Nostalgia: Grandma Ma

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This series highlights vintage advertising from the 80s & 90s that shaped the consumer driven psychological architecture that warped many a child's perceptive litttle minds. The lust of ownership rose to new hights in the era & I must say I definitely wasn't immune.

Maybe one of the most bizarre characters in sports advertising history is Larry Johnson's Mrs. Doubtfire esque "Grandma Ma". Used as a counterpoint to Nike's Michael Jordan campaign, Converse concocted the visual to help hock sneakers. It worked on me, I copped.

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