The guy in the Cadbury advert was Professor Sumner Miller. He was famous in Australia for his educational science TV shows and is from the USA. Loved his shows as a kid.
So did I! Remember the Saturday morning science shows? Our high school science text books, those two massive blue volumes, were authored by Prof. Harry Messel and we lugged them around every day!
pretty sure there's episodes online, he'd trip on them I reckon, such an eccentric chap and his way of talking was entertaining, as well as educational, Dr Karl would be the closest to him these days, but nobody will ever compare to him
I'm only 42, living in Australia, but when I was a kid the milkman would come around and deliver your milk in glass bottles with foil lids. It was unhomoginised milk with that epic layer of cream on top. When you were done you put your empty bottles in the rack outside your door and the milkman replaced the empties with new bottles.
@@nobodysbusiness566 I remember growing up the 60's and we didnt have an egg man or bread man, but we did have personal deliveries from our local corner grocer, Mr Wadmore. God, I can even remember his name. Those were the days.
Yep, I lived in Sydney as a young kid, we left money out for the milkman & it wasn't stolen, that was in the great old days, the 70s! My father had to make a box for our milk because crows pecked the foil lid & drank the milk, lol
What you missed was that Julius Sumner Miller was an icon, he always showed us experiments we could do ourselves as kids as part of the commercial, in the age before internet these things were fascinating. He was an icon.
@@venderstrat I did‼️❣️❣️oh I couldn’t wait for the next show of Curiosity Show, loved Julius when I was younger, he was the one that sparked my attention into all that
Handybank card was slowly developed, you used it only at ATM's, shops didn't have the eftpos machines until about late 80's, and the money you withdrew was yours it wasn't a credit card.
I was at uni in the mid parts of the 1980’s. After first year, a friend and I went on a holiday. My father insisted that I get a cheque account to make payments on the trip. I wanted a Bankcard. In the end my Father went to our local Bank Manager (we had them back then), and he convinced dad that I should have a Bankcard. So a few days later I went and made an application (I had just turned 19), however, the Bank Manager and my father agreed that I had to meet with the Bank Manager to ensure that I understood the risks of credit cards etc. He approved the application!
I agree cash is much better than the alternative. I dont like the fact that all monies you earn and spend can be monitored by anyone with access and who knows who that might be.
Initially each bank had its own atm and eftpos network, and very few of them communicated with each other. Westpac launched its version of eftpos, Handyway, in April 1984 with customers able to pay using their Handycard at BP, Food Plus and Woolworths. The first eftpos transaction was made by Westpac CEO Bob White at Woolies Neutral Bay in Sydney on Monday 9 April 1984. "By early 1985, Handyway terminals will be installed in 500 Woolworths stores, all Food Plus convenience stores and about 450 BP service stations." At the time it was one of the most significant eftpos networks in the world.
The chocolate guy with the egg was professor Julius Sumnermiller (sp?), he was famous and had a cool physics show on TV called Why Is It So? I loved it, it was fun for kids but interesting enough for adults, our whole family would watch together 😄
A glass and a half worth of skim milk powder and anhydrous milk fat. It's never been physically possible to include a glass and a half of liquid milk into a block of milk chocolate.
You have no idea how truly great Australia was back then, that bank was the " Bank of New South Wales " which is now Westpac & every kid knew that Cadbury bloke was a Professor that was on TV doing Science shows thanks for taking me back to my Teenage years but pity there wasn't a Paul Hogan Ad for Winfield Cigarettes with the catch phase " Anyhow have a Winfield "
The ad for the radio station had some great NZ musicians - Neil Finn, Tim Finn, - lots of great Kiwi bands relocated to Aussie in the 80s for a bigger audience.
Banks in Australia closed at 3pm. It was eventually changed to 4pm then changed to 5pm. The late 70s early 80s, we only had a small window to do banking. 930am -3pm.
Back to 4pm where I am now. Friday 5pm stopped a while back and many branches closed. Melbourne City banks used to close at 6pm in the seventies and eighties.
Professor Julius Sumner Miller was an American physicist, and he was amazing. He would preform experiments and then say “ why is it so” I loved watching him. He was brilliant.
The Cadbury ad - that was Professor Julius Sumner Miller. He was a physicist, and friends with Einstein. After Einstein died Professor Sumner Miller ended up with Einstein's personal papers, and his will which suggests they were very close. It was Einstein who encouraged him to become the world's first science communicator, firstly on radio, and then TV. Einstein thought he was a brilliant and inspiring teacher, and Einstein was right. He worked at University of Sydney for many years where he developed his science TV shows for children on the ABC. These are iconic in the history of science education. He was famous for conducting fascinating experiments, but would expect the children to figure it out. His famous question was "why is it so?" He alternated between living in the US and Australia, and while his American shows were more scripted and sophisticated, it was his spontaneous experiments on the ABC that people love and remember. A very great man, and much loved in Australia. In 1981 the Australian dollar was worth more than the American dollar.
@@Dr_KAP I often pass by his old lecture room, which hasn't changed much since Sumner Miller was teaching there. The television shows were made in there. He started on radio and television in the 1950's in Los Angeles, but then moved to Australia in 1963, and was working at both University of Sydney from 1963 to 1986, and in the US at the United States Air Force Academy during the same period. Before going to Australia he was known as Professor Wonderful for his science education shows at Disneyland.
@@FionaEm He was lucky that someone arranged for them to meet, and apparently they hit it off. They looked a lot alike, and had the same zany humor, same passion for science. And apparently Einstein had been thinking about science communication, and thought Sumner Miller was perfect to do it. With communicators like Neil De Grasse Tyson we think it normal these days, but before Julius Sumner Miller there were no celebrity science communicators. David Attenborough was just starting out. They were the pioneers who paved the way, and proved that the public were hungry for explainers of science. I would bet you didn't know about the Disneyland gig either, as Professor Wonderful. Most people don't know about that one. He lead a larger than life kind of life. I have huge respect for all he achieved.
16:40 In 1988, Melbourne radio station EON FM (3EON), 92.3 was taken over by Triple M and changed its callsign to Triple M and moved to 105.1 MHz in November 1988. EON FM was Australia's first commercial FM radio station, commencing broadcasting on 11 July 1980.
That ship was HMAS Hobart, I served on that for 3 months in the 80's (88) with USS Missouri and USS Nimitz, we spent 20 days in Hawaii as well. I might have been in that ad !!!
Gday Ryan, if u want to see some real good Aussie ads from 20 plus years ago, watch the beer ads, they're bloody well done, if u can find them, check them out, mate
The early 1980s was a time of discovery for me. I was in my early 20s had a son with my girlfriend and was in the big city of Melbourne. I was born in a small country town 3 hours drive from the city. I was in aww of this place a whole new world opened my eyes like dinner plates. My girlfriend and I spent 2 and a half years there until we needed a home of our own, we couldn't afford a house there so we moved back to the town we came from got a job and over a number of years paid off a one bedroom house as our son grew up. Somehow one son turned into three and they grew up in this house. During this time we had three bedrooms added on and renovated the rest of the house. We are still here although our sons have moved on to live their lives. Sometimes my mind drifts back to those times and think how lucky we were. So Ryan, I wish you and your family all the best life can bring to you and hope you stay safe. I like your video's you to are discovering new things too don't ever stop learning about different places and people. Cheers from Nev down under.
The bank ad. was more about automatic teller machines and their introduction. Credit cards were rare and stores usually didn't have the facility to use them.
I worked at Myer Melbourne in the early 70s and there were credit cards, but we had a machine that you put the card in and pushed so it would stamp on three copies. So you had a customer copy, a register copy and one that went to central office via the tube system. They also had store cards that were like an account card that you could buy now and pay later.
Even up to 2000 and later, we had to get cash out because a lot of stores still wouldn't accept electronic payment. Now, there is a big push away from electronic because some stores are refusing to accept cash.
My local fish n chip shop prefers cash because bank charges are as much as a staff members weekly wage. Big sign at the cash register. But they removed the ATM from the town…
Gosh! Michael Schildberger! I haven’t thought about him for decades! “Michael Julius Schildberger (4 April 1938 - 2 June 2010) was an Australian journalist, radio and television presenter, and author.” He was up there with Ray Martin and Mike Willessee. “The Age” is still Melbourne’s biggest selling newspaper.
The Melbourne Herald Sun is the top selling newspaper in the country with average 605,000 daily sales. The Age has only half those sales with 308,000 so we'll behind. Give or take a few thousand. Herald Sun has been largest sales in Australia for many years. Even when it was The Sun News Pictorial. Correct Wikipedia if you have better information.
@@johnd8892 No, you’re correct. I only knew the Herald Sun as a Sydney newspaper and most newspapers are online now. The Age has paid online news so I thought it was bigger. I haven’t bought a newspaper since the 80s. Edit: I went to the Age website where I read this: “In the latest Total News readership figures released by Roy Morgan, The Age is once again Victoria’s most-read masthead, with a cross-platform readership of 4.8 million. This places The Age as the nation’s second most-read news brand, securing its standing ahead of the Herald Sun, by more than 800,000 readers.” So I guess it depends on who is telling the truth. Nothing new there, MSM lies too frequently, globally.
Turning 14 in 1980 Australia and growing up through the decade was amazing. Australia just took the eighties and ran with them. It was awesome!🤗 Chokito's... Super yummy.
After that Cadbury ad came out, all the milk companies were complaining that they were getting milk bottles back full of egg, and they were impossible to clean, haha.
In Australia credit cards came in in the mid 70s. This Wales ad was for a card to get cash out of an ATM. Debit cards didn't come in until at least the late 90s! Computers at the bank came in in the mid 70s. Before that the teller hand wrote the transaction and balance in your bank book. When computers came in they printed the transaction into the book. So having a machine where you got cash out of a wall was so amazing! Computers were only coming to the desktop stage in the mid to late 80s. Before that they were just glorified typewriters or a gigantic machine that took ages to do their calculations. When desktops came in you had to type several commands for them to turn on using the DOS system as we didn't have a mouse initially. Now all those things are automatic or at the click of a mouse! So simple!
Before ATMs arrived, you had to go to the bank in person during bank hours. In Australia, banks only opened on weekdays and Saturday mornings, and closed at 3:00pm on most weekdays, but I think it was 3:30pm on Friday afternoons to deposit the weekly business takings. Money counting machines ran hot at the business teller desks, counting notes and coins to determine the deposit amount. There were long lines in the banks at lunchtime, which coincided with the bank tellers rotating off to have their own lunch. It was a nightmare.
@@ryanreaction Hey Ryan, I think this is the first time I have ever seen you reply to a comment!! Albeit in defence of someone having a dig at you! It is actually one of my pet peeves with UA-camrs… don’t get me wrong, with the amount of subscribers that you have, and the massive amount of comments you get, I certainly don’t expect you to answer them all… but I do strongly believe that those who have a channel should interact with their subscribers via the comments… even if it’s just half a dozen on each video. And I know, you can tell me that I don’t have to watch your videos, or be a subscriber, if I don’t like something… but I really like you, I think you are funny and entertaining, so I do choose to be here… it would just be nice to see you in the comments a bit more often. I may very well be the only person with this opinion… and it is only that, my opinion! I’m not angry or pissed off… as I said, I quite like you and your family… I am a very laid back, happily married grandmother… and I just thought I’d share my opinion! LOL Much love from Nat. (Brisbane, Australia) ♥️♥️🇦🇺
My husband interviewed Professor Julius Sumner-Miller & found him such a wonderful & modest man to talk to. He told my husband about how he & his mother used to wallk along the railroad tracks picking up spilled coal during the despression years.
Handy bank was the first ATM. I really laughed at how Ryan wasn't grasping the fact that it was a totally new concept to not go into a bank and deal with a human. It took a lot of marketing to change our behaviour and learn to trust a machine.
Reminds me of an old joke seeing the handy bank ads. Why did the man throw all his money in the sea? He wanted to bank on the whales. Its so bad but it was said often back in the day lol
The reason they had a TV commercial for the FM radio station in Melbourne EON FM is because it had just gone on air and it was Australia’s first commercial FM radio station. So it was to educate people to switch across to the FM band because up until 1980 time we only had a national classical music station on FM and that was about it. That station is still on here today and it’s now called triple M. I’m actually an announcer at a commercial FM station in Geelong about 60 km out of Melbourne so I love seeing these old radio station commercials Keep up the great work Ryan, Craig.
OMG I remember the 'pride of the fleet' ads but didn't realise they were that long ago! Professor Julius Sumner Miller with the Cadbury ads is legendary. And that fake, affectatious accent of the lady in the banking ad, plugging this newfangled thing called an ATM card! Hilarious 😅
Back then, people tended to watch TV in the evening, but listen to radio in the morning while they were having breakfast and getting ready for work. The big advertisement money for radio was the morning or “breakfast” as it’s still called. It makes sense for a radio station to use evening TV to get listeners for the following morning.
H Ryan, just a couple of things to remember about USD vs AUD, in 1981 our Aussie $ had a higher exchange rate than the US $, so AUD $18 was worth about USD $20, and wages were way different too, in 1981 I was earning about AUD $250 a week, now if I was still working in the same place doing the same job I'd be on around $1200+ a week, but there are department stores here where you can still get a decent pair of jeans for AUD $29 in 2024 money!
I actually did the Julius Sumner Miller Parody for an English Oral. "Match in the bottle, egg on top. Watch as the egg is sucked in, you too can be sucked in by Cadbury Dairy Milks' glass and a half of full cream dairy milk" or words to that effect, got plenty of laughs in Grade 8.
Ooh, the Handybank saga! Let me tell you. I was working for the Commonwealth in the 70s & 80s & the story I heard was that CBA were developing automatic teller machines, & calling them Autobanks. They were in the last few months of final testing when the Bank of NSW, aka The Wales, suddenly opened a bunch of ATMs & called them Handybanks. Our R&D blokes were furious & slightly hurried the Autobank launch (I worked in the department behind the first, or one of the first & learned to fill & empty them - it was astonishing how much cash they took!) Anyway, because ours were properly researched & tested, they didn’t break down as much & we’d all have a good old laugh when the Handybanks did. Yes, we took it personally. Back then, employers deserved & got loyalty from their workers. Yes, they gave only 20s & 10s for a few years until inflation caught up with us. I THINK (Don’t quote me!) they had 50s & 10s for a short while.
Some Aussies say fourhead. Not me. Just like deeefence and other American pronunciatons. Adverbs don't end in 'ly' anymore (apparently). But I'm trying to keep aussie vernacular aussie. Fighting a losing battle.
@@jvvoid That’s something that has me shouting at UA-cam and the TV! Using adjectives instead of adverbs grates on my like fingernails on a chalkboard! Emmymade is American and always uses adverbs, bless her!
This old guy was Professor Julian Summers who had a 5 min show on TV called "Why is it so?" which is what he used to say regularly. He was one of the earliest examples of scientists trying to make science exciting for the average person.
Lee jeans are stronger and more comfortable than Levi Jeans, I will travel 60 km just to get a pair of Lee Jeans. The school I attended Lee Jeans were part of the school’s uniform with light blue body shirts and school jumper with identifying school stripes.
I remember Lee Riders were the “It” jeans paired with a wrangler shirt and treads. Ah, the 70s😂 A pair of jeans was $15, very expensive compared with my weekly earnings at the time. Lay-by was my friend.
The Handy Card wasn't a credit card, or a debit card. We didn't have access to them except for "Bankcard", which we could only use with the old clunker slide machines. The Handy card accessed your own money in a more convenient way to withdraw money. And it was repeated a few times during the ad because it was a transitional time for us, and they wanted to reach everybody. The ironing spray was spray starch, usually used for business shirts and school uniforms. Radio stations advertised on TV as access to music was only via the radio, and there was competition between the radio stations.
if i remember correctly we did have live tv ads for 2 radio stations in the us one for rumba 100.3 and one for z93.1fm i remember i think their were palm trees on one ad...
Ryan did you notice in the bank ATM money withdrawal it was the old Australian paper dollar money? Tapping your card at the store was still further into the future.....I remember credit cards being sent to my mother without application in the mid 70s...she was horrified but she died in 1979 and those machines advertised weren't available then.
The bank ad was advertising the first atm cards. So there weren't eftpos machines yet, just atm's or withdrawing money from in the bank. People were transitioning from doing all their banking inside the bank with a passbook.
The Cadbury ad is iconic. In Australia we call someone who can't handle their booze "a Cadbury". I.e. it only take a glass and half for them to get drunk!
When I was ypung, Levi were the ultimate jean to have. Lee came second (both American), the third was Amoco. An Aussie brand. They eventually became American.
Ryan ya killin' me! You have to watch the cadbury factory tasmania tour video. The place is awesome. Hint, the milk is used in dried powder form, so yeah, glass and a half in each block. They used to give it to soldiers, it wasnt for kicks, the stuff will keep you alive. cheers mate
Back then glass milk bottles were the norm, as was home delivery of milk. It made it into talk back radio discussions too that there were problems at the milkbottle washing facility, cause of the number of milk bottles coming in with eggs in them lol He showed how to get the egg in, but not how to get it back out :) & EVERY kid back then did this experiment! Some more sucsessful than others, my parents were dumb & tried to do it with the egg still in it's shell, as did many others at my school. Some parents were smart enough to realise it was hard boiled & then removed from it's shell - well apparently quite a lot actually, going by the issues in the washing facility lol
The lady doing the ad for Waltons department store chain was Noelene Brown or Browne, I know her from a funny old Australian Game Show in the 70's named Blankety Blanks, see if you can find that and do a reaction video Ryan, it was a hugely popular TV show back then, also look for Kingswood Country, Mother & Son, The Naked Vicar Show, find those, they should give you a laugh.
Have you checked out commercials from New Zealand from the 70's 80's and 90's, there's a great Advert at this present time about Tux dog biscutes worth having a look.
I used to work in a bank and when I started (1979) we were open Monday - Thursday 10-3 and Friday 10-5. Shocking hours for people that work. And that was before ATM's and elctronic banking.
showing your age mate when you said just use the debit card at the store. instead of going to the bank. the stores had no way of processing the cards back then
ATM'S started to be introduced in Australia in about 1980 and the Bank of New South Wales [the Wales] changed its name to Westpac in about 1983, so that annoying repetitive add is sometime between 1980 and 1983.
The Wales merged with the Commercial Bank of Australia in October 1982 and became Westpac Banking Corporation at that time. The Wales launched it's Handybank network (initially only 16 ATM's across Sydney) in May 1980. The couple in the ad who need to do shopping on a Saturday but hubby forgot to do banking on Friday, that bit was filmed outside a house at Carlingford in 1980, just around the corner from my place. Me and a few mates watched them film the scene, over and over and over again 😂
Our the AUD dollar was worth more than the US dollar until Australia floated the AUD internationally in late 1983, for another 20 years the AUD was around 83 Us cents, until recently in dropped to 65 US cents in 2020. During the GFC 2008- 2011 the Australian dollar reached the same value as the US dollar
Some typical Australian Ads, where the Mum is the voice of reason and the Dad is a fumbling buffoon. They still use this trope today, possibly even more so.
ATMs were just coming out then, they didn't really take off until mid 80s. People needed to be informed about it. We already had credit cards at least back to the 70s. Mainly Diners and Amex. Professor Julius Sumner Miller (egg in the bottle) was a well known science educator, and also did the Cadbury ads. They still try to push Nutri Grain cereal as healthy food for kids. It's 30% sugar, you'd be better off eating chocolate for breakfast.
@@Merrid67play - Yup one took my transaction - first job, taking out my pay for the fortnight - and dispensed no cash! It's the only time I went into a bank, argued with the teller and demanded to speak to the manager! She paid out the cash out on the spot.
Hi Ryan - the Australian dollar changes in value relative to the US dollar every day. In the early 1970's, it was worth more than the American currency - it's why my dad says we got to go to Hawaii at the time. You can't judge the prices from 40 years ago by today, is my point.
That Lee jeans advert was from around 1980/81, and you could get a pair of Lee or Levi jeans for around $20, including having the length cut and altered to fit back then
Back in the days before the internet…before ATM machines, you had to pay your bills at the post office and had to get the money out of the bank first. Both of which were closed on weekends and not open after 5pm on weekdays. Many people had to sacrifice lunch breaks to pay their bills. There was often a big queue as well. Sometimes you’d spend you whole lunch break queuing up and not even get to the counter before you had to leave and go back to work. God I feel old 😂
Julius Sumner Miller brings back huge memories. Other classics from 1981 (and I’ll be very disappointed if these don’t make it in): VB - you can get it ridin, you can get it slidin. Iconic. They had to get John Mellion Jr to voice it after his dad dropped off the twig. And Colgate, with Mrs Marsh: it does get in!
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The guy in the Cadbury advert was Professor Sumner Miller. He was famous in Australia for his educational science TV shows and is from the USA. Loved his shows as a kid.
I used to watch his TV show as a child as well, I wish they would repeat them for today's kids.
So did I! Remember the Saturday morning science shows? Our high school science text books, those two massive blue volumes, were authored by Prof. Harry Messel and we lugged them around every day!
I went to his summer school as a child. It was televised, on Ch 9 I think?
@@Bellas1717 Yes, it was on around breakfast time. Julius Sumner Miller, like my lawyer friend, taught me to love his lessons!
pretty sure there's episodes online, he'd trip on them I reckon, such an eccentric chap and his way of talking was entertaining, as well as educational, Dr Karl would be the closest to him these days, but nobody will ever compare to him
I'm only 42, living in Australia, but when I was a kid the milkman would come around and deliver your milk in glass bottles with foil lids. It was unhomoginised milk with that epic layer of cream on top. When you were done you put your empty bottles in the rack outside your door and the milkman replaced the empties with new bottles.
Yep, we had that in Adelaide and the smaller bottles were in kindergartens and schools.
I remember the bread man and the egg man as well we had all three in Sydney when I was a little kid.
@@nobodysbusiness566 I remember growing up the 60's and we didnt have an egg man or bread man, but we did have personal deliveries from our local corner grocer, Mr Wadmore. God, I can even remember his name. Those were the days.
Yep, I lived in Sydney as a young kid, we left money out for the milkman & it wasn't stolen, that was in the great old days, the 70s! My father had to make a box for our milk because crows pecked the foil lid & drank the milk, lol
@erinnfitzgerald6257 hahaha crows are a bit too intelligent.
Isn't it funny how we find 30 seconds of UA-cam ads annoying yet we willingly watch 30 minutes of old ads for fun.
Lee Jeans AD was filmed at Sovereign Hill Historical Village here in Ballarat Victoria Australia .A remade 1850s Goldrush town
What you missed was that Julius Sumner Miller was an icon, he always showed us experiments we could do ourselves as kids as part of the commercial, in the age before internet these things were fascinating. He was an icon.
Did you also watch The Curiosity Show?
@@venderstrat I did‼️❣️❣️oh I couldn’t wait for the next show of Curiosity Show, loved Julius when I was younger, he was the one that sparked my attention into all that
The expensive jeans were locally made then with high wages. Now imported from Asia and sold for less than many years ago.
Handybank card was slowly developed, you used it only at ATM's, shops didn't have the eftpos machines until about late 80's, and the money you withdrew was yours it wasn't a credit card.
I was at uni in the mid parts of the 1980’s. After first year, a friend and I went on a holiday. My father insisted that I get a cheque account to make payments on the trip. I wanted a Bankcard. In the end my Father went to our local Bank Manager (we had them back then), and he convinced dad that I should have a Bankcard. So a few days later I went and made an application (I had just turned 19), however, the Bank Manager and my father agreed that I had to meet with the Bank Manager to ensure that I understood the risks of credit cards etc. He approved the application!
Cash is far better than credit, it costs nothing and allows for negotiating discounts!
I agree cash is much better than the alternative. I dont like the fact that all monies you earn and spend can be monitored by anyone with access and who knows who that might be.
Initially each bank had its own atm and eftpos network, and very few of them communicated with each other. Westpac launched its version of eftpos, Handyway, in April 1984 with customers able to pay using their Handycard at BP, Food Plus and Woolworths. The first eftpos transaction was made by Westpac CEO Bob White at Woolies Neutral Bay in Sydney on Monday 9 April 1984. "By early 1985, Handyway terminals will be installed in 500 Woolworths stores, all Food Plus convenience stores and about 450 BP service stations." At the time it was one of the most significant eftpos networks in the world.
You might note they did say Debit Card, not Credit card.
The chocolate guy with the egg was professor Julius Sumnermiller (sp?), he was famous and had a cool physics show on TV called Why Is It So? I loved it, it was fun for kids but interesting enough for adults, our whole family would watch together 😄
Haha I love the Cadbury chocolate ‘nourishment’ claim 😂 11:07
But there is indeed a glass and a half - even to this day
I thought they weren’t claiming that anymore since the size shrunk
A glass and a half worth of skim milk powder and anhydrous milk fat. It's never been physically possible to include a glass and a half of liquid milk into a block of milk chocolate.
Well the Tasmanian made Cadbury's anyway!
You have no idea how truly great Australia was back then, that bank was the " Bank of New South Wales " which is now Westpac & every kid knew that Cadbury bloke was a Professor that was on TV doing Science shows thanks for taking me back to my Teenage years but pity there wasn't a Paul Hogan Ad for Winfield Cigarettes with the catch phase " Anyhow have a Winfield "
arnotts scotch finger biscuits ad , indians in the cupboard a classic.
Do you remember when Winfield cigarettes where 95cents a packet, petrol was 25cents a litre.
@@MarkYoung-xo7yw elephants in the fridge too
We Grew in a great time and No One will ever understand, I’m sooooo grateful for the Era I lived in… so grateful💜
Louie the fly was a great add set in 70’s it was for fly spray
60’s originally
Still love louie the fly all these years later
Straight from rubbish bin to you...
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I would get sad at the end when he died though - poor dead Louis, Louis the fly, a victim of Mortein....
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The ad for the radio station had some great NZ musicians - Neil Finn, Tim Finn, - lots of great Kiwi bands relocated to Aussie in the 80s for a bigger audience.
Banks in Australia closed at 3pm. It was eventually changed to 4pm then changed to 5pm. The late 70s early 80s, we only had a small window to do banking. 930am -3pm.
Back to 4pm where I am now. Friday 5pm stopped a while back and many branches closed.
Melbourne City banks used to close at 6pm in the seventies and eighties.
Lee Jeans are from the US, Missouri, Kansas etc. Today’s Lee prices start around $70 to $160 or more.
And still a good secondhand buy from Vinnie's!
Which is why Aussies made "Lee Riders"
Professor Julius Sumner Miller was an American physicist, and he was amazing. He would preform experiments and then say “ why is it so” I loved watching him. He was brilliant.
The Cadbury ad - that was Professor Julius Sumner Miller. He was a physicist, and friends with Einstein. After Einstein died Professor Sumner Miller ended up with Einstein's personal papers, and his will which suggests they were very close. It was Einstein who encouraged him to become the world's first science communicator, firstly on radio, and then TV.
Einstein thought he was a brilliant and inspiring teacher, and Einstein was right. He worked at University of Sydney for many years where he developed his science TV shows for children on the ABC. These are iconic in the history of science education. He was famous for conducting fascinating experiments, but would expect the children to figure it out. His famous question was "why is it so?"
He alternated between living in the US and Australia, and while his American shows were more scripted and sophisticated, it was his spontaneous experiments on the ABC that people love and remember. A very great man, and much loved in Australia.
In 1981 the Australian dollar was worth more than the American dollar.
Oh thank you for this background. I knew he was American and did shoes over there but I wasn’t aware of the University of Sydney connection!
@@Dr_KAP I often pass by his old lecture room, which hasn't changed much since Sumner Miller was teaching there. The television shows were made in there.
He started on radio and television in the 1950's in Los Angeles, but then moved to Australia in 1963, and was working at both University of Sydney from 1963 to 1986, and in the US at the United States Air Force Academy during the same period. Before going to Australia he was known as Professor Wonderful for his science education shows at Disneyland.
An hour long TV show called "Summer School of Science" for those wishing to learn on summer holidays. And be entertained.
I absolutely remember Sumner Miller but didn't know about his Einstein connection. Wow!
@@FionaEm He was lucky that someone arranged for them to meet, and apparently they hit it off. They looked a lot alike, and had the same zany humor, same passion for science. And apparently Einstein had been thinking about science communication, and thought Sumner Miller was perfect to do it. With communicators like Neil De Grasse Tyson we think it normal these days, but before Julius Sumner Miller there were no celebrity science communicators. David Attenborough was just starting out. They were the pioneers who paved the way, and proved that the public were hungry for explainers of science.
I would bet you didn't know about the Disneyland gig either, as Professor Wonderful. Most people don't know about that one. He lead a larger than life kind of life. I have huge respect for all he achieved.
Was in my teens then, I loved being a kid back then. Those ads are hilarious, looking back at them.
16:40 In 1988, Melbourne radio station EON FM (3EON), 92.3 was taken over by Triple M and changed its callsign to Triple M and moved to 105.1 MHz in November 1988. EON FM was Australia's first commercial FM radio station, commencing broadcasting on 11 July 1980.
We have adverts for radio stations in the UK too. I'm surprised they don't in the US.
That ship was HMAS Hobart, I served on that for 3 months in the 80's (88) with USS Missouri and USS Nimitz, we spent 20 days in Hawaii as well. I might have been in that ad !!!
Mate, I just want to make you puke. 'Thank you for your service!' Sorry.
Go HMAS Hobart! 💕
Gday Ryan, if u want to see some real good Aussie ads from 20 plus years ago, watch the beer ads, they're bloody well done, if u can find them, check them out, mate
The early 1980s was a time of discovery for me. I was in my early 20s had a son with my girlfriend and was in the big city of Melbourne. I was born in a small country town 3 hours drive from the city. I was in aww of this place a whole new world opened my eyes like dinner plates. My girlfriend and I spent 2 and a half years there until we needed a home of our own, we couldn't afford a house there so we moved back to the town we came from got a job and over a number of years paid off a one bedroom house as our son grew up. Somehow one son turned into three and they grew up in this house. During this time we had three bedrooms added on and renovated the rest of the house. We are still here although our sons have moved on to live their lives. Sometimes my mind drifts back to those times and think how lucky we were. So Ryan, I wish you and your family all the best life can bring to you and hope you stay safe. I like your video's you to are discovering new things too don't ever stop learning about different places and people. Cheers from Nev down under.
The bank ad. was more about automatic teller machines and their introduction. Credit cards were rare and stores usually didn't have the facility to use them.
I worked at Myer Melbourne in the early 70s and there were credit cards, but we had a machine that you put the card in and pushed so it would stamp on three copies. So you had a customer copy, a register copy and one that went to central office via the tube system. They also had store cards that were like an account card that you could buy now and pay later.
Thanks for the Professor Sumner Miller add he is the reason why we of that generation is not easily fooled because we ask why is it so
Even up to 2000 and later, we had to get cash out because a lot of stores still wouldn't accept electronic payment. Now, there is a big push away from electronic because some stores are refusing to accept cash.
My local fish n chip shop prefers cash because bank charges are as much as a staff members weekly wage. Big sign at the cash register.
But they removed the ATM from the town…
Yes banks are & double dipping in the process from customers & business owners #cashisking
Gosh! Michael Schildberger! I haven’t thought about him for decades! “Michael Julius Schildberger (4 April 1938 - 2 June 2010) was an Australian journalist, radio and television presenter, and author.” He was up there with Ray Martin and Mike Willessee. “The Age” is still Melbourne’s biggest selling newspaper.
Looks like he and Ray Martin shared the same barber.
He looked like a young Ray Martin.
good ol Michael Cheeseburger
The Melbourne Herald Sun is the top selling newspaper in the country with average 605,000 daily sales.
The Age has only half those sales with 308,000 so we'll behind. Give or take a few thousand.
Herald Sun has been largest sales in Australia for many years. Even when it was The Sun News Pictorial.
Correct Wikipedia if you have better information.
@@johnd8892 No, you’re correct. I only knew the Herald Sun as a Sydney newspaper and most newspapers are online now. The Age has paid online news so I thought it was bigger. I haven’t bought a newspaper since the 80s. Edit: I went to the Age website where I read this:
“In the latest Total News readership figures released by Roy Morgan, The Age is once again Victoria’s most-read masthead, with a cross-platform readership of 4.8 million.
This places The Age as the nation’s second most-read news brand, securing its standing ahead of the Herald Sun, by more than 800,000 readers.”
So I guess it depends on who is telling the truth. Nothing new there, MSM lies too frequently, globally.
Turning 14 in 1980 Australia and growing up through the decade was amazing. Australia just took the eighties and ran with them. It was awesome!🤗
Chokito's... Super yummy.
After that Cadbury ad came out, all the milk companies were complaining that they were getting milk bottles back full of egg, and they were impossible to clean, haha.
In Australia credit cards came in in the mid 70s. This Wales ad was for a card to get cash out of an ATM. Debit cards didn't come in until at least the late 90s!
Computers at the bank came in in the mid 70s. Before that the teller hand wrote the transaction and balance in your bank book. When computers came in they printed the transaction into the book. So having a machine where you got cash out of a wall was so amazing! Computers were only coming to the desktop stage in the mid to late 80s. Before that they were just glorified typewriters or a gigantic machine that took ages to do their calculations. When desktops came in you had to type several commands for them to turn on using the DOS system as we didn't have a mouse initially. Now all those things are automatic or at the click of a mouse! So simple!
Before ATMs arrived, you had to go to the bank in person during bank hours. In Australia, banks only opened on weekdays and Saturday mornings, and closed at 3:00pm on most weekdays, but I think it was 3:30pm on Friday afternoons to deposit the weekly business takings. Money counting machines ran hot at the business teller desks, counting notes and coins to determine the deposit amount.
There were long lines in the banks at lunchtime, which coincided with the bank tellers rotating off to have their own lunch.
It was a nightmare.
my god we went through some eggs trying to recreate that experiment!
You *DO* remember that these are adverts from over 40 years ago? And we're not talking about crappy American chocolate, this is Australian chocolate.
I know it tastes better but is Australian chocolate from 40 years ago good for you!? lol!
@@ryanreaction Hey Ryan, I think this is the first time I have ever seen you reply to a comment!! Albeit in defence of someone having a dig at you!
It is actually one of my pet peeves with UA-camrs… don’t get me wrong, with the amount of subscribers that you have, and the massive amount of comments you get, I certainly don’t expect you to answer them all… but I do strongly believe that those who have a channel should interact with their subscribers via the comments… even if it’s just half a dozen on each video.
And I know, you can tell me that I don’t have to watch your videos, or be a subscriber, if I don’t like something… but I really like you, I think you are funny and entertaining, so I do choose to be here… it would just be nice to see you in the comments a bit more often. I may very well be the only person with this opinion… and it is only that, my opinion!
I’m not angry or pissed off… as I said, I quite like you and your family… I am a very laid back, happily married grandmother… and I just thought I’d share my opinion! LOL
Much love from Nat. (Brisbane, Australia) ♥️♥️🇦🇺
@@ryanreaction There are health benefits to eating small amounts of chocolate including milk chocolate.
My husband interviewed Professor Julius Sumner-Miller & found him such a wonderful & modest man to talk to. He told my husband about how he & his mother used to wallk along the railroad tracks picking up spilled coal during the despression years.
How times have moved on - we no longer get 200g but 180 in a Cadbury's block. And they call it progress? 😂
Charge 4x more for it too
It used to be 250g
@@belindahouley1158 I thought that but really wasn't sure and so decided that it was just a fantasy!
@@infin8ee it depended on the type - fruit and nut was a different weight for the same size block, I can't remember the others
“Digital Shrinkage” concerned for everyone’s health…… Nooe corporate greed imo & allegedly.
Handy bank was the first ATM. I really laughed at how Ryan wasn't grasping the fact that it was a totally new concept to not go into a bank and deal with a human. It took a lot of marketing to change our behaviour and learn to trust a machine.
Reminds me of an old joke seeing the handy bank ads. Why did the man throw all his money in the sea? He wanted to bank on the whales. Its so bad but it was said often back in the day lol
Such fun watching your confusion, and nostalgia for us Aussies
The reason they had a TV commercial for the FM radio station in Melbourne EON FM is because it had just gone on air and it was Australia’s first commercial FM radio station. So it was to educate people to switch across to the FM band because up until 1980 time we only had a national classical music station on FM and that was about it. That station is still on here today and it’s now called triple M. I’m actually an announcer at a commercial FM station in Geelong about 60 km out of Melbourne so I love seeing these old radio station commercials Keep up the great work Ryan, Craig.
OMG I remember the 'pride of the fleet' ads but didn't realise they were that long ago! Professor Julius Sumner Miller with the Cadbury ads is legendary. And that fake, affectatious accent of the lady in the banking ad, plugging this newfangled thing called an ATM card! Hilarious 😅
Eon FM was the first commercial radio station in Australia which started in 1979 it now goes by Triple M.
How would you find out about a new FM radio station if you don't know it's there?
Back then, people tended to watch TV in the evening, but listen to radio in the morning while they were having breakfast and getting ready for work. The big advertisement money for radio was the morning or “breakfast” as it’s still called. It makes sense for a radio station to use evening TV to get listeners for the following morning.
FM radio was a new concept too, we mainly had AM radio stations. It was like advertising the new stations when digital tv came in.
H Ryan, just a couple of things to remember about USD vs AUD, in 1981 our Aussie $ had a higher exchange rate than the US $, so AUD $18 was worth about USD $20, and wages were way different too, in 1981 I was earning about AUD $250 a week, now if I was still working in the same place doing the same job I'd be on around $1200+ a week, but there are department stores here where you can still get a decent pair of jeans for AUD $29 in 2024 money!
I actually did the Julius Sumner Miller Parody for an English Oral. "Match in the bottle, egg on top. Watch as the egg is sucked in, you too can be sucked in by Cadbury Dairy Milks' glass and a half of full cream dairy milk" or words to that effect, got plenty of laughs in Grade 8.
The us exchange rate was different in 1981. The Aussie dollar wasn't floated so it was about $1 Aussie dollar was worth $1.25 US.
My brothers nickname is Cadbury….. a glass and a half and he’s anyone’s.
In Philly, handyBank cards were popular when I went to Penn, 1977.
Anyone remember the AIDS ad, with the grim reaper bowling. It was to teach us that anyone can get aids. It scared the living shit out of me as a kid.
Yeah, sure do. It was absolutely terrifying to a kid. Seemed to be on at prime time too.
Ooh, the Handybank saga! Let me tell you.
I was working for the Commonwealth in the 70s & 80s & the story I heard was that CBA were developing automatic teller machines, & calling them Autobanks. They were in the last few months of final testing when the Bank of NSW, aka The Wales, suddenly opened a bunch of ATMs & called them Handybanks. Our R&D blokes were furious & slightly hurried the Autobank launch (I worked in the department behind the first, or one of the first & learned to fill & empty them - it was astonishing how much cash they took!)
Anyway, because ours were properly researched & tested, they didn’t break down as much & we’d all have a good old laugh when the Handybanks did. Yes, we took it personally. Back then, employers deserved & got loyalty from their workers.
Yes, they gave only 20s & 10s for a few years until inflation caught up with us. I THINK (Don’t quote me!) they had 50s & 10s for a short while.
I was 4 in 81, so I don't remember watching TV. However, the Cadbury ad was on for years. It's the only Advert I remember in all of the 3 videos.
Ryan, in 1981 aud 1.00 = usd 1.12 pegged exchange rate. The Australian dollar was floated in December 1983.
Chokito bars are still around, thankfully.
My favourite before work snack, yum!
It was a fast ad but was one of the guys eating a Chokito a very young Heath Ledger?
@@r.fairlie7186No, that ad dates from 1981. Heath would have been two years old.
It’s so funny that you say “forehead” LOL! It sounds like four heads! We say “forrid”.
We 🇦🇺 say both
Some Aussies say fourhead. Not me. Just like deeefence and other American pronunciatons. Adverbs don't end in 'ly' anymore (apparently). But I'm trying to keep aussie vernacular aussie. Fighting a losing battle.
@@jvvoid That’s something that has me shouting at UA-cam and the TV! Using adjectives instead of adverbs grates on my like fingernails on a chalkboard! Emmymade is American and always uses adverbs, bless her!
Omg I remember those old atm buttons
This old guy was Professor Julian Summers who had a 5 min show on TV called "Why is it so?" which is what he used to say regularly. He was one of the earliest examples of scientists trying to make science exciting for the average person.
Sorry, Professor Julius Sumner Miller... dunno why I got it wrong. He was worth watching...
Lee jeans are stronger and more comfortable than Levi Jeans, I will travel 60 km just to get a pair of Lee Jeans.
The school I attended Lee Jeans were part of the school’s uniform with light blue body shirts and school jumper with identifying school stripes.
I remember Lee Riders were the “It” jeans paired with a wrangler shirt and treads. Ah, the 70s😂 A pair of jeans was $15, very expensive compared with my weekly earnings at the time. Lay-by was my friend.
The Handy Card wasn't a credit card, or a debit card. We didn't have access to them except for "Bankcard", which we could only use with the old clunker slide machines.
The Handy card accessed your own money in a more convenient way to withdraw money. And it was repeated a few times during the ad because it was a transitional time for us, and they wanted to reach everybody.
The ironing spray was spray starch, usually used for business shirts and school uniforms.
Radio stations advertised on TV as access to music was only via the radio, and there was competition between the radio stations.
I just had a flash back to the 1980's, thanks for sharing these old ad's. This was my childhood. LOL
Ah damn... the chokito ad has givenme some serious cravings now. Those are soooo good.
if i remember correctly we did have live tv ads for 2 radio stations in the us one for rumba 100.3 and one for z93.1fm i remember i think their were palm trees on one ad...
Ryan did you notice in the bank ATM money withdrawal it was the old Australian paper dollar money? Tapping your card at the store was still further into the future.....I remember credit cards being sent to my mother without application in the mid 70s...she was horrified but she died in 1979 and those machines advertised weren't available then.
Cadbury still uses that slogan for Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate.
10:57
Hienz 47 varieties of caned food.
Nescafé 43 beans in every cup.
From memory, Eon FM was the first FM station . 3xy was an AM rock station and its format went to EON around 1980 ish
Hilarious! Having a good laugh 👍
Watching these old Australian TV ads cracked me up 😂🤣
10:00 ikea has some nice carafe/flask type bottles that would work amazing for this
The bank ad was advertising the first atm cards. So there weren't eftpos machines yet, just atm's or withdrawing money from in the bank. People were transitioning from doing all their banking inside the bank with a passbook.
The Cadbury ad is iconic. In Australia we call someone who can't handle their booze "a Cadbury". I.e. it only take a glass and half for them to get drunk!
The Ad for EON FM was iconic as EON was the first FM station on the band in terms of playing rock music.
When I was ypung, Levi were the ultimate jean to have. Lee came second (both American), the third was Amoco. An Aussie brand. They eventually became American.
92.3 EON FM was Melbournes and Australlia`s first commercial FM station opened in 1980 ; now called 105.1 MMM .Triple M recievable here at 100 miles
96 FM opened in Perth 1980 as well
The egg guy was Professor Julius Sumner Miller I believe. He was very entertaining when I was a kid.
Ryan ya killin' me! You have to watch the cadbury factory tasmania tour video. The place is awesome. Hint, the milk is used in dried powder form, so yeah, glass and a half in each block. They used to give it to soldiers, it wasnt for kicks, the stuff will keep you alive.
cheers mate
If you thought Air Wand was weird, wait until you see the ad for the air freshener called Magic Mushroom 😂
Back then glass milk bottles were the norm, as was home delivery of milk. It made it into talk back radio discussions too that there were problems at the milkbottle washing facility, cause of the number of milk bottles coming in with eggs in them lol
He showed how to get the egg in, but not how to get it back out :) & EVERY kid back then did this experiment! Some more sucsessful than others, my parents were dumb & tried to do it with the egg still in it's shell, as did many others at my school. Some parents were smart enough to realise it was hard boiled & then removed from it's shell - well apparently quite a lot actually, going by the issues in the washing facility lol
I still sleep on a chiropractic pocket spring Slumberland mattress to this day!! They've been around forever.
The kid in the Cadbury ad was a young Peter Phelps. He became a popular actor in the 90’s and 00’s.
The lady doing the ad for Waltons department store chain was Noelene Brown or Browne, I know her from a funny old Australian Game Show in the 70's named Blankety Blanks, see if you can find that and do a reaction video Ryan, it was a hugely popular TV show back then, also look for Kingswood Country, Mother & Son, The Naked Vicar Show, find those, they should give you a laugh.
Levis were priced around 40bucks in the 80's
The air freshener ad was hilarious I thought. Oh and how damn thin were the guys in those commercials!
Have you checked out commercials from New Zealand from the 70's 80's and 90's, there's a great Advert at this present time about Tux dog biscutes worth having a look.
I used to work in a bank and when I started (1979) we were open Monday - Thursday 10-3 and Friday 10-5. Shocking hours for people that work. And that was before ATM's and elctronic banking.
showing your age mate when you said just use the debit card at the store. instead of going to the bank. the stores had no way of processing the cards back then
He clearly said "that'll be the future". Cloth ears.
Back in 1981, banks were open 10am to 3pm, with an extra hour on Friday.
Chokito still going now. Had one a couple of weeks ago.
Beer bottle and a grape 😂😂😂
ATM'S started to be introduced in Australia in about 1980 and the Bank of New South Wales [the Wales] changed its name to Westpac in about 1983, so that annoying repetitive add is sometime between 1980 and 1983.
The Wales merged with the Commercial Bank of Australia in October 1982 and became Westpac Banking Corporation at that time. The Wales launched it's Handybank network (initially only 16 ATM's across Sydney) in May 1980. The couple in the ad who need to do shopping on a Saturday but hubby forgot to do banking on Friday, that bit was filmed outside a house at Carlingford in 1980, just around the corner from my place. Me and a few mates watched them film the scene, over and over and over again 😂
Banks close at 5pm on a Friday in Australia, other days it's 3.30pm.
Depending on when the ads were made, the AUD might have been the same as the $UD, we didn't "float" the AUD until 1983.
The annoying ad that we had in Australia was far worse than "Roll on". Look up the "Where do you get it" advertisement.
Yeah I don't recall that one, it would be bloody annoying, though some of the working is pretty funny.
Our the AUD dollar was worth more than the US dollar until
Australia floated the AUD internationally in late 1983, for another 20 years the AUD was around 83 Us cents, until recently in dropped to 65 US cents in 2020. During the GFC 2008- 2011 the Australian dollar reached the same value as the US dollar
Some typical Australian Ads, where the Mum is the voice of reason and the Dad is a fumbling buffoon. They still use this trope today, possibly even more so.
ATMs were just coming out then, they didn't really take off until mid 80s. People needed to be informed about it.
We already had credit cards at least back to the 70s. Mainly Diners and Amex.
Professor Julius Sumner Miller (egg in the bottle) was a well known science educator, and also did the Cadbury ads.
They still try to push Nutri Grain cereal as healthy food for kids. It's 30% sugar, you'd be better off eating chocolate for breakfast.
Can’t trust those robots! If it’s not in my bank book they’ll take me money!!!!!!! *fist waving in 80s style rage!
They were also quite unreliable in the early days. And there was no EFTPOS then, either.
@@Merrid67play - Yup one took my transaction - first job, taking out my pay for the fortnight - and dispensed no cash! It's the only time I went into a bank, argued with the teller and demanded to speak to the manager!
She paid out the cash out on the spot.
I worked for a bank and was interviewed in Martin Place Sydney by Johnno and Danno about ATMs while i was outside servicing it.
My first job was at Walton’s computer Centre in wilmot street Sydney. Not a computer in sight. 😂
That car was called a shaggin wagon.
Hi Ryan - the Australian dollar changes in value relative to the US dollar every day. In the early 1970's, it was worth more than the American currency - it's why my dad says we got to go to Hawaii at the time. You can't judge the prices from 40 years ago by today, is my point.
Apply directly to the forehead. Got it. 😂
Omg now I'm craving a Chokito bar. Haven't had one of those in years.
That Lee jeans advert was from around 1980/81, and you could get a pair of Lee or Levi jeans for around $20, including having the length cut and altered to fit back then
Back in the days before the internet…before ATM machines, you had to pay your bills at the post office and had to get the money out of the bank first. Both of which were closed on weekends and not open after 5pm on weekdays. Many people had to sacrifice lunch breaks to pay their bills. There was often a big queue as well. Sometimes you’d spend you whole lunch break queuing up and not even get to the counter before you had to leave and go back to work.
God I feel old 😂
Julius Sumner Miller brings back huge memories. Other classics from 1981 (and I’ll be very disappointed if these don’t make it in): VB - you can get it ridin, you can get it slidin. Iconic. They had to get John Mellion Jr to voice it after his dad dropped off the twig.
And Colgate, with Mrs Marsh: it does get in!
You can get that Head On stuff here too lol
7:30 this is waaaaaay before EFTPOS was in Australian stores….
Who doesn't know that..