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Beer In Ads #939: The Falstaff Gorilla Knitting

July 25, 2013 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is still another one for Falstaff, again from 1964. It’s the fourth in an odd series of ads featuring a gorilla that Falstaff did that year. This one shows the gorilla lying on his back reading a book on Zen while a woman with pigtails sits in a chair knitting a giant blue sock, with nearly a case of Falstaff cans at her feet.

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



Comments

  1. beerman49 says

    July 26, 2013 at 12:42 pm

    … and the orgy continues …

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