Friday’s ad is for “Rheingold Beer,” from 1961. This ad was made for the Rheingold Brewery, which was founded by the Liebmann family in 1883 in New York, New York. At its peak, it sold 35% of all the beer in New York state. In 1963, the family sold the brewery and in was shut down in 1976. In 1940, Philip Liebmann, great-grandson of the founder, Samuel Liebmann, started the “Miss Rheingold” pageant as the centerpiece of its marketing campaign. Beer drinkers voted each year on the young lady who would be featured as Miss Rheingold in advertisements. In the 1940s and 1950s in New York, “the selection of Miss Rheingold was as highly anticipated as the race for the White House.” The winning model was then featured in at least twelve monthly advertisements for the brewery, beginning in 1940 and ending in 1965. Beginning in 1941, the selection of next year’s Miss Rheingold was instituted and became wildly popular in the New York Area and beyond. Janet E. Mick was Miss Rheingold 1961, and was born January 5, 1935. She was born in Westmont, N.J., but her parents later moved to Camden. Curiously, each of her three sisters also has a name beginning with the letter “J” and a middle name beginning with “E.” Her sisters include Joyce E., Judith E., and Jean E. After graduating from Camden High School, she worked for five years with New Jersey Bell Telephone in the Camden office, before becoming a stewardess for American Airlines. In between, she also enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Ballet in Philadelphia. While a stewardess, she became “Miss American Airlines” and appeared in ads for the airline. She also routinely flew back and forth between Los Angeles, so registered with a modeling agency in California and began accepting modeling jobs, including television commercials. So she entered the Miss Rheingold contest, hoping to supplement her income. She enjoys pizza and making homemade ice cream. In her spare time, she plays tennis, bowls and goes swimming. In September of 1962, the year after her reign, she married John Petersen Warwick, an Exec. VP of the ad agency Warwick & Legler, Inc. He was responsible for such memorable ads as the Timex Torture Test and Heineken and Seagram’s ads, among many others. He later was Chairman and CEO for 33 years of the prestigious advertising firm. The couple had two children. He passed away in 2016, but she appears to still be alive. In this ad, from November, Janet Mick, Miss Rheingold 1961, is at a barn dance, pausing from the festivities to grab a can of beer from a metal tub of ice as people continue to do-si-do behind her.

Thursday’s ad is for “Rheingold Beer,” from 1961. This ad was made for the Rheingold Brewery, which was founded by the Liebmann family in 1883 in New York, New York. At its peak, it sold 35% of all the beer in New York state. In 1963, the family sold the brewery and in was shut down in 1976. In 1940, Philip Liebmann, great-grandson of the founder, Samuel Liebmann, started the “Miss Rheingold” pageant as the centerpiece of its marketing campaign. Beer drinkers voted each year on the young lady who would be featured as Miss Rheingold in advertisements. In the 1940s and 1950s in New York, “the selection of Miss Rheingold was as highly anticipated as the race for the White House.” The winning model was then featured in at least twelve monthly advertisements for the brewery, beginning in 1940 and ending in 1965. Beginning in 1941, the selection of next year’s Miss Rheingold was instituted and became wildly popular in the New York Area and beyond. Janet E. Mick was Miss Rheingold 1961, and was born January 5, 1935. She was born in Westmont, N.J., but her parents later moved to Camden. Curiously, each of her three sisters also has a name beginning with the letter “J” and a middle name beginning with “E.” Her sisters include Joyce E., Judith E., and Jean E. After graduating from Camden High School, she worked for five years with New Jersey Bell Telephone in the Camden office, before becoming a stewardess for American Airlines. In between, she also enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Ballet in Philadelphia. While a stewardess, she became “Miss American Airlines” and appeared in ads for the airline. She also routinely flew back and forth between Los Angeles, so registered with a modeling agency in California and began accepting modeling jobs, including television commercials. So she entered the Miss Rheingold contest, hoping to supplement her income. She enjoys pizza and making homemade ice cream. In her spare time, she plays tennis, bowls and goes swimming. In September of 1962, the year after her reign, she married John Petersen Warwick, an Exec. VP of the ad agency Warwick & Legler, Inc. He was responsible for such memorable ads as the Timex Torture Test and Heineken and Seagram’s ads, among many others. He later was Chairman and CEO for 33 years of the prestigious advertising firm. The couple had two children. He passed away in 2016, but she appears to still be alive. In this ad, from November, Janet Mick, Miss Rheingold 1961, is out raking leaves with, I think, our same random dude who’s been featured with her in every ad this year. There are two rakes, suggesting she’s been raking, too, but who rakes in a dress?

Wednesday’s ad is for “Rheingold Beer,” from 1961. This ad was made for the Rheingold Brewery, which was founded by the Liebmann family in 1883 in New York, New York. At its peak, it sold 35% of all the beer in New York state. In 1963, the family sold the brewery and in was shut down in 1976. In 1940, Philip Liebmann, great-grandson of the founder, Samuel Liebmann, started the “Miss Rheingold” pageant as the centerpiece of its marketing campaign. Beer drinkers voted each year on the young lady who would be featured as Miss Rheingold in advertisements. In the 1940s and 1950s in New York, “the selection of Miss Rheingold was as highly anticipated as the race for the White House.” The winning model was then featured in at least twelve monthly advertisements for the brewery, beginning in 1940 and ending in 1965. Beginning in 1941, the selection of next year’s Miss Rheingold was instituted and became wildly popular in the New York Area and beyond. Janet E. Mick was Miss Rheingold 1961, and was born January 5, 1935. She was born in Westmont, N.J., but her parents later moved to Camden. Curiously, each of her three sisters also has a name beginning with the letter “J” and a middle name beginning with “E.” Her sisters include Joyce E., Judith E., and Jean E. After graduating from Camden High School, she worked for five years with New Jersey Bell Telephone in the Camden office, before becoming a stewardess for American Airlines. In between, she also enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Ballet in Philadelphia. While a stewardess, she became “Miss American Airlines” and appeared in ads for the airline. She also routinely flew back and forth between Los Angeles, so registered with a modeling agency in California and began accepting modeling jobs, including television commercials. So she entered the Miss Rheingold contest, hoping to supplement her income. She enjoys pizza and making homemade ice cream. In her spare time, she plays tennis, bowls and goes swimming. In September of 1962, the year after her reign, she married John Petersen Warwick, an Exec. VP of the ad agency Warwick & Legler, Inc. He was responsible for such memorable ads as the Timex Torture Test and Heineken and Seagram’s ads, among many others. He later was Chairman and CEO for 33 years of the prestigious advertising firm. The couple had two children. He passed away in 2016, but she appears to still be alive. In this ad, from October, Janet Mick, Miss Rheingold 1961, is at a Halloween party, looking at a random dude carrying a tray with a large jack-o-lantern and cans of Rheingold beer. But this ad continues the worrying trend of this year’s ads not really featuring Miss Rheingold but focusing on a male model and showing Janet Mick as mere window dressing, a sidekick merely watching from the sidelines. I don’t know if this was a trend at the time, a deliberate decision to portray her as subservient, or what? But in most, if not all, prior years Miss Rheingold was the focal point of every ad.

Tuesday’s ad is for “Rheingold Beer,” from 1961. This ad was made for the Rheingold Brewery, which was founded by the Liebmann family in 1883 in New York, New York. At its peak, it sold 35% of all the beer in New York state. In 1963, the family sold the brewery and in was shut down in 1976. In 1940, Philip Liebmann, great-grandson of the founder, Samuel Liebmann, started the “Miss Rheingold” pageant as the centerpiece of its marketing campaign. Beer drinkers voted each year on the young lady who would be featured as Miss Rheingold in advertisements. In the 1940s and 1950s in New York, “the selection of Miss Rheingold was as highly anticipated as the race for the White House.” The winning model was then featured in at least twelve monthly advertisements for the brewery, beginning in 1940 and ending in 1965. Beginning in 1941, the selection of next year’s Miss Rheingold was instituted and became wildly popular in the New York Area and beyond. Janet E. Mick was Miss Rheingold 1961, and was born January 5, 1935. She was born in Westmont, N.J., but her parents later moved to Camden. Curiously, each of her three sisters also has a name beginning with the letter “J” and a middle name beginning with “E.” Her sisters include Joyce E., Judith E., and Jean E. After graduating from Camden High School, she worked for five years with New Jersey Bell Telephone in the Camden office, before becoming a stewardess for American Airlines. In between, she also enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Ballet in Philadelphia. While a stewardess, she became “Miss American Airlines” and appeared in ads for the airline. She also routinely flew back and forth between Los Angeles, so registered with a modeling agency in California and began accepting modeling jobs, including television commercials. So she entered the Miss Rheingold contest, hoping to supplement her income. She enjoys pizza and making homemade ice cream. In her spare time, she plays tennis, bowls and goes swimming. In September of 1962, the year after her reign, she married John Petersen Warwick, an Exec. VP of the ad agency Warwick & Legler, Inc. He was responsible for such memorable ads as the Timex Torture Test and Heineken and Seagram’s ads, among many others. He later was Chairman and CEO for 33 years of the prestigious advertising firm. The couple had two children. He passed away in 2016, but she appears to still be alive. In this ad, from September, Janet Mick, Miss Rheingold 1961, is just walking off a tennis court, having presumably finished a match with some unelected Mr. Rheingold who seems to be every ad this year.

Monday’s ad is for “Rheingold Beer,” from 1961. This ad was made for the Rheingold Brewery, which was founded by the Liebmann family in 1883 in New York, New York. At its peak, it sold 35% of all the beer in New York state. In 1963, the family sold the brewery and in was shut down in 1976. In 1940, Philip Liebmann, great-grandson of the founder, Samuel Liebmann, started the “Miss Rheingold” pageant as the centerpiece of its marketing campaign. Beer drinkers voted each year on the young lady who would be featured as Miss Rheingold in advertisements. In the 1940s and 1950s in New York, “the selection of Miss Rheingold was as highly anticipated as the race for the White House.” The winning model was then featured in at least twelve monthly advertisements for the brewery, beginning in 1940 and ending in 1965. Beginning in 1941, the selection of next year’s Miss Rheingold was instituted and became wildly popular in the New York Area and beyond. Janet E. Mick was Miss Rheingold 1961, and was born January 5, 1935. She was born in Westmont, N.J., but her parents later moved to Camden. Curiously, each of her three sisters also has a name beginning with the letter “J” and a middle name beginning with “E.” Her sisters include Joyce E., Judith E., and Jean E. After graduating from Camden High School, she worked for five years with New Jersey Bell Telephone in the Camden office, before becoming a stewardess for American Airlines. In between, she also enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Ballet in Philadelphia. While a stewardess, she became “Miss American Airlines” and appeared in ads for the airline. She also routinely flew back and forth between Los Angeles, so registered with a modeling agency in California and began accepting modeling jobs, including television commercials. So she entered the Miss Rheingold contest, hoping to supplement her income. She enjoys pizza and making homemade ice cream. In her spare time, she plays tennis, bowls and goes swimming. In September of 1962, the year after her reign, she married John Petersen Warwick, an Exec. VP of the ad agency Warwick & Legler, Inc. He was responsible for such memorable ads as the Timex Torture Test and Heineken and Seagram’s ads, among many others. He later was Chairman and CEO for 33 years of the prestigious advertising firm. The couple had two children. He passed away in 2016, but she appears to still be alive. In this ad, from August, Janet Mick, Miss Rheingold 1961, is a swimming pool, but curiously in the background while some dude is front and center eyeing some Rheingold beer.

Sunday’s ad is for “Rheingold Beer,” from 1961. This ad was made for the Rheingold Brewery, which was founded by the Liebmann family in 1883 in New York, New York. At its peak, it sold 35% of all the beer in New York state. In 1963, the family sold the brewery and in was shut down in 1976. In 1940, Philip Liebmann, great-grandson of the founder, Samuel Liebmann, started the “Miss Rheingold” pageant as the centerpiece of its marketing campaign. Beer drinkers voted each year on the young lady who would be featured as Miss Rheingold in advertisements. In the 1940s and 1950s in New York, “the selection of Miss Rheingold was as highly anticipated as the race for the White House.” The winning model was then featured in at least twelve monthly advertisements for the brewery, beginning in 1940 and ending in 1965. Beginning in 1941, the selection of next year’s Miss Rheingold was instituted and became wildly popular in the New York Area and beyond. Janet E. Mick was Miss Rheingold 1961, and was born January 5, 1935. She was born in Westmont, N.J., but her parents later moved to Camden. Curiously, each of her three sisters also has a name beginning with the letter “J” and a middle name beginning with “E.” Her sisters include Joyce E., Judith E., and Jean E. After graduating from Camden High School, she worked for five years with New Jersey Bell Telephone in the Camden office, before becoming a stewardess for American Airlines. In between, she also enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Ballet in Philadelphia. While a stewardess, she became “Miss American Airlines” and appeared in ads for the airline. She also routinely flew back and forth between Los Angeles, so registered with a modeling agency in California and began accepting modeling jobs, including television commercials. So she entered the Miss Rheingold contest, hoping to supplement her income. She enjoys pizza and making homemade ice cream. In her spare time, she plays tennis, bowls and goes swimming. In September of 1962, the year after her reign, she married John Petersen Warwick, an Exec. VP of the ad agency Warwick & Legler, Inc. He was responsible for such memorable ads as the Timex Torture Test and Heineken and Seagram’s ads, among many others. He later was Chairman and CEO for 33 years of the prestigious advertising firm. The couple had two children. He passed away in 2016, but she appears to still be alive. In this ad, from July, Janet Mick, Miss Rheingold 1961, is at the beach, waving to us while talking to someone from an elevated point. Below them there is a bucket of food and an unseen person holding a can of Rheingold beer.

From the same month, this ad uses the same photo, but crops it someone so that only one more couple is seen in the background, rather than the two couples from the previous ad.

Saturday’s ad is for “Rheingold Beer,” from 1961. This ad was made for the Rheingold Brewery, which was founded by the Liebmann family in 1883 in New York, New York. At its peak, it sold 35% of all the beer in New York state. In 1963, the family sold the brewery and in was shut down in 1976. In 1940, Philip Liebmann, great-grandson of the founder, Samuel Liebmann, started the “Miss Rheingold” pageant as the centerpiece of its marketing campaign. Beer drinkers voted each year on the young lady who would be featured as Miss Rheingold in advertisements. In the 1940s and 1950s in New York, “the selection of Miss Rheingold was as highly anticipated as the race for the White House.” The winning model was then featured in at least twelve monthly advertisements for the brewery, beginning in 1940 and ending in 1965. Beginning in 1941, the selection of next year’s Miss Rheingold was instituted and became wildly popular in the New York Area and beyond. Janet E. Mick was Miss Rheingold 1961, and was born January 5, 1935. She was born in Westmont, N.J., but her parents later moved to Camden. Curiously, each of her three sisters also has a name beginning with the letter “J” and a middle name beginning with “E.” Her sisters include Joyce E., Judith E., and Jean E. After graduating from Camden High School, she worked for five years with New Jersey Bell Telephone in the Camden office, before becoming a stewardess for American Airlines. In between, she also enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Ballet in Philadelphia. While a stewardess, she became “Miss American Airlines” and appeared in ads for the airline. She also routinely flew back and forth between Los Angeles, so registered with a modeling agency in California and began accepting modeling jobs, including television commercials. So she entered the Miss Rheingold contest, hoping to supplement her income. She enjoys pizza and making homemade ice cream. In her spare time, she plays tennis, bowls and goes swimming. In September of 1962, the year after her reign, she married John Petersen Warwick, an Exec. VP of the ad agency Warwick & Legler, Inc. He was responsible for such memorable ads as the Timex Torture Test and Heineken and Seagram’s ads, among many others. He later was Chairman and CEO for 33 years of the prestigious advertising firm. The couple had two children. He passed away in 2016, but she appears to still be alive. In this ad, from June, Janet Mick, Miss Rheingold 1961, is walking off of a dock with a man. She’s carrying what look like groceries, while he’s got a six-pack of beer under each arm. In the foreground someone is holding another six-pack of beer for them. I thought this was the same ad as yesterday, but it’s ever so slightly different and in it Janet Mick is just smiling, while in yesterday’s ad she was clearly laughing.

Friday’s ad is for “Rheingold Beer,” from 1961. This ad was made for the Rheingold Brewery, which was founded by the Liebmann family in 1883 in New York, New York. At its peak, it sold 35% of all the beer in New York state. In 1963, the family sold the brewery and in was shut down in 1976. In 1940, Philip Liebmann, great-grandson of the founder, Samuel Liebmann, started the “Miss Rheingold” pageant as the centerpiece of its marketing campaign. Beer drinkers voted each year on the young lady who would be featured as Miss Rheingold in advertisements. In the 1940s and 1950s in New York, “the selection of Miss Rheingold was as highly anticipated as the race for the White House.” The winning model was then featured in at least twelve monthly advertisements for the brewery, beginning in 1940 and ending in 1965. Beginning in 1941, the selection of next year’s Miss Rheingold was instituted and became wildly popular in the New York Area and beyond. Janet E. Mick was Miss Rheingold 1961, and was born January 5, 1935. She was born in Westmont, N.J., but her parents later moved to Camden. Curiously, each of her three sisters also has a name beginning with the letter “J” and a middle name beginning with “E.” Her sisters include Joyce E., Judith E., and Jean E. After graduating from Camden High School, she worked for five years with New Jersey Bell Telephone in the Camden office, before becoming a stewardess for American Airlines. In between, she also enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Ballet in Philadelphia. While a stewardess, she became “Miss American Airlines” and appeared in ads for the airline. She also routinely flew back and forth between Los Angeles, so registered with a modeling agency in California and began accepting modeling jobs, including television commercials. So she entered the Miss Rheingold contest, hoping to supplement her income. She enjoys pizza and making homemade ice cream. In her spare time, she plays tennis, bowls and goes swimming. In September of 1962, the year after her reign, she married John Petersen Warwick, an Exec. VP of the ad agency Warwick & Legler, Inc. He was responsible for such memorable ads as the Timex Torture Test and Heineken and Seagram’s ads, among many others. He later was Chairman and CEO for 33 years of the prestigious advertising firm. The couple had two children. He passed away in 2016, but she appears to still be alive. In this ad, from June, Janet Mick, Miss Rheingold 1961, is walking off of a dock with a man. She’s carrying what look like groceries, while he’s got a six-pack of beer under each arm. In the foregoround someone is holding another six-pack of beer for them.

Thursday’s ad is for “Rheingold Beer,” from 1961. This ad was made for the Rheingold Brewery, which was founded by the Liebmann family in 1883 in New York, New York. At its peak, it sold 35% of all the beer in New York state. In 1963, the family sold the brewery and in was shut down in 1976. In 1940, Philip Liebmann, great-grandson of the founder, Samuel Liebmann, started the “Miss Rheingold” pageant as the centerpiece of its marketing campaign. Beer drinkers voted each year on the young lady who would be featured as Miss Rheingold in advertisements. In the 1940s and 1950s in New York, “the selection of Miss Rheingold was as highly anticipated as the race for the White House.” The winning model was then featured in at least twelve monthly advertisements for the brewery, beginning in 1940 and ending in 1965. Beginning in 1941, the selection of next year’s Miss Rheingold was instituted and became wildly popular in the New York Area and beyond. Janet E. Mick was Miss Rheingold 1961, and was born January 5, 1935. She was born in Westmont, N.J., but her parents later moved to Camden. Curiously, each of her three sisters also has a name beginning with the letter “J” and a middle name beginning with “E.” Her sisters include Joyce E., Judith E., and Jean E. After graduating from Camden High School, she worked for five years with New Jersey Bell Telephone in the Camden office, before becoming a stewardess for American Airlines. In between, she also enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Ballet in Philadelphia. While a stewardess, she became “Miss American Airlines” and appeared in ads for the airline. She also routinely flew back and forth between Los Angeles, so registered with a modeling agency in California and began accepting modeling jobs, including television commercials. So she entered the Miss Rheingold contest, hoping to supplement her income. She enjoys pizza and making homemade ice cream. In her spare time, she plays tennis, bowls and goes swimming. In September of 1962, the year after her reign, she married John Petersen Warwick, an Exec. VP of the ad agency Warwick & Legler, Inc. He was responsible for such memorable ads as the Timex Torture Test and Heineken and Seagram’s ads, among many others. He later was Chairman and CEO for 33 years of the prestigious advertising firm. The couple had two children. He passed away in 2016, but she appears to still be alive. In this ad, from May, Janet Mick, Miss Rheingold 1961, is on a golf course with another man, and off to the side, off the green, someone is pouring them beers, so presumably it’s time for the 19th hole. But I’m also noticing a shift in tone of the ads this year. Previous Miss Rheingold would have been playing golf, where she appears to merely be a spectator. And that was true in yesterday’s ad, where she was just watching someone play shuffleboard on a cruise ship. It seems they’re portraying her much more passively than they did in the fifties.

Wednesday’s ad is for “Rheingold Beer,” from 1961. This ad was made for the Rheingold Brewery, which was founded by the Liebmann family in 1883 in New York, New York. At its peak, it sold 35% of all the beer in New York state. In 1963, the family sold the brewery and in was shut down in 1976. In 1940, Philip Liebmann, great-grandson of the founder, Samuel Liebmann, started the “Miss Rheingold” pageant as the centerpiece of its marketing campaign. Beer drinkers voted each year on the young lady who would be featured as Miss Rheingold in advertisements. In the 1940s and 1950s in New York, “the selection of Miss Rheingold was as highly anticipated as the race for the White House.” The winning model was then featured in at least twelve monthly advertisements for the brewery, beginning in 1940 and ending in 1965. Beginning in 1941, the selection of next year’s Miss Rheingold was instituted and became wildly popular in the New York Area and beyond. Janet E. Mick was Miss Rheingold 1961, and was born January 5, 1935. She was born in Westmont, N.J., but her parents later moved to Camden. Curiously, each of her three sisters also has a name beginning with the letter “J” and a middle name beginning with “E.” Her sisters include Joyce E., Judith E., and Jean E. After graduating from Camden High School, she worked for five years with New Jersey Bell Telephone in the Camden office, before becoming a stewardess for American Airlines. In between, she also enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Ballet in Philadelphia. While a stewardess, she became “Miss American Airlines” and appeared in ads for the airline. She also routinely flew back and forth between Los Angeles, so registered with a modeling agency in California and began accepting modeling jobs, including television commercials. So she entered the Miss Rheingold contest, hoping to supplement her income. She enjoys pizza and making homemade ice cream. In her spare time, she plays tennis, bowls and goes swimming. In September of 1962, the year after her reign, she married John Petersen Warwick, an Exec. VP of the ad agency Warwick & Legler, Inc. He was responsible for such memorable ads as the Timex Torture Test and Heineken and Seagram’s ads, among many others. He later was Chairman and CEO for 33 years of the prestigious advertising firm. The couple had two children. He passed away in 2016, but she appears to still be alive. In this ad, from April, Janet Mick, Miss Rheingold 1961, is on board the P&O-Orient Lines’ ship “Oriana” and appears to be walking from the shuffleboard court to get a beer.