Who knew watching commercials would actually be relaxing ! Battlestar was a highlight, Fred; still have the boxed set with the Cylon helmet box. Good stuff.
The Edsel Div. of Ford Motor Co. was already desperate by the time the short-lived Pony Giveaway was conducted in late Fall 1958. You can still buy some of the door-hangers and application blanks used. Edsel's ad company -- Foote, Cone, and Belfing -- never really recovered from the damage done to its reputation by that account.
I had one of those Radio Dogs from radio Shack, I got it for Christmas, I believe it was the black Poodle, my sister got the sleepy dog. I loved it, and so did she.My mom would have loved to enter the Ivory Snow contest. She was a faithful watcher of As The World Turn's, as a matter of fact, she was watching it the day JFK was assassinated. She says that she was eating lunch and feeding me a bottle, I was only two-months old at the time.
At 7:45, I don't remember that. I only remember Rowan and Martin did a telephone commercial ( or public service)? telling everyone to dial a 1 number FIRST, before you dial the area code and the regular number.
I love your stuff I hope someday you could get some stuff from an Indianapolis station I would love it any day or night any year thanks for the memories
When I was really little, my late Dad used to smoke Camel, Then he smoked Marlboro's, Kent's he coughed and spat mucus all the time, then he added chewing tobacco to that. I mean the man was hooked on nicotine. Due to all that stuff, he quit smoking in 1986, but still had a heart attack two years later,he STILL chewed tobacco, then he had another heart attack in 2005, he got stint's in his heart then. Then He got cancer of the kidney, which spread all over his body. He died in 2012, I still believe his forty-plus years of nicotine abuse is what killed him. I was told my grandpa, his Dad smoked for years. I have zero memory of that, He did chew tobacco, but the kind like Bugs Bunny and a lot of cowboys did, the plug's. I thought it was candy when I was about four maybe. I just wish they would have never smoked. At least my Grandpa lived to be in his eighties, he did stop chewing when I was little. He was nicotine free..My Dad was 72. I still miss him, he has another great grandson and I know he would be proud of him. I am just saying that people back in the old days thought it looked sexy to have a cigarette dangling from your mouth. Look at Lucy in Be A Pal.
I loved Avon products as a kid i remember i bought white swan perfume for my school teacher Mrs Orht The bottle was a white swan made of white milk glass and the lid was a gold crown in plastic she kept the bottle as an armament For years untill she passed Away i don't know when she passed away but i know she has i saw her Lambs wool coat in Douglas gardens thrift shop it was her favorite coat and she would never Part with it when I saw the coat i should have bought it I knew it was hers
Huckleberry Hound sure covers a lot of distance in a short time when he walks. Which is implausible, given the fact that his legs are about as long as my attention span for fifties nostalgia....
If you listen carefully..Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Hokey Wolf, Top Cat and other characters have essentially the same voice inflections, with a tweak here and there..THAT WAS THE GENIUS OF DAWS BUTLER...
@@markrocovich2234 I found this interesting tidbit on Wikipedia: "He is voiced by Arnold Stang in the style of Phil Silvers in the TV show, and by Daws Butler in Yogi's Ark Lark. In most of his modern appearances, he is voiced by Tom Kenny. He also appeared in various Wonderland Sydney commercials in Australia where he was voiced by Keith Scott." I also read that the term "dibble", as in Officer Dibble, is still used in Australia to mean "cop". I didn't believe it until I heard Christopher Walken use it in a recent role (on the podcast Walken 101). For a show that only lasted a season, it has had almost as much longevity as Star Trek.
Fred- being in jr Hi/High school in the early and mid 70's, I remember a few Plymouth commercials with a recurring character, Mean Mary Jean. ANy chance you might wrangle up a few of these?
It features Veronica Hamel of Hill Street Blues fame. The only place I could find it was an A&E documentary about cigarette advertising on TV, and here is the final part of that doc. Look for the commercial near the end: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7KTScPGORUY.html
Vince Scully used to have Don Drysdale co-anchor with him, maybe he thought Don would replace him - but he suddenly died at a young age; I saw part of his funeral on TV, it looked like his youngest son wanted to play for awhile ...
