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.
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.
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 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 😄
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
@@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) ♥️♥️🇦🇺
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
I can remember standing in the line at the supermarket checkout and everyone complaining when someone payed with a card, because it took a long time to process it. They say to carry a Chocolate bar when you go bush, it can keep you alive if you get lost.
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
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!
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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 😂
Slumberland Bed Company was started in n my home town of Oldham, England in 1919, by Mr. John and Mr. Leslie Secombe, the company was changed to Slumberland in the 1930’s to Slumberland. Royal Warrants were awarded by King George VI (6th) in 1940, Queen Elizabeth II (2nd) in 1955 and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 1965. I used to work for the company through out the 1990’s, until all the workers got made redundant, when the company moved down to London, by the owners at the time who were Swedish.
Okay, before 1981, the AU$ was always worth more than the US$. The US$ only grew bigger than the AU$ in 1982. Everyone thought the sky was going to fall!
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.
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 😅
This guy is always sick though. The longest hes been well is 2 weeks straight then hes sick again. Hes the weakest guy on the planet.. He needs to see a doctor asap..
Keep in mind that clothes were actually more expensive back then because they were made in Australia by Australians and the others like Levis were made in the US etcetera. Today everything is from China and India so colthes are really cheap for no-name brands and name-brands just make more profit for shareholders because they don't pass on the savings to customers.
Levis were made in Australia. I stopped buying them when I saw that they now made them in Pakistan and sold them to us at near the same price. Should have been 50% cheaper.
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.
When you were talking about the Lee jeans price and you mentioned $7 but then said AUD12.00. I just want to point out that back in 1981, I worked in Foreign Exchange and at that time USD7 was less than AUD6.00. If only we could go back to those times lol
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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
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.
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.
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.
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💜
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 😄
Lee Jeans AD was filmed at Sovereign Hill Historical Village here in Ballarat Victoria Australia .A remade 1850s Goldrush town
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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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
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"
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) ♥️♥️🇦🇺
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!
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.
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.
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
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 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.
Was in my teens then, I loved being a kid back then. Those ads are hilarious, looking back at them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
my god we went through some eggs trying to recreate that experiment!
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.
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.
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.
The annoying ad that we had in Australia was far worse than "Roll on". Look up the "Where do you get it" advertisement.
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.
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.
Such fun watching your confusion, and nostalgia for us Aussies
My brothers nickname is Cadbury….. a glass and a half and he’s anyone’s.
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.
ATMs were amazing when they were first introduced.
Ryan, in 1981 aud 1.00 = usd 1.12 pegged exchange rate. The Australian dollar was floated in December 1983.
Chokitos are still a thing
And they are delectable. Peppermint crisp too.
@@competitionglen I had one the other day.
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.
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.
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.
Watching these old Australian TV ads cracked me up 😂🤣
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.
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.
Chokito is my fav
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.
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.
I still sleep on a chiropractic pocket spring Slumberland mattress to this day!! They've been around forever.
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.
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.
As for the radio station ad - you couldn't watch the tv in your car or on the train, and it was analogue tv so no radio stations there either.
In Philly, handyBank cards were popular when I went to Penn, 1977.
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 egg guy was Professor Julius Sumner Miller I believe. He was very entertaining when I was a kid.
I just had a flash back to the 1980's, thanks for sharing these old ad's. This was my childhood. LOL
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
From memory, Eon FM was the first FM station . 3xy was an AM rock station and its format went to EON around 1980 ish
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.
I can remember standing in the line at the supermarket checkout and everyone complaining when someone payed with a card, because it took a long time to process it.
They say to carry a Chocolate bar when you go bush, it can keep you alive if you get lost.
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
Look up Ken Bruce Has Gone Mad ads……small time Melbourne appliance store owner who made his own ads for late night tv….also Big Kev….
I’m 74 if my memory serves me right, Banks used to close around Three Thirty, usually four windows and one teller working
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!
Chokito still going now. Had one a couple of weeks ago.
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.
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
Eon FM was the first commercial radio station in Australia which started in 1979 it now goes by Triple M.
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.
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
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.
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 😂
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
I googled it, Lee jeans were $15 a pair when they debuted.
7:22 Using a bank card to electronically purchase stuff from a store wasn't an option in Australia until the mid 1980s.
The air freshener ad was hilarious I thought. Oh and how damn thin were the guys in those commercials!
Slumberland Bed Company was started in n my home town of Oldham, England in 1919, by Mr. John and Mr. Leslie Secombe, the company was changed to Slumberland in the 1930’s to Slumberland.
Royal Warrants were awarded by King George VI (6th) in 1940, Queen Elizabeth II (2nd) in 1955 and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 1965.
I used to work for the company through out the 1990’s, until all the workers got made redundant, when the company moved down to London, by the owners at the time who were Swedish.
Okay, before 1981, the AU$ was always worth more than the US$. The US$ only grew bigger than the AU$ in 1982. Everyone thought the sky was going to fall!
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.
OMG ! I’m reminded how embarrassing we were back then. 😂😂 the good old days
Ryan you should come to Melbourne and experience 4 seasons in a day 😂😂😂
Hilarious! Having a good laugh 👍
I loved that Navy ad
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 😅
10:00 ikea has some nice carafe/flask type bottles that would work amazing for this
You have my sympathy, I've just tested positive for Covid, and I'm felling pretty shit. Hope you recover soon. The ads did cheer me up.😀
This guy is always sick though. The longest hes been well is 2 weeks straight then hes sick again. Hes the weakest guy on the planet.. He needs to see a doctor asap..
Keep in mind that clothes were actually more expensive back then because they were made in Australia by Australians and the others like Levis were made in the US etcetera.
Today everything is from China and India so colthes are really cheap for no-name brands and name-brands just make more profit for shareholders because they don't pass on the savings to customers.
Levis were made in Australia. I stopped buying them when I saw that they now made them in Pakistan and sold them to us at near the same price. Should have been 50% cheaper.
Have you seen the antz pants add from 1989. Think you will like it.
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.
Banks close at 5pm on a Friday in Australia, other days it's 3.30pm.
Omg I remember those old atm buttons
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.
When you were talking about the Lee jeans price and you mentioned $7 but then said AUD12.00. I just want to point out that back in 1981, I worked in Foreign Exchange and at that time USD7 was less than AUD6.00. If only we could go back to those times lol
Chocolate is actually good in a survival pack, but like you said, Dark Chocolate is best for this.
Regards from Adelaide, South Australia 🇦🇺
Ask your parents about buying things 40 years ago. Tap and go was not available. The bank ads are a compilation, not one ad.😂
That car was called a shaggin wagon.