Favorite Old Commercials (Dallas, Glen Rose: to buy, gas, deal)

[destin04]

Who made the salad?
Where's the beef?
Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz
Wazzzzzup?

[case44]

Yeah, the Alka-Seltzer ones were great, too. Oh, what a relief it is!

And how about Snickers (a fistful of peanuts in every bite!)??

[MaryS80]

Even though the ads are still running, Standard Insurance has had the same spokeswoman for years.

I remember the Rodney D. Young commercials from the early 80's, think young Rodney D. Young. I think they even had a commercial with cavemen way before Geico

Also in Dallas an ad for a flower shop called Karens Flowers. I remember they had a very simple commercial, it was a still image of an old fashioned delivery truck with music box type music in the background. That one has always stuck with me for some reason.

[catman]

Freed's Furniture commercials have had the same music for at least 30 years ("Freed's Furniture...You can afford your dreams").

Here's a really old one: Does anyone remember the Reddy Kilowatt commercial ("I can toast your toast, I can roast your roast...") Being way back in the 1950s, it was quite primitive, starring a little guy made out of electric bolts with a lightbulb for a head. (Yes, I'm superannuated.)

[TXTwizter]

The old cat food commercials for "Meow Mix" were always my favorites.


YouTube - Meow Mix 1984


YouTube - Purina meowmix meow mix cat food


YouTube - Meow Mix 1979 TV commercial

[destin04]

Oh I just remembered two from my childhood....
It was a group of kids doing the "monster mash" I think it advertised cereal...they held their arms out and walked on top of a hill...
The other was the Frito Bandito. He used to sing a song...very catchy!
Also...I just thought....how about "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing"

[lonestar2007]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

*smiles* Yeah, HPD, I remember when I was a kid and momma would pull into the "fillin' station" -- all us kids in the car -- (Texaco, Fina, or Conoco, usually) and the "man" would come out to the window and say "fill' er up, ma'am?. And she would say, usually, "Two dollars worth of regular...and check under the hood.."

Which they would be doing anyway. One feller would be "wiping the windshield"...and another was -- as you say -- checking fluid levels on oil or water and all...

She would pay AND...get some S&H Greenstamps for the money. "Thank you, ma'am...y'all come back soon..."

Heck yeah, we always used regular too (and I think I still have some filled up books of those old S&H green stamp books in a box up in the attic, hmmm wonder where I can redeem them). Now my cousin thought she had to put ethol in her '63 Chevy or it'd 'spit and stutter (and it wasn't even a high powered engine, just a little old 6 cylinder Chevy engine and she HAD to have only Mobil top of the line at the Mobil full service stations! Isn't it funny that we use to pay more per gallon for the gas that had more lead in it, THEN they take the lead out, call it unleaded and charge more for IT than they charged for regular. Only in America!

I remember when the self service pumps starting showing up. Not only did we kids think it was cool to pump the gas ourselves, we could also save a few pennies a gallon in doing so. And the gas wars, how great was that!

[High_Plains_Retired]

Originally Posted by lonestar2007

I remember when the self service pumps starting showing up. Not only did we kids think it was cool to pump the gas ourselves, we could also save a few pennies a gallon in doing so. And the gas wars, how great was that!

I also remember when gasoline had a great odor. Either my sense of smell has changed or gasoline has changed?

But back to commercials; here's an old
Camel cigarette commercial that's interesting.

[malfunction]

Meow Mix was always funny back in the day. Also, they had the old KFC commercials when Colonel Sanders was still alive. It was classic footage.

[TexasReb]

...but only good tasting tuna gets to be Starkist!



YouTube - Star-Kist commercial: Charlie the Tuna (1972)