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SHOW THE GRANDKIDS HOW IT WAS DONE!
Before stretchy fabric book covers and plastic sleeves, we had the brown paper grocery bag! Every September, out came the…
Ann Blyth: The Movie Star Hostess Turned Into Mom
A viewer asked for Hostess commercials with Ann Blyth. Fortunately, this one was easy to find. I do get requests…
CBS NFL Today 1977 — When Sunday Football Started With Brent, Phyllis and Irv
There are certain sounds that can immediately take you back, and this old CBS NFL opening from 1977 does it…
MIGHTY MOUSE & ZESTABS — WHEN CARTOON HEROES SOLD VITAMINS
Seeing Mighty Mouse selling vitamins takes me right back to an era when our Saturday-morning cartoon heroes seemed capable of…
Before Comic-Con: When Batman Took Over Shea Stadium
This ad feels less like a concert promotion and more like somebody accidentally invented a pop-culture convention four years before…
FUNYUNS — THE SNACK THAT ALMOST WASN’T CALLED FUNYUNS
This commercial takes me right back to when a bag of Funyuns seemed like one of the strangest snacks in…
SKITTLE BOWL — BOWLING RIGHT ON THE KITCHEN TABLE!
Remember Skittle Bowl? This was one of those toys that could turn an ordinary kitchen table into your own miniature…
From Frosty to the Lennon Sisters — Jimmy Durante in 1969
Most of us probably know Jimmy Durante’s unmistakable voice as the narrator of Frosty the Snowman. What I didn’t realize…
“Ever Eat a Pine Tree?” — The Commercial That Turned Euell Gibbons Into a Punchline
This may be one of those commercials where one sentence became much more famous than the product being advertised. Euell…
Jane Russell Playtex Commercial
Watching this 1981 Jane Russell Playtex commercial, one thing really jumped out at me when I compared it with the…