How often do you wish you could travel back in time to the 1900s, Pandas? Perhaps time travel is not something we can offer, but we can share a time capsule that reflects the 20th-century lifestyle quite well. Bored Panda came across a pretty fascinating page that shares advertisements, posters, and products from that era.
While scrolling through the content from the "Archaic Ads" page, you'll get a whiff of what it was like to live in that era: what products people had advertised to them, how the adverts were worded, and what (sometimes insane) visuals accompanied them. So, get into the shoes of a 20th-century consumer, Pandas, and see what the world had to offer!
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#21 "Easy On The Sugar -- You're Reducing!" Why Don't You Shut The Hell Up Instead! And Why Is She Reducing? Was That His Idea?
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#23 "Many Times The Child Who Has Uncontrollable Flatulence Needs A Diet Correction -- Not A Spanking! Ah, The Good Old Days. Apparently, In The 1940s It Was Normal To Spank A Kid For Farting
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#24 Advertisement In The Sears Roebuck Catalog For Laudanum. Opium’s Toxicity For Infants Was Common Knowledge Since Antiquity, And Yet In The Late 19th Century It Was Still In Widespread Use
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#25 "I've Robbed The Rainbow To Make You Gay -- Jester Wools For Gayer Garments" This Guy Didn't Need To Rob Anything To Bring The Gay
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#26 If All You Have Is This Radiation Survival Kit, You'll Be Envying Those Who Were Vaporized At Ground Zero
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#28 The Electric Banana Stereo Phono Was Inspired By An Andy Warhol Painting Of A Banana For A 1967 Album By Velvet Underground
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#29 The Daddy Saddle. Now You Can Humiliate Your Dad -- Texas Style! Yee Haw!
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#30 Sears Travelknit Fourpiece. When You Can Only Afford One Suit, Make Sure It's An Ugly Green Doubleknit
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#31 What Does It Mean To "Throw Like A Girl" In This Ww2-Era Poster? It's Meant As A Put-Down, But It Reveals How Stereotypes Become Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
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#32 "Real Hair! Actually Trimmed From Davy, Peter, Micky & Mike" But It Doesn't Say From Their Heads
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#33 Cadillac Was Founded In 1902 By Henry Leland, Who Named The Company After Antoine De La Mothe Cadillac, The Founder Of Detroit
In 1908, when this ad was posted, Cadillac had brought the idea of interchangeable parts to the automotive industry and laid the ground work for the modern mass production of automobiles.
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#34 The Evans Vacuum Cap ("A Scientific Method Of Growing Hair") Was Advertised Widely Just Before The Food & Drug Act Of 1906, But Not So Much Afterwards
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#35 Why Not Reduce Your Weight And Be Comfortable?" The Advertising For Weight Loss Products Has Never Been Subtle
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#37 Even The Squirrel Thinks Its Fun! But This Guy's Wife Immediately Threw It In The Trash
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#38 In 1981, Electronic Mail Was Still An Exciting Innovation, But The First Email Spam Had Already Been Sent Three Years Earlier
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#39 The Committee For A Better America Was Formed In The 1920s For, "The Suppression Of Radicalism, Class Legislation And All Else Inimical To The Welfare Of The Nation."
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