It scares me that, even though I haven’t seen these commercials since the 1960’s, I still remember almost every word, every tune. Proof that television is the ultimate brainwashing machine. 😳
Completely agree. In odd moments doing normal, workaday things my brain will present me with an advertising jingle I haven't heard or thought about for years....Madison avenue filled us with their slogans and music. Have to admit, whatever it was they were doing, it worked!
@@michaelfisher7170 That was the whole point, after all. If you didn't create a memorable jingle, the product didn't sell as well and/or as widely as you wished it to.
Love these old commercial clips.Coffee 'powdered creamer' scares me. It now floats on top of coffee has no taste. Tried it in a hotel recently couldn't drink it...spit it out. I'm guessing it's mostly cardboard mixed with sawdust. Never heard of Shasta shampoo either. Seeing you were supposed to wrap a towel around still shampoo'd head results weren't likely positive...lol. Thnx for upload:)
Tarn Sand: "Powdered creamers" are so gross! When I fly and coffee is offered I STILL ask the . . . ahhhh . . . cabin attendant if their "cream" is dairy or powdered.
Most ads I see on TV now are either… 1… Ambulance chaser ads 2… Rx ads 3…Those long “not available in stores“ infomercial ads 4…Car/life insurance ads 5...Debit card ads 6...And just about anything else that you cannot buy at a store.
'Will he know what his wife is stirring into that cup of coffee?' 👀 And this reminds me 🤔, there's an aweful lot of lace around our house that needs ironing ASAP! 😁 Thanks Fred!
How I remember Hidden Magic hairspray! There was also Tame Cream Rinse (the precurser to pretty much all hair conditioners), and Curl Free (home hair straightening kit).
Many thanks, as I enjoyed that a lot. In fact, I dug out my collection of Raleigh coupons, and I'm going to trade them in for an axe. Or a machete. Maybe a Glock -- haven't counted the coupons yet.
it just struck me, there's probably an entire younger generation of people watching this who are asking themselves why in the world you would spray starch on clothes. lol
ladyi7609 The styles in 1940'-50's was everything pressed perfectly. In order to do this you sprayed some starch before ironing. Starch also helped with wrinkling while wearing. You can still buy it. My Mom & Grandma ironed everything except knitwear bed sheets. Women ( back then never saw men iron:)) even ironed cotton underwear. My Mom did laundry ironing Monday would bake 22 loaves bread big pan of cinnamon every week. Friday was scrub wax floors dust vac furniture drapes.
Join the military, they will teach you all about it! lol It's for pressing clothes so that they hold that pressed wrinkle free look with a perfect crease.
Ted knight going to sleep constipated and waking up feeling better so I guess he was shitting his brains out and really that's a bunch of shit to me. No wonder that medicine went down the crapper
I was born in 1952 and I remember a lot of these things . some of them were pretty crappy at the time but there was nothing to compare it to so you didn't know it was. But some are still made today. I get catalogs .
Haley's M-O...basically Vaseline in liquid form LOL. It really worked...left an oily toilet bowl ring...but thanks to the little guy in the toilet boat turning the water Caribbean blue...no problem.
Amazing how modest that Ambassador ad was: "Of course that didn't put me in the Cadillac league...not yet." Conceding that someone would eventually want to move up to a competitor's luxury car, but just saying that theirs was good enough for the time being.
Remember Shasta shampoo, in a glass jar -- Prell shampoo also came in a glass bottle --- Actually back then even bleach came in glass bottles or jugs. And cream deodorant's in little glass jars --- I remember Mum's, and Tussy .... There was also one that had a faint clove scent. And Jergen's hand lotion in, you guessed it; a glass bottle. It had a almond scent to it. Glass: It's what we used before plastic ;)
I can't imagine using glass containers of any kind in a shower or bathtub area--the glass breaks, and all of a sudden you've got a lot of cuts on your feet, backside, etc.(?)
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 Honestly, I don't remember any of the glass containers in my household ever getting broken. I guess we just instinctively took more care to not drop them but, yeah, there ya go.
@@davidnieve6444 That's right. Good all American made US Steel, and just a few wires, hoses, and fan belts. No computer chips to deal with. American made cars from the 40's to the mid 70's had style, class, and individuality.
@@vickiladu6755 I forgot about that. When I was a kid in the 60's, I used to go to the gas stations in my area on my bike and asked for STP decal stickers and other types of racing decal stickers to put on my bike. A lot of kids did asked for them, and the owners of the gas stations or the gas station attendants would give them to us kids for free. If they had them, if they didn't, they'd tell us to come back a few days later or the following week to get them.
@@goodmaro No, I suppose not. The thought of Ted precociously balancing himself on the porcelain chair will now reluctantly be burned forever into my psyche. 😧
I got a kick out of the 'Plymouth/Desoto' ad at (7:06) and the 'American Motors Ambassador' at (10:40)...I remember when I could identify any 'year/make/model' of car with just a with a look at a tail-light ! (now I barely know a Ford from a Chevy...never mind what year)Were things different then? Yeah...but mainly in the way people acted toward each other...'Courtesy' was the 'norm' then. People went out of their way to help someone w/car trouble on the side of the road...especially a woman with kids in the car. It wouldn't be more than five minutes before someone would pull-over and do whatever they could to help anywhere in the U.S. and they would be happy to do it.(since when did becoming 'savage ass-holes' to each other become 'normal?') I don't miss the 'old days', nor do I suffer from'false memory syndrome' ...but I can write in all honesty that, for the most part, American society was more 'forgiving' in the'50's and early '60's than now. And I wish those times would come back...when people were better toward each other than they are now.
Who in the fuck are you writing to concerning someone having a 'bris?' No...my 'convertible-top' is very much intact. (wtf fuck are you impressing with your poor German? Yourself?)
Are you kidding me? If I had known that I could have gotten a free axe with Raleigh coupons, I would have started smoking years ago! DAMN IT!!! My bad.
The funny thing is, Marlboro and Camel still have them. I know lots of people who have gotten camping and hiking equipment using those coupons. You know, because smokers are usually super into outdoor activities, and strenuous exercise. 😘🤣
The days when women had nothing to do but to prance around the house serving coffee and taking out wrinkles from clothes, and black people had their own restaurants, or at least were not in white peoples restaurants. Also, we could enjoy long wars in faraway exotic places like Vietnam. Let's go back to that time! Let's Make America Great Again! eh...wait a second....
Yes, she is. I didn't catch that the first time around, you're observant! You'd make a good policeman or detective with that skill. (I'm serious, just in case you were wondering - lots of smart asses around, so sometimes it's hard to tell) LoL 😂
I didn't see a cigarette. They just showed her hand (if it was even her hand) in motion for a fraction of a second, in a blur; it looked like her "hand" was holding something, but I didn't see any cigarette smoke in the area (or a lit end of the cig). The resolution on the video is pretty poor, in any case.
Did anyone else catch Judith Lowery early in the video? She gained fame very late in life on "Phyllis". She played Cloris Leachman's mother in law's mother in law.
Do you have the movie "Network" (1976) on DVD, like I do? The narrator of this movie said about the fictional network, UBS, and its fake program, "The Howard Beale Show", is the #4 TV program in the ratings, followed before it is "60 Minutes", All In The Family" (and of course) "Phyllis". I watched Phyllis" every week when it was new, even if Judith was shown for only 5 minutes. I thought, that little old lady is carrying the whole program on her back, if something happens to her, the ratings will go down - to nothing, and I won't watch it, ever again. Was it a couple of years later, she died, I didn't look at it anymore, but it stayed on the air two more months, before it was canceled.
@@mariekatherine5238 I'm 27 (soon 28) and yeah, it's mostly if I had a LOT of fiber though (easy to get with rice.) it feels like my blood just got cleaned out nice, like I just slept great.
@@troylowe814 Indeed. If it becomes more important as one ages, a person might want to start looking for Depends TV ads. Some are said to be stylish with lacy bands for the ladies. Maybe some should have a camo design for manly men and hunters that have trouble keeping their bowels from erupting. No more worry about embarrassing rectal leakage when you can confidently release a healthy dump on the go.
It wasn't on grocers' shelves for long. Post picked the wrong time to introduce it, as Kellogg's rolled out their own oat cereal, "OKs" {with "Big Otis" on the box}, in the fall of 1959. There was only room for TWO ready-to-eat oat cereals to "duke it out" for the affection of breakfast lovers- and "OKs" managed to find a lot of interested kids [especially when Yogi Bear started appearing on their boxes in late 1960] through the mid-1960's. General Mills' "Cheerios" remained the #1 choice, though.
I used an iron and ironing board to straighten my long hair, it’d freak out my mom she was worried that I would burn myself. That was about 1972, I was in High School, good times. Great music, awesome cars, human interaction.
I used Curl Free at-home straightener...what a nightmare! Between the rotten egg stench of the solution and the gigantic plastic rollers that had to be worn while sitting under the bonnet dryer (blow dryers were a device of the future back then), made the entire process more trouble than it was worth.
Circa 1954, Betty White had a live daytime show on NBC (done in Los Angeles at 9 AM to air in the East at noon) and she did live spots for that RDX diet aid.
Ted Baxter needs to go to the bathroom. I'll just about bet you that stuff had mineral oil in it. That's why it was M O.Remember the time Kelloggs put bananas in their Corn Flakes? It wasn't on the market for long, but it was good. I bought it all the time.I used to think when I was a kid that Bel Air was a weird version of the name Blair. Like Balaire.
Joie de Vivre Actually freeze drying was common then and considering it rehydrated with milk there is 99% chance they were just freeze dried, which does not really need any preservation. That said, in the kind of package cereal was sold in they may have added some in anyways even though freeze dried does last longer then most items.
I'm just amazed that women of that generation wore dresses all the time...can remember my mother having to change into a dress to leave the house to go shopping
Horizon coffee: anyone notice that his answer to the question “do you pick all of the beans by hand? “ is “lots of them! “Well, LOTS could mean 10,000 out of 100,000,000. The ad copy is meant to misrepresent without actually lying. How quaint. Now everybody just out and out lies, don’t you think?
I remember BOTH Haley's M-O AND Di-Gel!! Actually, I had totally forgotten about Haley's M-O until I just now saw this video! Di-Gel I remember, because my dad used to give me that when I had an upset stomach. I was recently wondering whatever happened to Di-Gel? I believe that Doan's Pills and Geritol are still around.
Products heavily advertised on Canadian TV in the 60s and 70s when I was a kid: Resdan dandruff treatment and bubbly Eno fruit salts, a product similar to Alka-Seltzer but minus the ASA. We also saw a lot of commercials for Coffee-Mate. That Pream spot reminded me of that fact.
Yes, those were real strawberries....but freeze-drying them destroyed any nutrient value they would have had, and spoiled the taste and texture. They're still trying to find a way to preserve strawberries that doesn't turn them into mush....and the best method is still to make jam out of them!
The big problem was with freeze-drying technology then, the fruit wouldn't re-hydrate before the cereal got mushy. Fun story...a couple of years after this, General Foods sponsored a TV special starring Carol Channing, and she did a commercial for this cereal with Jim Nabors as his Gomer Pyle character (they sponsored his show as well). She is seen taking a spoon of the cereal....but when the director yelled CUT, she spat it out into a bucket--she is allergic to strawberries.
How about all the dry cleaning you had to do. Dry cleaners were everywhere. Most of my work clothes needed to be dry cleaned! Suede jackets too. Real fur coats that you had to store in a special place in the summer! Things have sure changed!
"Try it, you'll like it!" "Tried it, thought I was gonna die." "I can't believe I ate the whole thing." AND, best ever: "Mamma mia, that's a spicy meat-a-ball!"
@T Jacobs - Yeah... I remember when they took lemon-lime Slice and Shasta off the shelves locally. There was also a delicious soda called "Champagne Brus" for awhile. Good observation, T Jacobs.
I've recently discovered the FredFlix vidoes and I'm enjoying them tremendously. I had forgotten so many of the things he mentions, and the videos bring it all back.
TopperQ105: Whatever happened to RDX, and how many years was it around? I wonder just what was in it, as it claimed that it had "no dangerous drugs and no hormones".
The old commercials were so nice as compared to our current batch. Now we have drugs for every disease, mental illness or drug side effects. The lawyer adds are a trip, does anyone ever get money for those adds? I have only known one person who got money from a drug reaction. What happens to all that money? Sorry, it seems the products then we're not pitched to change your life, just to enhance your survival. God l wish the gentle persuasion was back in advertising. But times change , society gets more complex, and we can remember our youth. Thank Fred Flix for showing us our past imperfect! Oh human beings are so complex!!!!!🌹🌹🌹🌹🍀🍀🍀🍀🌼🌼🌼🌼🌻🌻🌻🌻
@Michael Bacon - Dried Sunsweet Prunes are still available at most "supermarkets," and are processed to be much juicier than they used to be. I grew up picking/processing prunes for Sunsweet on the family farm, and the only thing better was a prune fresh off the tree! All prunes are plums, but not all plums are prunes. Ah, missing the old days. :))
One day I poured Milk of Magnesia instead of sugar and milk in my dad's coffee back in the mid 80's (I was 12 then) before we went to work at a burger joint. There was nothing more satisfying than watching later that day your dad going for a $#!+ every 5 minutes. Got my arse beaten later that day, but it was worth the laughs.