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Beer In Ads #892: Something More Than Beer

May 21, 2013 By Jay Brooks


Tuesday’s ad is for Budweiser, from the 1951. Showing a couple wearing near-matching outfits, and certainly the exact same apron, with the man having constructed a gadget to do as little work as possible while the meat on the grill cooks. Check out his socks, and the white bucks. They never quite explain what the “Something more than Beer” might be, but apparently it’s “The Companion of Contentment.”

Bud-1951-contentment

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



Comments

  1. beerman49 says

    May 26, 2013 at 12:20 am

    So that’s where Pat Boone got his “look” aspiration from …?

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