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Beer In Ads #1366: You’ll Swing To Ballantine Ale!

November 6, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Ballantine Ale, from 1950. This is from a series of billboard ads from around the same time I stumbled upon, though I’m sure the originals in color are more spectacular. In this ad for Ballantine, they’re advertising with a curious slogan, “You’ll swing to Ballantine Ale!” But I like the idea of a man pointing at drivers as they pass by, a giant bow-tied man smiling from on high, his expression seeming to say, or even smirk, “drink.”

Ballantine-1950-swing

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



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