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Beer In Ads #1097: If You Can’t Come To Holland …

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Sunday’s ad is for Heineken, from 1976. Showing a cliched view of a windmill with a bottle and glass of Heineken in the foreground, the headline is “If You Can’t Come To Holland Have A Heineken.” This ad is from when I was a junior in high school, and I remember being with my stepfather and visiting a business associate of his. The guy we were visiting asked my stepdad if he wanted a beer, asking if he’d prefer a regular beer or “the good stuff,” which turned out to be Heineken. Oh, how times have changed.

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Beer In Ads #1096: Schaefer All Around

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Saturday’s ad is for Schaefer, from 1959. Schaefer did a number of ads with the round theme, often showing the top of a beer can, emphasizing the round shape of them. This one shows a round plate full of snacks, including some not-terribly-appetizing potato chips (they’ve got brown edges indicating they were burned or the oil used was old).

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Beer In Ads #1091: Norman Rockwell’s Man With A Beer & Sandwich

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Monday’s ad is by famed artist and illustrator Norman Rockwell, who was born today, February 3, in 1894. Rockwell was most famous for his magazine covers for the Saturday Evening Post and Boys’ Life, the official Boy Scouts’ publication. But he also did some commercial illustration, including this painting of a “Man with Sandwich and Glass of Beer,” for an unspecified beer ad, which was created between 1947 and 1950. I don’t think it was ever used, as I’ve been unable to turn up the illustration in any actual advertisement.

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Beer In Ads #1089: When You’re Out Of Schlitz, Punt.

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Saturday’s ad, to get your ready for tomorrow’s Super Bowl, is for Schlitz, from 1969. It’s a funny one. Showing an upside down can of Schlitz held up by a finger, ready for the kick … wait a minute. What’s wrong with this picture? How did this get published? Figure it out yet? Somebody at the ad agency must have known something about football, or maybe not. Check the headline again. “When You’re Out Of Schlitz, Punt.” Whoops. Hilarious.

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