The ad advises getting rid of batteries by tossing them in the fireplace, but we know now that doing that is extremely dangerous.

This was from the year 1982, when the photography company said "We shoot school kids" in an ad before the number of school shootings in the US increased.

The ad compares buying lighter ski equipment to "Losing the Twin Towers," which eventually happened on 9/11, about 7 years after this was published.

The 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is considered one of the world's worst industrial disasters. The parent company had to sell its entire stake in UCIL and leave India.

This is an advertisement for a child to purchase a toy rifle, touting its realistic look and sound. A child carrying this toy today would be very poorly received.

Lysol used to be used as a means of birth control before the pill was legalized in the 1960s. That's what they mean by "dainty feminine allure," having the energy to be a loving wife without the babies.

Terrible advice on how to dig a hole in your garden to dispose of engine oil and let it be absorbed into the soil.