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Beer In Ads #1680: So Refreshing

September 16, 2015 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is for Olympia, from the 1950s. It’s such a colorful ad and looks like it may have been intended as a billboard. Curiously, in the oval the ad is for “Light Olympia,” but the can itself is “Pale Export.”

Olympia-1950s

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



Comments

  1. R D Martin says

    September 18, 2015 at 8:13 am

    A lot of beers used light in those days.

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