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Beer In Ads #2318: Think

June 25, 2017 By Jay Brooks


Sunday’s ad is for Carling’s Red Cap Ale, from 1952. In this ad, showing a hat rack hanging a single red cap and sign reading “Think,” the tagline finishes below. I guess it requires you to think a little bit to put the ad’s text together. “Think … and you’ll drink Red Cap.”

carling-red-cap-ale-1952-think

Two years later, in 1954, they were still running essentially the same ad, slightly modified to fit a narrower space in a publication.

carling-red-cap-ale-1954-think

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



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