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Beer In Ads #2067: Who Said It First?

October 18, 2016 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is for Schlitz, from 1939. In this ad, entitled “Who Said It First?,” nine well-known expressions (though to be fair, a few of them I hadn’t heard before) are given their origin stories, explaining where they came from, and then the ad ends with just one more, number ten. That last one is “The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous,” yet curiously, the story doesn’t involve the Schlitz marketing department or ad agency.

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



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