Saturday’s ad is for Gunther, from 1959. The ad appeared in the Baltimore Orioles Yearbook for the 1959 season. Gunther Brewing was also located in Baltimore, Maryland.
Beer In Ads #1151: Roberto Clemente For Ballantine
Friday’s ad is for Ballantine, from around 1950. The ad features Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder Roberto Clemente, so it must have been before 1973, since Clemente died in a plane crash while delivering aid to victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua on December 31, 1972. I still have one of his baseball cards from when I was a kid. If I had to guess, I’d say the ad is not an ad per se, but more likely was part of a baseball program sold at the stadium, except that at second glance the text is in Spanish, saying “Roberto Clemente at bat for Ballantine beer.”
Beer In Ads #1150: Your Baseball Broadcasting & Telecasting Host
Thursday’s ad is for Narragansett, from 1950. The black and white ad shows a woman staring back at the viewer, with a baseball game on the television behind her. The scene on television almost looks the same as the billboard from yesterday, with a player sliding into home. The ad also uses their famous “Hi, Neighbor! Have a ‘Gansett” tagline.
Beer In Ads #1149: Safe At Home
Wednesday’s ad is for Budweiser, from the 1950s. It’s a billboard ad, showing a player sliding into a home in a cloud of dust, with the ump declaring him to be “safe.” It appears to be part of A-B’s long-running “Where There’s Life … There’s Bud” series.
Beer In Ads #1148: Go For The Gusto Or Don’t Go At All
Tuesday’s ad is for Schlitz, from 1975. The ad shows a baseball glove catching a cold (or at least wet) can of Schlitz. I sure hope after catching it, they don’t open it right away, of they’ll get a face full of beer and foam.
Beer In Ads #1147: Leo Durocher For Rheingold
Monday’s ad is for Rheingold Beer, from 1942. With the opening day of the 2014 baseball season taking place for most teams today (not including the boondoggle to Australia and one game yesterday) I thought this week I’d feature ads with a baseball theme. Today’s ad features Leo “The Lip” Durocher, who at this time was the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Beer In Ads #1146: Score Big
Sunday’s ad is for Hamm’s, from sometime between 1983 and 1999, which is when Pabst owned the Hamm’s brand. With the opening of baseball season today (not including the boondoggle to Australia) I thought this week I’d featuring ads with a baseball theme.
Beer In Ads #1145: Kirin Soldier
Saturday’s ad is for Kirin, from 1939. This is another odd one, with a Japanese woman holding a large bottle of Kirin beer over her shoulder. But her shadow shows a soldier marching behind her, which seems almost eerie in hindsight, knowing that World War 2 was looming and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was only two years away.
Beer In Ads #1144: Yebisu Airplane
Friday’s ad is for Yebisu Beer, from 1930. This was only three years after Charles Lindbergh’s famous transatlantic solo flight, so showing an airplane above the Tokyo skyline was probably pretty cutting edge at the time. I love the stylized perspective, especially the wing.
Beer In Ads #1143: Extra Cascade Beer
Thursday’s ad is for Extra Cascade Beer, from 1929. The beer was made by the Kotobukiya Beer Brewery in Yokohama, Japan. Apparently a lager beer of “finest quality,” it’s hard not to admire the generous heads on the four mugs shown in the ad.
