Futuristic credit card ads from the ’70s
21 Jan 2009
Sanwa Bank ran some funky magazine ads for the JCB card in the early 1970s.
Date with Miss Venus… Travel to Mars… Brain transplant… Space restaurant… Vacation home on the moon… Time machine… Rent-a-rocket… Life extension medication… All OK with the JCB card!!?
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“I’m back from my reconnaissance mission. This is Earth money.”
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Cash has disappeared from Earth?
some times we like the same things
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Definitely yes. And at this moment also my credit gone.
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Japan was nearly always ahead of the curve, photo ID on Credit cards.
Although these ADs are hilarious in some aspect, the one about a cashless society is eerily prophetic, since that has been the global plan of the leading World bankers for sometime now.
Great Post!
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Love them! These are really cool.
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Japan may have been ahead of the curve on the photo ID part, but since then has greatly lagged in actual use of credit cards. The “prophecy” of a cashless society has made great strides in countries other than Japan, while Japan has stayed in the relative past. I can think of no other country where it’d be perfectly normal for individuals to carry around such large sums of cash on a regular basis (which also speaks to how absurdly safe it is in Japan).
Not that there’s anything wrong with staying in the past…these ads just make for a quite amusing juxtaposition. Well done.
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Beautiful. Thanks for sharing this…
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Back in those days, this must be one of the creaative, controversial and bold print ads around.
Sadly, Sanwa Bank no longer exist. It has merged and now known as The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
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It is possible to pay only by holding up the cellular phone
in?Japan. There is not a cash card needing either.
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