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Beer In Ads #1934: Home Preview Of The Mardi Gras Costume

June 6, 2016 By Jay Brooks


Monday’s ad is entitled Home Preview of the Mardi Gras Costume, and the illustration was done in 1952 by Douglass Crockwell. It’s #65 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, a group of people in a New Orleans courtyard, beers in hand, are looking over a costume that shortly thereafter will be up on a float in a Mardi Gras parade. I don’t know if that was a common party theme, but it seems like a fairly thin excuse for a celebration.

065. Home Preview of the Mardi Gras Costume by Douglass Crockwell, 1952

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



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