It scares me that, even though I haven’t seen these commercials since the 1960’s, I still remember almost every word, every tune. Proof that television is the ultimate brainwashing machine. 😳
Completely agree. In odd moments doing normal, workaday things my brain will present me with an advertising jingle I haven't heard or thought about for years....Madison avenue filled us with their slogans and music. Have to admit, whatever it was they were doing, it worked!
@@michaelfisher7170 That was the whole point, after all. If you didn't create a memorable jingle, the product didn't sell as well and/or as widely as you wished it to.
Most ads I see on TV now are either… 1… Ambulance chaser ads 2… Rx ads 3…Those long “not available in stores“ infomercial ads 4…Car/life insurance ads 5...Debit card ads 6...And just about anything else that you cannot buy at a store.
'Will he know what his wife is stirring into that cup of coffee?' 👀 And this reminds me 🤔, there's an aweful lot of lace around our house that needs ironing ASAP! 😁 Thanks Fred!
How I remember Hidden Magic hairspray! There was also Tame Cream Rinse (the precurser to pretty much all hair conditioners), and Curl Free (home hair straightening kit).
it just struck me, there's probably an entire younger generation of people watching this who are asking themselves why in the world you would spray starch on clothes. lol
ladyi7609 The styles in 1940'-50's was everything pressed perfectly. In order to do this you sprayed some starch before ironing. Starch also helped with wrinkling while wearing. You can still buy it. My Mom & Grandma ironed everything except knitwear bed sheets. Women ( back then never saw men iron:)) even ironed cotton underwear. My Mom did laundry ironing Monday would bake 22 loaves bread big pan of cinnamon every week. Friday was scrub wax floors dust vac furniture drapes.
Join the military, they will teach you all about it! lol It's for pressing clothes so that they hold that pressed wrinkle free look with a perfect crease.
Remember Shasta shampoo, in a glass jar -- Prell shampoo also came in a glass bottle --- Actually back then even bleach came in glass bottles or jugs. And cream deodorant's in little glass jars --- I remember Mum's, and Tussy .... There was also one that had a faint clove scent. And Jergen's hand lotion in, you guessed it; a glass bottle. It had a almond scent to it. Glass: It's what we used before plastic ;)
I can't imagine using glass containers of any kind in a shower or bathtub area--the glass breaks, and all of a sudden you've got a lot of cuts on your feet, backside, etc.(?)
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 Honestly, I don't remember any of the glass containers in my household ever getting broken. I guess we just instinctively took more care to not drop them but, yeah, there ya go.
Haley's M-O...basically Vaseline in liquid form LOL. It really worked...left an oily toilet bowl ring...but thanks to the little guy in the toilet boat turning the water Caribbean blue...no problem.
Amazing how modest that Ambassador ad was: "Of course that didn't put me in the Cadillac league...not yet." Conceding that someone would eventually want to move up to a competitor's luxury car, but just saying that theirs was good enough for the time being.
I was born in 1952 and I remember a lot of these things . some of them were pretty crappy at the time but there was nothing to compare it to so you didn't know it was. But some are still made today. I get catalogs .
Many thanks, as I enjoyed that a lot. In fact, I dug out my collection of Raleigh coupons, and I'm going to trade them in for an axe. Or a machete. Maybe a Glock -- haven't counted the coupons yet.
I used an iron and ironing board to straighten my long hair, it’d freak out my mom she was worried that I would burn myself. That was about 1972, I was in High School, good times. Great music, awesome cars, human interaction.
I used Curl Free at-home straightener...what a nightmare! Between the rotten egg stench of the solution and the gigantic plastic rollers that had to be worn while sitting under the bonnet dryer (blow dryers were a device of the future back then), made the entire process more trouble than it was worth.
I've recently discovered the FredFlix vidoes and I'm enjoying them tremendously. I had forgotten so many of the things he mentions, and the videos bring it all back.
I'm just amazed that women of that generation wore dresses all the time...can remember my mother having to change into a dress to leave the house to go shopping
Products heavily advertised on Canadian TV in the 60s and 70s when I was a kid: Resdan dandruff treatment and bubbly Eno fruit salts, a product similar to Alka-Seltzer but minus the ASA. We also saw a lot of commercials for Coffee-Mate. That Pream spot reminded me of that fact.
Ted knight going to sleep constipated and waking up feeling better so I guess he was shitting his brains out and really that's a bunch of shit to me. No wonder that medicine went down the crapper
Did anyone else catch Judith Lowery early in the video? She gained fame very late in life on "Phyllis". She played Cloris Leachman's mother in law's mother in law.
Do you have the movie "Network" (1976) on DVD, like I do? The narrator of this movie said about the fictional network, UBS, and its fake program, "The Howard Beale Show", is the #4 TV program in the ratings, followed before it is "60 Minutes", All In The Family" (and of course) "Phyllis". I watched Phyllis" every week when it was new, even if Judith was shown for only 5 minutes. I thought, that little old lady is carrying the whole program on her back, if something happens to her, the ratings will go down - to nothing, and I won't watch it, ever again. Was it a couple of years later, she died, I didn't look at it anymore, but it stayed on the air two more months, before it was canceled.
@@davidnieve6444 That's right. Good all American made US Steel, and just a few wires, hoses, and fan belts. No computer chips to deal with. American made cars from the 40's to the mid 70's had style, class, and individuality.
@@vickiladu6755 I forgot about that. When I was a kid in the 60's, I used to go to the gas stations in my area on my bike and asked for STP decal stickers and other types of racing decal stickers to put on my bike. A lot of kids did asked for them, and the owners of the gas stations or the gas station attendants would give them to us kids for free. If they had them, if they didn't, they'd tell us to come back a few days later or the following week to get them.
Circa 1954, Betty White had a live daytime show on NBC (done in Los Angeles at 9 AM to air in the East at noon) and she did live spots for that RDX diet aid.
@@mariekatherine5238 I'm 27 (soon 28) and yeah, it's mostly if I had a LOT of fiber though (easy to get with rice.) it feels like my blood just got cleaned out nice, like I just slept great.
@@goodmaro No, I suppose not. The thought of Ted precociously balancing himself on the porcelain chair will now reluctantly be burned forever into my psyche. 😧
"Try it, you'll like it!" "Tried it, thought I was gonna die." "I can't believe I ate the whole thing." AND, best ever: "Mamma mia, that's a spicy meat-a-ball!"
Joie de Vivre Actually freeze drying was common then and considering it rehydrated with milk there is 99% chance they were just freeze dried, which does not really need any preservation. That said, in the kind of package cereal was sold in they may have added some in anyways even though freeze dried does last longer then most items.
Are you kidding me? If I had known that I could have gotten a free axe with Raleigh coupons, I would have started smoking years ago! DAMN IT!!! My bad.
The funny thing is, Marlboro and Camel still have them. I know lots of people who have gotten camping and hiking equipment using those coupons. You know, because smokers are usually super into outdoor activities, and strenuous exercise. 😘🤣
It wasn't on grocers' shelves for long. Post picked the wrong time to introduce it, as Kellogg's rolled out their own oat cereal, "OKs" {with "Big Otis" on the box}, in the fall of 1959. There was only room for TWO ready-to-eat oat cereals to "duke it out" for the affection of breakfast lovers- and "OKs" managed to find a lot of interested kids [especially when Yogi Bear started appearing on their boxes in late 1960] through the mid-1960's. General Mills' "Cheerios" remained the #1 choice, though.
@T Jacobs - Yeah... I remember when they took lemon-lime Slice and Shasta off the shelves locally. There was also a delicious soda called "Champagne Brus" for awhile. Good observation, T Jacobs.
Yes, those were real strawberries....but freeze-drying them destroyed any nutrient value they would have had, and spoiled the taste and texture. They're still trying to find a way to preserve strawberries that doesn't turn them into mush....and the best method is still to make jam out of them!
The big problem was with freeze-drying technology then, the fruit wouldn't re-hydrate before the cereal got mushy. Fun story...a couple of years after this, General Foods sponsored a TV special starring Carol Channing, and she did a commercial for this cereal with Jim Nabors as his Gomer Pyle character (they sponsored his show as well). She is seen taking a spoon of the cereal....but when the director yelled CUT, she spat it out into a bucket--she is allergic to strawberries.
I got a kick out of the 'Plymouth/Desoto' ad at (7:06) and the 'American Motors Ambassador' at (10:40)...I remember when I could identify any 'year/make/model' of car with just a with a look at a tail-light ! (now I barely know a Ford from a Chevy...never mind what year)Were things different then? Yeah...but mainly in the way people acted toward each other...'Courtesy' was the 'norm' then. People went out of their way to help someone w/car trouble on the side of the road...especially a woman with kids in the car. It wouldn't be more than five minutes before someone would pull-over and do whatever they could to help anywhere in the U.S. and they would be happy to do it.(since when did becoming 'savage ass-holes' to each other become 'normal?') I don't miss the 'old days', nor do I suffer from'false memory syndrome' ...but I can write in all honesty that, for the most part, American society was more 'forgiving' in the'50's and early '60's than now. And I wish those times would come back...when people were better toward each other than they are now.
Who in the fuck are you writing to concerning someone having a 'bris?' No...my 'convertible-top' is very much intact. (wtf fuck are you impressing with your poor German? Yourself?)
@Michael Bacon - Dried Sunsweet Prunes are still available at most "supermarkets," and are processed to be much juicier than they used to be. I grew up picking/processing prunes for Sunsweet on the family farm, and the only thing better was a prune fresh off the tree! All prunes are plums, but not all plums are prunes. Ah, missing the old days. :))
I remember the "Cornflakes and Strawberries" stuff--they had freeze-dried berries that turned into sort of mutant versions of strawberries when you'd add the milk. The fact it was kind of gross was, I guess, why we liked it as kids. Kids seem to like lots of strange foods. But it was better than the other weird cereal, I don't remember the name, that had freeze-dried bits of supposed ice cream. The thing that I notice about these old commercials is how long some of them seem--a whole minute. That kind of long commercial seems reserved these days for prescription drugs--20 seconds to tell you how great they are and 40 seconds to warn you of all the side effects.
Cereal like that is still on the market, I have a box right here, Food Lion's "Essentially You with red berries" (dumb name). It's rice and wheat flakes with freeze dried strawberries.
Ted Baxter needs to go to the bathroom. I'll just about bet you that stuff had mineral oil in it. That's why it was M O.Remember the time Kelloggs put bananas in their Corn Flakes? It wasn't on the market for long, but it was good. I bought it all the time.I used to think when I was a kid that Bel Air was a weird version of the name Blair. Like Balaire.
Horizon coffee: anyone notice that his answer to the question “do you pick all of the beans by hand? “ is “lots of them! “Well, LOTS could mean 10,000 out of 100,000,000. The ad copy is meant to misrepresent without actually lying. How quaint. Now everybody just out and out lies, don’t you think?
The old commercials were so nice as compared to our current batch. Now we have drugs for every disease, mental illness or drug side effects. The lawyer adds are a trip, does anyone ever get money for those adds? I have only known one person who got money from a drug reaction. What happens to all that money? Sorry, it seems the products then we're not pitched to change your life, just to enhance your survival. God l wish the gentle persuasion was back in advertising. But times change , society gets more complex, and we can remember our youth. Thank Fred Flix for showing us our past imperfect! Oh human beings are so complex!!!!!🌹🌹🌹🌹🍀🍀🍀🍀🌼🌼🌼🌼🌻🌻🌻🌻
Yes, she is. I didn't catch that the first time around, you're observant! You'd make a good policeman or detective with that skill. (I'm serious, just in case you were wondering - lots of smart asses around, so sometimes it's hard to tell) LoL 😂
I didn't see a cigarette. They just showed her hand (if it was even her hand) in motion for a fraction of a second, in a blur; it looked like her "hand" was holding something, but I didn't see any cigarette smoke in the area (or a lit end of the cig). The resolution on the video is pretty poor, in any case.
@@troylowe814 Indeed. If it becomes more important as one ages, a person might want to start looking for Depends TV ads. Some are said to be stylish with lacy bands for the ladies. Maybe some should have a camo design for manly men and hunters that have trouble keeping their bowels from erupting. No more worry about embarrassing rectal leakage when you can confidently release a healthy dump on the go.
FredFlix doesn't take ads except for the ads at the beginning, end, and middle of this video that completely take me out of the otherwise immersive experience of the ads from 70 years ago
No Stalkers !! No Trolls!!: Nothing compared to how women treat men in today's commercials. Even in some of these old commercials, men are portrayed as simple-minded idiots.
Nice to see the Continental ad at the close of the clips. We here in Houston miss the service and quality that was Continental. Now we're stuck with United, but at least we have Southwest for an alternative much of the time.
I’m surprised to not see Tickle Deodorant on this collection. I’ve never used it but I saw a lot of old commercials for it and it looks like it would be good. People are selling it on Ebay and Amazon for like $30 USD.
I remember BOTH Haley's M-O AND Di-Gel!! Actually, I had totally forgotten about Haley's M-O until I just now saw this video! Di-Gel I remember, because my dad used to give me that when I had an upset stomach. I was recently wondering whatever happened to Di-Gel? I believe that Doan's Pills and Geritol are still around.
And the Pream! LOL! They stirred with two passes of the spoon and switched cameras so you couldn't see the cup long enough to watch the undissolvable clumps come back to the top! Coffee you'd have to floss after.
@FredFlix Thanks for the blast from the past! I remember so many of these jingles, we kids would sing them at school. One of the first TV ads that made me start to go "Hmmm?" was the "Ring Around the Collar" commercial - made me want to say, "Then go wash yer own dam shirts!"
Love these old commercial clips.Coffee 'powdered creamer' scares me. It now floats on top of coffee has no taste. Tried it in a hotel recently couldn't drink it...spit it out. I'm guessing it's mostly cardboard mixed with sawdust. Never heard of Shasta shampoo either. Seeing you were supposed to wrap a towel around still shampoo'd head results weren't likely positive...lol. Thnx for upload:)
Tarn Sand: "Powdered creamers" are so gross! When I fly and coffee is offered I STILL ask the . . . ahhhh . . . cabin attendant if their "cream" is dairy or powdered.
How about all the dry cleaning you had to do. Dry cleaners were everywhere. Most of my work clothes needed to be dry cleaned! Suede jackets too. Real fur coats that you had to store in a special place in the summer! Things have sure changed!
It scares me that, even though I haven’t seen these commercials since the 1960’s, I still remember almost every word, every tune. Proof that television is the ultimate brainwashing machine. 😳
Completely agree. In odd moments doing normal, workaday things my brain will present me with an advertising jingle I haven't heard or thought about for years....Madison avenue filled us with their slogans and music. Have to admit, whatever it was they were doing, it worked!
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@@michaelfisher7170darn Don Draper and all those 60’s ads!😂😂
Some of these ads even I remember. And I turn 62 this year. Love from Marysville California
@@michaelfisher7170 That was the whole point, after all. If you didn't create a memorable jingle, the product didn't sell as well and/or as widely as you wished it to.
Most ads I see on TV now are either…
1… Ambulance chaser ads
2… Rx ads
3…Those long “not available in stores“ infomercial ads
4…Car/life insurance ads
5...Debit card ads
6...And just about anything else that you cannot buy at a store.
And exciting new products at fast food places, like they are the first place to figure out how to put barbeque sauce on a burger or something
and don't forget those awlful medicare and funeral insurance comercials
Oh, boy can I relate. There just are not the same ads as when I was a kid. I miss them.
There's also gadget commercials for their products sold in the "As seen on TV " aisle.
Or dying children or dogs and cats...act now and will get this “ fill in the blank” just to show you care!
Imagine being an ad copywriter and realizing the crown jewel of your day’s work is, “What a wonderful laxative!”!
'Will he know what his wife is stirring into that cup of coffee?' 👀
And this reminds me 🤔, there's an aweful lot of lace around our house that needs ironing ASAP!
😁 Thanks Fred!
How I remember Hidden Magic hairspray! There was also Tame Cream Rinse (the precurser to pretty much all hair conditioners), and Curl Free (home hair straightening kit).
I used Tame Cream Rinse for years. I don't remember the home perm kit you mentioned but I remember the Toni Home Perm!
@ 3:50
They just don't make coffee creamer that stays fresh on the step ladder anymore
RIGHT! Guess I'll have to settle with storing it in my cabinet :( I own step ladders for all my storage needs!
@@amyschildgamerlive4519 you should check out the new line of bean scaffolds from Werner. Great for extended storage of all your legumes
@@maxi-me right but can it store my coffee creamer?
it just struck me, there's probably an entire younger generation of people watching this who are asking themselves why in the world you would spray starch on clothes. lol
Dr. Amp Most don't even own an iron.
I have no idea what you would use spray starch for, but at least I know how to work an iron.
ladyi7609 The styles in 1940'-50's was everything pressed perfectly. In order to do this you sprayed some starch before ironing. Starch also helped with wrinkling while wearing. You can still buy it. My Mom & Grandma ironed everything except knitwear bed sheets. Women ( back then never saw men iron:)) even ironed cotton underwear. My Mom did laundry ironing Monday would bake 22 loaves bread big pan of cinnamon every week. Friday was scrub wax floors dust vac furniture drapes.
I was holding out hope, but so true.
Join the military, they will teach you all about it! lol
It's for pressing clothes so that they hold that pressed wrinkle free look with a perfect crease.
Remember Shasta shampoo, in a glass jar -- Prell shampoo also came in a glass bottle --- Actually back then even bleach came in glass bottles or jugs. And cream deodorant's in little glass jars --- I remember Mum's, and Tussy .... There was also one that had a faint clove scent. And Jergen's hand lotion in, you guessed it; a glass bottle. It had a almond scent to it.
Glass: It's what we used before plastic ;)
I can't imagine using glass containers of any kind in a shower or bathtub area--the glass breaks, and all of a sudden you've got a lot of cuts on your feet, backside, etc.(?)
@@not-so-smartaleck8987 Honestly, I don't remember any of the glass containers in my household ever getting broken. I guess we just instinctively took more care to not drop them but, yeah, there ya go.
With the number of my family members using aerosol products, I'm
surprised the hole in the ozone layer wasn't directly over our house!
I didn't realize the X-ray technicians had to hand draw. Yep, that looks just like the heart burn area.
Haley's M-O...basically Vaseline in liquid form LOL. It really worked...left an oily toilet bowl ring...but thanks to the little guy in the toilet boat turning the water Caribbean blue...no problem.
Amazing how modest that Ambassador ad was: "Of course that didn't put me in the Cadillac league...not yet." Conceding that someone would eventually want to move up to a competitor's luxury car, but just saying that theirs was good enough for the time being.
Modesty! That is a really good word!
Rest in peace, Pure Oil.
I was born in 1952 and I remember a lot of these things . some of them were pretty crappy at the time but there was nothing to compare it to so you didn't know it was. But some are still made today. I get catalogs .
I loved Yipes Stripes Sour Bites when I was a kid- always had to get the assorted flavors. And the animals stamped on them were so cute!
Many thanks, as I enjoyed that a lot. In fact, I dug out my collection of Raleigh coupons, and I'm going to trade them in for an axe. Or a machete. Maybe a Glock -- haven't counted the coupons yet.
Save the coupons for an iron lung.
@@chuckandkonnie2415 save the propaganda doe real science
@@chuckandkonnie2415 😂👍
@@northmeister Uh....What?
Haha! I saved Chesterfield coupons for years...still got 'em 40 years later!
These commercials are the best ASMR for before I sleep
Don't forget about ...Doans Pills..my Mom hid these like they were a real drug. I really like the little green round container.
Trudy Kraft: I remember hearing that Doan's Pills were basically nothing more than aspirin...
Weren’t they advertised as a pill for backaches?
Pam Sheehan yes, I wonder whatever happened to them.
Very cute. I really appreciate all the time and effort you have put into these videos.
Great compilation, kept my mind off the hunger tantrum my empty stomach was having. 😀
Agirlwholovesjesus, 😅
I'm old enough to remember most of these commercials and brands.
I used an iron and ironing board to straighten my long hair, it’d freak out my mom she was worried that I would burn myself. That was about 1972, I was in High School, good times. Great music, awesome cars, human interaction.
I used Curl Free at-home straightener...what a nightmare! Between the rotten egg stench of the solution and the gigantic plastic rollers that had to be worn while sitting under the bonnet dryer (blow dryers were a device of the future back then), made the entire process more trouble than it was worth.
Anyone remember the diet supplement called Ayds?
They were like squares of carmel from what I remember.
Didn't that kill Freddie Mercury?
@@wmonger yes...
There used to be a diet pill called Prolamine in the 1980's.
Yes, I remember those
Another great video, with memories from a better time,..at least for some of us. Thanks so much Fred.
Thanks for watching, stendec 5762.
Hunger Tantrum is now called Hangry.
and Temper Pangs are now called Pissed Off, LOL
I've recently discovered the FredFlix vidoes and I'm enjoying them tremendously. I had forgotten so many of the things he mentions, and the videos bring it all back.
Glad you're enjoying them, joycen444.
I'm just amazed that women of that generation wore dresses all the time...can remember my mother having to change into a dress to leave the house to go shopping
11:36 that jingle seems to have trouble getting started
“The nourishment.....of oatmeal.......post.......heart of oats”
Ah, back when you could get an axe with cigarette coupons. Good times.
6:30
I want my free AX so should I start smoking lol.
Someone has to make a parody of that commercial but the story should be how Leatherface got his chainsaw.
I remember Pream! “You’re the Pream in my coffee...🎶”
Then all of a sudden they yanked it off the shelves, saying it caused cancer!
April May it doesn’t cause cancer, and coffee mate still exists today
Huh? I never tried it.
"When you eat too well, demand Di-Gel."
I remember " I want my Maypo" !😃 Hot Cereal.
Products heavily advertised on Canadian TV in the 60s and 70s when I was a kid: Resdan dandruff treatment and bubbly Eno fruit salts, a product similar to Alka-Seltzer but minus the ASA. We also saw a lot of commercials for Coffee-Mate. That Pream spot reminded me of that fact.
Ah, the full service fuel station. How I do miss those!
B Mandel as a kid, I didn’t understand the allure, but as an adult ...I do! Lol
One year later, I just posted the similar comment.
Was it population & progress that ruined that “once upon a time” in the West, mentality?
We have a full service gas stations were i live
We have a full service place in my small town
You know, Ted Knight in that laxative commercial was a little..............Too Close For Comfort ;)
Hahahaha
He died of Colorectal cancer, coincidence?
sychamp irony
Ted knight going to sleep constipated and waking up feeling better so I guess he was shitting his brains out and really that's a bunch of shit to me. No wonder that medicine went down the crapper
I was hoping for the"Colon Blow " commercial from old SNL.
I remember Chooz.Back in 1975,I was in grade school,and I was chewing a piece of it.I was chastised for chewing gum in the classroom.
Aud Appleton
You can still buy Chooz from Amazon!!
I love these old commercials! Thanks Fred!
Missing the full service stations and clean restrooms!
Did anyone else catch Judith Lowery early in the video? She gained fame very late in life on "Phyllis". She played Cloris Leachman's mother in law's mother in law.
Mother Dexter was the cherry on the top of that show, her absence was glaring when she passed.
BlackLeatherMonster She also appeared on a couple of episodes of Maude.
Do you have the movie "Network" (1976) on DVD, like I do? The narrator of this movie said about the fictional network, UBS, and its fake program, "The Howard Beale Show", is the #4 TV program in the ratings, followed before it is "60 Minutes", All In The Family" (and of course) "Phyllis". I watched Phyllis" every week when it was new, even if Judith was shown for only 5 minutes. I thought, that little old lady is carrying the whole program on her back, if something happens to her, the ratings will go down - to nothing, and I won't watch it, ever again. Was it a couple of years later, she died, I didn't look at it anymore, but it stayed on the air two more months, before it was canceled.
@@bobwigg761 As well as the feisty cigarette vigilante in the film COLD TURKEY
I do miss full service gas stations.
The sound of the “ding” when you ran over the air hose.
Yep, if we had them cars would last longer!
@@davidnieve6444 That's right. Good all American made US Steel, and just a few wires, hoses, and fan belts. No computer chips to deal with. American made cars from the 40's to the mid 70's had style, class, and individuality.
Remember when you could get a drinking glass or a coffee mug with a purchase of 8 gallons of gas?
@@vickiladu6755 I forgot about that. When I was a kid in the 60's, I used to go to the gas stations in my area on my bike and asked for STP decal stickers and other types of racing decal stickers to put on my bike. A lot of kids did asked for them, and the owners of the gas stations or the gas station attendants would give them to us kids for free. If they had them, if they didn't, they'd tell us to come back a few days later or the following week to get them.
Circa 1954, Betty White had a live daytime show on NBC (done in Los Angeles at 9 AM to air in the East at noon) and she did live spots for that RDX diet aid.
My favorite Golden Girl!
@@Michelle77Va a national treasure 🌹
2:12- Judith Lowry, veteran of TV commercials (later a regular on "PHYLLIS").
Mother Dexter!
Your channel has been my holiday comfort food. Thanks, Fred, and happy holidays 🎄
I appreciate that, Jennie. Same to you and yours.
Love that at the end of the Sta Puf commercial they say it will make you less tired. Lol
Ya, I think I'll buy some Sta Puf so I won't be so tired!!!!
"Do you save the coupons?...Jim does, that's how he got his ax." omg!
They did that sort of thing in those days...and not just for cigarettes!
J Johnson Lolololol!!
That's how I got my iron lung.(contemporary joke)
Who remembers S&H green stamps?
" That's how I got a lung removed!"
Ted Baxter always feels much better and ready to deliver the news after a good dump.
Richard Gray,He Always Looked Old(Died In his Early 60's in 1986)
+Quentin Kirk
He should have taken MORE laxatives, then.
Loooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuu!!
Don’t know about anyone else, but I always feel better after a good dump. I’m old enough to admit it!
@@mariekatherine5238 I'm 27 (soon 28) and yeah, it's mostly if I had a LOT of fiber though (easy to get with rice.) it feels like my blood just got cleaned out nice, like I just slept great.
Always good to know that Ted Knight was able to take a dump.
Well, how are you going to advertise a product like that? I mean, seriously. Could you do any better?
@@goodmaro No, I suppose not. The thought of Ted precociously balancing himself on the porcelain chair will now reluctantly be burned forever into my psyche. 😧
It’s all about a good shit. A regular life is a good life.
I LOVE these old commercials. I like the old alkaseltzer commercials. Especially the heart shape meatloaf!!
"Try it, you'll like it!" "Tried it, thought I was gonna die."
"I can't believe I ate the whole thing."
AND, best ever: "Mamma mia, that's a spicy meat-a-ball!"
Imagine the preservatives they soaked those strawberries in!
Joie de Vivre Actually freeze drying was common then and considering it rehydrated with milk there is 99% chance they were just freeze dried, which does not really need any preservation. That said, in the kind of package cereal was sold in they may have added some in anyways even though freeze dried does last longer then most items.
Richard Windsor... oh, cool.
Richard Windsor sorry, hit by accident.
Possibly some sulfur dioxide gas as antioxidant. @@lukewind30
No worse that the poison they spray on fruits and veggies today..wise up..
the chooz x-ray test. LOL!
My gosh, Fred.
You have fantastic posts about EVERYTHING.
Thanks, again, as usual.
My Dad smoked Belairs back in the day- we still have a box of coupons! LOL! We once got a Revere camera 📷 with em! Those were the good ol’days!!!
My first guitar was bought with Embassy coupons (in the UK).
Really like what you find and post. Good fun.
8:57- Art Ballinger, who later appeared on "DRAGNET 196-".
"Fill it to the rim, with Brim"....."Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops, Sugar Pops are tops"....."Gas war! 19 cents a gallon at Godat's Station".
Can't get enough of Super Sugar Crisp...sang Sugar Bear
Are you kidding me? If I had known that I could have gotten a free axe with Raleigh coupons, I would have started smoking years ago! DAMN IT!!! My bad.
My grandma Had a cigar box full of them not sure she ever used them
The axe would help cut open your chest for the lung cancer surgery
The funny thing is, Marlboro and Camel still have them. I know lots of people who have gotten camping and hiking equipment using those coupons. You know, because smokers are usually super into outdoor activities, and strenuous exercise. 😘🤣
I shopped for an ax the other day at Wal-Mart, the cheapest one was 39.00$...
I shopped for an ax at Wal-Mart the other day, the cheapest one was 39.00$....
I think Bean-O has pretty much replaced Di Gel 😂😂😂
Post Heart of Oats must not have sold too well. I don’t remember that cereal at all.
It wasn't on grocers' shelves for long. Post picked the wrong time to introduce it, as Kellogg's rolled out their own oat cereal, "OKs" {with "Big Otis" on the box}, in the fall of 1959. There was only room for TWO ready-to-eat oat cereals to "duke it out" for the affection of breakfast lovers- and "OKs" managed to find a lot of interested kids [especially when Yogi Bear started appearing on their boxes in late 1960] through the mid-1960's. General Mills' "Cheerios" remained the #1 choice, though.
Thank you Fred! These are wonderful. I suspect that many of these products are still in fact, available...albeit renamed and repackaged.
@T Jacobs - Yeah... I remember when they took lemon-lime Slice and Shasta off the shelves locally. There was also a delicious soda called "Champagne Brus" for awhile. Good observation, T Jacobs.
This is definitely going on my commercial playlist! Thanks!
Good job posting these! The days before the "Soylent Green" type foods! At least the strawberries were real in the cereal!
Yes, those were real strawberries....but freeze-drying them destroyed any nutrient value they would have had, and spoiled the taste and texture. They're still trying to find a way to preserve strawberries that doesn't turn them into mush....and the best method is still to make jam out of them!
The big problem was with freeze-drying technology then, the fruit wouldn't re-hydrate before the cereal got mushy. Fun story...a couple of years after this, General Foods sponsored a TV special starring Carol Channing, and she did a commercial for this cereal with Jim Nabors as his Gomer Pyle character (they sponsored his show as well). She is seen taking a spoon of the cereal....but when the director yelled CUT, she spat it out into a bucket--she is allergic to strawberries.
@15:11 -- they say "no dangerous drugs".
It contained:
2.5 mg methamphetamine saccharate.
2.5 mg methamphetamine hydrochloride.
2.5 mg racemic amphetamine sulfate.
2.5 mg dextroamphetamine sulfate
So it was basically speed
Thank you. I love your videos and the memories they bring of a simpler time
Glad to do it, Anthony.
I got a kick out of the 'Plymouth/Desoto' ad at (7:06) and the 'American Motors Ambassador' at (10:40)...I remember when I could identify any 'year/make/model' of car with just a with a look at a tail-light ! (now I barely know a Ford from a Chevy...never mind what year)Were things different then? Yeah...but mainly in the way people acted toward each other...'Courtesy' was the 'norm' then. People went out of their way to help someone w/car trouble on the side of the road...especially a woman with kids in the car. It wouldn't be more than five minutes before someone would pull-over and do whatever they could to help anywhere in the U.S. and they would be happy to do it.(since when did becoming 'savage ass-holes' to each other become 'normal?') I don't miss the 'old days', nor do I suffer from'false memory syndrome' ...but I can write in all honesty that, for the most part, American society was more 'forgiving' in the'50's and early '60's than now. And I wish those times would come back...when people were better toward each other than they are now.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Sie saugen auf jüdische Genitalien und das macht Sie zu einem Experten? Fick dich.
Who in the fuck are you writing to concerning someone having a 'bris?' No...my 'convertible-top' is very much intact. (wtf fuck are you impressing with your poor German? Yourself?)
Would you do that in Compton at 2:30am?
And American Motors along with Plymouth and DeSoto are now part of Chrysler (though are now gone and Chrysler is part of F.I.A.T.).
@@MrFligemon I was going to say that these days are better, but on seeing your message...
The haleys mo commercial was a riot.. Its gentle.. But thorough! LOL
And it was left to the imagination as to what "thorough" meant.
Prune juice is also effective for when you need a bit of help to "go".
@Michael Bacon - Dried Sunsweet Prunes are still available at most "supermarkets," and are processed to be much juicier than they used to be. I grew up picking/processing prunes for Sunsweet on the family farm, and the only thing better was a prune fresh off the tree! All prunes are plums, but not all plums are prunes. Ah, missing the old days. :))
I drink HOT prune juice , works wonders.🤩🤩🤩
I remember the "Cornflakes and Strawberries" stuff--they had freeze-dried berries that turned into sort of mutant versions of strawberries when you'd add the milk. The fact it was kind of gross was, I guess, why we liked it as kids. Kids seem to like lots of strange foods. But it was better than the other weird cereal, I don't remember the name, that had freeze-dried bits of supposed ice cream.
The thing that I notice about these old commercials is how long some of them seem--a whole minute. That kind of long commercial seems reserved these days for prescription drugs--20 seconds to tell you how great they are and 40 seconds to warn you of all the side effects.
So they don't have that anymore or at least a variant of that?
Robert, I think it was off the shelves by the early '70s.
Thank you for responding. I think "Special K" is as close to that. I did some checking.
Cereal like that is still on the market, I have a box right here, Food Lion's "Essentially You with red berries" (dumb name). It's rice and wheat flakes with freeze dried strawberries.
@@silvereagle2061 Yes, Special K is really good!
Cyanide. That's what the wife is stirring in the coffee.
LMAO 😂😂😂!!
Mymy Lastname LoL 😂
I hope so lol
Instead of divorcing her husband. She will kill him instead.🤣🤣🤣
It was rat poison.☠☠
Ted Knight was an accomplished ventriloquist and a very proud Polish American. He always looked middle aged.
He earned five battle stars during World War 2.
I think he was born with gray hair!!
Mt. Prospect Beverage sold all sorts of flavored sodas. Cream Soda was my favorite. They sold it by the case.
I love watching these old commercials ! Yes, the full service gas stations....great job, Fred.
Ted Baxter needs to go to the bathroom. I'll just about bet you that stuff had mineral oil in it. That's why it was M O.Remember the time Kelloggs put bananas in their Corn Flakes? It wasn't on the market for long, but it was good. I bought it all the time.I used to think when I was a kid that Bel Air was a weird version of the name Blair. Like Balaire.
His daughter was my acting teacher. Funny and sharp.
Sheri451 They used to have banana flavored Cream of Wheats too, also very good.
Horizon coffee: anyone notice that his answer to the question “do you pick all of the beans by hand? “ is “lots of them! “Well, LOTS could mean 10,000 out of 100,000,000. The ad copy is meant to misrepresent without actually lying. How quaint. Now everybody just out and out lies, don’t you think?
The old commercials were so nice as compared to our current batch. Now we have drugs for every disease, mental illness or drug side effects. The lawyer adds are a trip, does anyone ever get money for those adds? I have only known one person who got money from a drug reaction. What happens to all that money? Sorry, it seems the products then we're not pitched to change your life, just to enhance your survival. God l wish the gentle persuasion was back in advertising. But times change , society gets more complex, and we can remember our youth. Thank Fred Flix for showing us our past imperfect! Oh human beings are so complex!!!!!🌹🌹🌹🌹🍀🍀🍀🍀🌼🌼🌼🌼🌻🌻🌻🌻
Is that old lady for "Sta-puff" smoking a cigarette at the end of the spot?
Yes, she is. I didn't catch that the first time around, you're observant! You'd make a good policeman or detective with that skill. (I'm serious, just in case you were wondering - lots of smart asses around, so sometimes it's hard to tell) LoL 😂
I didn't see a cigarette. They just showed her hand (if it was even her hand) in motion for a fraction of a second, in a blur; it looked like her "hand" was holding something, but I didn't see any cigarette smoke in the area (or a lit end of the cig). The resolution on the video is pretty poor, in any case.
wasnt there a shasta cola and other flavors i seem to for some reason recall it being at picnics and park functions way back ???
I see Cheerios with strawberries and bananas. As if you couldn't just PUT some in, and fresh!
The freeze-dried strawberries stay fresh a lot longer than live ones.
@argusone NO - tasty!
I wonder what ever happened to some of these products, great video!!
They all ended up causing cancer think about it,!!!
@@leavell53 You're right about that for sure!!
I never knew Ted Knight had constipation problems
That big smile of his meant he'd taken a good refreshing morning dump.
@@NightBazaar Never underestimate the power of a refreshing morning dump. It matters more and more as you get older.
@@troylowe814 Indeed. If it becomes more important as one ages, a person might want to start looking for Depends TV ads. Some are said to be stylish with lacy bands for the ladies. Maybe some should have a camo design for manly men and hunters that have trouble keeping their bowels from erupting. No more worry about embarrassing rectal leakage when you can confidently release a healthy dump on the go.
@Gary.F. Did you forget to take your prune juice today? Helps keep you regular. 😄
FredFlix doesn't take ads except for the ads at the beginning, end, and middle of this video that completely take me out of the otherwise immersive experience of the ads from 70 years ago
Love it Awesome job on this video...Thank you so much for your videos..
You're welcome, Brenda.
And thanks for watching.
FredFlix Your welcome And I enjoy watching your videos and awesome job
thank you Fred Flix, I really enjoy the "blast in the past "====humour, how men treat women in the 1950's and 1960's commercials. 🤔
No Stalkers !! No Trolls!!: Nothing compared to how women treat men in today's commercials. Even in some of these old commercials, men are portrayed as simple-minded idiots.
Nice to see the Continental ad at the close of the clips. We here in Houston miss the service and quality that was Continental. Now we're stuck with United, but at least we have Southwest for an alternative much of the time.
Cleveland also misses Continental. I never had a bad trip with them, and really liked their service. But United quickly killed even that.
I’m surprised to not see Tickle Deodorant on this collection. I’ve never used it but I saw a lot of old commercials for it and it looks like it would be good. People are selling it on Ebay and Amazon for like $30 USD.
Wow...I totally forgot about Haleys MO and Digell! 🤥
Dont forget those Doan's pills and Geritol....
I remember BOTH Haley's M-O AND Di-Gel!! Actually, I had totally forgotten about Haley's M-O until I just now saw this video! Di-Gel I remember, because my dad used to give me that when I had an upset stomach. I was recently wondering whatever happened to Di-Gel? I believe that Doan's Pills and Geritol are still around.
Melanie Mills My grandma used to put Di-gel on my bee stings. They were half white, half yellow tablets. I haven't seen them in quite some time.
Ha Ha Ha! 🎶 "If you eat too well, demand Di-Gel..." 🎶
@@pamelameckley7308 Grandma always knew what was best
another great job Fred!!!
And the Pream! LOL! They stirred with two passes of the spoon and switched cameras so you couldn't see the cup long enough to watch the undissolvable clumps come back to the top! Coffee you'd have to floss after.
Lol....its too late to comment
..lol ❤
The song that played at the start is just perfect. Sounds like Frank Sinatra.
It is.
Good compilation. Thanks for putting it together!
You're welcome, Kaninma.
@FredFlix Thanks for the blast from the past! I remember so many of these jingles, we kids would sing them at school. One of the first TV ads that made me start to go "Hmmm?" was the "Ring Around the Collar" commercial - made me want to say, "Then go wash yer own dam shirts!"
Thanks for your comment, AuntieMHere.
Love these old commercial clips.Coffee 'powdered creamer' scares me. It now floats on top of coffee has no taste. Tried it in a hotel recently couldn't drink it...spit it out. I'm guessing it's mostly cardboard mixed with sawdust. Never heard of Shasta shampoo either. Seeing you were supposed to wrap a towel around still shampoo'd head results weren't likely positive...lol. Thnx for upload:)
Tarn Sand: "Powdered creamers" are so gross! When I fly and coffee is offered I STILL ask the . . . ahhhh . . . cabin attendant if their "cream" is dairy or powdered.
I'm pretty sure that Pream didn't do your arteries any favors either. 😬
Look at how perky and happy Harry is after taking a dump. 1:02
Ha Ha, I know, right!!!!!! It's almost embarrasing!!
yes that's Ted Knight in the Hale's M-O ad
49jubilee He voiced a lot of cartoons for filmation!
I didn't realize that was Ted Knight. And that was the one commercial I clearly remembered.
Wow,he was so young....and many years before he played "Ted Baxter" of "Mary Tyler Moore"fame.
Think of that with him as Judge Smalls, lol
Looooooooouuuuuuuu!
Feels like a $3.50 TREATMENT !!!!!! Awesome!
Did we appreciate the past?
So good to REVIEW AND REMEMBER. 🌟 🌟 🌟
Did they ever say what the flavor was of Haley's "Flavored M-O"?
Pink
It was mint
Bel Air was my first Chevy car bought in 1970
I always thought it made you think of living in Bel Air California.
That Bel Air steel logo on the side looked awesome.
Was it on the front or back? I’ll look it up though.
My Father smoked Belair cigarettes in the 60s AND we had a car called Belair, two toned, blue and white, like the cigarette pack. Go figure🤔
Wow there was no way in avoiding ironing back then !
I still do and I am a Man, My wife does her own 31 yrs married!
How about all the dry cleaning you had to do. Dry cleaners were everywhere. Most of my work clothes needed to be dry cleaned! Suede jackets too. Real fur coats that you had to store in a special place in the summer! Things have sure changed!
@@davidnieve6444 sounds like your wife is lazy....
I remember almost all of these, even used some of them. Getting old is a real surprise party, isn't it!?
This brings back fun memories; however, I keep imagining Don Draper being the mastermind of these classic ads.
It was definitely a different world then!! 😲😆
You could even feel it in the air.
Somehow.
I wish I could turn back the hands of time...I made alot of mistakes