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Beer In Ads #2816: Help Your Community Drives

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Tuesday’s ad is for Budweiser, from 1944. This World War 2 ad features a Colonial American scene with “Ye Olde Melting Pot” on a street corner. I doubt that’s what actually happened, but I know there were scrap metal drives during World War 2. I have a newspaper clipping when my mother was a little girl when she was made a general in the “tin can army” for collecting a lot of metal (primarily because my grandfather’s job gave him access to it). What it has to do with beer is less clear, except that apparently the brewery also gave to the war effort.

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Beer In Ads #2811: You Know The Minuteman …

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Thursday’s ad is for Budweiser, from 1944. This ad features a history lesson on how much work was done by the “missus” of the average minuteman, with the obvious analogy to wives back home during World War II with so many husbands in the military overseas fighting the war. She does not look very happy. I think she needs a beer.

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Beer In Ads #2749: Good Taste Runs In The Family

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Friday’s ad is for Michelob, one of the brands created by Anheuser-Busch as a draft-only beer in 1896. It was first packaged in 1961, and its distinctive teardrop bottle won a design award the following year. But that was replaced in 1967 “for efficiency in the production line,” but reverted to a traditional bottle in 2002. This ad is from 1969, and features the headling “Good Taste Runs In The Family,” and shows the family of draft, bottles, and cans. And, of course, at the bottom of the ad, is the tagline “In Beer, Going First Class Is Michelob. Period.”

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Beer In Ads #2748: Dedicated To The Proposition That All Beers Are Not Created Equal

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Thursday’s ad is for Michelob, one of the brands created by Anheuser-Busch as a draft-only beer in 1896. It was first packaged in 1961, and its distinctive teardrop bottle won a design award the following year. But that was replaced in 1967 “for efficiency in the production line,” but reverted to a traditional bottle in 2002. This ad is from 1969, and features a mug of beer and a half-empty bottle sitting a parchment that’s meant to resemble the Declaration of Independence, only in this case it’s “Dedicated to the proposition that all beers are not created equal.” And, of course, at the bottom of the ad, is the tagline “In Beer, Going First Class Is Michelob. Period.”

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Beer In Ads #2747: Draw Your Own Conclusions

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Wednesday’s ad is for Michelob, one of the brands created by Anheuser-Busch as a draft-only beer in 1896. It was first packaged in 1961, and its distinctive teardrop bottle won a design award the following year. But that was replaced in 1967 “for efficiency in the production line,” but reverted to a traditional bottle in 2002. This ad is from 1968, and features a mug of beer being filled from a tap, with the largest headline in gold, “Draw Your Own Conclusions.” Naturally, at the bottom of the ad, is the tagline “In Beer, Going First Class Is Michelob.”

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Beer In Ads #2746: Sometimes I Wonder…

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Tuesday’s ad is for Michelob, one of the brands created by Anheuser-Busch as a draft-only beer in 1896. It was first packaged in 1961, and its distinctive teardrop bottle won a design award the following year. But that was replaced in 1967 “for efficiency in the production line,” but reverted to a traditional bottle in 2002. This ad is from 1968, and features a Michelob bottle anthropomorphized with eyelashes and a speech bubble saying “Sometimes I wonder if you like me for myself … or just my shape. Hmm. And of course, at the bottom of the ad, is the tagline “In Beer, Going First Class Is Michelob.”

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