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Who Ya Gunna Call? Dustbuster!
I think the Dustbuster was one of those products that seemed to suddenly appear and then before long everybody knew…
Remember Junior Jumble?
Remember Junior Jumble? This was one of those little newspaper features that could keep you busy almost as long as…
Handi-Wrap Won Me Over One School Sandwich at a Time
I remember this Handi-Wrap commercial, but what it really brings back is a debate we used to have in our…
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…
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…