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Beer In Ads #1627: Take Off On A Completely Unique Experience

July 24, 2015 By Jay Brooks


Friday’s ad is for Colt 45 malt liquor, from 1969. I guess they were playing off the popularity of the space race in 1969, when Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon. It’s a pretty weird ad, and I’m not sure about a lot of it. Why, for example, is the man just wearing a conservative black suit? And why is he surrounded by two odd-looking alien women in space suits behind a wall of Colt 45 cans. It certainly is “out of this world,” as the cheesy ad suggests.

colt-45-1969-take-off

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



Comments

  1. Beerman49 says

    July 25, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    Don’t remember that at – but it’s sure as hell weird! Guy kinda reminds me of Jimmy Kimmel & the gals look like aliens from “Star Trek”.

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