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Can you guess what decade these vintage Christmas ads are from?
These ads from Christmases past sell everything from soda to cigarettes.
Along with decorations, eggnog, and carols comes another inevitable Christmas tradition— holiday advertising. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing— some Christmas promotions have become iconic. Others are just downright strange.
Here is a selection of vintage ads from the 1950s to the 1980s. Can you place each one in the right decade?
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What decade is this Christmas ad from?
Image: Coca-Cola
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What decade is this Christmas ad from?
Image: Singer
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What decade is this Christmas ad from?
Image: Sears
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What decade is this Christmas ad from?
Image: Bell
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What decade is this Christmas ad from?
Image: Kodak
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What decade is this Christmas ad from?
Image: Motorola
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What decade is this Christmas ad from?
Image: Smith-Corona
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What decade is this Christmas ad from?
Image: Tiffany & Co.
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What decade is this Christmas ad from?
Image: Tareyton
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What decade is this Christmas ad from?
Image: Nash Motors
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What decade is this Christmas ad from?
Image: Atari
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What decade is this Christmas ad from?
Image: Roadmaster
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What decade is this Christmas ad from?
Image: Alcoa
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What decade is this Christmas ad from?
Image: Sears
Can you guess what decade these vintage Christmas ads are from?
Your Result...
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I Love Lucy - Wreath
$19.95
A Christmas Story - Fudge
$38.95
Betty Boop - I Want it All
$19.95
Betty Boop - Define Naughty
$19.95
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10/14... as I always like to point out... depending on when the ad was prepared, it could have been the previous decade (by just a hair)...
9/14 im currrntly trying to find a snoopy phone for a decent price. theres also one with a lamp to
12/14
10/14 Guessed 70's for Star Wars toys.
8/14 pretty good!
8 out of 14.
10/14
9/14; tough quiz - not too bad of a score
# 9- Santa with a black eye and a cig hanging !! What a riot !!!😂
And # 3- I would pay anyone out there for that Complete ‘Return of the Jedi’ toy set nowadays. MAN OH MAN !! 😊 Love it
I remember their billboards, their tagline was, "I'd rather fight than switch!"
Surprised myself. 12 of 14!
I cannot believe my score 😮
13/14
13/14
6 of 14 some are hard because the items were available and adverted in kore than 1 decade
10/14. I started out terrible but I slowed down a bit and thought them thru and did much better toward the end. On question #8 I tried to remember what type of jewelry women would be wearing that type of Tiffany.
12. Smith-Corona & Bell System tripped me up, which was embarrassing. OTOH, I *had* a Roadmaster, *&* hadn't thought of Tareytons in years!
I remember that Tareyton commercial. "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch". Sadly, cigarette ads on TV were dead in 1970. Some of the best ads were for cigarettes.
I was born in April 1962. When I was just a little kid in the 60's, those Tareyton ads shocked the living hell out of me, possibly because it made me think of a nasty neighbor who lived down the street from us in Warren, Michigan. He and his wife were definitely two people you'd want to *avoid* like the plague.
🤣 🥴 🚬
And people would get on *Winston* for "bad grammar"! -laugh-
12/14
12/14
11/14 plus one tablet malfunction on #14.
It's one thing to be a model smoking in a cigarette ad, but why does he have to look drunk AND smoking too?
He's not drunk he's stoned!
Great one!!!!! Thanks! 😉
Nah, he was grinning because he busted the other guy up & won the fight.
it was the 60's drunk and stoned was the norm
LOL...The stoned part still is 😎😂🤣
I'd love to have that bike.
I'd pay $1000. for that bike right now!
To sell, but definitely not to ride. Those old fat-tire cruisers were hell on Earth, but we didn't have anything better back then. No 27-speed derailleurs even thought of -- best you could do was a 3-speed hub.
9/14. That's what I get for celebrating Chanukah... and we don't get any magazine ads either!
"Hey kids! Sick of spinning that same old dreidel while overstuffed on chocolate coins? Tell mom and day you want the new Atari game console with "Attack of the Maccabees"... it's a GREAT Chanukah gift, and it only costs 89 shekels! Oy vey! Get one today!"
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"Hey kids! Sick of spinning that same old dreidel while overstuffed on chocolate coins? Tell mom and day you want the new Atari game console with "Attack of the Maccabees"... it's a GREAT Chanukah gift, and it only costs 89 shekels! Oy vey! Get one today!"
Not that youth is learning cursive writing anymore, my hunch is double spaces were encouraged to more clearly define the separation of sentences. As a practical matter. However with electronic input now the norm an extra space could be a wasteful use of space. And some sources of input will remove excess space anyway.
But I agree, when grammar becomes a game of one up man ship it's lost it's purpose. When content is sacraficed by the distraction. On the other hand, learning never hurt anyone.
But I agree, when grammar becomes a game of one up man ship it's lost it's purpose. When content is sacraficed by the distraction. On the other hand, learning never hurt anyone.
To be fair, you're technically correct - but I've seen (and also have used) single quotes to isolate a lesser point, while double quotes were used for titles - such as : "The Werewolf" was a so-called 'horror film', but I found it quite amusing...
Truth be told, in today's "Modern America" (double quotes intended) you'll be hard-pressed to find many who know and understand punctuational etiquette. Look at how many people mix-up plural 's' with possessive 's' (single quotes intentional)...
Even Walgreen's dropped their apostrophe some years back (supposedly because of "texting English") to become Walgreens. Thing is, Charles Walgreen (*not* Walgreens) was the company's founder.
I've even seen things like "Johns store" and doo-wop groups with their name on the record label spelled as "The Four Hunter's" [band name here was phony - just an example]
To quote Rhett Butler (as I've done before)... "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!"
Truth be told, in today's "Modern America" (double quotes intended) you'll be hard-pressed to find many who know and understand punctuational etiquette. Look at how many people mix-up plural 's' with possessive 's' (single quotes intentional)...
Even Walgreen's dropped their apostrophe some years back (supposedly because of "texting English") to become Walgreens. Thing is, Charles Walgreen (*not* Walgreens) was the company's founder.
I've even seen things like "Johns store" and doo-wop groups with their name on the record label spelled as "The Four Hunter's" [band name here was phony - just an example]
To quote Rhett Butler (as I've done before)... "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!"
Your kind reply is appreciated! Glad we found the same side of fence to be on, with a nod to decent education!! Thank you teachers!
I hate to say, that makes me feel really gelty.....