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Captain Video 07-29-2016 08:31 PM

Curious 1953 ad
 
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This ad today would probably be banned for being "politically incorrect" - it compares the qualities of the TV with the Atom bomb... I imagine that it might not have been popular with the large Japanese colony in Brazil:

Electronic M 07-29-2016 09:57 PM

So Brazil is where "Radiation King" TVs were sold... :D

init4fun 08-05-2016 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain Video (Post 3167456)
This ad today would probably be banned for being "politically incorrect" - it compares the qualities of the TV with the Atom bomb... I imagine that it might not have been popular with the large Japanese colony in Brazil:

:D Wow , and there it is , the first known use of something being called "the Bomb" as meaning it's great . And all this time I thought that expression was just 1990s ghetto speak . Thank You for sharing that Captain Video :thmbsp:

N2IXK 08-08-2016 01:16 PM

Interesting, but hardly the peak in bad taste as far as nukes in advertising. I think that award has to go to Mosler Safe Co., who ran a series of ads touting their vault at the Teikoku Bank in Hiroshima, Japan, which kept depositor's money safe on August 6, 1945, while many of the depositors themselves were vaporized...


http://conelrad.blogspot.com/2010/08...sler-safe.html

Captain Video 08-08-2016 02:53 PM

That vault ad is really way much worse!

Captain Video 05-01-2017 10:17 PM

Today I came across this one:
 
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People were SERIOUSLY fascinated with the Atom Bomb back them...


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