Advertising from: 1950 – 1980

Coca-Cola magazine ads from 1950s

• 1950
• 1951
• 1952
• 1953
• 1954
• 1955
• 1956
• 1957
• 1958
• 1959

Your host of the airwaves 1950

Coca-Cola host of the highways 1950

At fountains everywhere ice-cold Coca-Cola awaits 1950

Coca-Cola 58 million bottles a day

This is a cardboard poster, comparing the height that would have the 58 million bottles sold per day with eiffel tower, empire state building, mt. everest, jet, air balloon and with martin viking rocket.

Coca-Cola 58 million a day 1957

Andy Warhol’s Coca-Cola paintings

“Everybody owns a piece of Coke. What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.”

Andy Warhol made art available to the everyday man and everybody understood it. Coca-Cola paintings represented democratic equality.

Coca-Cola 3 bottles by Andy Warhol 1962

Coca-Cola 5 bottles by Andy Warhol 1962

Coca-Cola green bottles by Andy Warhol 1962

Andy Warhol painting titled “Large Coca Cola” sold for $35.3 million

9 November 2010
An Andy Warhol painting titled “Large Coca Cola” put the fizz into Sotheby’s New York contemporary art auction when it beat expectations and sold for $35.3 million.

The black and white Warhol, originally estimated to go for $20 million to $25 million.

Large Coca Cola at the Sotheby's art auction

Halloween Coca-Cola posters

Coca-Cola Halloween poster 1944

Halloween "Trick or Treat" poster from 1954

Coca-Cola Halloween poster from 1964

Large Coca-Cola painting by Andy Warhol

An image of a single Coca-Cola bottle that Andy Warhol painted in 1962

An icon of Pop Art, Large Coca-Cola is the last of four paintings of individual Coca-Cola bottles executed by Warhol in 1961 and 1962, and the largest of the group.
“Large Coca-Cola is a perfect example of the artist’s homage to advertising, highlighting the relationship between big business and the public through an enlarged icon of consumerism.”

Andy Warhol’s Large Coca-Cola will be auctioned in New York on 9 November 2010. The current estimate for the painting is about $25 million.

Coca-Cola advertisement via birdseed

In the late 1960′s, Coca Cola spread out a huge amount of birdseed in St. Mark’s Square in the shape of their logo. It was immediately covered/consumed by 100′s of pigeons who clearly spelled out the Coca Cola logo, the aerial publicity photo was taken and it remains a very famous/infamous piece of advertising today.

Coca-Cola St Marc's square in Venice 1960s

Coca-Cola – the profit line

The profit line 1959

It’s the bottler of Los Angeles announcement in the newspaper with a wholesale price list.
Bar-b and Bubble-up brands also belongs to Coca-Cola.

Ice cold Coca-Cola for 7ct

This newspaper ad from 1951 years is really weird, someone was selling ice cold Coca-Cola for 7 cents and getting 2 cents more than the rest of the country.

Newspaper ad from 1951, Coca-Cola for 7 cents

Maybe this somehow related to these ads from 1947 and 1949, where was 2 cents wartime tax included or maybe not…

1947 Coca Cola advertisement. Illustrated in vibrant color. Includes 2¢ wartime tax special pricing.

1949 Coca Cola advertisement. Illustrated in vivid color at the seaside with an ice cooler below. Price still included the 2¢ wartime tax.

Coca-Cola Santa Claus 1950 – 1964

Coca-Cola: for Santa 1950

The Coca-Cola Santa Claus artwork from 1951 shows Santa reading a list of good boys and girls; there is no list of bad children.

Coca-Cola for sparkling holidays 1953