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Beer In Ads #928: How American It Is … To Want Something Better

July 10, 2013 By Jay Brooks


Wednesday’s ad for Ballantine Ale, from 1945. Anticipating the post-war boom in home construction, it shows a couple looking over the blueprints for their new home, although the salesman holding them looks a little sleazy to me.

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



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