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Beer In Ads #1702: Long Before The Chicago Fire

October 8, 2015 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Schlitz, from 1935. The Great Chicago Fire took place on October 8, 1871, or today 144 years ago. In this Schlitz ad from two years after prohibition ended, it shows an illustration of the “Great Chicago Fire,” stating that even before that event in 1871, “Schlitz was making Milwaukee famous.”

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



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