11 Responses to Ads Everywhere

1. Paleo Retiree says:

   January 11, 2013 at 10:49 pm

   You’re “never lost” so long as you shop at a chain store.

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2. Steve Sailer says:

   January 12, 2013 at 12:58 am

   I remember about 15 years ago the hot idea in the marketing industry was a new firm that was selling advertising inside the cups on golf putting greens.

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3. Glynn Marshes says:

   January 12, 2013 at 2:15 am

   I miss the pre-ad Interweb era.

   Somebody needs to create a parallel Internet that only permits ad-free sites. Can you imagine? We could go hang out there — it would be like visiting the beach.

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   • Maule Driver says:

     January 12, 2013 at 2:02 pm

     Yes, a beach…but you better feed the meter or have a parking sticker

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     • Glynn Marshes says:

       January 12, 2013 at 2:17 pm

       Hey, you’re harshing my mellow.

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4. Callowman says:

   January 12, 2013 at 2:59 pm

   On my last visit to SoCal a couple years ago, I was treated to several smug and mindless PSAs by the gas pump while I was refueling my rental car. They had removed the little clip on the nozzle that keeps the gas flowing, too, so constant finger pressure was required and there was no option of escape.

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5. agnostic says:

   January 13, 2013 at 4:42 am

   Really makes you long for the ’80s, when there was hardly any out-of-home advertising, the culmination of the work begun with the 1965 Highway Beautification Act… which over the past 15-20 years seems to have gone unenforced. Now we’re going back to the mid-century visual culture.

   Most of us, including Boomers, are too young to remember how ubiquitous were the corny and garish billboards of the mid-century. The images below are not typical scenes, but common enough that an online picture archive of outdoor advertising has quite a handful of them.

   http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/paverjohn_PAV0205/
   http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/paverjohn_PAV0203/
   http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/paverjohn_PAV0210/
   http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/paverjohn_PAV0136/

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