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Beer In Ads #1220: Handy Way To Order

June 12, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Ballantine, from 1939. Showing a handy new way to order a Ballantine, make the OK sign by placing your thumb and forefinger in a circle, for a ring, and sticking the remaining three fingers in the air, for the number three. So that’s three rings, and as the ad asks: “Get It?”

ballantine-1939-get-it

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Ballantine, History



Comments

  1. Beerman49 says

    June 14, 2014 at 1:52 am

    Goofy-clever for its day, LOL-ville now.

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