I spent a few hours recently digging through the Japanese blog That's Eurobeat—through all 5,443 images in fact. While the blogger has been scanning vintage magazine ads since August 2007 (the same month I started "A Journey Round My Skull"), he occasionally highlights illustrations too. I plan to feature those in another post.

Here are 28 of my favorites ads, circa 1963–1980.

Dec. 2011 update: a post of 1950s ads from the same resource

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