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Beer In Ads #1556: Lady In Green

May 15, 2015 By Jay Brooks


Friday’s ad is for Sapporo, probably from the early part of the 20th century. It shows a female bartender in a green dress with a red belt serving a bottle of Sapporo. I can’t read Japanese Kanji so I don’t know what it says, but it’s a cool ad and you can see why they obviously made a poster out of it.

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



Comments

  1. Richard Stueven says

    May 16, 2015 at 8:15 am

    I’m no expert, but I managed to squeeze “opening” and “bottle” out of Google Translate. Makes sense given the prominence of the bottle, opener, and crown.

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