1972 TV COMMERCIALS 

@@elwinskittle166 Seffy, I understand. We just have to do the best with what we have to work with today.

You’re so right! It was so innocent and wonderful compared to now. People were so different. Now that our society and economy are based on consumerism instead of manufacturing, the measure of success for most is money, instead of character. I remember Made in America was top of the line; our cars, our steel, our appliances, all of it.

Dang that sounds great but I’m still happy I’m born much later, otherwise I’d be old like you.

I'm 66 years old know what you mean 😊👍👍👍👍👍

@@tonyallen6510 Tony, I was able to walk to school without my parents constantly worried. Today, I see armored-car SUVs drop off the too-precious tykes, who will never gain independence.

I sure miss the rotary phones. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

back then there were cool people

Yeah, and we still got by fine. It's ironic that more technology is supposed to make life easier and instead we're more stressed out than ever before.

@@anthonycrnkovich5241 Wait 'til AI decides not to unlock your home's doors. For your 'safety'.

It was evil then, too. You just didn't know! It's a win-win

America was even more divided in 1972 than it is today with just as many problems. If you were a kid then, your memory doesn't reflect how bad the times were. About the only difference is we have far better technology today.

Sea Hunt, twenty-five years before Airplane.

"I picked a bad day to quit sniffin glue"

I turned 16 on 12/04/71 Age 16 in 1972… the BEST year in my life! Drivers License, GR8 music, food, ETC!!! CB

The tape recorder which Father Karras used in 'The Exorcist' in 1973

You must be really bored and have nothing to do I feel so sad for you

Trumpers fall into that category. Must have hit the mark with you...@@tgwoolshire

And people were thinner. What happened?

That's not going to please Bobby Hill...

housewives all around what an age!

Hi

same born 72 also

IKR ?!?

Your not alone I'm 66 years old

Things seemed so different.

I just get a different feeling when I watch older TV series and commercials. I like to imagine what people did for fun back then.

@@kylewilson9189 57 years old here. We ran around outside, read books, started aquariums, rode horses, just had fun

I was born in 63. I was a kid during the 70’s. Good times.❤

‘58 here - I remember a lot of these the 70’s took me from 12 - 22

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Was wondering,, would it even ring?

Top of the world ma! Said jimmy Cagney. On top of the water tower. Before the fall.

Well, not really. We had just lost Vietnam, and the Arab oil embargo was about to cripple us badly at home. We had an inflation rate so bad that Nixon had to intervene with price-fixing. Our airliners were being hijacked regularly and blown up. There were still race riots in our cities, and even one that year in the navy. The Soviets also terrified us into signing a nuclear arms reduction treaty. I remember the early seventies as a time of disarray at home and humiliation overseas. Yes, there was breezy bluster in these ads, but there's that in today's ads too. (Probably more sabre-rattling now, as a matter of fact). I remember it being really uncool for anyone to fly the flag in front of their house.

REALLY, what about Vietnam...

​@@robertsmith6188the television has ALWAYS been a deceiver to lull the stupid into a stupor, while the controllers raped, destroyed, and ransacked the innocent and nature for power and greed . It's Satan's world. For whoso love the world, the love of the father is not in him.

@@DuncanFisher-s5s so your reporting no change then. Except the flag flying like the facsist countries do!

Remember… “ Cigars Cigarettes Tiparillos” ?? CB

there always were its all relative

There wasn't the road rage and shootings like today!! Get your head out of your ass!! LMAO@@YOUARESOFT.

March of ‘72 I was making $1.20/hr. By May I was making $2.00/hr. and I was rolling in it! Good money for a young single guy! Remember halter tops? I don’t think one guy ever told the ladies just how much we could see!

@@maxwellspeedwell2585 I was making $1.80 then and certainly not complaining. By 1973, $2.35 and I did allright. Single, no kids and older car paid for made it much easier.

Yup, era gone by.

The dealership used on the packaging was Allen Chevrolet in Dedham, MA...the site is now a Staples.

had it have it and still love it goes greate with the movie Used cars

That's why people got friends back then.

President Nixon Ended the draft June of 1972.CB

@@EmmyPierz-ek7hi I literally said in my post that I joined. I didn't say I was drafted, yet here you are talking about it! So what's your point?

@@justdoingitjim7095 I read your post AND I KNOW you joined. I stated the June 1972 , Nixon ended the draft. I being a 16 year old male at that time, was relieved. Signed up for my draft card in 1971, and in August 1971, the front page of newspaper stated MY BIRTH DATE was the #1 Army draft pick! If the war continued into 1974, upon graduating high school, my plans were to join the coast guard as a cook… Why are you SO touchy? You read into things that aren’t even there?? CB

The commercial didn't show the stereo. Just the furniture piece it comes in. Strange. Not the right way to advertise a product.

I'm assuming you're referring to repetitive shit such as commercials for car insurance (ahem, *Geico*), smartphones and medication?

I remember the good old days of going to a gas station where you could use dollar bills in a vending machine to buy gas. This innovation didn't last long...

I was a kid in the 70’s. Our local, family owned gas station would hand out STP t shirts and stickers.

Lucky you. I watched every moon landing in B&W.

I'm about your age and from the East coast . WE were "The Brady Bunch Generation". We also had Kool Pops, Bonomo Turkish Taffy , Wacky Package stickers and do you remember when girls wore those fake apple core necklaces ? What was that all about ? Also CLICK CLAKS !!

@@LannieLord Oh, do I remember that. The 1970's was a great time to be a kid and an even better time to be a teen. Love from Marysville, California

I'd rather fight than switch

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I was born in '63 and can well remember cigarette commercials. Back then, there were no spots for prescription drugs.

@@TheBrooklynbodine 👍

@@TheBrooklynbodine I was born in 62, but don't remember the cIgarette ADS, except product placement on The Fintstones!

That's why they call it cuckoo appliance

2023 - I read books on my phone

@@FranklyPeetoons You missed out

Dr. Beeper? Oh, you mean Dan Resin.

@@luisreyes1963 Yep!

😂Lloyd Bridges.

​@@ericswanson9778looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue...

​....and huffing gold paint 🎨

Na .. the sniffing glue reference never gets old ... puts that image of that dude with his hair standing on end sniffing superglue 😂

One day ....we will look back at Now ...and refer to it as the good ole day. one day

The same in the UK. No-one really had strong accents on TV. Very posh and with received pronunciation.

Born in '60. Yup, seen a lot of commercials over the years. It's amazing how so much can change but some things just stay the same.

I quite literally could NOT with either one of them

These commercials were made well before I was born. I don't think they are wholesome.... The ads are highly sexualized.... Sorry not trying to argue, but I grew up in a very strict religious house, and don't see wholesome here. I mean that Noxzema ad was giving major pedophilia vibes "mistaken for under 21"... Yikes!!

Drugs and lawsuits is all I see

Adjusted for inflation, 45¢/gal equates to $3.57/gal now. But people will _always_ complain that it’s too expensive now, and _always_ think it used to be much cheaper! 😂

That was a roach, bro 😌

Yeah, but at that time a paycheck was less than $100 for a lot of people.

Betsy Palmer

You and I are the same age, and while I pride myself on having a good memory, I don't remember many of them. At 9:27, the "Ring Around the Collar" jingle jogged my memory after decades.

Born in '63. Remember this era well, and wish it back in many ways. You're not old Sheila; you're experienced! :)

@@adammwalch I was born in '63 myself. Those were the days, if I may use a timeworn phrase.

these things happen

24 at that time, nice to be young again.

I was born in June '68. Memories.....

@Benedict Guillermo Nice copy-paste bot. That software is proven false and a means to hacking those who download it.

@@Bluelilly40I was born in June of 68’ too. I remember a few of these.

OMG? (or did you mean MSG?) haha

Good one! 😄

I turned 32in 1995! Those were my partying days! Well, I'm all partied out at 59!😆

@@Market-ro1gp ME TOO!

I graduated high school in '95. 😊

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1972, It was the best! I was 7 years old riding my bike on the sidewalks when it was safe to go out back then.

i’m sorry but i don’t wanna live during a time before DNA…it was NOT safer back then for kids

@@lollaughs09 Really? Drive bys did not exist in my neighborhood with 30% black families. At 7 years old I walked in many garages where men were working on projects for their homes without a worry about anything. They were polite and neighborly and registered sex offenders was unheard of. Yeah so from life experience...you are wrong!

@@xaviercast970 ok glad you lived in a safe sheltered neighborhood 👍🏻 but statistically crime has gone down by 20% in the last 40 years. just because you felt safe at home does not mean the rest of the united states was some utopia

@@xaviercast970 also why are you bringing up drive bys in black neighborhoods? don’t be weird

I don't judge people by their looks, I judge them if they're a good person. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

Of course they look good, they're good looking enough to get hired for commercials. Regular people didn't look like these actors and actresses.

@@harperstacey9604 Miss Harper Stacy.

@@danbasta3677 I hope that you will have a wonderful evening 😘. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

@@gramethyst2920 l did.

Call me crazy but it seemed like they were a lot happier too

OPEC, the first energy crisis... long lines at the gas station.... During 73/74 Nixon administration actually set standard Time back another hour. At school day's end I'd do weight lifting. It would be Twilight when dad came to the school to pick me up.

I was a kid and life seemed like some type of utopia.