Found in Mom's Basement

Vintage ads ask you to draw "Winky" or "Lucky"

From 1971:

From 1980:

1930s ad says, "Learn to mount birds and animals."

There's big fun in taxidermy?

Source: Modern Mechanix

Vintage ad for hypnosis lessons by mail, 1963

Hey, gents, don't waste your time with dinner dates and puppy-dog pleading. Use hypnosis to get her in the sack.

The ad doesn't actually say that, but everyone knows where the buxom brunette in the lower right-hand corner is headed.

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Source: Modern Mechanix

Ad for dubious correspondence school of art, 1952

Could this ad have been the inspiration for this? And this?

Source: Modern Mechanix

Vintage Ad for Private Eye Correspondence Course

Excitement! Security! Good Pay! Guns!

Source: bcostin's photos