When perusing through your grandparents yearbook (don’t ask why), one might look for old pics of your once less wrinkled grandparents. You might laugh at the fact that grandpa was part of the chess club.. whatever it may be, I was one to notice the retro ads. Coca-Cola, Bell Canada, Scotiabank and Neilson’s Chocolate were main ad sponsors of Harbord Collegiate’s Harbord Review back in 1952. Can you imagine such high profile advertisers choosing to take out an ad in a local high school yearbook in 2013? Times have definitely changed. It is so interesting to see how entirely basic these ads were. The copy was so simple, it could almost still work today. I found this especially interesting because I have been working on Scotiabank throughout my internship, just over 60 years later!
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