Description
VW Bus – Full color 10″ x 13″ ad with a headline stating that “They Laughed”. The ad continues with pictures of seven different Inventions that originally brought chuckles and caused people to laugh. These include the wheel (3000 B.C.), the telephone (1875), the electric light bulb (1879), the automobile (1877), the steamboat (1807), the airplane (1903) and in 1950, the Volkswagen Station Wagon. The captions minimize the accomplishments and leave no room for improvements. The ad says of the VW Bus, it’s “still a pretty funny sight. And people are still laughing. But the laughter is dying down.”
Source: January 21, 1966 Life magazine.
