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Weird vintage ads - Magical Realist - Jan 2, 2015 "History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake."--Joyce RE: Weird vintage ads - Magical Realist - Jan 2, 2015 RE: Weird vintage ads - Yazata - Feb 10, 2015 These old ads are great. (I'm an historical relic myself, so I get nostalgic.) The first one, 'take amphetamines!', looks like it might be a WWII-era army air corps poster. I believe that they probably did issue amphetamines to pilots and air crew. (I suspect that the Navy and Air Force still do.) It can take many hours to fly to a combat zone, from the UAE in the Persian Gulf to ISIS targets in Syria for example, all alone in a cramped cockpit in the darkness of night, with no lights except the glow of the instruments and the ceaseless white-noise sound of the jet engine. It's awfully easy to fall asleep.