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Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

People from the 70s would laugh out loud at how prude we've become.

SOURCE: Am from the 70s and laughing.

[–] can 10 points 1 month ago

I've come across enough novelty stuff from that time to become sad at where we ended up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hells yeah. Hot pants! Also men's shorts knew their place in the natural order and weren't trying to be pants.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope this account moves from Twitter I like it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I use the Chinese pronunciation, "shitter"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This is correct.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This can’t possibly be real, can it?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Always has been. No joke, vibrators were advertised as massage devices since the 50s. Mail order war the way to go long before the first sex shops opened.

And they really are massage devices. I use a vibrator when I have muscle cramps in the back, and sometimes I use it to "shake free" the sinuses when they are blocked during a cold (roll a soft cloth around the vibrator and hold it to your forehead, the snot will start avalanching within seconds, free airways for the win).

Very useful devices I'd say.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

"shake free" the sinuses

That's genius and you need to use every excuse to spread it around.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nasty. Thanks! 😊

[–] mindbleach 8 points 1 month ago

'I jackhammer my nostrils with a vibrator' is not a sentiment I'd expect to find wholesome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's amazing. Sounds like my one experience with Sinex nasal spray. It was like turning on a faucet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I use a vibrator when I have muscle cramps in the back

😏

sometimes I use it to "shake free" the sinuses…and hold it to your forehead, the snot will start avalanching within seconds

😏

Double entendre FTW! 😁

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It’s real. House & Garden Magazine, December 1971, page 127.

Also see the ad for “Lady Alsons Personal Shower” on page 28, and the Insta-Jet Propane Flame Gun, only $9.99, on page 113!

https://usmodernist.org/HG/HG-1971-12.pdf

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I know right? You could buy flamethrowers and they outlawed lawn darts.

[–] Mouselemming 1 points 1 month ago

For more fun read the note on the Crane Stationery! It's like reading into the future!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What, she couldn't hold the corner of the washing machine to her jaw?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Skrinkflation has hit everything....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You've got to hold onto it, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Can confirm here in New Zealand too. Well into the 80's in the relative mainstream, and even seen up to at least the mid-90's in mail-order catalogues (of general household goods).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They knew, they just hid it in plain site so they can't be sued.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

For ~~tobacco~~ neck-and-shoulder use only

[–] mindbleach 4 points 1 month ago

Richard Hammond and James May with a bottle of For Legal Reasons This Is Not Vodka.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Sued? Or criminally prosecuted? IIRC many states in USA had laws against dildoes and vibrators till recently, or still do

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm sure it is effective

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I remember seeing these as kid back then. Clueless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

And just think, if that model was 25 in 1971 she would be 78 now.

[–] UniversalMonk -1 points 1 month ago

Oh god. This is beautiful! Thanks OP!