Found in Mom's Basement

Vintage ad links child abuse with caffeine

Source: Boing Boing

Vintage ad for Pitney-Bowes with creepy headline

Source: Live Journal

Eerily familiar ad from the 1970s

Vintage ad for sun lamp shows mom frying her baby, 1960

"Be healthy -- stay brown th' year round."

Kind of creepy vintage fur ad from 1960

I think she's trying to figure out if there's enough there for a new fur headband. And that terrified monkey just wet itself.

Vintage poster for Amateur Magicians Contest

"Johnny, "I'll just put my hand down your pants and give you a big surprise."

Source: Live Journal

Vintage ad draws tourists to Arkansas with the allure of capital punishment

Source: Live Journal

Kinda creepy vintage ad for saws, 1950

You don't think those saws are for . . . ?

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Source: Modern Mechanix

Vintage ad threatens parents, Buy a Thermos or your baby gets it

Source: Live Journal

Vintage advertising card: another creepy child of yore

Source: Seldom Nice Nowadays