I know, it was my 1981 High School yearbook quote. After dusting off my yearbook, I found this quote, "It is characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone."
One more thing wrong, it's too freaking late when you find out. Even though some of us think it's pretty shitty right now, myself included. Just think about what's up ahead.
I was born in 1972. Thank you for making me feel so young when I've been feeling so old. I think everyone feels nostalgic about childhood no matter when we were kids. It was the best time of our lives.
@@orchids3332: How could you POSSIBLY feel old when you weren't even BORN until 1972?? I was born in 1963, so if you are "old", what the heck does that make ME???
You think you're old.... I tell ya', I'm so old, even my vile of Botox is getting wrinkles!🥁(((rimshot)))🥁 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆 Actually, I was born in 1959, and so, this is like a 'Magical Memory Tour", when life was simpler back then.
A great time to grow up. I remember every one of these! The '70s weren't the best for our parents, energy crises, inflation, etc but for my sister and me they were pretty awesome
My family's first remote control television was a Magnavox. Our TV crashed dung half time. I went with my dad when he purchased the new TV, brought it home and had it up and running before the second half of the game started. I'd lo to have another console television. They were actually part of the furniture and no two were ever completely alike.
Our first cool TV was a then-new late 70s Zenith System 3 with “Space Command” remote. Picture was remarkable and the mono speaker had great output too.
Thanks go out to Fred Flix for letting me re-live a snippet of my childhood. A time I thought was gone forever. These memories are so precious. Even if just for a few minutes. Thank you!!!!
Pressed Steel ~ You had a TV repair man make a home visit in 1985? Where did you live? I could see it happening if it was 1965, but by '85 it was practically unheard of.
@@slimshine953 we used to get tv repairman in the UK. Most of us couldn't afford to buy a TV so used to rent them along with a VCR. If they couldn't fix it there and then they'd swap it for another out the van and it would be a bit of a lottery on what model you'd get. Then (as kids) we'd spend the next few days teaching our parents how to use them.
David Hendrickson. Don't forget funeral planning commercials, or my personal favorite, A Place For Mom. Sheesh! I told my kids, the only place for THEIR mom is Nieman Marcus!😉
@@ChristopherUSSmith Ouch! I was thinking more along the lines of shopping at the Tom Ford cosmetics counter... Now I have to think about my ashes?! 😮 Now I must go have a glass of wine...
@John Bold Life insurance, yes. But that isn't in all the home and car bundles being hawked on TV these days by a gecko, the Allstate guy, and a comedian named Stephanie better known as Flo (or some of Flo's relatives).
@Foxonian Correct. I was just a little kid back then but we did go to Kentucky Fried Chicken occasionally during that time and the food was excellent. I miss the old ads with the real Colonel! Sadly after the company has changed hand over the years the quality of the food isn't that good anymore.
GreatGarloo: It really seems to depend on what time of the day you go. I love Kentucky Fried Chicken, and usually it is very good. We went one time, just before they were closing, and the chicken was dried out and tasteless.
The Coke a Cola ad brought back memories to me as a 12 year old kid that year. It brought tears to my eyes 👀. All the other ads were fantastic. Thank you for uploading these memories of my yester years.
16:16 the voice of Len Gochman for "the dry look." He was the VO talent on all those famous "Be all that you can be" commercials for the U.S. Army in the 80s.
The best years of my life.. 1970, 71 and 72.. the memories! Thanks once again Fred, these old commercials are like a tonic for me, makes me feel young again, even if it's just for a few minutes, it's still great!
@sentforth5 Indeed. There was real character and "soul" in these ads back then you could tell that it was the efforts of individuals with their own ideas. Now it's all by committee and surveys with computer processing all the data.
@@alexkije What's with the goofy sounding, I was going to type jingles, but they don't even qualify as jingles... Somebody, or some sound effect whistling in accompaniment to another sound effect of a strummed ukelele and a glockenspiel. This?! is a jingle?! Those Go Daddy, and Peleton ads make me so sick to my stomach that I wanna roll a seven.
Fred, for the past 26 min you transported me to a better time in my life. I thoroughly enjoyed the trip. The Roadrunner and the Duster commercials were awesome. It's amazing how something as simple as a television commercial can bring back such emotions. Thank you so much.
At 24:28 The voice of Ken Nordine voicing the Levis commercial...he just passed away early 2019 at 99 years old...also the voice of Tasters Choice coffee ...and all the Word Jazz albums he recorded. Prolific right up to his death
Those Dodge commercials with Joe Higgins as the "county mountie" ("You're in a heap o' trouble boy!") inspired Kenny Price to record the country novelty hit "The Sheriff of Boone County" that same year. Flash forward a couple of more years and they would both be together in the cast of :"Hee Haw."
Born in '71...they pushed that stuff like crack during the Saturday morning cartoons (Pebbles and BamBam! Hong Kong Fooey!) the sugar content in 70's cereals was TOXIC...responsible for many a baby tooth cavity...not to mention many a smack at the A&P aisle for jumping up and down like an addict in the cereal aisle for the fix
Funny. We were the last of my friends' families to get a colour tv. And just last week I purchased my first (used) flatscreen tv. Same dynamics....different stuff.
I graduated HS in ‘71. I really didn’t watch much TV then and until 1979. I do, however remember the commercials always playing in the background of our lives at home. I super enjoy these old commercials. Thanks so much for bringing them to us.
I was 2 in 71, and these are the first commercials I remembered. Especially the Coke commercial and the Frankenberry. I had a bunch of GAF Viewmaster cards.
I was 3 in '71, but I can't believe there were any commercials I truly remembered from that age. Most people cannot remember the vast majority of things that happened before the age of 4, forgetting most of those things by age 7 in what is called childhood amnesia. My guess is with the Coke commercial, specifically, it was a long-running commercial (the sequel was shown at Christmas for years), thus MY memory is not from seeing it in 1971 but rather probably seeing it sometime in 1972-73.
@@royrowland5763 + I remember things as far back as 2 years old. I have a photographic memory they say. I easy remember my dads 26th birthday, and I was 2 and a half. He couldn't believe I remembered what we ate and everything. Blew his mind with that one.
zim1966: I remember the Burger King cartoon king! He had the "royal motorcycle", which was a really cool chopper. Way cooler than that live human "king" wearing the plastic king's head they had recently. I still remember that cartoon Burger King commercial from that time (around 1971 or '72), where he had the "magic clerk" at the Burger King counter, who would magically wave his hands and whip up their food, then, at the end, the cartoon king says "Give me a bill", and the clerk waves his hands and says "You've got a bill!", and the king suddenly has a duck bill on his face, and he says "Burger King! Where kids are king!" in a funny Donald Duck voice.
1971 was the season the Dallas Cowboys won their very first Super Bowl. One year before I was born. 2:15 shows just how beautiful black women look keeping it all natural. None of that hat hair garbage. This whole video shows how well made commercials used to be. They actually allowed the story to play out. Not like how rushed and crammed commercials are nowadays.
Todd Foret: There was also "Fruit Brute", with a werewolf mascot. Remember that one? It was the fourth of the "monster cereals", which included Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo-Berry, and Fruit Brute...
Does anyone remember Baron Von Redberry and Sir Grapefellow cereals? They came out in the fall of 1972, I believe, and they had a World War I flying ace theme, with WWI fighter pilots "Sir Grapefellow", a tall British flying ace, and "Baron Von Redberry", a short German flier who was supposed to be like "The Red Baron". I think they were from the same company (General Mills, I think it was?) that put out Count Chocula and Frankenberry (and Boo-Berry, and Fruit Brute). Of course, Sir Grapefellow was grape flavored and colored purple, and Baron Von Redberry was strawberry flavored and pinkish-red, and both had miniature marshmallows. I used to love those!
@@ckeilah You can still get Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry. I've bought boxes of all three at Dollar Tree within the past two years. Fruit Brute hasn't been available since the '70s, though. I loved the Monster Cereals. I even had a Monster Cereals flag on my bike.
My Mom's 1968 Pontiac Lemans never hesitated, vroom vroom, I drove the heck out of that car on twisty back roads, used to scare my friends lol, good times
I remember my Grandmother shopping around for the best price one day in '69-'70 and she asked me to keep track of the prices so she could concentrate on driving. I remember the average being around 38¢ to 40¢ per gallon, and she found one on a road leading out of town that had a gallon of ethyl at 36¢ People don't believe me when I tell them that.
A strange world indeed where coach passengers on a 747 got near first class service and pocket calculators the size of a brick cost $345.00. I miss it so.
Autostade67 ~ Lol it wasn't strange at the time, but yeah I hear ya. Flying was a much more pleasant experience, practically glamorous. Look at all that space between the nice, comfortable seats, with arm rests, those clean, white thingies for your head, wine, liquor, and what appears to be a full course meal!!! As for the calculator, it was like the early VHS and Beta players, or the first cell phones... over the top expensive. Gosh if you had one of those calculators you were important!
Kenneth Butler: '71 Plymouth Road Runners were (and still are) the coolest cars and, in a way, it's a shame that they have become such valuable classic cars, only because, as a result of being considered such classic cars now, I can't afford to buy one!
We had that same Coke ad in the UK and in 1971 I was doing my basic training in the army. Our sergeant made us sing the song. Unfortunately he was killed on active service in Northern Ireland a few years later.
It was fun walking down memory lane. Thank you! My kids were around four and eight; we were still young, my husband was alive, and we had our little dog, "Scotty." We drove a 1970 Dodge "Swinger." They were great days! So much more innocent than now. 😊
Jeff polara: They were pretty cool, and what was even cooler and more high-tech was that, by the early 1970s, there were "Talking View-Master" viewers and later, there were "talking", rear-screen projector View-Masters! I always wanted each of those, but never got to have either. Those were really cool, and talk about being the RU-vid of the 1970s!
A brief moment when parents were still here and the hardest decision was trying to figure out how I was getting to and from band practice... A huge Thank You...
Dang it man!!! I remember some of those commercials...I must be getting old. How many remember the telephone booth you stepped in and closed the bi-fold door?
Oh yes, I remember those phone booths with the glass door. I tell my little sister about those phone booths and that I actually used them in the late 70's early 80's and she is quick to tell me " Damn, your old". I was 15yrs old when my little sister was born. Anyway, these commercials really took me back to my childhood. Thank you for sharing.
At 23:54, that jogged my memory. I'd forgotten that all these years, to wit, "When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer". I remember another Schlitz jingle-"If you don't have Schlitz, you don't have gusto, and brother you don't have beer!"
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I swear that “in another life” or something that I lived in the 60s. All of this seems so familiar to me but I wasn’t born until the 70s. All of your stuff takes me back to a simpler way of life that I guess I crave. I love the pics of nurses back in the day cuz I’m a nurse now. Love the commercials of “most doctor recommended cigarettes “. Thanks Fred!
True, yet the first and third commercials advertise two products that contain substances that have become the bane of modern-day diets. Refined sugar, high fructose corn syrup, empty carbs, etc have contributed to the obesity epidemic we now face-granted it’s not the only factor. Imagine what we’d look like if we didn’t consume this crap for the last 50 years? (Again, I realize it’s not the only contributing factor.) As for myself, I quit consuming this garbage, started focusing on healthy eating, and focused on portion control. I also exercise 4-5 times a week-weight training, calisthenics, yoga, swimming, cycling, and HIIT cardio. In the last 16 months, I’ve lost almost 50 lbs, greatly cut body fat percentage, and increased muscle mass and strength. All at 47 years old. Insofar as hair color... well, that’s a whole other issue... actually, non-issue. 😆 Choose wisely ‘Merica!
Fantastic Fred !!! My family was watching a Charlie Brown (Halloween or Christmas) special, the first time we heard the Coca Cola " teach the world to sing" commercial... A song that always made me smile !! Cheers from Detroit 🇺🇲
@@ChristopherUSSmith I'm not familiar with him so I looked up some videos of his work. He's good, but I still think Nordine's cooler. I've always thought that the guy who seemed to do all the voiceovers for movie trailers was really over the top. I like this Geico ad that has fun with it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZJMGS7l0wT8.html
I just love vintage tv commercials and what I miss the most nowadays is the catchy jingles and original tunes there used to be. You've put a smile on my face. Thanks a lot. You sure are "the real thing". :)
I remember being able to get a McDonalds burger fries and coke for just under a dollar. We had a McDonalds about six blocks from school and you could just get there , get your meal to go, and walk back in time to eat before having to go to the next class.
I was born in December 1966 i too feel very sorry of kids of today. I have listened kids of today how they would love to actually be there back then. They love those 📺 commercials, cartoons, music well especially those psychedelic 🎶 music? TV 📺 shows, games, the way of living. I love that song I want the world to sing in perfect harmony.
Vintage TV commercials. All great picks. Memories brought forth of a time long forgotten. Thank you Fred for good quality content. No channel compares to yours. Thumbs up...everytime.👍👍👍
when I was a little girl I had a wind up that played that song I was born in 75 the wind up turns a window of pictures of flowers and trees and butterflies
I always 😁 ear to ear!! ...yet gets me so melancholy. I had a bowling version of that tennis game! 😱 it was loud! Only allowed to play with it in the basement 😂. Still trying to figure out how to build my time machine 🤔.... 'till then at least we've got Fred!! 😃
I love that Sharp calculator, big as a brick and it only cost $345 (over $2000 in today's dollars). And just to show how modern it was, there's a guy using it as he talks to someone on a pay phone. I love that guy on the TWA ad barking out all the advantages of flying TWA, the message seems to be, "Fly TWA or I'm gonna come and kick your ass."
I remember many of these vividly, from beginning to end, even though I was probably barely 4 years old when I last saw them. Great channel by the way!! Cheers!! :)
LOL oh man, I VIVIDLY remember "The Wethead is dead" because my older brother thought he was the coolest dude around when he got a can of men's "hairspray" for this 15th birthday in 1971! we STILL tease him about that to this day! LOL!!
Starts with a Coca-Cola commercial and ends with a Pepsi commercial. And both jingles are like audio time machines that take me straight back to those days. Haven't heard that Pepsi tune in almost 50 years, yet I still knew all the lyrics. 25:48....this is most of us. Back when we didn't realize that our moms and dads wouldn't always be around.
OH SHEEIT! NFL Strategy by Tudor? I've still got that game somewhere in my garage attic. It was a great game for it's time. Anybody else play or own that game? A joyous tweak of my memory on a Saturday morning. Thanks so much for that, Fred.
@@markcornish2519 The hardest thing was getting the clock to work properly. If you didn't pull those plastic cards out of the window just right, no time would tick off the clock. It was still a lot of fun to feel like a head coach.
