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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Posted in 1960's

Who remembers when Bugs Bunny was actually on the Kool-Aid package?

This commercial takes us back to around 1965, when Bugs and Elmer Fudd weren’t just Saturday morning entertainment — they…

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Speedy Alka-Seltzer

How many of you remember Speedy Alka-Seltzer? By the time this 1976 commercial appeared, Speedy was actually making a comeback….

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Shopping For Phones

Who remembers when we were finally able to go shopping for our own telephone? For years, the telephone was basically…

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Posted in 1960's

Tiger Joe

As kids, we used to play army, and this commercial is a pretty good demonstration of what that looked like…

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Don’t Blow Your Top

Don’t Blow Your Top came out in 1972, and this is one of those wonderfully simple toy ideas that probably…

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Peter Pan Peanut Butter

How many of you remember this Peter Pan Peanut Butter commercial? This one really seems to have stuck with people,…