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Beer In Ads #618: Refreshingly Different

May 30, 2012 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is for Washington’s Olympia Beer, from 1959. Showing a fishing scene in the great outdoors, with fish rilling on the fire and a six-pack of Olympia cans ready to wash it all down.

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



Comments

  1. Pliny the Elder says

    June 4, 2012 at 2:59 pm

    Remember their comical. ‘artesian water’ ads?

  2. J Doyle says

    June 4, 2012 at 6:33 pm

    I’ve always loved everything about Olympia Beer: taste, ads, labels and the brewery built on a waterfall with the horseshoe overhead. Last time I drove by, it was still shuttered up and looked depressing. Hopefully it will see better days again!

    Cheers………………JD

    • beerman49 says

      June 7, 2012 at 10:52 pm

      The key to its possible re-use is its being quickly accessible to I-5, which I suspect it is not, & the reason that the conglomerate that bought Oly years back shuttered it. Maybe Dogfish (or another popular brewery that’s east of the Mississippi) could make use of it as a West Coast venue & scale it down. InBev certainly has the $$ to turn it into “Goose Island West”

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