Photography was always a challenge, until cellphones. Here Kodak appeals to the Go-Go generation in this 1966. The Instamatic featured pop in cartridge film and flash cubes, man!
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Old Spice Lime
After shave was always a safe gift to get dad.
Action Play Sets by Marx
Play set carry all’s were very popular toys produced by Marx during the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. They were sold as sets without “accessories sold separately”. The play sets provided hours of fun through a child’s imagination.
Seinfeld: How to HOLD a Reservation
You have to love Jerry Seinfeld’s perspective on when he goes to pickup his reservation at the airport and they run out of the midsize car he reserved.
1969 Bubba Smith Stopping Joe Namath
Before his acting days in the Miller Light commercials or playing
Moses Hightower in the Police Academy movies Bubba Smith discussed with
NBC how he and the Baltimore Colts planned on stopping Joe Namath and
the New York Jets in the 1969 Super Bowl.
Bubba said that Joe
Namath sets deep into the backfield and he hoped they would get a jump
on the ball and catch him as he is going back. The Colts only got to Joe
Namath twice for total of 11 yards lost for the entire game. The Jets
went on to win Super Bowl by the score of 16-7.
Sadly, we lost Bubba Smith at the age of 66 on August 3, 2011.
Petula Clark- Sign Of The Times
Sign Of The Times was performed by Petula Clark off her My Love album
released in March of 1966. The song had much more percussions than in
any of her other releases but she just said it was a “straight-ahead
love song” with no hidden meanings like many songs of the time.
In
1999 Target Department Stores used Sign of the Times In 1969 B.F.
Goodrich used the tune but changed the words to “It’s A Radial Age”.
Remembering the Best of the 80’s
John Goodman McDonald’s Commercial
n 1983, before John Goodman was Dan Conner on Roseanne he signed with the William Morris Agency to produce a McDonald’s commercial. I guess it is better to have your first acting job at McDonald’s than your first job there!
Hopalong Cassidy Sunbeam Bread Commercial
Clarence E. Mulford wrote the popular short stories back in 1904 and the TV show hopedalong from 1952 to 1954 and was popular on radio and in movie theaters.
An Evening With Fred Astaire In Color
A rare color television broadcast in 1958 with Fred Astaire in a variety show produced by they Chrysler Corporation as seen on KARD-TV 3 in Witchita Kansas .