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some of this is just weird... I would love to meet one of the idiots that actually bought this back in the 1970s.

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These 2 ads were innocent for the 1950s, but in the world we live in today they certainly mean something different. Yes, that's a ad for women’s undergarments, you might have to enlarge the pictures to read them, but the text is hilarious.

LOL! Undergarments and cording for tires!

I can actually remember when the word "gay" merely meant happy or festive. I even knew a girl in high school whose first name was Gay, although people were already beginning to know the slang connotation by then (early 70s). I've often wondered how she's handled that in her adult life.

Cigarettes: when I was little, they made chocolate cigarettes and packaged them in boxes that looked like the ones parents bought. I used to get them in my Christmas stocking. Smoking was ubiquitous. A nice ash tray was a common Christmas gift among adults. Of course, I never smoked even one real cigarette because they killed my father, and I started my life with a ringside seat on lung cancer. By the time I was 12 or 13, the tide was turning against cigarette smoking, anyway.

When I was a kid in the 80s I remember smoking was very popular in society, and they used to sell the Popeye candy cigarettes for kids so that they could behave like adults, but by the 90s they started calling them candy sticks because things started to change. There is a picture of the sticks, and more ads below... what kids really want, cereal and raisins.

This is a modern ad, but I think it's great. Also, the ad below it is the truth, even if people won't admit it.

Now for something really weird, this is for the 1968 presidential campaign, talk about a cheap way to use what is currently popular in culture to try to get votes.

Below it is some old reading material from the 30s.

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Some old comics with Halloween covers.

Those are great! I don't remember that political ad, although, honestly, it was true back then. Nixon got almost everyone's vote.

I'm amazed there were still candy cigarettes available in the 80s. Smoking began to decline in popularity in the 60s, and I think the TV ads for it disappeared in the late 60s, maybe the early 70s. Perhaps it depended on where you lived, though. I was astonished to discover how popular smoking still was in Virginia when I moved up there in the 80s.

Those old magazines! My mother lived in California as a young woman in the 1930s, and she said she first heard of Trick or Treating out there. It wasn't a thing in the South until after WW2. I think it might have started up North and then moved South gradually.

Actually, candy cigarettes were still available up to the mid 90s around here, and I remember magazine ads for cigarettes into the 90s, but like you said, it probably depends on where you live.

When I was in my 20s I was shocked to find out that the Flintstones and other cartoon characters, and stars from popular tv shows for kids did commercials for cigarettes in the early 60s. There are so many things wrong with these commercials that I wouldn't even know where to start, you can check out 2 of them in the links below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d815Ame16fg

Here are some more pictures of classic beauties celebrating the holiday.

I guess those pin ups are from the 40s?

I don't recall those Flintstone ads, but I probably saw them. I was a Flintstones fan. There were so many cigarette commercials in those days it wouldn't have fazed me. And shows did tend to be sponsored by one product. I certainly recall that slogan, though I hadn't thought of it in decades.

The pin ups range from the 40s-50s.

Here are some classic greeting cards, like I said before, things were more innocent back then, so I apologize for posting the first card below, but I couldn't resist.

Some more old pictures, these are from the 20s, and some of them are just creepy.