One of my favorite "fun" books is a 1995 offering called Hey Skinny!, which is a collection of full-page color ads that were published in comic books in the 1940s and 1950s. I've thumbed through the book many times, but it dawned on me that even though we live in an age where a product released a month ago is "ancient history", these artifacts from six decades ago still speak to the same immutable human desires (which are basically to acquire resources and protect them). There are analogs for just about every product in this thin volume.

Take this little gem, for example: