Newsom Trolls Trump With a 1980s Wendy’s Ad

California Gov. Gavin Newsom took aim at President Donald Trump’s beef import plans by resurrecting one of the most iconic ...
Page Six

Brooke Shields reacts to John Mulaney spoofing her 1980 Calvin Klein ad for ‘SNL’

Nothing comes between John Mulaney and his jokes. The comedian, 42, hosted “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 2, with one of his promotional images for the show re-creating Brooke Shield’s controversial ...
Yahoo

Brooke Shields responds to controversial 1980 Calvin Klein ad

Brooke Shields was a 15-year-old model when she was caught in the middle of a media firestorm after uttering the words, “You want to know what comes in between me and my Calvins? Nothing." The iconic ...
Powder

The 10 Weirdest Vintage Ski Ads We Could Find in Old Copies of POWDER Magazine

Modern ski advertisements are, for the most part, safe and sanitized. This wasn’t always the case, though. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, sex jokes and other less politically correct material were used ...
Observer

A Mario Cuomo Ad from the 1980s

Via Celeste Katz, a vintage Mario Cuomo ad. More, please. Also, a YouTube commenter notes that ad is probably from 1986, not 1988, as the YouTube headline says. SEE ALSO: The ‘Holy Grail of Shipwrecks ...
Gizmodo

Ad from the 1980s promised that superhero impersonators would end the recession

After reading this advertisement, how many artisanal bassoon rental shoppes thought to themselves, “Well, that’s what I’ve been doing wrong. Time to hire the Green Goblin and the Thing to hang outside ...
WRAL

The digital world is built on advertising. How do we help kids navigate it?

When I was a child in the 1980s, advertisements showed up in predictable ways: as 30-second video spots during TV shows, audio ads on the radio, or print ads in newspapers or magazines. When I was a ...