People often look back on the past with nostalgia. We still have a soft spot for things like Game Boys, New Coke, and video store rentals, even when they were not especially great. But the 20th century was a very different era, when many people believed smoking was healthy, thought drinking during pregnancy was acceptable, and used telephones that now look like something Etsy witches might use to summon the devil.
Bored Panda collected some of the most unusual and eye-catching advertisements from the last century, shared by enthusiasts on r/VintageAds, and compiled them here. The range of products people once bought and sold is almost unbelievable, from apparently pointless trinkets sold by Sears to soap with, to put it mildly, racist branding.
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