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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…
My Favorite Martian
When I think of My Favorite Martian, I really don’t remember watching it as a first-run show — I remember…
The Monkees, Bugs Bunny and Kool-Aid
Talk about putting two things together that you wouldn’t expect — The Monkees and Bugs Bunny selling Kool-Aid! But the…
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…
Liberace Feelin’ Groovy
This may be one of the strangest—and most wonderfully 1968—things I’ve come across in a while. That’s Liberace getting “groovy”…