Golden Oldies - Pics from your past

[ROman]

@Giles , a trip down memory lane, Me on the USS Barry, In sick bay which was my work place as a hospital corpsman. 

[Giles]

Is that an ashtray in the sick bay  :)?

[ROman]

Yes..

[popvulture]

Man I miss CBs

[Chris]

@Giles:

Is that an ashtray in the sick bay  :)?

Man that was a whole different world back then, wasn't it?

[Giles]

Wow, look at this T-Zone stuff - never knew about it until you posted that ad @Chris….

http://tobacco.stanford.edu/tobacco_main/images.php?token2=fm_st014.php&token1=fm_img2913.php&theme_file=fm_mt002.php&theme_name=For your Throat&subtheme_name=T-Zone

[Chris]

Yeah, it's amazing, isn't it? These are even better-

Winston- When you're smoking for two  ??? ??? ???

[Giles]

JESUS…...

[Seul]

Holy cow…

@ROman - that is probably the best picture in the world… IN THE WORLD MY SON...

@Appfaff - ok spill the beans, what was the name of the band?

Those adds are… mind baffling...

[Clint_D]

???

The "easy labor, slim baby" line is just mind blowing.

[Appfaff]

@Seul - well, it's embarrassing at best.

When I was 13-15 yo, we had a straight edge punk bank called "Four4Non" - a play off "Four for non smoking please" as was custom in the early 2000s to request when being seated at a restaurant. We later became quite far removed from the straight edge mentalities as teenagers do haha.

When I was 17-19 yo, I hawked my emo songs through my little bro at our high school, mainly making beer money off selling terrible high pitched singing tracks to young girls who thought I looked like the scene kid of their dreams. I called myself "I Am a Cosmetology Student" - a true obscure name that fit the times haha.

[popvulture]

@Clint_D:

???

The "easy labor, slim baby" line is just mind blowing.

Oh my fucking GOD! I don't know whether to laugh or cry…

[popvulture]

In fact, I feel like those have to be recently produced gags. They just have to be.

[Eisenherz]

Are these dubious ads from the 50s and US-based? @Chris
At this time it was ok to duck and hide under the kitchentable if atomic bombs explodes in the garden.
:o

[popvulture]

I mean, I feel like anything was possible with those old ads — my grandmother told me she started smoking because she saw and ad that said "instead of reaching for that sweet, reach for a Lucky."

[popvulture]

But yeah, after reading the copy of the low birth weight one, those are pretty obviously latter-day comedy. The big thing that tipped me off was the graphic design and "Nico-Time." Reminds me of BioShock.

[mclaincausey]

What a great thread. Cool to learn a bit more about you crazy folks.

More olden and less golden:

My younger niece, the middle of my sister’s trio, who is applying to colleges now. She shares my middle name and we’ve always had a special bond. Fell asleep on me in this comfortable position.

My jawns game wasn’t as strong as my Uncle game

Met some tall hippie in the airport and talked Dead

Amsterdam 

Visiting NYC ( )

From way back

And now I have my own

[Seul]

Or Fallout!..

[Seul]

mclain that last pic especially is fantastic!..

[Chris]

Sorry, yeah, those pregnancy ads are fake. My fault- I was in a hurry and didn't check my sources properly. The doctor one is real, though.

That makes the pregnancy ones less horrifying…