Category: 1960’s
Who Remembers “The New People”?
I remember The New People, but oddly enough I remember the sound of the show more than I remember the…
Pepsi’s “You’ve Got a Lot to Live Campaign
Do you remember this Pepsi jingle? Because this one was designed to do a lot more than sell you a…
Lunch At Woolworth’s….What Are You Having?
Remember when a trip to Woolworth’s could include lunch at the counter and still leave change in your pocket? This…
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…
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…
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…
THE JERRY LEWIS TELETHON — A LABOR DAY TRADITION
For a lot of us, Labor Day weekend wasn’t complete without the Jerry Lewis Telethon. You could turn it on…
The Joey Bishop Show: Taking On Johnny Carson With a Young Regis Philbin
I remember The Joey Bishop Show as one of those late-night programs that always seemed to live in the shadow…