Wartime ad from the Canadian Red Cross. Also, cover illustration from the Toronto Star Weekly, 1941. It was 1941, so clearly the best way to recuperate from a war injury was to smoke some cigarettes!

It was a 250 foot fall tower, opened in 1939 for the World's Fair, and operated through 1964. Riders would be raised to the top and then descend on parachutes in a canvas seat, which took about 10-20 seconds. Quite a ride for 1939! There were shock absorbers at the bottom to ease the landing.

The structure hung around long after it stopped operation. Here it is in 2010,

In more recent times, money was spent to stop the structure from collapsing, since it was rusting from sea air exposure, and in the early 2000's it was illuminated at night,

The line art looks like the building of the oldest currently operating McDonald's, which opened in 1953, although the ad copy gives a different location that opened in 1958, so this menu has got to be around 58 64 (see post from [email protected] in thread). There were some older McD's but they are gone. The 1953 location was the first building that used the golden arches as a shtick.

This is what the 1953 building looked like in 2017.

Before it got into the whole hamburger and fries thing, McDonald's sold BBQ in the 1940's, with the ad tagline, "McDonald's Famous Barbecue".

Frankly it does look more efficient than the old two-guys-and-a-crosscut-saw way.

Always remember to wear your top hat and 3 piece though, when sawing logs.

Also, they will go 200 mph on these cool elevated tracks.

So much nope in a single ad.

In the early 1900's, Kodak ran a whole series of these ads featuring Kodak Girl, who would take her Kodak into various situations. The image above was a typical example. I like the style. Although, it is hard for me to imagine high heels as a beach shoe.

Some other examples, mostly the 10's and 20's.

In the 1910's, they even put a live action Kodak Girl on top of a gigantic camera and drove it around. I hope she was well harnessed into that, because a single sudden stop and Kodak Girl goes plummeting to her death from that height!

Bonus 1917 Karo ad, use Karo to save sugar for soldiers at the front.

More,

Closeup of Casablanca fan,

Photo of a bottle from the Museum of American History,

Date unknown, but $5.95 got you a pair of these bad boys including postage east of the Mississippi.

Also, no zip on the address. 5 digit zip was introduced nationwide in the US by 1963. So this may be 50's or at most very early 60's.

As far as I am seeing on Snopes and CBS News, this 7-Up ad was a real ad in the 1950's.

NOTE! There is almost the same image circulating that claims to be about giving beer to infants. That is a FAKE ad. It looks virtually identical as this one, but replaces 7-Up with beer. Same baby etc.

There is also a "Soda Pop Board of America" fake ad, with the tagline, "For a Better Start in Life, Start Cola Earlier". It also features a photo of a baby, but looks different from this. That ad is also FAKE -> Hoax Ad

Older ones had round picture tubes.

Mom doesn't like moths? No problem, just have her sedated.

Does dad overact to a stumble? He can be sedated too.

The company also claimed that it would cure "cripples, paralytics, the corpulent, the insane, and the blind."

This appears to be a modern photo of a surviving example.

Unclear if this is an ad for the rental of a funeral car, or the purchase of affordably priced coffins, or both. I'm not spotting a motor or a place one would be hidden, so I guess this must have been a horse drawn vehicle that R.F. Dorr would use when you hired their services.

I would think that by the aughts, these would be motorized, putting this ad in the 1800's. But maybe tradition held out, and horses were used in the 10's or 20's in funeral duty? I could see that, since it's more stately and cars were noisy and undignified. In which case this could be early 1900's.

More Viewmasters, but this time with sound!

I never knew there were talking Viewmasters. I wonder how many talkie reels were produced. I guess probably not very many, compared to the many thousands of photo only reels.

The device itself hails from 1939. I do not know the date of the ad. 50s? 60s? Probably no earlier than 60's per deduction from [email protected] below.

It seems like the projector version, you would lose the 3D, wouldn't you? Which is the whole point of a Viewmaster, for my money!

I like this ad style too.

These were sold under various Dr. Somebody's brands.

Even in the 1800's, reputable doctors knew arsenic was highly toxic, and they tried to warn people away from these products. But for a time, the pallor and waxy, death-like skin arising from arsenic poisoning was a beauty ideal.

At least dozens of deaths were attributed to the use of arsenic wafers as a beauty aid, and the true number might be much greater than anyone knows.

They were often advertised as being safe, as seen on this box.

Other image here from the US NIH history archives about the product. This one promises that Neuralgine contains no morphine, opium, or cocaine.

So what does it contain? They didn't have to tell you, back then.