February 21 marks the 88th anniversary of “plop, plop, fizz, fizz” – the debut of America’s most popular over-the-counter relief for upset stomach, acid indigestion, heartburn, headache and more. The Alka-Seltzer story began in the winter of 1928, when Hub Beardsley, president of the Dr. Miles Laboratories, visited the offices of a local newspaper in […]
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Vintage Ads
Ever since the industrial revolution found its way to the United States of America, marketing and commercialization has risen along with it. With all the cool new THINGS we can purchase thanks to the incredible power of cheap labor and capitalism, why wouldn’t we want to be informed? So we have advertisements! Nowadays, they play […]