Neat find here; VintageGuitars.org has some nifty pages of vintage ads for guitars, amps and stuff. Here is a 1959 Fender one.

Egad! Get away from that Twin little girl! The guy playing the Tele has plenty of headroom I’m guessing.
Gibson ran a 1967 campaign, “the workingman’s guitar” that featured the likes of Barney Kessel.

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Here’s a neat little tube amp from Fender, the 65 Princeton re-issue.

It is 15 watts through a 10″ Jensen speaker-two 6V6’s for tubes. It sounds real nice. Click here for sound clips.
The original Princeton’s are great for recording and I have no doubt that this re-issue would be as well. The reverb sings and it [...]