Ads from the Mad Men Era, Continued

Did you know the United States had – and I guess still has – the fastest ocean liner ever built? Instead of hitting an iceberg, the United States got docked by the jet age.

Mad Men's costumers and set designers may already have checked out this 1969 Chemical Bank ad – contemporary guidance on how a high net worth family was supposed to look. (That $580,00? Think $4 million or so today.)

You can bet Irving would not have addressed this ad to businessmen today. But isn't it cool that in the 1960s a bank could decorate an ad with flowers?