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Beer In Ads #1608: Hello, Operator

July 6, 2015 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is for Pabst, from between 1900 and 1910. It looks like it’s probably two ads, or more likely two advertising postcards, though they definitely seem related and work as a pair. On the right, a woman is presumably ordering beer, and on the left a young man — sporting a dandy pink tie and a shirt with puffy sleeves — is taking her order. The boxes behind him suggest six different Pabst products: Hofbrau, Export Beer, Select, Bavarian, Bohemian and The Best Tonic.

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



Comments

  1. Beerman49 says

    July 7, 2015 at 9:49 pm

    The gal bears an eerie resemblance to Bernadette Peters 🙂

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