Seth Godin mentioned vintageadbrowser.com – an online gallery of vintage advertising posters and signs – on his marketing and ideas blog, so I gave it a go. A search for ‘beer’ returned 1,971 results (although for some reason I could only access the first 1,000). Mostly ads dating from the 1930s – 1980s, mostly American brands like Pabst, Ballantine’s, Schlitz, Goebel, Blatz, Hamm’s and of course, Budweiser.

Here are a few slightly odder ones that I found on a quick trawl of the search results (click the images for larger versions):

In the Old Days they pretended to give the fox a sporting chance by getting properly pissed-up pre-hunt.	That explains what happened to the pretzel guy and the balloon seller, but whose hat is that..?
Recyclying? What’s that, then..?	Bud and MEAT – making Americans hefty since the 1950s
The slogan apparently reads: ‘The Beer from the Spring Hops Has Arrived, The Enemy is Surrendering’	Just what the world needed back in the ’50s: an in-car beer dispenser! Spoof or genuine, I wonder?

Plenty more where these came from: www.vintageadbrowser.com

Time for another quick wander down the highways, byways, lanes and back-alleys of the beerier reaches of the blogosphere, the Big News of the Week of course being the results of the British Guild of Beer Writers Awards…

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