Cigarette commercial with a straight razor

[CaliforniaCajun]

Never saw this before. Look 8 seconds into this clip. I guess it wasn't that unusual to have a barber shaving a customer in the late 60s/early 70s. Back then a barber would shave behind my ears with hot lather and a straight when finished.

[str8tlkr]

That is an interesting commercial. All of the scenes are in the city or office work place. The theme is "you can't take the country out of Salem". So the contrast is that Salem Cigarettes represent a country aspect that people who live and work in the city can enjoy. So, I take it that the scene with the barber shop shave was an example of refinement; something that a distiguished gentlemen that lives and works in the city would do.

Funny how just about everything in that commercial is counter culteral today; from the commercial itself, to smoking in the work place, the type writers and the straight shave.

[CaliforniaCajun]

That is an interesting commercial. All of the scenes are in the city or office work place. The theme is "you can't take the country out of Salem". So the contrast is that Salem Cigarettes represent a country aspect that people who live and work in the city can enjoy. So, I take it that the scene with the barber shop shave was an example of refinement; something that a distiguished gentlemen that lives and works in the city would do.

Funny how just about everything in that commercial is counter culteral today; from the commercial itself, to smoking in the work place, the type writers and the straight shave.

Yeah, I hope the customers waiting in line for a haircut don't mind the guy in the chair's cigarette break!

I was born in the mid-50s and remember when over half the adult population smoked. It's a lot different now, although a lot of people still do and pay a ton for the privilege.

[thebigspendur]

Commercials are synthetic and manufactured and designed to take you to a world the product maker wants you to be in so you'll buy their product. Over time these commercials become very dated very fast.

[sinnfein]

Thanks I just spent the last 40 minutes watching cigarette commercials on Youtube lol.