There is a group on Live Journal called vintage_ads; it often reproduces ads from a bygone age. Well, this ad from a very bygone age caught my eye today. Men of a certain age, those of us who are still around, that is, might observe a minute’s silence…
there’s a club bath here in Toronto, though no longer part of that chain I b’leeve. Club Toronto is easily the oldest tubs in town – it was one of four raided in Operation Soap back in 1981 – the police goons bashing the fags, hundreds of charges of people as “found ins” (as in, found in a Common Bawdy House = whorehouse); the protests after that galvanised the Toronto gay community. Of the four baths raided, two never re-opened (too badly damaged), The Barracks closed a couple of years back, but Club Toronto is still with us.
I don’t know if you meant this, but the pointer to the Vintage Ads group took me to this ad which is a delightful ObMotss. Budweiser and Ganymede! Who knew? “Drink our beer and bugger naked young twinks!”
The only thing that Budweiser might assist in the sexual sphere is water sports.
Very cool! I really like it. I also hate that I’m a sucker for retro graphics.