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In the early 1950's before television boomed and brought us commercials by the score advertising was something we viewed in magazines and other periodicals that came to our homes view mail or bought off the shelf at supermarkets, drug stores or a local general store.

These were often full page ads that spotlighted everything from automobiles to yo-yos, including the now infamous cigarette ads where doctors actually endorsed them as being beneficial to one's health. Some even become iconic and marked the changing times. They were art in their own way and even more so when pictures gave way to graphics especially designed for the product.

Here are a few examples taken from the pages of Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, TV Guide, Life, Look, Time and a host of other magazines from the early 1950's to the mid 1960's.