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Beer In Ads #889: Aladdin For Ballantine

May 16, 2013 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Ballantine, from 1950. It’s a funny little poem about Aladdin — though the illustration might be controversial today — where the bartender is the genie in the lamp.

Aladdin …
— was a lad in old Bagdad
He had a lot of luck
with a lamp he had

He rubbed that lamp—
a man came flyin’
and served him up some Ballantine.

You can steal Aladdin’s tricks
Lamp or no lamp this one clicks

Ballantine-1950-aladdin

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



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