Category: 1970’s
Remember Junior Jumble?
Remember Junior Jumble? This was one of those little newspaper features that could keep you busy almost as long as…
Cathy Rigby Built Quite a Career After the Olympics
This old Cathy Rigby Stayfree commercial brings back a completely different Cathy Rigby memory for me. Back in the 1990s,…
Did You Walk A Mile For A Camel?
If you grew up watching television in the 1950s or ’60s, cigarette commercials weren’t unusual or something that jumped out…
Peabody and Sherman
Peabody and Sherman were one of those great little pieces of Rocky and Bullwinkle that managed to sneak some history…
The Bullwinkle Show
I think one of the reasons Rocky and Bullwinkle still holds up is that when we watched it as kids,…
Flatsy Dolls: They Were Flat and That Was That!
Here’s one that really could only have come out of the late 1960s — Flatsy, the doll whose big selling…
When Jonathan Winters Sold Us Hefty Trash Bags
Here’s one of those commercials where the product almost takes a back seat to the guy selling it. Jonathan Winters…
Enjoli: The 24-Hour Woman Who Could Bring Home the Bacon
Who remembers “I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan…”? Sometimes the commercial becomes more memorable…
You’ve Got a Lot to Live, and Pepsi’s Got a Lot to Give
This is one of those commercials where I remembered the Pepsi slogan, but I never really thought about everything they…
You Get A Big Delight In Every Bite
This early commercial takes us back very close to the beginning. Ho Hos were introduced in 1967 after first being…