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Beer In Ads #1901: Showing Off The Flower Garden

May 4, 2016 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is entitled Showing Off The Flower Garden, and the illustration was done in 1949 by Douglass Crockwell. It’s #32 in a series entitled “Home Life in America,” also known as the Beer Belongs series of ads that the United States Brewers Foundation ran from 1945 to 1956. In this ad, one couple is showing off their flower garden to another. One of them looks like he must be John Holl’s dad. The men hold their beers and point. The women left their beers on the table behind them and actually touch the flowers. Also, notice how in the inset below the painting, the vase resembles a hand holding a beer glass, doesn’t it?

032. Showing Off the Flower Garden by Douglass Crockwell, 1949

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



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