Vintage Ads that used children - Rather creepy in retrospect

[packman]

"Start them on a strict regimen of sodas and other sugary carbonated beverages right now, for a lifetime of guaranteed happiness"

And cellophane wrap your babies-




And both creepy and racist-



More at---

https://www.vintag.es/2016/09/creepy-kids-in-creepy-vintage-ads-37.html

[jberryhill]

1. The first one is clearly fake

The phrase "sugary carbonated beverages" is a giveaway, since that phrase has been relatively recently used in the various "soda tax" proposals. Aside from which, googling the "Soda Pop Board of America" results solely in discussions of the provenance of that "advertisement".

http://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/start_cola_earlier_says_the_soda_pop_board_of_america

About seven or eight years ago, I made this fake ad, exhorting parents to give soda to their babies. It was done on a bored afternoon when J.D. Ryznar asked for someone to make that very specific thing on his livejournal. I whipped it together, posted it to the web, joke over.

THEN. A couple of years later- it started showing up online, in those weird lists that pop up every so often with a "Oh man, ads sure were strange back then, weren't they?" theme. Thing is, those ads are largely real and mine is not and very obviously so.

[packman]

2. Well, I would have to pick out the fake one as the first one in my post

Thanks for the head's up

[Louis1895]

3. I used this in one of my classroom lectures

Youtube also has videos of the spraying of DDT directly on children.

[braddy]

4. We used to love running inside the DDT clouds that the trucks used to spray in our streets, we also

would ride our bikes to keep inside the cloud as the trucks drove along, it was like an army smoke screen, life would have been miserable in Houston without those DDT trucks.

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[genxlib]

5. Man that third one is straight up racist

They washed the color off that baby.

[2naSalit]

6. Right?

I recall when I was very young, late 50s, that my mother often received crap from the neighbors because my dad was pretty dark w/kinky hair (he was descended from a Jewish heritage) and she very Wisconsin white... I have a mild olive complexion for which she caught a lot of flak. She used to tell people that she left me out in the sun too long when I was a baby and that it's just a sun tan! But she was very prejudiced then too, didn't quite wash with me as I started seeing how I was treated differently than my blonde siblings.

[defacto7]

7. Reading through that link...

I don't think I've laughed so hard in a long time. It's disgustingly funny.