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Beer In Ads #16: Pabst, What’ll You Have?

January 6, 2010 By Jay Brooks

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Wednesday’s ad is a Christmas ad — because today is Old Christmas Day, when “on the 12th day after Christmas, Christians celebrate the visit of the Magi, the first Gentile recognition of Christ.” It’s also known as Epiphany, Three Kings Day and Twelfth Day. If I had to guess, I’d say this ad was from the mid-to-late fifties. The tagline “What’ll You Have?” was used by Pabst for a number of years and it appears it a number of their ads from that time period. Happy Christmas.

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Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Christmas, Pabst



Comments

  1. Erik says

    January 7, 2010 at 10:55 am

    That’s great! I love these old vintage style ads.

  2. Peter Elzer ( Winewhse) says

    January 10, 2010 at 9:05 am

    Keep these old adds coming. Cool beans.

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