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9 Amazing Ads From the 1930's

funnyordie.com — Most of the forwards I get are urban myths from my aunt saying Starbucks hates the troops or toliet paper causes cancer. Every once in a while, there's a rare gem worth telling other people about. Adam McKay forwarded these to me: 9 Amazing Ads from the 30s. These are real. And they're so awesome, they're worth telling you about.

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  • cwmather, on 07/15/2008, -3/+81"Blow in her face and she will follow you anywhere..."

    That's funny because that was the only childhood lesson I remember from my father... and my mother strangely enough...
    • tenspeedogbb, on 07/16/2008, -2/+3I've seen this one before somewhere, but I can't remember. Anyone else know?
      • SituatioNormal, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Are you sure you're not thinking of johnson & mills Bean Lard Mulch with vitamin C?
      • bosssmiley, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Cracked.com?
      • alexforcefive, on 07/16/2008, -1/+19Digg, every week for the past three years
      • HMMcKamikaze, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Johnson and Mills Fish Sticks: now with more sodium! Sweet Jesus!
    • CanadaMan87, on 07/16/2008, -0/+20That ad is clearly not from the 30s though...
      • wonderbriefs, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6Nope, it's from the 70s. I first saw it in a marketing class I took in high school.
      • lepton, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2As I recall, this was a major campaign, including TV ads.
    • S7aind, on 07/17/2008, -1/+3Blow in her face... Oh, they mean the cigarette, right.
  • LanceMurdock, on 07/15/2008, -1/+145There's no way these are all from the 1930's.
    • badwithcomputer, on 07/15/2008, -1/+54yeah, i realized that too after looking through them again. guess that's why you can't always trust the title of the stuff you submit. my bad.
      • jordanlgta, on 07/16/2008, -10/+3He admitted his error, so the rule is we must digg him up everyone. I am talking to myself. So what's with diggnation...is it just me or do less people watch it than a year ago?
    • palmer, on 07/16/2008, -8/+8What is the 1930? And the 1930's what?
      • dnields, on 07/16/2008, -9/+6You fail in your attempt to 'correct' the poster's use of the apostrophe. You only sound pretentious.

        When the 'S' is added to a word simply to make it a plural, no apostrophe is used.....

        EXCEPT in expressions where letters or numerals are treated like words, like “mind your P’s and Q’s” and “learn your ABC’s” ... or "the 1930's".
      • freshyill, on 07/16/2008, -3/+11Wrong. Palmer is correct. Read your AP Stylebook.
      • dnields, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3According to Paul Brians (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature), it is both acceptable and correct to use the apostrophe.

        http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/apostrophes1.htm ...

        I would also recommend his book, "Common Errors in English Usage"

        http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/book.html
      • Seemefearme, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Palmer is right, but he's still a douchebag.
      • djepik, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Purdue university says that 1930s is correct and not 1930's. It is not possesive and there is no potential for missreading as with say, "make sure you dot your i's".

        http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_a ...

    • m1k3yboi, on 07/16/2008, -0/+11They arent. The "Go on, Have a fag" is from Viz, im pretty sure some of the others are fake.
    • matthew2398, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1most of them are from Viz magazine
  • rarmstr2, on 07/15/2008, -18/+116Tapeworms OM NOM NOM NOM
    • cl2yp71c, on 07/16/2008, -1/+29Yes, that's what would be happening in your intestine.
    • davidkeithjones, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Want some lard with that?
  • SUPERnova007, on 07/15/2008, -9/+199Whats so amazing about these ads?

    an anthropomorphic gecko just tried to sell me car insurance, that is amazing.
    • cl2yp71c, on 07/16/2008, -1/+12***** yes.
    • danpat, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6I thought the gecko was selling car TYRES?
      What a slut for advertising!
      • drlha, on 07/16/2008, -1/+5Judging by your spelling of "tyre" you're not an American, so probably haven't seen the GEICO ads. Is your Gecko voiced by Max out of Eastenders too?
      • calon9, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3http://www.geckotyres.com

        I dream of a world when all gecko spokeslizards can reach across the oceans to join arms and bring about world peace.
    • Alucardbsm, on 07/16/2008, -2/+4I had to use a dictionary to find out what anthropomorphic meant.
      • LeRenard, on 07/16/2008, -7/+2It amazes me people have to look stuff like that up, the meaning of the word is pretty obvious if you break it apart and think about it a bit. anthrop = people/humans, morphic = shaped. People shaped. No one every just pulled that word out of thin air.
      • Skorme, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6Forgive him for not having every root word memorized.
      • 032483, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1Your grammar needs some serious work.
      • coreyb, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2LeRenard... if you are going to correct someone, make sure your correction is correct.

        anthro = human
        pomorphic = inanimate object

        Hence, anthropomorphic is the attribution of human motivation to inanimate objects; ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, esp. to a deity.
    • bosssmiley, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4The booze frogs and their angry chameleon heckler were good too. In your face 1930s!
    • Arcesius, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Surely you jumped at the amazing deal he was giving you, no? I mean, he could save you a bunch of money on your car insurance.
  • killbert24, on 07/15/2008, -14/+3The chick in that last ad is turning me on. I'd definitely hit it. As for the fag-- not so much.
    • hollywoodphony, on 07/16/2008, -2/+8Wow, in case you had any doubts, this guy definitely isn't gay!
      • xXIrsotehkewlXx, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4But he would do the chick with VD.
    • killbert24, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3Fags are cigarettes. Duh.
      • styx31989, on 07/17/2008, -1/+1NO *****?! I never knew......
        Oh, wait. I did know. I also know that you're overcompensating for being gay.
  • upick, on 07/16/2008, -6/+13kudos for finding all these photos!
    I love the "More Doctors Smoke Camel than any other cigarette!"
    • warispeace21, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Has anyone seen The Day the Earth Stood Still? I love the scene where the doctors both lit up and started smoking in the hospital. Classic.
  • rac1234, on 07/16/2008, -1/+71The lard advert is a spoof from the British comic Viz, issue 52, February / March 1992, page 21:

    http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a97/Richard_W72/V ...

    So not from the 1930s.
    • praisethelard, on 07/16/2008, -2/+1Regardless, it's spot on.
      • eatasandwich, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6The lard AND fag ads are both VIZ spoofs.
      • IllBeBack, on 07/16/2008, -5/+2Actually, you're wrong. Eating dietary fat, including saturated fat such as lard, does not make you fat.

        This is a myth.
    • palmer, on 07/16/2008, -3/+4Modded up for spelling "1930s" right.
      • shortyjacobs, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6This is Digg.....take your "modding" and go somewhere else.
    • sodoh, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2The one above it is also from the Viz comic.
    • cardyology, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4So is the "go on, have a fag" one. They are a joke.

    • Nayson, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Beat me to it, but im still going to say it. The Lard one and the "go on, have a fag" one are from Viz.
    • InYourHonor, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1You must be a blast at parties.
      • rac1234, on 07/21/2008, -0/+1Actually, it's interesting you should mention it. The last party I was invited to was a fireworks event on the memorably chilly evening of Friday, November 5th, 1993. Not to blow my own trumpet but I do believe that I was quite a blast from shortly after my arrival at 8:00pm until 12:35am, when I returned home to water my plants. The irony of being a "blast" at a fireworks celebration did not go unnoticed, and I still chuckle at that happy coincidence even today. I expect that night lives on not only in my memory but also in the memories of the many good people I delighted with my rich stock of uncannily apt anecdotes.
  • Tribunis, on 07/16/2008, -3/+20People have been ruining sex since the 1930's?
    • palmer, on 07/16/2008, -13/+2The 1930's what?
      • ohnoitstaylor, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Palmer, we get it. It's supposed to be the "1930s" with no apostrophe. How long are you going to pretentiously correct people for their misuse of punctuation before you get bored and troll through another article's comments?
  • jordansky, on 07/16/2008, -10/+5Let's face it - you could get hit by a BUS tomorrow.

    go on-
    HAVE A FAG
    • rac1234, on 07/16/2008, -1/+6For those of a non-British inclination who don't get this - it's a another spoof Viz ad.
      • starsarebent, on 07/16/2008, -2/+1The majority of "British humor" is not funny to me. Men dressed up like women is only funny once, not every single ***** time you turn on the TV.
      • picturestorm, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2"Generalising" is not clever to me! Im in the UK and just turned on the TV and hey, no Men dressed like women
  • AManWithNoName, on 07/16/2008, -3/+37"Let's face it-You could get hit by a BUS tomorrow! Go on - HAVE A FAG!"

    Is that a threat?
  • RudolphtheRed, on 07/16/2008, -1/+12The sad thing is there are advertisements out today that are at least, if not more, ridiculous than these.
    i.e. diet pills
    • kelmaster1, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1They should start advertising the "sanitized tapeworm" for rapid weight loss. Sadly, I'm sure millions would buy it if it worked regardless of the side effects or what that "doctor" thinks.
  • XenoSNK, on 07/16/2008, -1/+20Dugg for blow in her face girl.
  • computerusr, on 07/16/2008, -9/+1ufail
  • cl2yp71c, on 07/16/2008, -1/+115My gal is everybody's pal?

    ='[
  • SpiderBoar, on 07/16/2008, -5/+7They had a Lard information council back then? You sure could learn lots in the 30's.
  • beermaker, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4That Santa smoking, there were no cookies that season.
  • batmanz, on 07/16/2008, -11/+49I can has fag?
    • Paramnesia, on 07/16/2008, -4/+4'a Fag' in some parts of the world (Australia & England for sure) still means a Cigarette
    • IHaveIssues, on 07/16/2008, -4/+2Dear FSM, I am sick of this lolcat talk.
  • cyhunter, on 07/16/2008, -7/+1Very funny, especially "Fag"...

    But surprised no one else has mentioned that most of these are very obviously not from the 30s. Most of them look like they're from the 50s, and "blow in her face" one is from the 70s, judging by the aesthetic.
  • kosarock, on 07/16/2008, -7/+2tape worms for sell, i hadn't any idea from where is this slogan. now it's clear.
  • ZenMojo, on 07/16/2008, -1/+57Anyone else squint and read that Lysol ad? Some things just shouldn't smell piney.
    • littlewing82, on 07/16/2008, -1/+27But Lysol helped her break through the cobwebs of indifference...
    • zip000, on 07/16/2008, -0/+31If there are cobwebs, she needs more than lysol.
    • FlyingPhotog, on 07/16/2008, -3/+5I'd rather smell pine than fish...
      • bagelmaster, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Congratulations, you went too far!
    • Samurai77, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1Amen Brother.
    • 032483, on 07/16/2008, -2/+2The best part was the lysol was destroying the women's vagina's the whole time and they didn't even know it.
  • elveis, on 07/16/2008, -0/+22Honey, what is that scent you're wearing? It's intoxicating.
    • lanalachat, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Honey, what is that scent you're blowing in my face? I'll follow you anywhere!
  • hollywoodphony, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2What's the deal with the first one? I don't get it. He's still got a can opener? And I'm guessing people aren't commenting on the best one because they didn't try to read the small type, but the lysol one is amazing.
    • charm803, on 07/16/2008, -0/+8The can itself had a softer top, making it easier to use with a can opener.
      • danpat, on 07/16/2008, -0/+7By a woman, cause opening beer cans is womens work.
    • swanmay, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1See how "she" doesn't have to hold the can so tight to open the second can. The women back then were so weak & frail. I don't know how they opened their husbands beers before the new softer top came out.
  • tenspeedogbb, on 07/16/2008, -8/+2http://tinyurl.com/5sp3d8
  • charm803, on 07/16/2008, -10/+1Imagine if these same ads were to be run in today's day and age.

    The gay and lesbian group would find the word "fag" insulting, even though it was a term for cigs.

    The health group would find offense to lard.

    Women would find offense to a couple of them.

    Amusing.
    • FaithclubDotNet, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2A health group may find offense to lard, but interestingly enough lard is likely better for you than its substitutes.
    • dragonflyer1212, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Anything we do nowadays will offend someone and they'll b**ch and moan.
  • littlewing82, on 07/16/2008, -3/+3If you like this whacked out vintage advertising, you might like the show Mad Men on AMC.
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804503/
    • spkrcity, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2Awesome show. Just finished watching season 1 on on-demand. TV's best kept secret IMO.
  • Berkana, on 07/16/2008, -0/+10Ugh. Lysol feminine hygiene fluid? Nas-tay!
  • chaos7, on 07/16/2008, -2/+5the blow in the face girl is hotttt
    • tarquell, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1yah i spent at least 10mins trying to find out who the hell she was!
  • RMoore08, on 07/16/2008, -5/+3I am everyone's pal.
  • ldma, on 07/16/2008, -0/+13The "Eat Lard" one and the "Go on Have a Fag" one are both Viz magazine spoofs from the 1990s.
    • scabbers, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2It's great that the archaelogical record from as recent as the 20th century has got confused already ;)
  • FahrenheitPark, on 07/16/2008, -1/+0That was great, nice.
  • diggitydad, on 07/16/2008, -5/+8For anyone who does not understand the fag ref, here it is from an English(British) to American dictionary:

    fag 1 n cigarette. In very widespread use. One of the most amusing emails I’ve had concerning this word was from an American who had arrived at her company’s U.K. offices to be told that the person she was looking for was “outside blowing a fag.” 2 n first year senior-school kids who have to perform menial tasks (cleaning boots, running errands and the like) for the seniors (slightly antiquated). Another email tells me of a man who was met with aghast looks when he told a group of New Yorkers that he “was a fag at school last year.” Modern thinking on slavery has seen that the practice of “fagging” all but die out.

    ***** 1 n particular variety of meatball. 2 n bundle of sticks. 3 n grumpy old woman (uncommon). 4 n cigarette (uncommon). 5 n prostitute (uncommon). Brits do not use it as a derisive term for a homosexual man. In reality, the American definition is well known (if not really used) U.K.-wide, so most of the jokes involving the various other meanings have already been made. They all stem from the original Norse word “fagg,” meaning a bundled-together collection of matter. Do prostitutes come in bundles, I wonder.

    http://english2american.com/dictionary/f.html#fag
  • lanium, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3It's actually true that Lysol was originally marketed as a feminine hygiene product and popularly though of as a contraceptive
  • SolidSnak, on 07/16/2008, -10/+2THERE WERE ONLY 8!!!!

    Was I the only one who noticed?!?!
    • ldma, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6Congratulations! Feel free to wave a small flag of your choice in a smug way for the next 3 minutes.
    • sionnach, on 07/16/2008, -0/+13No, you were the only one who couldn't count. There are 9 ads.
    • SolidSnak, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1well that explains it.....the first image didn't load.......***** my internet
  • rtcreg, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6I remember the Schlitz beer's soft-top beer can from the 1950's, just before the introduction of the tab top operating system. In other words, also not from the 1930's.
    • bootfail, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5A time before the Tab Top Operating System (TTOS)? Must of been hell. I'm glad all my beer cans run linux.
  • Detry, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2I wanna be on the lard information council....
  • spartan777, on 07/16/2008, -1/+3the 30's was when the PR/propaganda industry had its start, and its been booming ever since.
    • itsthebrod, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1It's sad that you think simple product advertisements as "propaganda." You should really get an education sometime, and then maybe you'll stop comparing these silly ads to truly terrible propaganda.
  • CatherineSouth, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Watch out Spidey! Lysol's coming!
  • Monkiest, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Heh. People in the past were less informed than we are today, idiots.

    Let's all point and laugh.
  • unclebuck, on 07/16/2008, -0/+25My grandma used to smoke Camels until her "T-Zone" was surgically removed as part of her cancer treatments.
  • michael43, on 07/16/2008, -2/+11That "blow" ad works both ways. If she were to blow him, he'd follow "her" anywhere.
  • imajet28, on 07/16/2008, -3/+0nothing special about these ads. think it's sad too see cigarettes advertised when they knew they are deadly
    • itsthebrod, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2They didn't know they were deadly in the 30s. It wasn't until the 50s and 60s that the connection between lung cancer and cigarettes was even made.
  • avatarpalin, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1On Ad No 2 I did a double take when I saw the web address, for a fraction of a second (yes I am dumb arse) I thought the web site related to the ad.

  • dizavin, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1I know I'M happy because I eat lard.
  • Czechxican, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Schlitz beer used to be the Budweiser of yesteryear.
    • Nickdotnet, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1then they sold out to a euro company and disappeared?
  • imjust2purrfect, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2UGH funnyordie is blocked at work.
  • SolidBones, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Doesn't Santa smoke a pipe?
  • MaddieCakes, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Um, I'm pretty sure the 'blow in her face' one wasn't from the 30's.
  • XombieRobot, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1myah ya see!
  • juliaperesypko, on 07/16/2008, -8/+0this made me laugh. Thank u for sharing. i love Santa ..)
  • juliaperesypko, on 07/16/2008, -8/+0this made me laugh. Thanks for sharing. I love SANTA ..
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