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It's no secret that the world has come a long way. In the past couple of decades, things have taken a completely different turn and have managed to progress to an unthinkable point. 

Every time we take a stroll down to our nearest thrift shop, we get overwhelmed by all the things that have been orphaned by their previous owners. All these clothing items and pieces that were once accessorizing someone's home – hunting for vintage stuff is very inviting – plus, you get to give your new purchase a second chance at life.

Many of us, at least once in our lifetime, have wondered about vintage artworks, specifically those that were used for commercial purposes. Well, this Facebook group is dedicated to precisely that. The online community has 135K members and was made for people who "enjoy vintage retro ads, commercials & artwork," and Bored Panda has decided to gather a couple of its best posts.

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Bored Panda contacted the creator of the "Vintage Ads, Commercials & Artwork" Facebook community and asked him to tell us a little bit about it: "I want to thank you for the interest in the group. Basically, I started it because I felt like I was being restricted in other groups that didn't accept both printed and video ads; that pretty much made me take the decision to start my own one and run it the way I think it should, by having quality content regarding interesting vintage ads, commercials, and artwork."

The man then added: "I always enjoyed the ads I used to see as a kid in what were National Geographic Magazines from the 40s to 60s. I'm only 38 by the way, but honestly, I always had an interest in old things. I have always found them really interesting."

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is fine. Encouraging children to associate with cigarette toys is fine. When this was made cigarettes used to be healthy. All the tobacco company scientists said so.

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We've also wondered about the people behind the group: "I’ve got to say it was me doing it by myself for a while until the group grew and it was too much for me to handle by myself. I met people within the group who accepted to help me run it. At the moment it's only myself and a fellow group member but I must give credit to Sarah Conley for helping out so much at the beginning, until some personal issues forced her to step out as a moderator."

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"I started the main page after the group, which has gained more followers so far. Getting real close to 185,000 last time I checked. Compared to the 135K members the group has. But obviously the group is where our members can share content. I found out that I wasn't the only one who enjoyed looking back at the past."

"The reason people are fascinated by the vintage stuff, I believe, is due to the fact that they want to relive some of their childhood memories and also just enjoy the history of these vintage products, services, etc. I have had so many people comment ‘I used to have that toy as a kid’ or ‘Dad used to have that car,’ also saying things like ‘I always wanted one of those.’ People have said so many nice things on the review area of my main page, like how it brings back so many wonderful memories,” said Edgar when BP asked him about the fascination around vintage things.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Gee, your hair smells terrific! Shame about the rest of you!"

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Lastly, the creator added: "It's important to remember the past and try to keep it alive by having an archive where maybe the younger generation can learn some history regarding advertising and what type of products were used in the past. Companies have come and gone but some are still going strong. Advertising also gives you a glimpse into society from the past and also what type of techniques of advertising worked back then. They can also analyze how advertising has evolved over time."

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Taking a trip down memory lane to rekindle the past is a pretty exciting activity; whether you're snooping around your grandparents' stuff in the hopes of finding something fun or you're simply yearning to escape and experience a different kind of life – it seems that old-fashioned things will always hold a certain impression on us.

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Deborah Harris
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was actually convinced these would work and nagged my Mother to get me a pair, needless to say she finally gave in. The first time I wore them I felt so scared as I thought I would see people as live skeletons ... it never happened .. and yes she refused to buy me Sea Monkeys which were next on my list :)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some would run away. Some would want to get a peek at her underwear as if they've never seen women's panties before.

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Maybe it's the fascination with advancement and the visible progression of things, or perhaps the unexplainable old-time charm that the items are holding. Whatever the reasoning might be, Bored Panda hopes that you've enjoyed this vintage collection provided by the "Vintage Ads, Commercials & Artwork" group.  

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The internet has ruined me. This should just be an innocent, if daft, game.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Maidenform Dream adverts were one of the longest running campaigns of all time. I just made a Reddit post a couple of weeks ago with a collection of the ads. Check it out! https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/v484mq/i_dreamed_i_was_amaidenform_bra_ad_collection//maidenform_bra_ads_collection/

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Nathaniel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pet milk just sounds like it has come from cats and dogs.

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Ash
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

CATSUP. THE SAUCE IS KETCHUP?! Oh yeah, nothing spells "delicious" like hot tuna on a bed of ketchup and evaporated milk...

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Emperor Kitten
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey now, it's not "just ketchup". It's ketchup sprinkled with oregano. That's authentic Italian right there.

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Kamie Jones
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm convinced they didn't really ever eat half of the recipes they invented in the 50s to the early 80s before they put the recipe out for the public. It just doesn't make sense. This is gross in any era, just like a "shrimp mold" . What in the entire f?

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Sara G
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love watching the YouTube videos where people recreate those monstrosities.

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Sue Denham
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn't realise "Pet" was a brand at first. So you can imagine what I was thinking . . .

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Andrew Burke
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm really tempted to try some of these 50's recipes. I want to know how my mother survived dinner times back then.

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Diolla
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When younger I always dreaded eating at my grandma's. She was into the worst of 50s cooking.

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Michele Ottone
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Italian here, and tuna pizza is all but uncommon here. It is not bad at all with onions. As for "pet cheese", "catsup" and "parmesan" on it... Well, just nope!

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Jason Leaf
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is my defense against those who ridicule Hawaiian pizza.

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Lucky2BAlive
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You wouldn’t even find this mess in a school cafeteria or prison block (there might be something in the Geneva Convention about serving this to POWs as well) .. just sayin.

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Kiwi Panda
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WHY were all recipes in the 1970s like this? I will never get the taste of shredded carrots in jello out of my mouth 🤮

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Mac 🇺🇦
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looky at our neighbors, Betty Sue...puttin' on airs with their fancy, oo-la- la cue-zeen!

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Kusotare
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Make it a dessert pizza by substituting sweetened condensed milk for the evaporated milk. Yum!

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Tiffany C
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So much eww! What were they thinking to get that combination?!

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Anna Solan
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was in Spain in the early 1990s, they always had tuna on pizza.

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Tammy Hornback
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Let stand to thicken, cover with catsup then tuna - real heart of Italy flavor Barf

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Paul Pienkowski
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's 1am here and I have insomnia. Now it's even worse because I feel like vomiting. Thanks, Panda. 😂🤢

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yellowphantom
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I could sort of see someone having to come up with that on guys Grocery Games.

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SkekVi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All I'm seeing is that the American palette has just changed over the years to something much more limited and much less umami.

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Gary Sansom
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like cat milk? I guess the cat would like the yuk tuna pizza (-:

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Phillip Shepard
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

UGH. This reminds me of that entire series of Jello mold recipes. The worst was the vegetable one with celery and stuffed olives made with Knox gelatin. Red Jello with fruit cocktail in it was a routine dessert when I was a child (post WWII).

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've typed up the recipe for those having difficulty reading it: 1.) Heat oven to 450 (extremely hot). Mix 1/2 cup PET evaporated milk, 2/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese and 1/2 teasp. onion salt. Let stand to thicken. 2.) arrange 1 can Ballard Oven-ready Biscuits on a cooky pan. With fingers push biscuits together to close spaces.Then press into one big biscuit 12" across. Bake near center of oven for 5 min. Take from oven, loosen with pancake turner, but leave on pan. 3.) Spread cheese mixture almost to edge of biscuit, cover with 1/2 cup catsup or chili sauce. Then with a 7oz can of tuna, drained and broken into pieces. Sprinkle 1/2 teasp. of oregano. Return to oven for 7 min. or until golden brown.

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TheLadyMagic
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would have threw myself down the steps in order to go to the emergency room with my parents ever decided to make this for dinner. (I grew up in the era with what they put on the table was what was for dinner, you ate it or you ate it)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds delicious with a side of jello mold for dessert everything a growing boy needs

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Baralai XIII
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A tuna pizza… pet milk… nothing about this sounds appealing 😭😆

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was just talking to someone about tuna on pizza; it is a topping option where I lived (Germany) and it’s actually really good!

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Debra Brown
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We have seafood pizza here (UK) and it always has tuna on it, along with prawns and anchovies, yum!

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Really
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And there are debates on pineapple on pizza today! Give me Dole any day.

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Amy Fisher
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For people who defend putting pineapple on pizza, how do you feel about tuna? LOL.

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Aroha
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where I am from, it's perfectly normal to put both on your pizza, also at the same time 😅. Only in the USA someone looked at me funny when I asked a pizza place if they had tuna.

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Jose Cabanas
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tuna pizza, like to try that. Wonder if this is better than pigeon Milk, lol =XD

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Kai
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh I tasted that in my mouth as I read it...😖

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Charlie Simpson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I really just can't stop looking at it. The pet milk is whatever, I'm pretty sure you can still get it, we used to reconstitute it and use it to eat cereal. But ketchup tuna pizza?! What kind of sick sick freak tried to loose this on humanity?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pet Milk? Makes me think of an ad I saw in Craigslist for "Meat Animals". In hindsight, I wish I had screen shot it

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know what this is for but I'm pretty sure you need drugs to experience it to it's fullest.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pretty sure my cousins/aunt (who flew frequently to Hawaii and Tonga) had this poster in their house when I was little.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, jeez, Edith, what do you suggest? That the 8 year olds watch 60 Minutes instead? I treasure my H.R. Pufnstuf years - The 70s had the best Saturday morning TV programming for kids in American history.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fantastic film in its way. And you can see the influence on the film Alien. People trapped, with an alien hunting them one by one, even one of the characters is called Ripley.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Uptown girl, She's been living in her uptown world, I bet she's never had a backstreet guy, I bet her momma never told her why"

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