Life was so much simpler for those of us who were 7-10 years old in 1968. I miss those days and the life I had in the USA of my youth. This was also the year my DAD finally bought a Color TV, a 25 inch Magnavox with a turn table stereo. Only in America!!
We got our first that year too. Dad was in the military, and bought two Panasonics through the base PX - a 'big' 19" table model , with a beautiful wood-veneer cabinet, for the rec-room, and a 16" 'portable' for the master-bedroom. I inherited the table set in 1978 when I moved to my first apartment. It died by the early '80s, and I converted the wood cainet to store LP records - which it still does today!
Although 1968 is considered by some historians to be one of the most tumultuous years since the Civil War period ,as a kid it was a great time to be alive . I have fond memories of '68
Agreed. It was great with the Flintstones being on after school. A variety of toys that were indestructible - they had to be with me constantly testing them to their limits. Plenty of other kids in the neighborhood to form a mob re-creating WWII movie scenes.
It's amazing how many synapses reconnect when you have not seen these ads in 50 years! I was 8 at the time and many of these have come back to memory! :-)
@@annapaulikonis2433 My dad was smoking heavy in 1968(was 37 years old then) and he is still around going to country dances on the weekends to ick up women. Of course my dad always worked and was always lightweight and still is. The Japanese smoke a lot and have much lower lung cancer rates than Americans. In fact more America's per capita get lung cancer today than in the 1950's through 70's.
Everyone WAS thin. It wasn’t until in the early 70s the corn lobby pushed for more grains and less fat in the “Food Pyramid”. That was the beginning of the obesity epidemic.
@@lohphat Back then Kool-Aid was unsweetened, you added your own... it's the sugars, they put just a little everywhere now, we don't really taste it but if they took it out we would become very depressed, it's more addictive than heroin and just like with cigarettes, they all know it but they are so wealthy they can hire the best liars... I MEAN LAWYERS, sorry, they have many friends in Washington, they still have children working for them in the Dominican Republic and they are such good salesmen, some people still think fat gets you fat and suar will give you enough energy for the whole day. I quit long ago and I read every label but nothing matters more than going outside to do things we truly enjoy. If you're interested there's a film called ''Sugar Inc'' and a lecturer named Robert Lutsig and millions... hundreds of free and honest sites. Cheers, have fun and if you ever find unsweetenedc Kool-Aid please let me know, I miss it so much!
How much simpler our lives were back then.. No internet, cell phones, video games. We appreciated our few hours of TV each day. We didn't live by electronics
My first son was born in '68 and my second son in '73. You had to be careful where you walked in the house because of hot wheels and orange race tracks!
I can remember then, 14 years old, watching this nifty world, itching to reach the day when I could join in the fun,full speed...but when I got there,it had just left,and wouldn't be back...since then,been waiting for anything nearly as good..still waiting 🥺
I feel that way when I look at footage of the World's Fair in NYC in 64 and 65. I want to buy the future they are selling. I was born 10 years later and it was all long gone by then. Another thing I remember is the JC Whitney catalog. They would send you catalogs every few months for free for about a year. I sent off for them multiple times in my child hood. I would drool over all the cool accessories and dream of being old enough to drive and having a job to pay for them. .By the time I started working all the cool stuff was gone.
I remember when we got a tv console. My Mom would lemon pledge it once a week. It was like a huge piece of fine furniture back then. LOL And WOW, the cars!
I was in a commercial with Linda Blair around 1966 - 1968. It was for County Fair Bread and Cupcakes, filmed in Washington DC. It aired everyday on all of the networks for over a year. I haven't seen it since then, but would love to see it again and show my kids. The commercial was in black and white and we sang a jingle: "County Fair's a great delight. It's Bread that makes you sharp and bright. It's made from the dough that makes kids grow, straight from County Fair." And we danced around a spaceship. Does anyone have it or remember it?
🙏If I knew that there could be a way to go back in time (like in the movie Somewhere in Time) and to keep my lessons learned from now, I would do it! Movies hold a great deal of truth and I believe we can manipulate time. Now I’m just hanging on to knowing God will (by grace 🙏) take me out of this demonic world soon! I’m tired and I can’t fight much longer.❤ All I have are these past memories to hang on to!❤
The Maxwell House instant coffee ad (17:18) is wickedly meta and dark. "I tried to help, like doing the marketing. . . . You be a good little Maxwell housewife and relax a little and this marriage might survive twins." She's going to need Valium, too, and she ought to divorce this guy.
The Jeno’s (now Totino’s) Pizza Rolls commercial was the brainchild of the great comedian and writer Stan Freburg. The Jeno’s ad itself was a parody of the Lark cigarettes commercial that used the Lone Ranger theme and asked people to show them their pack of Lark, right down to that “Show Us Your Lark” sign.
1968 was an unforgettable year for me. My dad got out of the Air Force after being gone for 3 years. My brother and I went to live with him due to his earlier divorce. I clearly remember both the MLK and RFK assassinations and the all day funeral train coverage of RFK. Later after spending a summer at my grandparents farm in Oklahoma, we drove cross country in my dad's new '68 Pontiac Lemans. My sister returned to our mother in Portsmouth NH and we all boarded a ship on our journey to South Africa. I was turning 10 that year.. I'll never forget those times! I returned to the US in 1979 and now I'm retired in the Philippines..
I wonder what the thought process was? "OK I am thinking we get a bunch of different colored clown shoes and matching silk PJs and have Nancy just sort of stomp around while screaming about going mad. Whad ya think?" Someone approved it. To tell the truth I doubt I would have clicked passed it.
@@1978garfield sales of RC jumped by triple digits. There were a lot of 1960s "mad, mad, mad ..." spoofs on the movie title It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Guessing they didn't care if someone not born until 10 years later proclaims in his middle age he woulda clicked on through it. You weren't their target market, sweetie.
I was born in '62 as well. 1968 was first grade and the beginning of the end of the first phase of my life. The world portrayed in many of these commercials was the world I thought I would always live in. What a foolish child I was.
TVs don't need AFT nowadays because they are solid state. In 1967 when I was 12 my parents bought our first color tv. Them days we only had one tv for the hole family. Iord do I miss my parents but I'm in no hurry to die to be with them I want every second of life the Lord will bless me with.
I remember a lot of these commercials when I was a kid man I used to love those hot wheel cars and tracks.I was about grown out of them in 68 good thing to. My mother figured out that the hot wheel tracks were real good to beat us kids with. WHEW those dam things hurt worse than a belt LOL.
Wow, I was just 8yrs old in ‘68, but I remember all these commercials - mostly by their jingles! This video brings back a lot of fond memories of relatives that were alive in those days! Thank you for sharing this 👍👌✌🏻😎
The First Car I remember walking down the street to the dealership with my Grandfather. Setting in the show Room was this BEAUTIFUL 68 Chevy Impalla sandstone Gold, ! He fell in Love with it as well! We walked in and I was looking over the Inside all while him and the Dealership owner were working out a Deal. Yes he bought it, OMG We had that car until 1979! It was my First Car!
I was 8, 9 years old in 68. Remember alot. In 67, our neighbors bought a brand new Mustang. I thought it was super cool! In 1977 I bought a 68 Mustang in very nice shape. 289, automatic, factory AC, power steering, and 4 wheel drum MANUAL brakes! Weird. Finally I had a cool car to drive to High school. Was my daily for 3 and a half years when I bought my 1st brand new car. I still have it, its in excellent condition, still going down the road. I have to say though that the reflection in the rear view mirror of the 17 year old looks quite different from the 64 year old! Lol.
I was born in 1968. That was a very special time era, when people had style, class and elegance. Hence! despite my younger age, i'm surely proud and glad to say that i come from the sixties and that i was a little part of it too, as well! Thanks! for this wonderful presentation, on the RU-vid channel. Johnny, Montreal, Canada ❤️
Still wished they would make cars the way they did in 1968 this is a real car and today's generation could not handle a real car today's generation does not know what a real car is
All these years later and I still remember my mom's take on that Lavoris ad: "My boyfriend told me my breath was strong enough to kill a moose!" "What did you do?" "I hit him over the head with a bottle of Lavoris!" (RIP Mom - you were always good with a funny line.)
The incredible rides; the hot babes in their sexy mini-skirted outfits, and the killer tunes! Just light up a fresh Marlboro 100 while you fill your tank w/ Sky Chief premium and crank up the just released White album, on 8 track!
chills of childhood memories. When we could look at a pretty lady and actually think she was content with her husband, wasnt a 304, and might even want a family.
All I can say is BETTER DAYS! Thanks for posting these great memories. Wish the country was still innocent, principled and united. Now they do everything possible to cancel and divide us.
I was 11 when these were on. Only one television and it was black and white. I was 17 before my parents bought a colored TV. Most of my friends had the same situation. They were very expensive.
Yes, and it's even better when you understand that the commercial is itself a parody of Lark cigarette commercials of the same period. Stan Freberg at his best.
Hi Daniel, There are still very kind people (I at least try to be when I can). I live in a small, rural town in the south... people are very friendly here. Not so much in the bigger cities though. That is sad.
So true Walter. I remember it well even though 13 y.o. at the time. My dad always made us watch the news. I remember crying on Christmas Eve after watching the 10 o'clock news and it ending with clips from Nam and Connie Francis singing "Where The Boys Are'. Not to forget Bobby and Martin. But still, I'd go back in a heartbeat to know then what I know now. Ain't it?
So true! Kids dont get the same supervision at home now! It was great always having mom there when we played outside.. Lunch was ready.. If you got hurt she was there! She used to yell at us to go back outside to play when she washed the floor! We had no problem staying outside playing even in the winter too as we always had dry clothes and kept our boots dry. In for lunch and back outside to play in the winter too! Nowadays not so much.. Sometimes i see kids on bikes where i live but definitely not like in the 70s and 60s!
I couldn't agree more. All the car companies today copy each others ugly designs. Back then you could get cars with bench seats and no stupid center console. That's actually a great safety feature that let's you enter and exit a car from either side door. You don't have to step out into traffic to enter or exit the car when you park on a busy street. Bench seats are also great for dates at the drive in movie. I hate modern cars!
I only own/drive cars before 1980 and trucks before 1990. The newer ones are so ugly, and uncomfortable. It's a shame some guys paint over their chrome when restoring vintage cars, it makes them uglier. The other thing is how today's cars seem to be in bland boring colors. Oh and yes whatever happened to the bench seat? Even trucks today do not have it.
@@paul1242 In the 1960s, whenever we went to the grocery stores I wanted to see the 50s style cars (before I was 10 years old) but I saw Impala cars in the parking lots everywhere EVERYWHERE and I didn't like them looking so "modern",and NOW, after the year 2000 I kinda miss them...
I remember most of these commercials, I was 7 years old. I remember that a lot of old movie stars would pop up in television commercials (Frank Sinatra) and his daughter (Nancy Sinatra). Thanks for the memories.
I distinctly remember nearly every ad in this vid. I was 12 at the time so much of it would stick I suppose. But it sure takes me back in time to a much more innocent era -- though 1968 was one of the most tragic and tumultuous years of the 20th Century.
'68 was the year we were given a color TV from my grandparents. Up until then we were watching TV on a round screen black and white. Finally...... Bonanza in color!
I was eleven....i liked the toy commercials then....was playing little league baseball....riding my bike..was saving for a cb radio with my paper route and snow shoveling money....good times....oh yeah...built models...planes,cars ships,hot rods,rat rods..mercury and Apollo rockets rocket,lunar lander...a lot of fun...the days of innocence ....thanks Once again Fred....good stuff
Wonderful old commercials. Even though I was 9 I remembered many of them vividly - especially the pizza roll one. The best thing about watching Bewitched in the fall was to see a preview of the new Chevy cars. Thanks much, Fred!
You know these pathetic trolls are spreading their hate when you see all the thumbs down....on Freds wonderful videos!? Thank you so much Fred...the people who lived it appeciate them !!
I was there. Most enjoyable to see again. Imagine oil companies who cared about their full service stations and the whole retail experience. It really brings back memories. Thanks for posting!
1968 was an intense year for everyone who went through it. I was in a nice safe military base in Japan during Vietnam (i still remember a soba jingle)...America was burning.
Even though our society of today has many wonderful technologies but to me our society was much more advanced back in the 1960s. Mainly peoples behavior was kinder and more respectful to others. Culturally we are evolving into a dirty lawless third world country.
This brings back real memories. Seriously. I can remember.... the toys, large tv's ( big wooden things ), RC Cola, I had a 67 firebird ( about 1975 ), Marlboro's, Winston's. Large facilities that made everything from tv's, to washing machines, to vehicles ( Ford, Chevy, etc. ) most everything was made in America. I sit in front of this computer now and...... think.... it's all kind of sad now. Thank you Fred for posting, this is a good one, very good one.
Wow.. I remember that jenos pizza rolls spot with the Lone Ranger ! I met the Lone Ranger in 1985 in Encinitas, California.... It was a thrill ! And he called me " Citizen " !! 🇺🇸
