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Coca-Cola advertisement: The pause that brings friends together – Vintage Print

Coca-Cola advertisement: The pause that brings friends together — historic image
Coca-Cola advertisement: The pause that brings friends together. Historic image from the Wine, Beer & Spirits collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic image of Coca-Cola advertisement: The pause that brings friends together brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Coca-Cola advertisement: The pause that brings friends together

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Friends gather around a bottle of Coca-Cola in this ad, which sells the drink less as a product than as a small moment of company. The slogan "The pause that refreshes" was the heart of Coca-Cola's advertising for decades, and campaigns like this one pictured the soft drink as a reason to stop, sit down and talk. Coca-Cola had been marketed in the United States since the late 1880s, and by the mid-twentieth century its ads were a familiar part of magazines, billboards and radio, shaping how ordinary Americans thought about leisure and social life.

Original scan589 × 800 px
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