Showing posts with label Li'l Abner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Li'l Abner. Show all posts

7/10/10

SEX to sell Cream of Wheat


Was there any other time that sex was used to sell Cream of Wheat? I'm just a wonderin'.

Li'l Abner_Al Capp_tatteredandlost

This ad dates from the November 3, 1952 Life magazine. It made the $5 purchase worth it.

Last year I did a post about Li'l Abner at my vernacular photography site. I was questioning whether or not I am in possession of an actual photo of Mammy Yokum. Strangely this photo now shows up on the first page of Google's image search for "Mammy Yokum" so I guess this poor woman and her kin will go down as having lived in Dogpatch.