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Beer In Ads #1977: Showing Off The New Power Mower

July 19, 2016 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is entitled Showing Off the New Power Mower, and the illustration was done in 1955 by Fred Siebel. It’s #108 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, suburban manly men stand in the yard, oohing and awing over a new power mower, that to 2016 eyes looks positively old-fashioned. Despite two out of three of them doing actual yard work, they all have beers in their hands, and one of the woman back at the house looks to be delivering a tray of more beer, which certainly seems like a good idea if he’s going to mow the lawn.

108. Showing Off the New Power Mower by Fred Siebel, 1955

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



Comments

  1. Miles Jordan says

    July 21, 2016 at 9:46 am

    O Tempora! O Mores!

  2. beerman49 says

    July 22, 2016 at 2:08 am

    I never saw a power mower in mid-50’s (Fresno,CA) that looked like that one, which loox to have no grass catcher. WTF?

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