Writer, graphic designer and Art Center professor Jim Heimann joins host Larry Mantle to talk about the ads of the 1960s--for cars, entertainment, bras, the space race, Tang--and much more. The colorful graphics show the good life, with optimistic faces smiling from psychedelic backgrounds. This was a time when cigarette advertising and TV dinners were "in," and women were fast becoming liberated. What do these ads tell us about the 1960s? Join host Larry Mantle for a discussion of the ads of the 1960s.
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