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Beer In Ads #732: Get In The Scrap

November 7, 2012 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad is for Pabst Blue Ribbon, from 1943. Pabst used these freaky anthropomorphic humanized ribbons with faces for a number of years and I always find them more than a little creepy and unsettling. This was in the middle of World War 2, when collecting scrap metal for the war effort. Apparently my mother was a decorated scrap collector. She would have been 6 in 1943 and her father, my grandfather, was an automobile mechanic, meaning there was lots of scraps around.

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



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