50s All-American Ads

Wonderful large book with brilliant illustrations. Great gift!

Back to the days of old when advertisements appeared mainly in the print media and cigarettes, beer and appliances reigned supreme. Anyone who would like a taste of the times, this book is a realistic reflecting pool.

Very thick hardcover book

Bought for my 72 year old friend for her birthday along with the 50’s and 70’s. She loved all three and her trip down memory lane.

I have several (4) and there very nice, substantial books. I recommend

I have bought 2 of these so far when they are in sale for around $20. I enjoy the history through the decades approach. It reminds me of Mad Men and I like looking thru them with my 7 year old daughter.

The ads can be entertaining, especially for someone that still has memories of that distant time. The world had a really different view of products being marketed back then, and although we currently view that peroid as conservative some of the models in the ads would be considered borderline pornographic by todays standards--what a twist! It a fun book to spend a few hours over

I like the ads as 1950s ads are very beautiful but I felt this book a bit lacking. Car ads had a lot of beauty to them but 140 pages was a slog as most had very close resemblance to each other. Comparing this to the other sections it feels like this book didn't consider design merit, diversity in ad style, or significance to the ads chosen. Food only had 52ish pages and there was only dairy queen to represent fast foods. Surly a burger King ad or something could be thrown in. There was also very few candy ads.....and no jello? Seriously not even one? Makeup/hygiene likely didn't even get 5 pages despite the huge market for it. This is not normally how I think but it really feels like the author didn't put much consideration for women viewers in this. Yes I'm counting 140pg of cars, 23 bra/womens undergarments, and 2 Avon ads. Not well balanced crossed what would be consumed by Americans.