the track
Coming down the track
With a smoky stack

Hear him puffing, coming round the hill
Casey's here to thrill
Every Jack and Jill

Every time his funny little whistle sounds
(Toot toot)
Everybody hurries to the circus grounds

Time for lemonade and Cracker Jacks
Casey Junior's back
Casey Junior's back
    -- Walt Disney's "Dumbo"

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