I thought it was a great commercial.
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Originally Posted by Sundaydrive00
The commercial takes place in the 1850s. Adolphus lived in a German community, which is also where he and his father in law, Eberhard Anheuser, built their brewery. I doubt many black and brown faces would have been seen at the time in that area.
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ITA that it is silly to complain about there being no brown/black faces and that this was an historic tale that was done very well IMO.
Wanted to note though that I am from the Midwest and am black and there was free blacks in St. Louis in that time period and many times they lived in German neighborhoods because Germans were more hospitable to blacks than the Irish and other ethnic Europeans. A few lines of my own family were free black people and moved to Ohio in the 1850s/1860s prior to the Civil War. They all lived in predominantly German neighborhoods.
But I agree there would be very few "brown" faces around at that time. When my family moved to our city there were only 500 black people out of about 20,000 people in the city.
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