Mass Transit (1966)


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One of the ad men at Doyle Dane Bernbachthis link leaves vanagon.com came up for the idea for this billboard in 1966 after being passed by a car filled with nuns. Before running the billboard, it was tested for offensiveness on actual nuns. The New York diocese liked the ad so much that some members volunteered to be models.

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