I am also a leader in the low price field.
[Life; January 31, 1938]
A Dash of Bitters
A weblog detailing cocktails, spirits, liqueurs, barware, bars, and bitters. Maintained by Michael Dietsch, a writer and hobbyist mixer in Brooklyn.
Category Archives: Vintage ads
Ad of the week: Hennessy Cognac Brandy
And a recipe!
[Life, January 24, 1938]
Ad of the week: Four Roses ain’t just any dance band
Detail:
[Life; October 25, 1937]
Ad of the week: après le café
Detail:
Lifestyles of the 1%.
Prince Alexis Obolensky was a real guy, and a colorful figure at that. His family fled the Bolsheviks and traveled through Europe and, apparently, the United States. Incidentally, the prince would have been about to turn 18 when this ad ran, so he came upon his sophisticated after-dinner beverages as a youngster. He died fairly recently, in 2006.
[Life; October 18, 1937]
Ads of the week: Vermouth duet
Ad of the Week: Bottoms Up
[Life: October 4, 1937]
Ad of the Week: Four Roses
125 years ago today:
[Life: September 27, 1937]
Ad of the Week: Cinzano
Not much to say here, except that I like the rooster (Life magazine, September 20, 1937):
Ad of the Week: Budweiser
Sticking with beer, here’s one from Life‘s September 13, 1937, installment.
Ad of the Week: The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous
September 6, 1937, issue of Life.
Let’s just have some fun with this, shall we?
From the Library of Congrass, a 1903 song proclaiming the famous Schlitz slogan:
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/recordings/detail/id/202/
The beer that made Milwaukee famous made all New York drunk!
Finally, what made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of me:
