Comments on: Vintage Ads From 1972

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:22:53 +0000

Hi Candace- no I can’t say that I have seen this sort of ad- but I will keep my eye out in the future. Thanks for dropping by. Michelle

By: Candace

Candace — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:58:29 +0000

Did you happen to see any ads for frozen vegetables (I believe they were Bird’s Eye brand) that feature a photo of an old lady climbing steps with the Eiffel Tower in the background? When I was young, I used that photo as a basis for a (not very good!) painting, and I would love to see the photo again.
Love your post!

By: Debo Hobo

Debo Hobo — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:29:38 +0000

You find the greatest in nostalgia. I don’t recall any of the ads but they are cool.

By: teeni

teeni — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:53:17 +0000

OMG – these are a riot! I was just a young one then and didn’t read advertisements so the ads are funny to me, but I remember seeing refrigerators like that! And I remember Lysol being used a lot more back then than it is now. Now people use Fabreze which is probably just Lysol with a different scent.

By: Bobby Revell

Bobby Revell — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:40:36 +0000

This all happened long before my birth – which was in 1998…LOL! Perhaps you could recommend Palin some maverickey vintage 1972 garments! It would cost her much less than $250,000?

By: Eric "Speedcat Hollydale"

Eric "Speedcat Hollydale" — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:32:19 +0000

I am MADLY in love with the bustline lady, “Sheila Maverick”.

In the 70′s we could have been the family that drinks Lysol !
Gosh SpeedyCat, your breath is so , errr … “hospital like”. That makes my boozem`s heave out like they’ew caked with Mark Eden’s magic creame.

Trippin` … man. Far out GroovyCat.

Can I advertize here??

By: Michelle Gartner

Michelle Gartner — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:52:07 +0000

Mike- I posted the television ad version of that ad on here. The doctor is puffing away in his office. What was weirder was the commercial with Barney & Fred (Flintstones) puffing away on Winstons.

I don’t watch television or read magazines much and online I am oblivious to ads to. I got my immunity to ads from buying used.

By: Mike Goad

Mike Goad — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:23:18 +0000

Interesting. Of course, I don’t remember any of those as 1972 was the year I took Karen away from Milwaukee — and married her — and I probably wouldn’t have been reading Family Circle. Don’t generally look at advertising anyway.

Here’s an interesting vintage ad (found off of one of the ads on this page):

Camel ad