Seriously though.
Okay maybe not so terribly seriously.
But at least half-seriously: You’ll admit, won’t you?, that she’s not actually looking at the Coke being handed to her.
Guys with that ad image in their mind were probably trolling the Jersey Shore, Coney Island and Jones Beach all summer that year liberally handing cold bottles of Coke to sunbathing young ladies in the desperate hope that even one of them would smile and lock eyes with them like that.
Guys with that ad image in their mind were probably trolling the Jersey Shore, Coney Island and Jones Beach all summer that year liberally handing cold bottles of Coke to sunbathing young ladies in the desperate hope that even one of them would smile and lock eyes with them like that.
*Shrugs* Well, yeah, that's our nature. It has always been thus. Doing whatever it takes to be noticed by the prettiest girl in the room - or beach. Flowers and sweets have a history as a winning combination. And post-war, the nation - society even - demanded that we transition to peacetime, put the horrors of war behind us, beat our swords into plow shares, and get 'a plowing so as to grow the population and fuel the economy. And Jersey Boys had Cokes. But there was still a strong expectation of marriage.
The inflection point you referenced as the end of all morality, I do not believe was the post war period per se, but rather the feminist movement of the 60's coinciding with the pill (at least I think the pill came out then - I wasn't alive yet). It is here that the free love culture arose in earnest (although there were previous attempts to champion it in the prior century - Victorian era).