These commercials were actually seen during 1970. Sinclair vanished, after they merged with Atlantic/Richfield to become "ARCO" (which is now part of "BP"). The True ad was among the last to be shown, before the ban on cigarette advertising began on January 2, 1971. Raquel's special ("Raquel!"), co-sponsored by Motorola, aired April 26, 1970 on CBS. Enzo Stuarti also recorded an album for Ragu {mail a dollar to them, and get his album, "That's a Nice"}.
As a songwriter, I really admire and respect whoever wrote that jingle song for True. I smoked a few True's when they first came out, but I didn't like them. Winstons and Pall Mall were my brands. Can't forget Camels
More commercials were shot on tape in those days than we realize today - since the ones that have circulated over the years were all 16mm prints, either individually or included in 16mm network prints of shows, but the 2" tape copies were nearly impossible to distribute. In this case, this tape was clearly a demo tape for a production house that specialized in videotape commercials - how it ended up in the Nixon White House Communications Agency collection is a mystery, but I suspect that someone sent it as a demo to possibly shoot tape commercials for the Nixon 1972 campaign. And the campaign did use videotaped commercials, especially "man on the street" type things.
Careful on claims. While it is true, you could NOT advertise a 'cigarette' on TV, Marlboro found a way around this until 1999 (the last year of 'the Cowboy' commercials)...you see, if you didn't show the pack open, or the cigarette, or it burning, you COULD advertise...so Marlboro had 'Marlboro GEAR' that you COULD advertise about...and, needless to say, you COULD make commercials about selling the GEAR (which just inadvertently hocked smoking, as a 'sideline'))...so if you feel you've 'seen a cigarette commercial since 1970 (I remember $0.25 a gallon gasoline, so sure I remember them)...it's because of the Marlboro Gear of the late 80's and 90's that you do!
compared to others at the time, they were weak, but easier to smoke than Carlton. They gave them away in the mail like others then. They changed the blend/ pack design later...got better.
@@RedGarnett-n2p You have to go to a tobacco shop or a place that carries them. Back in the day they were everywhere because cigarettes were not this expensive. Due to no advertising the only cigarettes carried are the popular ones. RJR makes these now and they are quite expensive. They are almost $15 a pack where I live. They are one of the most expensive brands on the market.
It's amazing how important The New York Times was in 1971 and how they were respected as an objective and legitimate voice for not only New York City, but much of the United States. It's sad how journalism has fallen. It seems it either represents one point vs. the opposing point of view. Are their any truly objective thinkers in modern day media?
There never was a "truly objective" angle or point of view. Journalists conned the rest of us that their trade was scientific. Funny... They bring so much suffering in the world today. Curse them.
I think perhaps *your* perspective has shifted. This just reeks of the bad faith "but both sides!" argument. What I would argue is that the media has shifted to serve only the very wealthy interests, due to the massive consolidation of media ownership.
@@frankdenardo8684 But he did say COLORADO first. I'm a native of beautiful Denver, the Mile High City! Out skiing is probably the best. But that's just my biased opinion! lol /s
lol would’ve been funny if they switched the cigarette advertising jingles with more truthful advertising on that final day. The tobacco industry would’ve been sooooo pissed 😡.
1:55 A beautiful, romantic, and appealing cigaret commercial from the twilight days of TV advertising for them. A catchy tune, with a beautiful folk guitar arrangement, which believe me, had I not known any better back then, I would have been easily swayed by this attractive couple
when I quit smoking in 1976 it was True cigarettes that I quit. Best decision ever as my health would be trashed if i kept smoking those damn things...
The creator of Ragu (who sold it to Cheesboro-Ponds in 1970 I believe) went on to later create Francesco Rinaldi. Both brands of course continue to exist to this day.
The last cigarette commercial on TV aired 1 minute before the ban went into effect,at 11:59 pm January 1,1971 on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.It was a commercial for Virginia Slims cigarettes.After thatt,the ban took effect and cigarette ads on TV were no more.
All kinds of confusion in the gasoline retail biz! It's surprising where some old names have been retained! and many stations keep changing brands - I know a Pittsburgh gas station that was a Marathon,Gulf and finally a Sunoco. Oddly all three brands have an historical connection to Pittsburgh. Both Gulf and Sun Oil's predecessor started here and Marathon was (is?) headquartered here.
How about that! I have a Sinclair transistor radio that I would guess is over 50 years old. It takes one 9-volt battery, and maybe someday I'll get it fixed up. It's AM only, but I love it to death just the same. I looked for this commercial, and your e-mail led me to it.
Note, cigarette ads were banned effective January 1, 1971 and that was the last day cigarette companies could run their ads. It was really a very big event.
The annual college football bowl classic is when there was a proliferation of cigarette commercials on radio and TV and back in the day sporting events was the thing.
Great quality. You can hear the audio print-through from the quad master! I had forgotten about that effect. I particularly remember the complicated lyrics on the RAGU spot.
Me and my family used to have a Motorola-era Quasar TV almost exactly like the one in front featured at 3:04, it was a hand-me-down given to us around 1987 from my grandparents who bought it new back in the early 70s, and had upgraded their set at the time (to a new RCA XL100 set with cable-ready digital tuning and all). IIRC, it was a "works in a drawer" set just like the one featured here. In spite of some of the other comments here mentioning how unreliable those Motorola-built Quasar sets were (probably part of the reason why Moto sold Quasar to Panasonic/Matsushita around '74), it was a great set though and never gave us any problems that I can remember. I remember it had a great picture, especially since we also just got cable TV around the same time. My grandparents even kept the manual that came with the set, and strangely, the manual was both an owner's and service manual (it even had printed screenshots of oscilloscope displays of signals at certain points in the TV's circuitry as a guide for TV servicemen).
I'm sure they were, but they had to have been shown at other times as well. A few years ago I went to the Museum of Television & Radio to watch an episode of "That Girl" from 1967 so I could spot Teri Garr, and they had all the commericals on their videotape, including cigarette commercials(I think it was Kent or Lark, or something like that, I forget). FYI, Lew Parker was a chain smoker himself who died in 1972.
Wow, a beautiful singing brunette encouraging me to smoke. Lol. I just wish i had seen this commercial back then when i was age 11 in 1971, if i did i would have started smoking a lot sooner. Lol. Of course, i shouldnt joke about this...
The Motorola TV spot at 3:00 was from 1970. I looked through microfilms of newspapers, and the show that Motorola sponsored was April 1970, so that's the date on this set of ads.
In later years, Quasar dropped the "Works in a Drawer" feature. I think the selling point was that it made the sets easier to service, but at another youtube spot, namely "The Quasar Color TV System", somebody posted that it should have been called "Works on the Floor". Maybe it wasn't an advantage after all.
I read something that stated Motorola developed the Quasar brand specifically to enable the company to sell off the TV production division at some point (which they did, to Matsushita Electronics, who already marketed the Panasonic and Technics brands)
I read in a book, which I still have, but right now forget the title, that toward the end of Motorola's TV-making days, that their TV sets were leaving the factory with 150 (sic) defects for every 100 sets. That averages out to 1.5 defects for every set. Also, I read at Wikipedia that the Quasar brand was dormant for several years, but about tow or three years ago, Panasonic revived it.
"True gives you everything you've ever wanted in a cigarette." As a smoker of some 45 years, I still don't know what it is I've ever wanted in a cigarette. Of all I am certain, around 1970, I screwed up big time in order to be cool and groovy...hack, hack....
robert glenn mom just had all those bypasses. Me I could give a good god damn. I quit 15 months ago. Guess how much I saved? If you want to smoke by all means light another.
So many memories from childhood. I was dazzled by the technological possibilities of Quazar's 'Works-in-a-Drawer' (R), Rachel Welch was something the older kids jabbered on endlessly about, loved flying United on family vacations to Colorado. As far as I'm concerned United went downhill after they started repainting the planes wt the red. orange and brown stripes.
I remember trying True cigarettes back in the late 70s. They used to sell them 2 packs for the price of 1 all the time at walgreens here. They tasted ok. There were lots worse. Barclay were one of the nastiest cigs Ive smoked.
TV ads must be very regional, at least in 1971. I was 16 years old in 1970-1971 and I don't remember any of these commercials. And I live near Los Angeles, not in the back-woods. But I do know much of the back-story to that ARCO Ad. My Father worked for Richfield Oil Co. starting back in the early 1950's until 1984(?). One reason for the Atlantic-Sinclar-Richfield merger was due to an Anti-trust suit by Bobby Kennedy. Today ARCO was absorbed by BP.
It is. Strangely though, all of the Eagles which used to surround the top of the old station razed in the 60's, still survive. Locally in the NYC area, two are facing 7th Avenue... One is by the Hicksville LIRR station. Two are at the entrance of the NJ Botanical Gardens entrance in Ringwood, NJ...
"When you smoke true, you get all the flavor and the filter too" Not to mention cancers, COPD, diabetes, smoker's cough, and emphysema! I wanted to be a smart butt!
4:33 - to end: One of THE FIRST videos with Ian McShane in it! From Airline Ski Commercials in 1971, to John Wick in the 2010's...quite a long path up!
The irony is that the lady was criticizing the World Trade Center towers (one of the photo's shown was one of the towers at a very early stage of construction).
That would probably be the old, razed Penn Station where the current Madison Square Garden (ironically now the oldest arena in use by the NBA and NHL and will have that title for many years to come as it is currently being renovated) and Two Penn Plaza currently stand. I didn't know about the remains being taken to The Meadowlands. I wonder if the rubble from that was used in building the foundation for the current complex there?
Funny you should mention ARCO being part of BP, because a lot of former Sinclair stations also becaome BP stations, once Sinclair merged with Atlantic/Richfield. After that many of them became Power Test, Crown, and then Getty.
:47 My guess to this scene is that this is the remains of the old Pennsylvania Station, razed in the mid-1960's - and dumped in the Meadowlands swamp across the river in New Jersey. Any locals know if any of these 'remains' remain?
Enzo Stuarti was a real gentleman and an amazing singer who had a pretty illustrious career before those Ragu ads. It's a shame that that's all he seems to be remembered for. Stereotyping at its worst!
These commercials were actually seen during 1970. Sinclair vanished, after they merged with Atlantic/Richfield to become "ARCO" (which is now part of "BP"). The True ad was among the last to be shown, before the ban on cigarette advertising began on January 2, 1971. Raquel's special ("Raquel!"), co-sponsored by Motorola, aired April 26, 1970 on CBS. Enzo Stuarti also recorded an album for Ragu {mail a dollar to them, and get his album, "That's a Nice"}.
As a songwriter, I really admire and respect whoever wrote that jingle song for True. I smoked a few True's when they first came out, but I didn't like them. Winstons and Pall Mall were my brands. Can't forget Camels
Funny how these commercials are shot on videotape, even though film was the standard for advertising back then.
More commercials were shot on tape in those days than we realize today - since the ones that have circulated over the years were all 16mm prints, either individually or included in 16mm network prints of shows, but the 2" tape copies were nearly impossible to distribute. In this case, this tape was clearly a demo tape for a production house that specialized in videotape commercials - how it ended up in the Nixon White House Communications Agency collection is a mystery, but I suspect that someone sent it as a demo to possibly shoot tape commercials for the Nixon 1972 campaign. And the campaign did use videotaped commercials, especially "man on the street" type things.
The graphic design on the True packaging and Raquel Welch are GORGEOUS !!
The ban on cigarette advertising took effect 12:00 AM, January 2nd, 1971, so if these ads did ever air they would have had to play on January 1st.
Yep, if that ad aired, it was likely during a New Year's Day bowl game. Cig companies sponsored many of them, so they delayed the ban.
Yep
Careful on claims. While it is true, you could NOT advertise a 'cigarette' on TV, Marlboro found a way around this until 1999 (the last year of 'the Cowboy' commercials)...you see, if you didn't show the pack open, or the cigarette, or it burning, you COULD advertise...so Marlboro had 'Marlboro GEAR' that you COULD advertise about...and, needless to say, you COULD make commercials about selling the GEAR (which just inadvertently hocked smoking, as a 'sideline'))...so if you feel you've 'seen a cigarette commercial since 1970 (I remember $0.25 a gallon gasoline, so sure I remember them)...it's because of the Marlboro Gear of the late 80's and 90's that you do!
Today, January 1, 2021, is the fiftieth anniversary.
Yeah, the tobacco companies tried to get as much cigarette advertising in as they could on the final day they were allowed to do so.
I love that TRUE jingle. I would have bought a pack. LOL
You still can. They're still made.
We talk about technology now but back then ,if you bought True cigarettes those packs had animated heads talking until they were thrown away.
compared to others at the time, they were weak, but easier to smoke than Carlton. They gave them away in the mail like others then. They changed the blend/ pack design later...got better.
@@dennytobywhere
@@RedGarnett-n2p You have to go to a tobacco shop or a place that carries them. Back in the day they were everywhere because cigarettes were not this expensive. Due to no advertising the only cigarettes carried are the popular ones. RJR makes these now and they are quite expensive. They are almost $15 a pack where I live. They are one of the most expensive brands on the market.
Imagine someone trying to quit smoking in the 70s
And sees this True cigarettes ad 😅
Those things were nasty
They stop making true cigarette sometime in the 90s
Great stuff...love these little reminders about our past.
Harry Jacobson was a high end clothing store in Cleveland. It's been closed for many years.
Just like Barney's New York ...closed in 2020...so sad.
true - my first cigarettes in 1968, then marlboro, then camel lights. quit (for the final time) in '82
Love those 70's commercials
R.I.P. Raquel Welch, the actress in the Motorola Commercial.
It's amazing how important The New York Times was in 1971 and how they were respected as an objective and legitimate voice for not only New York City, but much of the United States. It's sad how journalism has fallen. It seems it either represents one point vs. the opposing point of view. Are their any truly objective thinkers in modern day media?
great point, erich, but grinn win is wrong
That’s such a dumb response I don’t know where to start.
There never was a "truly objective" angle or point of view. Journalists conned the rest of us that their trade was scientific. Funny... They bring so much suffering in the world today. Curse them.
I think perhaps *your* perspective has shifted. This just reeks of the bad faith "but both sides!" argument. What I would argue is that the media has shifted to serve only the very wealthy interests, due to the massive consolidation of media ownership.
Oh, really? What kind of newspaper do you read? The Epoch Times?
There was real love in these commercials.
The leather coat is offered for $175, adjusted for inflation that's about $800 today.
RIP David Bailey (in the United Airlines ad) and Enzo Stuarti (in the Ragu ad). In the True cigarettes ad, Don Morrow is the main spokesman there.
Todd Wacha united airlines forgot Banff, Lake Louise, (Calgary Alberta), Jasper(Edmonton), Whistler BC Canada.
@@frankdenardo8684 But he did say COLORADO first. I'm a native of beautiful Denver, the Mile High City! Out skiing is probably the best. But that's just my biased opinion! lol /s
Cigarettes in general, "you get all the flavor and cancer too". I ended my 17 year smoking habit in 2009 thankfully.
that's true.
LOL
lol would’ve been funny if they switched the cigarette advertising jingles with more truthful advertising on that final day. The tobacco industry would’ve been sooooo pissed 😡.
Good for you! I quit a 45-year habit about 5 years ago!
@@limapodima7534 why did you quit....be prepared for a major weight gain...I gained 50 lbs.
Instrumental version of Leaving on a Jet Plane in the background of the United commercial.
OMG shirts with the ring-zipper pull-down in the middle, I had like 4 pairs of those back in '70-'71, they were the bomb!
I had one that was orange in color and a pair of hot pants for men. I can't believe I used to wear that style.
The true jingle is my jam.
Spectacular. Terrific. Thank you for posting these!
1:55 A beautiful, romantic, and appealing cigaret commercial from the twilight days of TV advertising for them. A catchy tune, with a beautiful folk guitar arrangement, which believe me, had I not known any better back then, I would have been easily swayed by this attractive couple
It looks weird seeing a cigarette ad on television.
You don't see cigarette ads on TV anymore or even in magazines or on billboards FTM
@@kenrutherford1109 yet once it was so common but it disappeared overnight and people didn't bat an eyelid
In the 70s everything could kill ya
Especially as on TV
when I quit smoking in 1976 it was True cigarettes that I quit. Best decision ever as my health would be trashed if i kept smoking those damn things...
How much were they back then? ... about .75 cents a pack?
+Syrbuff ...was a cashier in 1980....cigs hit 77 cents....so in 71?....prob like 40 cents or so I guess
Hey man wanna try these new camel crush? I hear they are the real deal.
My father quit in 1974 when the price was raised to $0.35 a pack.
@@rxpro19 I remember when they finally reached $1.00 in 1983. I was 10 years old.
That Ragu ad must have driven people crazy after one or two viewings.
The cigarette ad is a hoot.
I think that's David Bailey in the United ad.
That Ragú ad drives me crazy too 😡😡😡
I have never smoked, but always liked the cigarette ads on TV when I was a child. They had jingles and some had funny skits.
The creator of Ragu (who sold it to Cheesboro-Ponds in 1970 I believe) went on to later create Francesco Rinaldi. Both brands of course continue to exist to this day.
Love commercials of every decade !
WOW, Ragu with Enzo Stuartie.......I remember those commercials!!!!
The last cigarette commercial on TV aired 1 minute before the ban went into effect,at 11:59 pm January 1,1971 on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.It was a commercial for Virginia Slims cigarettes.After thatt,the ban took effect and cigarette ads on TV were no more.
You would have to be Hercules to steal a 📺 back then 😂🤣
Interesting to note that ragus jar label design hasn't really changed since this time. :)
Liked the ARCO spot at 1:34. I had a good friend who had a Sinclair station that went to ARCO around 1970.
IIRC there was still a Sinclair branded station in Pennsylvania!
I didn't know that. As far as I know, there are still ARCO stations, but they're out west.
All kinds of confusion in the gasoline retail biz! It's surprising where some old names have been retained! and many stations keep changing brands - I know a Pittsburgh gas station that was a Marathon,Gulf and finally a Sunoco. Oddly all three brands have an historical connection to Pittsburgh. Both Gulf and Sun Oil's predecessor started here and Marathon was (is?) headquartered here.
@@TheBrooklynbodine We still have some Sinclair stations here in the Denver, CO area. In fact, there is one about 12 blocks from my apartment!
How about that! I have a Sinclair transistor radio that I would guess is over 50 years old. It takes one 9-volt battery, and maybe someday I'll get it fixed up. It's AM only, but I love it to death just the same. I looked for this commercial, and your e-mail led me to it.
I just 💟this. I was y years old and remember some of these.
Wish i could go back & experience this time as ad zdult. Without the smoking of course.
Note, cigarette ads were banned effective January 1, 1971 and that was the last day cigarette companies could run their ads. It was really a very big event.
Actually, They were effectively banned in January 2, 1971, at 12:01 AM.
Yes, and IIRC, the last cigarette commercial aired then was for Virginia Slims during "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" on NBC.
***** Exactly. 😃
+Ryan Schweitzer
Anyone know where we can find that on UA-cam? The ad that is?
The annual college football bowl classic is when there was a proliferation of cigarette commercials on radio and TV and back in the day sporting events was the thing.
I love this video! The clarity is uncommonly clear for 1970-71. How did you manage that?
Wide video tape. 2" or 4"
I would've loved to have a TV where you could just pull a panel with the knobs, tubes, diodes and speaker out like that.
Great quality. You can hear the audio print-through from the quad master! I had forgotten about that effect. I particularly remember the complicated lyrics on the RAGU spot.
Wierd holding my little phone device and watching this .what a simple time .compared to now .lol
The good old days!
Me and my family used to have a Motorola-era Quasar TV almost exactly like the one in front featured at 3:04, it was a hand-me-down given to us around 1987 from my grandparents who bought it new back in the early 70s, and had upgraded their set at the time (to a new RCA XL100 set with cable-ready digital tuning and all). IIRC, it was a "works in a drawer" set just like the one featured here.
In spite of some of the other comments here mentioning how unreliable those Motorola-built Quasar sets were (probably part of the reason why Moto sold Quasar to Panasonic/Matsushita around '74), it was a great set though and never gave us any problems that I can remember. I remember it had a great picture, especially since we also just got cable TV around the same time. My grandparents even kept the manual that came with the set, and strangely, the manual was both an owner's and service manual (it even had printed screenshots of oscilloscope displays of signals at certain points in the TV's circuitry as a guide for TV servicemen).
the quality of this is incredible
I'm sure they were, but they had to have been shown at other times as well.
A few years ago I went to the Museum of Television & Radio to watch an episode of "That Girl" from 1967 so I could spot Teri Garr, and they had all the commericals on their videotape, including cigarette commercials(I think it was Kent or Lark, or something like that, I forget). FYI, Lew Parker was a chain smoker himself who died in 1972.
Wow so these were the commercials the year I was born?!
Thx Terri
+corybee1 Thx? For what?
I was slinging booze in 1971, which means I had to be at least 21 years of age. Perhaps people can figure out my age by my "user name"!
Raquel Welch was (and still is) so gorgous!
Especially in that dress
Terrific jingle in that True cigarettes ad.
Wow, a beautiful singing brunette encouraging me to smoke. Lol. I just wish i had seen this commercial back then when i was age 11 in 1971, if i did i would have started smoking a lot sooner. Lol. Of course, i shouldnt joke about this...
On the Ragu commercial, "Jason" is Darryl Seaman, who played "Paulie" on a couple of the "Here Come the Brides" episodes.
Raquel Welch went to La Jolla High School in SD.
The last of the cigarette ads around that time before they were outlawed after 1971.
TimelordR I remember that, it took effect on January 1st, 1971
@@hoss73ford It took effect on January 2nd, 1971 at midnight.
Yes, as one of the commenters noted below, this actual tape was created in January 1971, showing commercials that would have aired in 1970.
wow.....I haven't seen that Ragu commercial in nearly 50 years! I don't remember the captions on the bottom though.
Wow cigarette commercial takes me back
Whar a great yr that was for me..thx for the memories
Excellent !!
Man, Back in 1971, Raquel Welch looked an awful lot like Carmen Electra. Gorgeous.
"*You get all the flavor and a filter, too.*" And they don't say it's a matter of life and breath?
"It's a matter of life and breath" was the slogan of the American Lung Association
And before that, the National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association.
The Motorola TV spot at 3:00 was from 1970. I looked through microfilms of newspapers, and the show that Motorola sponsored was April 1970, so that's the date on this set of ads.
In later years, Quasar dropped the "Works in a Drawer" feature. I think the selling point was that it made the sets easier to service, but at another youtube spot, namely "The Quasar Color TV System", somebody posted that it should have been called "Works on the Floor". Maybe it wasn't an advantage after all.
I read something that stated Motorola developed the Quasar brand specifically to enable the company to sell off the TV production division at some point (which they did, to Matsushita Electronics, who already marketed the Panasonic and Technics brands)
I read in a book, which I still have, but right now forget the title, that toward the end of Motorola's TV-making days, that their TV sets were leaving the factory with 150 (sic) defects for every 100 sets. That averages out to 1.5 defects for every set. Also, I read at Wikipedia that the Quasar brand was dormant for several years, but about tow or three years ago, Panasonic revived it.
Regrettably, I didn't. I never watched "I Love Lucy" that much, but if I ever get the chance, I'd watch every episode I missed.
I totally agree. I just got done watching it, and hope to watch other episodes in the beginning.
Mind-blowing! Thanks!
1971. The year I was born.
BTW, Sinclair really didn't vanish. It was kept alive as a division of ARCO in a few scattered stations in the Northern Midwest and Great Plains.
"True gives you everything you've ever wanted in a cigarette." As a smoker of some 45 years, I still don't know what it is I've ever wanted in a cigarette. Of all I am certain, around 1970, I screwed up big time in order to be cool and groovy...hack, hack....
Damn are you still a smoker robert?
Yeah, you got a problem with that?
robert glenn mom just had all those bypasses. Me I could give a good god damn. I quit 15 months ago. Guess how much I saved? If you want to smoke by all means light another.
Really, I have to quit.Too expensive and I am just tired of the shit.
robert glenn get a vaporizer I quit 15 months ago saved over 2 grand
This was actually from 1970, as Sinclair, Atlantic, and Richfield became ARCO that year and the Quasar spot was for an April 1970 special.
@49jubilee I've lived in West Virginia all my life and never saw a Richfield station around these parts, but saw plenty of Sinclairs and Atlantics.
Wow, a cigarette commercial! And TV on wheels! lol!
Raquel is so lovely.
I had a massive crush on Raquel Welch when I was a kid
I agree! I love her dress
So many memories from childhood. I was dazzled by the technological possibilities of Quazar's 'Works-in-a-Drawer' (R), Rachel Welch was something the older kids jabbered on endlessly about, loved flying United on family vacations to Colorado. As far as I'm concerned United went downhill after they started repainting the planes wt the red. orange and brown stripes.
beautifull days. los extrano mucho.
That United Airlines Commercial is perfect.
That actually is a great ad. Less cheesy than most of the era.
Who sang the vocals on the 'True' commercial?
I remember trying True cigarettes back in the late 70s. They used to sell them 2 packs for the price of 1 all the time at walgreens here. They tasted ok. There were lots worse. Barclay were one of the nastiest cigs Ive smoked.
I wouldn't know that. I've never smoked True cigarettes or even Barclay FTM
TV ads must be very regional, at least in 1971. I was 16 years old in 1970-1971 and I don't remember any of these commercials. And I live near Los Angeles, not in the back-woods. But I do know much of the back-story to that ARCO Ad. My Father worked for Richfield Oil Co. starting back in the early 1950's until 1984(?). One reason for the Atlantic-Sinclar-Richfield merger was due to an Anti-trust suit by Bobby Kennedy. Today ARCO was absorbed by BP.
Funny, because I was born in 1965, and I do remember cigarette commercials.
I have no idea why, but I find the ragu commercial strangely hilarious
It feels weird now to see a 60 second spot. Seems the 30 second is going away these days for 10 or 15 second hits.
Wow that cigarette ad must be if not THE very last aired on TV
What was she doing down there in the True commercial LMFAO
The world reeked of smoke, there was NO escape from it anywhere. One of the few things I do NOT miss.
Oh and the crappy TVs
You have no appreciation for an organic life. The gentrification whitewash has whited out your existence...
Mmmm! The delicious clean, beautiful flavor of True cigarettes; now with new micronite filter with asbestos! It’s true...
It is. Strangely though, all of the Eagles which used to surround the top of the old station razed in the 60's, still survive. Locally in the NYC area, two are facing 7th Avenue... One is by the Hicksville LIRR station. Two are at the entrance of the NJ Botanical Gardens entrance in Ringwood, NJ...
"What's your pasta?" "Farfalli" XD
That commercial for Ragú is the stuipdest I have ever seen in my whole life
Love cigarette Commercials
"When you smoke true, you get all the flavor and the filter too" Not to mention cancers, COPD, diabetes, smoker's cough, and emphysema! I wanted to be a smart butt!
That's probably why cigarette commercials were banned
now i can see how Raquel Welch filled my dad's spank tank in '71 lol
Real good jingle.
4:33 - to end: One of THE FIRST videos with Ian McShane in it! From Airline Ski Commercials in 1971, to John Wick in the 2010's...quite a long path up!
Had to watch these cigarette comercials
New York Times - 0:04
Harry Jacobson - 1:04
Arco - 1:33
True - 1:56
Motorola - 2:58
Ragu - 3:30
United Airlines - 4:31
The irony is that the lady was criticizing the World Trade Center towers (one of the photo's shown was one of the towers at a very early stage of construction).
Zoomer30 not really irony, more like foreshadowing.
Well, a lot of people did not like the towers at the time, but they grew on people.
The best tasting cigarette for your cancer announcement
YOU SHOULD GET TWO PACKS Of THE SHORT VANTAGE CIGARETTE PACKS THAT HAD THE BIG BLUE TARGETS ON BOTH SIDES OF IT
the end of the era for cigarette commercials
This song needs a remix
American TV commercials in the beginning of 70's looked like french commercials in the middle 80's
True cigs. I remember that commercial.
That would probably be the old, razed Penn Station where the current Madison Square Garden (ironically now the oldest arena in use by the NBA and NHL and will have that title for many years to come as it is currently being renovated) and Two Penn Plaza currently stand. I didn't know about the remains being taken to The Meadowlands. I wonder if the rubble from that was used in building the foundation for the current complex there?
Funny you should mention ARCO being part of BP, because a lot of former Sinclair stations also becaome BP stations, once Sinclair merged with Atlantic/Richfield. After that many of them became Power Test, Crown, and then Getty.
Where's my truth cigarettes? The smooth tasting menthol takes me back. When I was ignorant and have virgin lungs. Iol
Awesome 70's but, I was born in 1976.
:47 My guess to this scene is that this is the remains of the old Pennsylvania Station, razed in the mid-1960's - and dumped in the Meadowlands swamp across the river in New Jersey. Any locals know if any of these 'remains' remain?
Pretty sure that Ragu guy wouldn't be allowed within 1000 feet of a school now a days.
Enzo Stuarti was a real gentleman and an amazing singer who had a pretty illustrious career before those Ragu ads. It's a shame that that's all he seems to be remembered for. Stereotyping at its worst!