So looking up drug ad pictures for my last post, I came across this (via AdFreak):
I can’t read the small type, but the gist seems to be: “Is your wife too depressed to cook you breakfast? Pump her full of uppers, and you’ll have eggs and bacon again in no time!”
[Not that I'd really object if anyone wanted to provide me with a steady supply of uppers. In fact, I'd probably cook you breakfast if you did. Huh. Maybe they were onto something here].
More great vintage drug ads here. My second-favorite is probably an ad for barbituates that pictures a man hovering over his conked-out wife, with the text, “When crisis demands quick-acting hypnotics.” Drug your wife, obviously.
Can you imagine living in an era when doctors freely prescribed uppers or barbituates for any little problem. How many of our grandparents were closet adicts when they took their happy pills with the daily martini?
I once found a Sears catalog from 1962 at my grandmother’s house. It’s so much fun just to flip through and look at all the changes in clothes.
The first paragraph reads, “A new drug with specific effectiveness in nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, Mornidine eliminates the ordeal of morning sickness.”
It goes on to say that it keeps pregnant chicks from throwing up without the tranquilizing effects of other drugs, and it wraps up with, “Mornidine, ’cause knocked up hos better have yo breakfast waitin’!”
Now, about those reading glasses… :-p