Posted 6 hours ago

Another bad scanning job. But in case you need more info, you order tequila with two fingers, Senor.

Ad from Playboy, November 1976.

Posted 1 day ago

Ten high won the west, in case you weren’t aware.

Ad from Playboy, November 1976.

Posted 2 days ago

Jim Beam: Serving America since before there was an America.

Ad from Playboy, November 1976.

Posted 3 days ago

You need a new hi-fi system, dude.

Is this Jon Belushi?

Ad from Playboy, November 1976.

Posted 4 days ago

Something for smokers to think about.

This ad, as much as any other, exemplifies the shift in times. Can you imagine an ad with this much text these days? It’s part of why newspapers are dying - we shudder when we see a big block of words. A lot of ads - think Absolut, Disaronno, etc - don’t even have words these days. Our attention spans can’t take it.

Posted 5 days ago

Once you get past the fact that the dark haired fellow is the real-life model for Marco Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this is actually kind of a cool ad.

From Playboy, November 1976.

Posted 6 days ago

This is awesome. The product is the least interesting part of the ad.

Ad from Playboy, November 1976.

Posted 1 week ago

What a wuss.

And who is Sun Yat Sen?!

Ad from Playboy, November 1976.

Posted 1 week ago

Fiat. Selling themselves with a value pitch. A poor job of scanning, I know. I tried.

Ad from Playboy, November 1976.

Posted 1 week ago

An ad by Sony.

From Playboy, November 1976.