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Beer In Ads #2694: What’ll You Have Playing Cards

July 7, 2018 By Jay Brooks


Saturday’s ad is for Pabst Blue Ribbon, from 1951. Starting in the early 1950s, Pabst started a new ad campaign with the tagline “What’ll You Have” which lasted for a few years. They were colorful ads, and often had the tagline spelled out in creative ways. In this ad, “What’ll You Have” is written in the playing cards in his hand. I’m not sure if that’s a Royal Flush. All I can say is that there will be a flush later after he’s drank those two PBR’s in the pilsner glasses on the tray.

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



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