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Beer In Ads #1004: Where There’s Life … There’s Long Fingernails

October 23, 2013 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is for Budweiser, from 1958. It’s one from Anheuser-Busch’s long-running “Where There’s Like … There’s Bud” series. In this one, a smiling redhead is having her pilsner glass filled, but notice that it’s already full to the brim, but there’s still a stream of beer coming out of the bottle, plus you can see a fair amount of beer still inside the bottle, too. A lot of these ads show this impossible scene of a bottomless beer bottle where despite the fact that glass is full, the bottle that filled it is still likewise full. It’s magic. And check out the length of her painted fingernails. They seem pretty long for 1958. Of course, I was minus one that year, so what do I know?

Bud-1958

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



Comments

  1. beerman49 says

    October 24, 2013 at 9:40 pm

    … and fake nails had yet to become the rage … I was 9 in 1958, & I don’t recall ever seeing nails that long except on cartoon characters.

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