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Beer In Ads #2402: Great Stuff This Pyramid

September 17, 2017 By Jay Brooks


Sunday’s ad is for Bass Ale, from 1937. Bass Ale was one of the beers that helped push me away from the regional lagers I grew up drinking in Eastern Pennsylvania, and toward more flavorful beers. Jazz clubs in New York City in the late 1970s frequently carried Bass, and I really liked how different it tasted, compared to what I was used to. In this ad, another one from the “Great Stuff This Bass” series,” they’re also employing another regular character from this time period, “Bill Sticker,” who in this ad just hung a ginormous banner on an Egyptian pyramid as someone is arriving riding on a camel. And I’ll bet they’re thirsty. What to drink, what to drink?

Bass-1937-pyramid

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