‘I was a ‘Hitchhiker On the Highway of Love’: 1938 sexism

IN 1938, Listerine featured the woman who was a ‘Hitchhiker On the Highway of Love’. Could she be helped before the trucker with the axe pulled over?

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“‘You’re just hitch-hiker on the highway of love,’ I told myself…’and you’re not getting any younger’.”

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Mr Simpson picks her up. Seated behind the ‘portieres’  (a loverly family from out of town), our glamour girl heard Mr Simpson bemoan her roadkill breath.

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Listerine arrived on white charger. All was well. The shop worker pulled and married.

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Before any date use Listerine – and use it afterwards, too. Listerine was once a treatment for gonorrhea.

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