Thursday’s ad is for Blatz, whose 1949 claims they they were “Milwaukee’s first bottled beer.” It’s also a celebrity endorsement ad, albeit a rather odd choice. Perhaps there was a series of these done with Milwaukee residents, since the top line reads “I’m from Milwaukee and I ought to know…” The endorsement comes from local dress designer La Verne Sunde, whose “good taste” is demonstrated with inset photos of her fitting someone with a dress she’s created. I’m not quite sure how that translates to beer knowledge, but I guess it’s no sillier than a baseball player doing the same thing.
jesskidden says
Yeah, there was a long running Blatz campaign in the late ’40’s-early ’50’s of celebrity endorsements like this, based on the tag line “I’m from [or] I live(d) in Milwaukee…”.
For some reason, a Fred MacMurray one and one from a bowling champion always stick in my mind but I’m pretty sure there was also an ad featuring Liberace, too.