America's home town discovers the pause that refreshes (Coca-Cola advertisement) – Historic Print
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A window into the past: America's home town discovers the pause that refreshes (Coca-Cola advertisement), preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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America's home town discovers the pause that refreshes (Coca-Cola advertisement)
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The headline casts the ad as a tribute to a hometown that stands in for America as a whole, a theme Coca-Cola returned to often in its advertising of the late 1920s and 1930s. The companion phrase, "the pause that refreshes," was introduced in 1929 and became one of the most durable slogans in American advertising, presenting a bottle of Coke as a brief break in the working day. Worth noticing is how the ad ties a national brand to familiar local life, a strategy that helped make the company part of everyday American culture.
| Original scan | 568 × 800 px |
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| Reference | 613 |
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