Vintage Ads You Won’t Believe Existed


105. American Airlines (the 1970s)

American Airlines

Suppose airlines were this comfortable and roomy nowadays! Of course, they can’t be with decades of study and recently revised safety requirements, but still. We can fantasize.

106. Volkswagen Beetle (1965)

Volkswagen Beetle

Whatever you want to say about the V.W. Beetle, it never went out of vogue. Even though they have repeatedly said that they will cease manufacturing indefinitely, demand continues to rise.

107. Pristine Feminine Hygiene Deodorant Spray (the 1960s)

Pristine Feminine Hygiene Deodorant Spray

It’s no surprise that women have struggled for decades with irrational self-esteem concerns. Every advertisement from the first 70 years of the twentieth century focused on women’s insatiable need to smear dangerous substances all over their genitals.

108. Mosely Folding Bath Tub (1895)

Mosely Folding Bath Tub

We have to presume that the reason this murphy-bed-like tub didn’t stay was due to plumbing concerns with the design, but what a wonderful innovation it would have been if it had worked out.