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BilSabab@lemmy.world to Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc. @sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 12 days ago

Shorty’s ad, 1993

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Shorty’s ad, 1993

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BilSabab@lemmy.world to Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc. @sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 12 days ago
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  • appetizer@lemmy.today
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    I had to search to figure this out. It’s an ad for skateboards.

    • kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Shorties are skateboard bearings

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      Ahh, I had forgotten about that brand. Thanks. I was just thinking “shortys hardware, huh, must be some Canadian hardware store chain”

    • BilSabab@lemmy.worldOP
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      same

  • jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    93 is vintage. Sigh. I wouldn’t have been old enough to legally drink that beer.

    Also someone should probably card that girl.

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      Also someone should probably card that girl.

      Classic early 90s edgy advertising.

      The target audience is skateboarding in the background; everything on the bed is something an edgy skateboarding teen would want (except weed, not shown. Too edgy).

      The fine print says “send hate mail to” 🙄

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    God I miss the 90s

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    I thought it was an ad for shorts.

    • BilSabab@lemmy.worldOP
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      technically, it’s for skateboards. but i don’t know why.

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    There is so much going on it’s hard to figure out what this ad is for. Pizzas? Those cans on the right?

    • Logh@lemmy.ml
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      Or the ones in the middle!

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    Great bearings, I wouldn’t use anything else. Ad rings a bell too, I might have seen it.

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    I’m surprised this was allowed in 1993 adverts

    • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
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      Check out what Marzocchi’s marketing team was publishing for mountain bikers in the 90’s/early 00’s. The calendar my local bike shop had pinned up was basically softcore porn.

    • BilSabab@lemmy.worldOP
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      it was a different time

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        Man, we got a job to do a demo in one of the old steel mills here. Just remove some framing for the rollers and fill the holes. a few months of work. Got to explore the shit out that plant. It got closed in the early 2000s. There was porn everywhere. You open any door, porn. You open a desk, stacks, and stacks of porn magazines. You open a locker, full sized porn. You open a toolbox, yep there it is titties. You go to the bathroom… oddly, no porn. You walk into an office porn, hiding.

        Like they say, going is a problem these days. Nah, the lads back then did it just as much.

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        It was a good time.

        • Sergio@piefed.social
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          You might even say it was… “U T O P I A”…

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      Check out some of the video game ads from that period. Pretty wild stuff.

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    What in christ is on that pizza!?

    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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      Broccoli maybe?

    • Kate-ay@lemmy.world
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      Spinach? Maybe an alfredo pizza?

    • BilSabab@lemmy.worldOP
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      Some limes i guess

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