1972: Our Lives Through TV Commercials

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  • @richdelgado3405
    @richdelgado3405 5 ปีที่แล้ว +335

    1920: "We'll all be driving flying cars."
    2019: Watching commercials from 1972.

    • @cls90
      @cls90 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      👍

    • @jefferyoetter6884
      @jefferyoetter6884 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Lol 😂

    • @hydrolito
      @hydrolito 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Airplanes and smaller flying devices as seen in movie fly away home have gone down in price so could possibly buy a used airplane for a few thousand or a smaller flying device that has single seat new for that price. Can see other videos about prices of these, of course prices subject to change based on supply and demand.

    • @ruseter84
      @ruseter84 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hey can I get 10-15 of those record selectors

    • @gator9339
      @gator9339 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      2022: Still watching commercials from 1972

  • @JennyWinters
    @JennyWinters ปีที่แล้ว +149

    I am probably the only person that cries in these 1960's and 1970's commercials. I was a kid in the 60's and a teen in the 70's and looking back I'd love to go visit my parents in that time. The things we took for granted back then. Just to go back to visit. No cellphones or tech bs just a lovely world at least from a kid point of view. I knew about Vietnam and it was horrible to watch on TV but this is all now nostalgia and it hurts now cause I just want to not be old and go back to a time when life was ok. Thanks for putting up with my melodrama.

    • @lesbw356
      @lesbw356 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      No you’re not alone

    • @LeSiZmOr
      @LeSiZmOr ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Same. I have fond and VIVID memories of my youth as far back as 4 years old. Blessed.

    • @Karen-hf9mh
      @Karen-hf9mh ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Thank you for sharing my same feelings. Born in 64, we had to have been the luckiest generation to have lived. Why did it have to change

    • @user-yc9eo8ju3d
      @user-yc9eo8ju3d ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Also born in 1964. I wouldn’t change my childhood for anything. We mid-60s kids have our own niche. God bless you.

    • @itzhakbentov6572
      @itzhakbentov6572 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Born in 1960; I agree. I look forward to revisiting that time.

  • @c.c.7687
    @c.c.7687 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Sammy Davis Jr. smoking a cigarette in a commercial for GE tape recorders? Just more proof that the 70s were the coolest years ever.

    • @angeldesigns1385
      @angeldesigns1385 ปีที่แล้ว

      my parents: “smoking doesn’t make you look cool”
      Me: “BULLs#¥+”!
      Lol It may not be healthy, but it looks pretty cool!😂

    • @JennyWinters
      @JennyWinters ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was gifted that tape recorder on a xmas and I loved that thing.

    • @JennyWinters
      @JennyWinters ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@angeldesigns1385 I remember when they had cig commercials on TV.

    • @maryvalentine9090
      @maryvalentine9090 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😆😆

    • @marygarza1596
      @marygarza1596 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was a 8 year old but Loved those days life is never the same ❤❤❤❤😂😂 now

  • @UnleashTheGreen
    @UnleashTheGreen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +251

    who would of thought a bunch of commercials would make you feel like weeping.

  • @thegoldendog7991
    @thegoldendog7991 6 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    The commercials then were more entertaining than television shows are today.

    • @celticmoon111
      @celticmoon111 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Exactly 🎉😂

  • @thef8ofman984
    @thef8ofman984 6 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    Just 46 short years ago we were complaining about the commercials on TV, now we come here to watch them,
    Haahhaaa.. Funny how things change.

    • @OVERHERE-OVERHERE
      @OVERHERE-OVERHERE 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      TheF8ofman
      In the 80s I served in the United States Air Force Rammstein airbase Germany we had one TV station American forces network there was no TV commercials they had been deleted came home andI really enjoyed the commercials on TV,
      Like “where is the beef!”

    • @pauldee3832
      @pauldee3832 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      TheF8ofman Yes,but let’s remember when you watched TV in the ‘60’s & ‘70’s the commercials only interrupted the shows for 60 seconds. Now commercials interrupt TV shows on an average of 4 minutes. Therefore,for example Big Bang Theory is actually 16minutes 47seconds. I’ve timed it 10 times; from opening dialogue to the end. Well, the actors DO make $1 million per episode.

    • @mycitywasgone4216
      @mycitywasgone4216 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hey, I was 17, these commercials didn’t bother me ,
      I was busy getting pussy ...
      I just come here to see to see these commercials,
      Because I don’t get pussy anymore 😂
      (Did he say the “P”w0rD❓)

    • @sambradley2975
      @sambradley2975 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly!

    • @Anth230
      @Anth230 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mycitywasgone4216 Yup...that's what you get for getting old.... hahahahahahaha

  • @maryvalentine9090
    @maryvalentine9090 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I was born in 58. Some of these commercials drove me absolutely crazy in the day. Kind of comforting to see them now.

    • @mgmlioness67
      @mgmlioness67 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Right? I cannot believe I just sat here and watched the commercials that used to push me toward the kitchen or bathroom 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @mattosullivan9687
      @mattosullivan9687 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Born in 63 same deal

    • @mahalalel7771
      @mahalalel7771 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too. I was born in 1970 and some of these commercials put an earworm in my ear for years and here I am again. God help me...

  • @brianbaswell5895
    @brianbaswell5895 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    70s and 80s let me come back home!! I thought the future would be better, I was wrong!! I'd even settle for the 90s!

  • @manonmars2009
    @manonmars2009 6 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    I was 11 in 1972 and remember those days quite well. It was, for a child, a really cool time because toys were so cool and the color TVs were coming of age. We had a Curtis Mathes in 1969 and bought another in 1974. Talk about a TV set. Since I'm going back in time, I want a new Chevrolet, a Zenith TV and K-tel record selector.

    • @dorothydromgoole8040
      @dorothydromgoole8040 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I was 10 in 1972. And I remember the time quite well. And for a kid the summer time was the best because my mom and dad and I would travel. I loved that year. I did so much more than the year before.

    • @TheBrooklynbodine
      @TheBrooklynbodine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      In '72, we had a circa-1960 Zenith black-and-white. I forget how many radios we had (including the car radio), but I DO know that they were AM only. But back then, you could get anything you wanted on AM, be it your favorite music, news, or talk shows. Damned sight better then than now. I was 9 in '72 myself.

    • @djuanawhite7826
      @djuanawhite7826 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I was 11 in 1972 as well & I totally agree it was a super time to be a kid.😁

    • @dorothydromgoole8040
      @dorothydromgoole8040 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      One year older than me. I would have been 10 in 1972. And yes this year I will be 60. I remember when the first color TV sets came out. My mom and dad got 3 color TVs and there was one in the dining room and one in the living room and one upstairs. I grew up in a 3 bedroom two bathroom condo in Yoba Linda down in Southern California.

    • @becca5100
      @becca5100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah, that record selector - with space age technology. Amazing!

  • @keithtaylor6498
    @keithtaylor6498 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    I'm 61, and I remember all of these commercials! Haven't thought about them in awhile!

    • @shreddder999
      @shreddder999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      even landover mall?

    • @barneyporter6138
      @barneyporter6138 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm 64 and I remember many of these commercials but not all of them but I miss them man if we could go back to them days they sure were better in many ways

    • @bobbydavis2299
      @bobbydavis2299 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@barneyporter6138 Yep, the world has changed, definitely not for the better.

  • @scottburton9701
    @scottburton9701 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    These commercials certainly bring back a boatload of memories.

  • @morenofranco9235
    @morenofranco9235 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Horrid! And I lived thru it all. AND I became a commercial designer! Producing Packaging, point-of-sale merchandising, magazine advertising. Television advertising. What a life! Thanks for the trip down memory lane, FredFlix.

    • @FredFlix
      @FredFlix  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You're welcome, Moreno.

  • @adm712
    @adm712 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    ..and Im sure back in 1972 a great many of these products were produced in factories on American soil and providing American workers with a paycheck that allowed them to support their family.

  • @glenrosarian2352
    @glenrosarian2352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Those were the days when you actually enjoyed the commercials. And the coco puffs commercial-- I can remember getting toys and 'prizes' from boxes of childrens' cereals. I used to empty the whole box just to get them. The '70s were a great time to grow up!

    • @maryvalentine9090
      @maryvalentine9090 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Actually I kind of freaking hated the commercials. I am a baby boomer and I told my daughters who were born in the 90s that we are at the “jingle Generation”. Stupid jingles clear back from the 60s are still stuck in my head.

    • @cocoaorange1
      @cocoaorange1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So did I. To think some of those kids are grandparents now.

  • @stephss
    @stephss 2 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Glad I'm not the only GenX'r suffering with nostalgia. Imagine how GenZ feels growing up in this dumpster fire. We all deserve better. Thanks for the memories 💌

    • @FredFlix
      @FredFlix  2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You're welcome, Steph.

    • @elmobolan4274
      @elmobolan4274 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Me too-Generation X-56 yrs old...

    • @crocodile1313
      @crocodile1313 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@elmobolan4274 I'm 53 and graduated high school in 1987. A funny thing I heard a while back about Generation X: We are the final generation to grow into adulthood without the internet. And boy am I thankful for that!

    • @elmobolan4274
      @elmobolan4274 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@crocodile1313 I know right-so glad I'm older!!!

    • @deborahberglund725
      @deborahberglund725 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I am what you would considered ___.
      Not a baby boomer, because they changed they criteria.
      Not a gen Z or whatever.
      Love the commercials.
      The Marlboro Man!
      I am gonna have a cig

  • @georgejennings8026
    @georgejennings8026 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    "Sears opening soon" that's a statement you'll never hear again .

    • @debralynnpaxton5238
      @debralynnpaxton5238 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Never would have Dreamed that the major stores of our day would be gone 😢

    • @bajaborracho9139
      @bajaborracho9139 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I was just in mexico they still have sears in TJ! And LaPaz!

  • @corettejones
    @corettejones 2 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    Back in the day, parents had remote controls, they were called their Children! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @RedBud315
      @RedBud315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Don't forget they were also the fine tuning feature when they held the rabbit ears at a certain angle.

    • @gwendolynwilborn1743
      @gwendolynwilborn1743 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hilarious and true! Lol!

    • @KyleButler82
      @KyleButler82 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      More than once we had TV's that the tuner knob broke, so we used a screwdriver and/or pliers to change to one of the 3 stations we had.

    • @stevenmeadows6917
      @stevenmeadows6917 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yep I was the remote control, door answerer, phone answerer, snack getter, rabbit ears antenna adjuster, thermostat adjuster, and oh yes,....light switch operator. LOL

    • @jaygrey1212
      @jaygrey1212 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@stevenmeadows6917 Same, lol!

  • @joyr6687
    @joyr6687 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I passed an elderly man and lady in a Chevy Impala yesterday. Those things were as big as tanks. The couple probably bought it new.

    • @midnightrunner684
      @midnightrunner684 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I had a 1974 Chevy Impala back in the mid 1980's. ..An old man and his wife owned it. .Body and interior where mint condition too ..The old man wanted to buy his wife a smaller car for her to drive ..He put the Chevy up for sale ..A girl with a 1970 Chevy nova stopped in to look at the car ...She only wanted the engine out of the impala to put in her nova .." 350 engine " so the old man sold her just the engine out of it ..My cousin came to me and said " Ron wants to know if you want the body of that old impala ,Said all its missing is the engine ...We towed it to my house ..At the time I was driving a 1972 Oldsmobile 9 passenger station wagon with a 455 4 barrel ..My Dad and I yanked the engine and 400 turbo transmission out of the Olds and dropped it into the impala ...455 4 barrel 400 turbo Trans 3:73 rear end ..That was the fastest Car I ever owned ....I miss that car these days

    • @TheBrooklynbodine
      @TheBrooklynbodine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@willoughby1888 Remember Olds 98s? And Toronados? Oldsmobile ceased production many years ago. My brother bought a '76 Omega new. Olds Toronado was the 1st front-wheel drive car, if I'm not mistaken.

    • @oldsguy354
      @oldsguy354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheBrooklynbodine I had a 69 Delta 88, a 69 98 luxury coupe, a 73 Toronado, a 72 Cutlass, a 78 Delta 88, an 83 Delta 88, and a 79 Custom Cruiser that i still own and drive today. So yea, I remember the Oldsmobile's. I remember in the late 1980s they had the ad campaign "it's not your fathers Oldsmobile", I remember thinking that is why their sales are off, because if they'd build my fathers Oldsmobile, I'd buy one them. ;)

    • @oldsguy354
      @oldsguy354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@willoughby1888 I can't remember for sure, but I believe the "Super Rocket 425" was the ultra high compression version. If it is, you would really wish that you still had that one. They are worth thousands these days. The ultra high compression 394, your 425, and the 69 and 70 high output (high compression) 455 are very valuable engines these days. I threw away a 69 HO 455 years ago. Today, you'd be hard pressed to find a good one for 5 thousand dollars. Hard to believe isn't it?

    • @TheBrooklynbodine
      @TheBrooklynbodine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember the "Not your Father's Oldsmobile" spots. One had a 74-year-old man with a new Oldsmobile with the young ladies chasing him, and his 100-year-old dad tsk-tsking. If I remember right, Harry Belafonte, Ringo Starr, and :Leonard Nimoy did their own spots, too. That campaign was from the late 80s. Congratulations on still driving your '79. here's hoping for many more years and thousands of miles.

  • @Stephanvann1965
    @Stephanvann1965 2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    I was 7 when these came out and I remember many of them. Life is funny, you can't wait to grow up and then you do...now that you have you love to look back. This was great!

    • @davidm1149
      @davidm1149 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I remember my friend had an Action Jackson figure with a parachute. I think we also had Hot Wheels. I felt bad since I didn't want to be like the spoiled kids wanting all those toys. We also had my father's Lionel train layout downstairs. We used to run it around every friday after school. I wish I could remember more things a lot clearer, seems as if it went by way too fast.

    • @3373-g8z
      @3373-g8z ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The last age I wanted to turn, was 16, 1986. I told my friends they were fools for wanting to be any older! They finally understand! They admit I was beyond right. In the 70s, I never really wanted to be an adult. The adults I knew argued all the time.

  • @SupersonicChip
    @SupersonicChip 6 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    It's actually amazing to see how much integrity many of these companies had about their products...

    • @jamesrogers9185
      @jamesrogers9185 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      And they were MADE IN THE USA.

    • @reneastle8447
      @reneastle8447 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If they still do today, that would be brilliant.

    • @reneastle8447
      @reneastle8447 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jamesrogers9185 It can still happen.

    • @richsackett3423
      @richsackett3423 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Gawd what a mark. Don Draper sure had his way with you.

    • @sheltr9735
      @sheltr9735 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I'm skeptical. Certainly, the cereal manufacturers didn't care at all about the kids. But, even with regard to the ads that were heavy on the engineering, I mean, we all know the Pinto was just awful, right?
      It's great to see all these ads that I also remember. But one really needs to be skeptical as we look back...

  • @davedrivas8851
    @davedrivas8851 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I Turned 14 Years old on November 7th 1972. Lived Out in The Country in Northern Wi. Only had 2 Channels To Choose from and that's what got me into Radio!

  • @RobertWestfall-w3k
    @RobertWestfall-w3k 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My generation.i was born 58 . It seams we all no now what a special time we lived in

  • @darrellludlow
    @darrellludlow 6 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Wow, that mail on your computer terminal technology really seemed neat. I wonder if it ever caught on.

    • @ClayLoomis1958
      @ClayLoomis1958 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I thought that looked pretty advanced. When I was at work in the late 70's, the whole company still had those god-awful green screens that would burn your retinas. It wasn't until the 80's that they upgraded to 4 color CGA screens.

    • @Onteo1
      @Onteo1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Darrell Ludlow I don't know, let me google that on my phone. Xerox was the inventor of the mouse too.

    • @vinskeeter
      @vinskeeter 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Darrell Ludlow It never caught on.

    • @DelilahThePig
      @DelilahThePig 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The sad thing is it was merely a pie-in-the-sky concept in 1972. Any office worker enthused about the notion of e-mail, mice and calendars with automatic reminders would have had to wait to just about retirement to get a taste of that life. And, just like the tractor, better tech just means everyone's expected to react quicker.

    • @Mike1614YT
      @Mike1614YT 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      it didn't catch on. until they added porn. lol

  • @williamopalewski651
    @williamopalewski651 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I remember the papa, mama, and baby burgers at A&W

  • @vanmann8347
    @vanmann8347 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    So glad that I lived in a far better time. People were friendlier, life was less chaotic and tv was cleaner. People kept their sexuality pretty much to themselves and didn’t try shoving their opinions down other people’s throats. Back then you really could “agree to disagree” and that was fine. I blame the government and the one sided media for constantly putting on group of people against the other. Even smoking pot was back then was a laughing good time. I pity this generation if they don’t wake up to the hypocrisy and constant hatred that they are being exposed to by evil forces who’s only goal is to control them. GOD help this planet 🌎. 🙏🙏🙏

    • @Blugraffiti5
      @Blugraffiti5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Amen!🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💕❤️💕

    • @Towering_Pantload
      @Towering_Pantload 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Blugraffiti5 Amen! to your "Amen"!

  • @LeSiZmOr
    @LeSiZmOr ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was 10 years old in '72. ahhh... take me back!

  • @lagerr119
    @lagerr119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    im from the 90s and its still sad watching older commercials like this, because nothing will ever be built this good again, We gained cellphones but lost all standards of quality

  • @farpointgamingdirect
    @farpointgamingdirect 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The Arby's in Laurel MD still has their original 'big hat' sign and it works perfectly

    • @michaelorenstein9165
      @michaelorenstein9165 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I interned at WLMD-Radio in Laurel in '76. I remember going to that Arby's with one of the talk show hosts and discovering the Beef & Cheddar.

  • @johnbockelie3899
    @johnbockelie3899 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    That action Jackson theme still runs through my head after all these years and I'm 62 now. Thanks.

  • @BillyBatsonMarvel
    @BillyBatsonMarvel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    We hated commercials back then but now we watch them. How times have changed?

    • @angeldesigns1385
      @angeldesigns1385 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol I said the same thing! Growing up, we would have done anything to avoid these commercials but today, we view them for entertainment purposes😀

    • @BillyBatsonMarvel
      @BillyBatsonMarvel ปีที่แล้ว

      @@angeldesigns1385 and to reflect on “the good ole days”. 😒

    • @angeldesigns1385
      @angeldesigns1385 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BillyBatsonMarvel i second that

  • @erinl7946
    @erinl7946 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Crazy how looking at commercials during a time I wasn't even alive in makes me emotional. Seems like a better time to be alive vs now. Get me out of the year 2022 or the last decade to be honest.

    • @JJørgensen
      @JJørgensen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Get me out of here and put me anywhere between 50's to 80's.

    • @BillyBatsonMarvel
      @BillyBatsonMarvel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Things were sweet, pure and cheesy. Wish you were there, many TV shows and movies warned us about 2020-2030. Don't believe me? Watch Soylent Green and Network.

    • @BradfordPost
      @BradfordPost 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I grew up in the 60's and 70's and believe me,I wouldn't mind being back there right now.Things were so much easier and more relaxed than they are today,or maybe it seemed that way because I was a kid,I don't know.

    • @BradfordPost
      @BradfordPost 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@BillyBatsonMarvel Yup. Exactly.

    • @jerraldwest8531
      @jerraldwest8531 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Bad food, tacky decore, too much cigarette smoke, terrible hygiene, crappy t.v. image quality, even when compared to the 60's. No thanks. Fantastic music though.

  • @juliemedlin7443
    @juliemedlin7443 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    My dad drove a Ford Galaxy for 25 years! That thing was like a tank with a sofa in it. My brother was playing Dukes of Hazard, and jumped it off an embankment. It didn't have a scratch and ran like it was brand new!

    • @johnsmith-ug5tp
      @johnsmith-ug5tp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      haha Tank with a sofa.

    • @ohiohiker4301
      @ohiohiker4301 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@johnsmith-ug5tp That line made me laugh, too! Great line! 👍

  • @magistrumartium
    @magistrumartium 6 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    K-TEL RECORD SELECTOR (3:39) This was a big hit. Everybody bought one. "Space-age design"? ! I love that!
    The Apollo missions were ongoing when this commercial aired. Remember? (Gimme a thumbs-up if you remember.)

    • @CrowdfundingHell
      @CrowdfundingHell 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Apollo was winding down at that time, ending in December of 1972.

    • @dalemulholland9114
      @dalemulholland9114 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Those selectors didnt work at all..

  • @csredmond518
    @csredmond518 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I love that I'm watching a commercial for the ODYSSEY on an XBox One! Thanks man. I appreciate the amount of work these must take.

    • @FredFlix
      @FredFlix  6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It's a labor of love, Christopher

    • @michaelodonnell9756
      @michaelodonnell9756 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@FredFlix There was life before Atari after all.

    • @FredFlix
      @FredFlix  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@michaelodonnell9756 You betcha!

  • @raginrajan5351
    @raginrajan5351 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    “And Sears, opening soon.”
    There’s something you don’t hear anymore.

    • @FlavioGirl
      @FlavioGirl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      now its sears, closing soon :(

  • @AsYourCruiseDirector
    @AsYourCruiseDirector 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of my most cherished possessions is an autographed photo from Ann Blyth (Hostess ad at 26:45). Miss Blyth was a big star in the 1940s and 50s and is most famous for her Oscar-nominated role as Veda in 1945’s “Mildred Pierce” opposite Joan Crawford. She is still with us today at age 94.

  • @bugoobiga
    @bugoobiga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Commercials so good back then that nobody ever hit "skip ad"

  • @dorothydromgoole8040
    @dorothydromgoole8040 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Ooo, the year I would turn 10 and for a kid the early 1970' s were so cool. I could play outside with my friends until sundown then it was time to go home. I loved the summers the best because I could stay up until 10:00 in the evening. And the drive ins, such fun.

    • @shawnee1895
      @shawnee1895 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I still love the nostalgia of Drive Inns. The ones I visit when I can are in Atlanta, GA and Lake Cumberland (Somerset, KY). Wow those days.

  • @mikeaball2142
    @mikeaball2142 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    The Coke jingle was sung by The Fortunes,who had a hit with,"Here comes that rainy day feelin" again".They also sang the previous Coke jingle,"Things go better with Coke". Great vid Fred!

    • @FredFlix
      @FredFlix  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Didn't know that about The Fortunes, Jan.

    • @Johnnycdrums
      @Johnnycdrums 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It sounded like Nancy Sinatra singing the Cougar XR-7 commercial.

    • @ir10031981
      @ir10031981 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bob Barker began to host The New Price is Right!

    • @jamesmack3314
      @jamesmack3314 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Rainy day feeling again...that's a catchy tune!!

    • @HomebrewStew
      @HomebrewStew 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's what I thought.

  • @matthewnorman1303
    @matthewnorman1303 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I was a newborn in January of 72. Awesome commercials.

    • @roaddawg3217
      @roaddawg3217 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      me too!! march '72, you're old lol

    • @seymorekeester2193
      @seymorekeester2193 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Matthew Norman , I was born Jan 67. I remember a few of the commercials ! Peace.

  • @johndodson4511
    @johndodson4511 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Happily watching these commercials over the TV shows they put on air these days.

  • @monosteel
    @monosteel 6 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Love the Commericals and yes Rachel Welch doing commercials ❤❤❤❤

  • @Laura151The
    @Laura151The 6 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    Actually, every home had a remote control unit for their TV sets. It was called a child. Also, I remember using Clairol Herbal Essence Shampoo when they first came out with it. It really had an fresh herbal scent.

    • @annapaulikonis2433
      @annapaulikonis2433 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Laura Daly I miss ClairolHerbalEssenseShampoo

    • @m.k.8158
      @m.k.8158 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Anna Paulikonis the stuff had a problem...bees were attracted to the scent....some people even got stung.

    • @oliviajohnjohnolivia8142
      @oliviajohnjohnolivia8142 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The music,movies and commercials back then are better than the garbage of today.

    • @jpsned
      @jpsned 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My big sister used Herbal Essence shampoo. I tried it, and yes, I remember the nice herbal scent. 🙂

    • @lightmarker3146
      @lightmarker3146 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Herbal Essances was made with good ingredients and smelled wonderful. Also the shampoo Yuca Dew made with yuca plant made hair feel wonderful .

  • @chickapey
    @chickapey 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I was born in 1971 but remember that clarol herbal essence shampoo commercial.... loved it as a kid

  • @monkeywrench2800
    @monkeywrench2800 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I recall seeing many of these commercials back in the day.... Only on a TH-cam channel would I be watching them again.

  • @Stussmeister
    @Stussmeister 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Very interesting. I wasn't born in the 1970s (my mother and father were in elementary school and college, respectively), but as a history major, I can appreciate how these commercials reflect the times. It's also interesting to think about how "finger-tip control of music" can mean one thing (moving LPs forward in an organizer), then fifty years later it means something else (using your phone's touch screen to access/play a song).

  • @Foxonian
    @Foxonian 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    My grandfather had a '72 Ford Galaxie 500. Really nice car for it's time.

    • @ThomasTalbotMD
      @ThomasTalbotMD 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I drove a green coupe in the 1990s and it was pretty reliable. Nice and big.

    • @2012spacetraveler
      @2012spacetraveler 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My dad had one also, a real nice burgundy colour

    • @cannong1728
      @cannong1728 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      my parents had a '71 Galaxy 500...what a great car. I got it when I turned 17 and drove it until the transmission went out...about the time I went to college. I wish I had had enough money to have it fixed...I might still have it today!

  • @jo-annbastings
    @jo-annbastings 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Zenith télévision were the best! Excellent quality and their life span were amazing. «Their quality goes in before their name goes on.» a logo well deserved!

    • @EntertainMe463
      @EntertainMe463 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We had one too,it lasted forever!

    • @knerduno5942
      @knerduno5942 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Curtis Mathis with their 10 year warranty

    • @ohiohiker4301
      @ohiohiker4301 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My dad would buy nothing but Zenith.

    • @JennyWinters
      @JennyWinters ปีที่แล้ว +2

      OMG remembering how I constantly fiddled with the antenna ears to get a good reception as a kid.

    • @JennyWinters
      @JennyWinters ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ours had wheels and we could put it anywhere. But damn those rabbit ears to try to get the best reception. Plus in my childhood we had supersonic booms around the same time frame and I would jump 2 feet in the air every time it happened till they finnaly said no to that.

  • @louischristopher7116
    @louischristopher7116 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I was 12 that year and remember many of these commercials. Life was simpler 50 years ago.

    • @alhi6240
      @alhi6240 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Born in '60. Twelve year olds are very impressioned by the media, I guess it shaped who we are.

  • @Cowboy1959
    @Cowboy1959 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Landover Mall was the major shopping attraction in Prince George's County, Maryland when it opened in 1972, but it had a relatively short heyday and began declining as early as the mid-'80s. In its prime, the mall had a number of quality stores, including four anchor stores. It also had one of the first sports shops where you could buy NFL licensed merchandise. My brother and I spent many hours there one summer while our mom took sewing classes in the Singer store. The class started before the mall opened for the day, so we wandered around and waited until the stores opened up. Our days always featured a trip to Orange Julius for a slice of pizza which, as I recall, was pretty good. In the '80s other competitors sprang up, and Landover Mall lost its luster. It also being located in a high-crime area, shoppers started avoiding it, especially at night. Likewise the stores experienced high volume of shrinkage due to theft. The death blow came as the anchors began closing: Hecht's, Garfinckel's, and Woodward & Lothrop either went out of business entirely or were absorbed into larger department store chains. By the '90s, Landover Mall was practically a ghost town, with just a handful of stores clinging to life and no shoppers to serve. It was finally torn down a few years ago, and while there have been a number of development plans for the land, the acreage remains barren and empty. It sits about a mile from FedEx Field, and I expect that when the Redskins finally abandon FedEx for the new stadium they are planning, the entire area will be up for grabs for redevelopment.

    • @jimrosson5697
      @jimrosson5697 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cowboy 1959

    • @jimrosson5697
      @jimrosson5697 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cowboy 1959

    • @kellyq21
      @kellyq21 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jim rosson what is the purpose of posting a poster's name and nothing else?

    • @jbgroup1
      @jbgroup1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I lived a few blocks from Landover Mall before the eventual downfall. My first experience was in 1976 when my mother bought me a pair of Toughskins jeans from Sears. It was the place in the early to mid 1980's for teens until the crack wars in the town across the street (Glenarden) and then the general decline of the Landover area.
      Fun fact: The opening of Landover Mall was considered a threat to a then older mall Tyson's Corner Center. It was thought that a newer mall with four anchors (compared to three at Tyson's) and being on the eastern side of the Beltway would attract people from the District of Columbia and Montgomery County and reduce the market for Tyson's Corner Center which was then not as developed as it is now.

    • @Cowboy1959
      @Cowboy1959 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I spent a lot of hours during my teen years at Landover Mall as well. In the '70s and early '80s it was a very good mall, especially for our area.
      Before Landover Mall opened up, the big shopping center in the area was probably Prince George's Plaza, then an open-air mall (as opposed to a strip center). When Landover Mall started gaining traction, a roof was installed at P.G. Plaza and it became an indoor mall. Between Landover Mall, the closing in of P.G. Plaza, and the building of Columbia Mall in 1971, mall shopping came to the D.C.-Baltimore corridor in a big way. Forty-seven years on, malls all across America are dying, and the brick-and-mortar model nowadays is open-air Town Centers (or "Town Centres", depending on how pretentious the developer is).
      Glenarden and Landover haven't changed much since the crack war days, unfortunately, but P.G. County is one of the richest African-American-majority counties (as well as one of the highest-income counties) in the U.S., and since there is a lot of open land ripe for development in that area they will hopefully enjoy a renaissance over the next few years. Unfortunately, there are a lot of ideas for the area but no firm plans as yet.

  • @franciscodanconia45
    @franciscodanconia45 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    That xerox computer is what Steve Jobs swiped and turned into Apple Computer a couple years later!

    • @rodneykingston6420
      @rodneykingston6420 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Well, what was Xerox thinking, showing this stuff on TV years before they had a readily marketable product? The average person in 1972 saw this commercial and didn't even get that the guy was sitting in front of a computer. In 1972, a computer was a great big room sized thing with blinking lights on it that a person in a lab coat operated. When we saw this commercial in '72 (I vaguely remember it) we thought he was looking at a portable TV turned sideways and wondered why anyone would want their mail put on TV. It was about 3 or 4 years later when some company (and I think it was WANG) put out a commercial that introduced the idea of Word Processing - typing at a screen and being able to fix any mistakes before any ink was put to paper, that made us 70s people go "Oh Wow!" Obviously the guy with the system in that commercial had word processing available to him as an application, but it was not obvious in '72 when we still looked at the IBM Selectric as a modern marvel

    • @garydavidson922
      @garydavidson922 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Actually, Xerox GAVE Steve Jobs and co. the technology that they had developed for the "paperless office" because Xerox didn't want to reduce paper usage in the workplace. Of course, IBM beat Apple to market because of Bill Gates/Microsoft and the MS-DOS program he had bought for $15,000 and then turned around and licensed to IBM.

    • @AngryHybridApe
      @AngryHybridApe 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eeeyup.

    • @chancegoode173
      @chancegoode173 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Francisco d’Anconia if only we knew then what we know now. I would have rushed to invest in Apple and never purchased a Ford Pinto lol

  • @BELCAN57
    @BELCAN57 6 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Ah, 1972 when "midsize" cars were bigger than today's luxury models.

    • @roadmaster720
      @roadmaster720 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lard assed cars to be more exact.

    • @larryshaver3568
      @larryshaver3568 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@roadmaster720Kramer-mobiles

    • @hobbified
      @hobbified 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They made regular cars smaller, so now everyone just drives an SUV that's twice as big and twice as ugly.

    • @johnsmith-ug5tp
      @johnsmith-ug5tp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You could run into an oak tree head on with no seatbelt and get out and walk away with only a few bruises and scratches. Dems were da days.

  • @tsf5-productions
    @tsf5-productions 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This also was a favorite year for me...21 - 22 years old...had a grand time in girl dating, friendships in church, following the Indy race cars as a fan.
    Lots of the TV commercials I forgot or never actually seen.

    • @hrhlou
      @hrhlou 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Tom Foster Terrible year for me. Started 1st grade and 12 years of hell. Hated school from day 1. But the 70's were great, esp 1976.

    • @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER
      @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lou G. Same thing for me, only I started school about a year later.

    • @dwightpowell6673
      @dwightpowell6673 ปีที่แล้ว

      What year did you lose your virginity?

  • @pharflo
    @pharflo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I like the K-tel record selector. With the comeback of LPs, we could use that again today.

  • @leothomas1199
    @leothomas1199 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The year I was born.👶 1972 this is great thanks. ✌

    • @FredFlix
      @FredFlix  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You're welcome, Leo.

    • @FlavioGirl
      @FlavioGirl 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      yep me too. :D

  • @ClayLoomis1958
    @ClayLoomis1958 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    11:18 My Grandparents had one of those Zenith TV's with Space Command remote control. It made little pinging sounds and the channel changer was still an analog dial with a servo that would clunk-clunk-clunk your way through the channels, one at a time. Seemed to work ok, as long as you didn't jingle any pocket change or shake your key ring in front of it, which would turn off your TV or start changing channels on you. Got to say though, the remote never needed batteries.

    • @gli7utubeo
      @gli7utubeo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, no batteries. Amazing.

    • @ClayLoomis1958
      @ClayLoomis1958 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah, it was all mechanical. Had little tuning forks in the remote. Not sure what technology was used to pick up the sounds. It was WAY before smart TV's.

    • @DelilahThePig
      @DelilahThePig 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Each button was an ultrasonic chime outputting a very specific frequency. The TV had a microphone with a tuned circuit ready to trigger each function when heard. I think the ultrasonic was high enough to not get nuissance tripped by typical household sounds.

    • @ClayLoomis1958
      @ClayLoomis1958 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very early remote tech that, much like Instant On TV's, came and went pretty quickly (although modern flat screens are pretty close to instant). My Dad bought one of those Instant On models. You hit the switch and instant picture. Worked great, until the picture tube was burnt out after about a year.

    • @gli7utubeo
      @gli7utubeo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you very much Delilah! 'never knew anything about that kind of technology. It seems ahead of its time. I wonder if it's in use anywhere today...

  • @brucegwynn8509
    @brucegwynn8509 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I waz born in 1967 , I remember these like yesterday, I wish I could go back and get a do over , for real!!!

  • @hangtimedangjang
    @hangtimedangjang 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Out of the dozens of these types of vids I've watched, this is one of the best collections.

    • @FredFlix
      @FredFlix  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I appreciate that, Big Fun.

  • @susanhuber1932
    @susanhuber1932 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was born in 1953 and remember these commercials. Some days I forget what I ate for breakfast but I still remember the ad jingles. I grew up before the cell phone and the personal computer. I was not part of the computer surveillance state and I am glad. I didn't have to live where the dumb things I said or did was recorded for eternity. It was a great time to grow up.

  • @FawleyJude
    @FawleyJude 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Nice collection of stuff. I get a kick out of how many of the ads had big musical production numbers, no matter how strange it was for the product--Wesson cooking oil, McDonald's, Serta (with Joey Heatherton, who was later regularly lampooned by SCTV), Country Club Malt Liquor ("A Lot to Drink Without Drinking a Lot", because it was higher alcohol than beer), even Richard Nixon.
    I also like the ads for TVs touting their modular construction which "makes repairs easy". Repairs? I forgot about TV repairmen. Now, when the TV stops working you just toss it in the trash and buy another one.
    That Pepsi ad--I had a professor in college who told the class, "Hemingway and his colleagues were the Lost Generation, people from WWII were the Great Generation, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg were the Beat Generation, but you unfortunate folks will go down in history as the Pepsi Generation."

    • @FredFlix
      @FredFlix  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good comment, Jude.

    • @sixsixxsixxxx
      @sixsixxsixxxx 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your professor was a fool

    • @FawleyJude
      @FawleyJude 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My professor had a sense of humor. You apparently don't.

  • @dwaynemauk566
    @dwaynemauk566 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Life was really much more simple and rewarding up through about 2000. Something changed in our country after that. I was born in 1967, so many of these commercials bring back memories that really make me wish one could turn back the clocks.

    • @glenndelconte2648
      @glenndelconte2648 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I was turning 11 in 72. Life was simple until the mid 70's. Before that, Dad would work, Mom would help with the kids and house work. Many families had 2 or more kids, and only 1 car. Dad was able to work and pay for the house, bills, food and even save for his kids College fund. Later around 78, mom began to get out and start a career, eventually working to pay for after school child care, because she had to work. Unattended kids with cool games began to change. They grew up and had kids that grew up and had kids. NOW we have parents that do not know how to be a parent. Responsibility, discipline, consideration for others? Who cares...

    • @Locustskies
      @Locustskies 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I completely agree! It’s depressing times now…

    • @jcalvert9955
      @jcalvert9955 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Simpler times

  • @dianagruver5767
    @dianagruver5767 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    These are awesome! I was 7 in ‘72 and remember quite a few of them. Feed a family of 4 for under $4 at McDonald’s... 😂

    • @dougr3142
      @dougr3142 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I remember a Big Mac cost 65 cents in 1972!

    • @alforliniteaching5670
      @alforliniteaching5670 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm mixed between great memories and sadness too.

    • @Hydrostream1972
      @Hydrostream1972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Now it's like 30bucks. To feed 4 people at fast food place.

    • @jefferyoetter6884
      @jefferyoetter6884 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And as a kid, McDonald's was good too. Not today though

    • @thebrinx9632
      @thebrinx9632 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Hydrostream1972 per the "Inflation Calculator":
      $4 in 1972 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $28.35 today.
      I'd say you hit the nail right on the head!

  • @jeffsilverman6104
    @jeffsilverman6104 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I turned 13 that year and it was a great time to be growing up. Back when advertising was just that, pure product adverts presented in a pleasant and easy way.

    • @CaryMGVR
      @CaryMGVR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      *You aren't kidding ....*
      *"a pleasant and easy way" is the key.*
      *Now, commercials use deliberately unnatural camera angles, etc., etc.*
      *And God forbid a commercial now actually, you know, ADVERTISES A PRODUCT.*
      *Now commercials are just 30-second bursts of: "Hey, look at the stupid White guy!!" propaganda ....*
      😥

    • @jeffsilverman6104
      @jeffsilverman6104 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@CaryMGVR Exactly. When in years past, commercials were just a minor annoyance trying to watch T.V. but now they are offensive - especially when they hire "stars" as their spokespeople with huge multi million dollar contracts to hawk their products. I heard that Sara Jessica Parker's Garnier shampoo contract was worth like twenty million and I believe it. They demand huge money for doing nothing and the sponsors always cave in. SJP makes me want to hurl anyway.

  • @zenodotusofathens2122
    @zenodotusofathens2122 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The Walgreens ad said that Walgreens fills 25 million prescriptions a year. I would think that they easily fill 25 million prescriptions a day now

  • @lestersabados1306
    @lestersabados1306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My first car. A 72 red impala custom. 350 v8. Ran great and I paid 150 bucks for it. Met its demise when a skum in a Corvette nailed the driver's side

  • @ogami1972
    @ogami1972 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I turned 46 just 6 days ago....these were the commercials my mom watched as she waited.....

  • @davidgerard4369
    @davidgerard4369 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Watching these (now) classic commercials only underscores how unimaginative and ingratiating commercials have gotten 50 years on.....sad.

  • @wnychevy09
    @wnychevy09 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Believe it or not I still have a SSP car a El Camino from 1973 but I have no T stick to make it work so I'm looking for one by the way the voice-over announcer in the Xerox commercial was the late Alexander Scourby two of the Chevy commercials were voiced over by Robert Goulet and one was voiced over by Casey Kasem . Thank you Fred for posting this video it brings back a lot of memories. by the way I was 11 years old in 1972

    • @FredFlix
      @FredFlix  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You're welcome, wnychevy09.

    • @robinmurray5266
      @robinmurray5266 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      wnychevy09 Try one of those things that grabs hair in drains. Might have to file the teeth down a bit. My moms actually used the T stick in the 70s to clean the clogged sink in bathroom.

    • @Paul-qo1hb
      @Paul-qo1hb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My neighbor has a 1970 El Camino in the garbage

  • @ThomasTalbotMD
    @ThomasTalbotMD 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I drove a Ford Galaxie 500 in the 1990's while in college - big and fun to ride with friends.

    • @JennyWinters
      @JennyWinters ปีที่แล้ว

      At least you were not in a Pinto that exploded

  • @mikeleyshon1799
    @mikeleyshon1799 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nice effort, enjoyed a lot ! ... Country Club Malt Liquor ad... "A lot to drink without drinking a lot" Sign me up !

  • @nick9463
    @nick9463 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    These commercials from the 70s were so hypnotic, wow!!

  • @knighttuttrupriprock9733
    @knighttuttrupriprock9733 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was 12 in 72, really enjoyed that, thanks. The leggy doll, how bizarre.

    • @FredFlix
      @FredFlix  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You're welcome, KR.

  • @jeffthrow6892
    @jeffthrow6892 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I also thought about how I watch TV shows these days.....recording them on a DVR & speeding through the commercials with absolutely no interest in seeing them, & yet, truly enjoying seeing these old ads. Must be a nostalgia thing, I guess......

    • @realmichaud
      @realmichaud 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think the reason is todays commercials are mostly pure propaganda, LGBTQIA SJW NPC propaganda.

    • @rubyirene2500
      @rubyirene2500 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@realmichaud I find that most of the commercials today are about suing some company for medical issues gone wrong, or wrecks on the road. I haven't seen any good, fun commercials in years, unless I go to TH-cam and look for old TV commercials. Sad that the kids of today will never be able to experience the days of our youth.

    • @timhoovermusicman
      @timhoovermusicman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same...

  • @RogerinKC
    @RogerinKC 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    That electronic message sending gadget was a fad that never really caught on...

    • @trudimarrapodi6722
      @trudimarrapodi6722 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I find it fascinating to see how Xerox PARC was piloting the concept of email in 1972.

    • @rebeccaquartieri5509
      @rebeccaquartieri5509 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @derryk1
      @derryk1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Xerox developed a whole lot of things that Microsoft and Apple took and called their own. Windows operating system and the mouse point and click interface just to name a few. It was basically all open source material to be claimed stolen and used by others.

    • @jefferyoetter6884
      @jefferyoetter6884 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We actually do. Emails, messages from phone to phone. I can text anyone I want to and they get it within seconds. Unless they don't have reception or they don't check their email.

    • @RogerinKC
      @RogerinKC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jefferyoetter6884 that was a joke. You're an engineer aren't you?

  • @gregsells8549
    @gregsells8549 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    3:15 Lindsey Nelson calling Bob Griese's moves in the Orange Bowl. This Sears ad (imagine getting a suit, tools and a car battery in one store) was back-to-back Griese with Vitalis, in the year of the Dolphins' unmatched perfect season.

  • @OofusTwillip
    @OofusTwillip 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The singing & dancing McDonalds spot was directed and choreographed by Grover Dale, who directed the more famous spot with the staff singing and dancing about how clean McDonalds was.
    Grover danced in movies like "Les Belles Demoiselles de Rochefort". He was married to the effervescent Anita Morris.

  • @jamesmack3314
    @jamesmack3314 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Delta is ready when you are!!! Always remembered that jingle.

  • @JK-xt3ms
    @JK-xt3ms 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Nice to see some diversity in the commercials, finally, instead of the lily-white ones from the 50s and 60s. Brown and black people bought these same products, too, and the manufacturers were finally realizing it! Onward and upward.

  • @kyokogodai-ir6hy
    @kyokogodai-ir6hy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    K-Tel, using space age technology, LOL. 8:26 I know it likely isn't, but she sure looks like Pamela Sue Martin. The Ford Pinto. What an explosive car!! Joey Heatherton.....WOW!! Awesome Butterfinger commercial!!! Man, look at those JC Penny shoes!! Didn't that guy, in the Eggo commercial, also play the Maytag repairman, as well as Mr. Carlson in WKRP in Cincinnati? LOL, asked for GI Joe, got Action Jackson.

    • @FredFlix
      @FredFlix  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Maytag repairman was played by Jesse White, Cap.

    • @RusstheTroubadour
      @RusstheTroubadour 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He was correct Gordon Jump replaced veteran character actor Jesse White in the Maytag Repairman ads in 1989. Jesse White played the character for over 20 years prior.

    • @pershingii2424
      @pershingii2424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Let's not forget Raquel Welch selling hair color. I think this was around the time her movie Kansas City Bomber came out.

  • @berighteous
    @berighteous 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    7:19 xerox showed a computer with a graphic user interface with mouse 12 years before the Apple Lisa and Macintosh were introduced, and 5 years before the apple ][, TRS-80 or commodore PET personal computers became available.

    • @stevenpdx
      @stevenpdx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      berighteous yep, in the commercial it was the Xerox Alto.

    • @ThomasTalbotMD
      @ThomasTalbotMD 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Xerox PARC had it all and they invented everything: Computers w/ bitmap graphics, Ethernet networking, laser printers, distributed file share w/ email, Mouse pointer graphical user interface, and much more! Great lesson in what crappy management can destroy. Happens all the time, even today.....

    • @watershed44
      @watershed44 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      berighteous
      Indeed Xerox actually made the first modern PC. They also invented the mouse we all use today....and Apple actually STOLE that too. They also invented modern e mail.

    • @watershed44
      @watershed44 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thomas Talbot
      Don' forget that Apple execs visited Xerox and copied/stole ideas and Xerox should have sued them.

    • @2012spacetraveler
      @2012spacetraveler 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yea, if you read on Xerox they could have had the world - Bill Gates would have been a nobody or at lest less known if Xerox had better people at the top

  • @Tamar-sz8ox
    @Tamar-sz8ox 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nice1 Love the Chevy impala commercial , Xerox, Zenith TV , Sammy Davis tape recorder a true blast from the past

  • @seththomas9105
    @seththomas9105 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    These commercials are a time capsule of the end of the post WWII economic boom(1945-1975). The greatest generation had lived though the Great Depression and beat back fascism on the world stage and had been living the large life in their middle age that they had been denied in their youth. Too bad that one year later the 1973 oil embargo would be the tipping point that would start the downhill slide of the U.S. economy. The economy had been on borrowed time anyway since the 60's with huge Federal tax cuts combined with HUGE Federal spending on Vietnam, The Great Society(guns and butter) the Space Race, the Cold War, Eisenhower interstate highway system and the Fed getting us off money backed by anything(fiat currency). It was a true witches brew that we in the U.S. have never recovered from. The Boomers were coming of age at this time and thought the party of the 50-60's would never end and the economy of the late 70's was just a temporary bump in the road. Gen X were toddlers at this time and never really got to know what real economic boom times were. Millennials? Well there just pissed off about the whole thing! LOL.

    • @junegreen3086
      @junegreen3086 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Seth Thomas
      ThE BaBY BOOM GENERATION BEGAN AFTER THE WAR, FROM 1946 TO 1955!
      I WAS TAUGHT THAT INFO IN HIGH SHOOL AND IN COLLEGE!
      IT WASnT UNTILL THE 90s THAT MArKETING BY AARP START PUSHING THE AGE BACK PASSED THE 65 YEAR OLD TO 55 AT FIRST BUT EVENTUALLY TO WHERE THE BOOMERS AGED ENDed BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO GET MORE READER MEMBERSHIPS TO READ THEIR MAGAZINES BECAUSE THEY TARGET A CERTAIN BUYING VIEWER TO READ THEIR MAGAZINE AND PUSH AVERTISEMENT SPACE THAT SALE PRODUCTS TO OLDER AND AGED READERS THAT SUPPOSE TO CROSS A SPAN OF TEN YEARS OF EVERY GENERATION
      NOT NO EVERY 20 YEARS JUST JUST SO THEY CAN SATISFY THEIR ADVERTISEMENT CLIENTS BY PROMOTING MORE VIEWERSHIPS IN THE AARP BY CALLING YOUNGER AGED PEOPLE THAT IS MIDDLE AGED AND TRYING TO CONVINCED THEM THAT THEY ARE SENIOR CITIZENS AT THE AGE OF 51! ! !
      ANYWAY THE NEXT GENERATION WAS THE PUNK/ NEW WAVE GENERATION THAT RAN INTO INCLUDED THE GENERATION X THAT BECAME THE GRUNGE PEROID OF THE NINTIES
      WHICH I WOULD BE CONSIDERED ONE OF THE OLDEST OF THAT GENERATION AND THE YOUNGEST WOULD BE ONES BORN 1971 OR 72 ! !
      THE NEXT GENERATION A POP CULTURE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE CALLED Millennials!

    • @sambradley2975
      @sambradley2975 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Don't knock Fascism, they know how to get things done.

    • @sambradley2975
      @sambradley2975 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The '80s were prosperous times as was the '90s.

    • @anitanash6780
      @anitanash6780 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I agree with your talking points. If you are a Boomer (as I was) you must also agree there were many advances in science and technology that sprung forth from the Boomer generation. Not to mention space exploration and the issues of improving the humanities and social problems facing our country.

    • @christystewart4567
      @christystewart4567 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The economy was on borrowed time since 1946. I’m not sure what your problem is with the space race and Eisenhower’s interstate highway system. The latter was a result of his crossing the country by horseback and realizing we had no way to mobilize forces if invaded and he was truly impressed, later, with Germany’s autobahn which was built for that purpose. Space race was because of the atomic age and fears of the Soviet Union. Add to that a bit of hubris but until humans give up war this is what will happen.
      Besides there was no way, even without what you state, we’d have come to some economic equilibrium. 20+ years of mainly growth simply couldn’t be sustained. It wasn’t in the past and it wouldn’t be then.

  • @l.salisbury1253
    @l.salisbury1253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:09 - I live in the MD/DC area- I remember TV spots for Landover Mall (which has since been closed... and leveled!).

  • @GreyRockOne
    @GreyRockOne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow! A blast from the past, 1972 my favorite care-free year for many reasons, but then I was only 16. Thanks!

    • @FredFlix
      @FredFlix  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was my favorite year as well, John.

    • @snowman3390
      @snowman3390 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FredFlix Mine too. I was fourteen. Graduated grade school, Fischer Spassky tournament, Canada-Russia hockey series, Nixon-McGovern and so much more.

    • @JennyWinters
      @JennyWinters ปีที่แล้ว

      That was the year that they put the kids in huge wide collars and double knit polyester and it was the rage. I am so glad that stuff is gone now. I love the era but hated the fabric and colors. My granny loved loved double net polyester and it was because it dried well and did not stretch.

  • @RedBud315
    @RedBud315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    About the same time we were trading Blue Chip or S&H Green Stamps we got from the supermarket for various items.

  • @randallsage6740
    @randallsage6740 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Really nice, loved a lot of what was inside, thank you for posting !!

    • @FredFlix
      @FredFlix  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're welcome, Randall.

  • @chickey333
    @chickey333 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    And to think that after all of these years my Snoopy Toothbrush and almost every other single product appearing here has long since been landfilled, incinerated, composted, lost, forgotten, destroyed including the stores themselves, out of production, archived in some attic basement garage or still hidden in the seat cushions of the car or the front room furniture.
    Or maybe with any luck a few things were recycled or still in use and worth a lot more than what they cost in 1972.

  • @davidoverstreet2875
    @davidoverstreet2875 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was 5 years old at the time, living with my aunt in Macclenny florida. A little too young to remember any of these commercials. So it's really cool to watch them.

  • @lindsey607
    @lindsey607 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Raquel Welch, man, what a delicious looking dish she was back in the day. A definite dime if ever there was.

  • @SupersonicChip
    @SupersonicChip 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The K-Tel Rec-ORD selector has to be my favorite so far!

    • @nanodon4
      @nanodon4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      With its SPACE AGE design! ....Ha!

    • @djdon60
      @djdon60 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nanodon4 had one, myself. Its' performance was spotty.

  • @Tamar-sz8ox
    @Tamar-sz8ox 6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Prell shampoo don’t you dare get that in your eye it burned !

    • @jimbosc
      @jimbosc 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Honey our budgets a disaster but your hair looks like a million bucks! what a line!

    • @veelalynne
      @veelalynne 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Tamara Bossler-I know, right? My mom washed my hair with it and it burned my eyes like hell!

    • @eduardo_corrochio
      @eduardo_corrochio 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Still burns if you get it near your eyes. But you can't beat that lather and scent. I use it as a body wash.

  • @sylvia520
    @sylvia520 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I want to go back to the 70's 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😢😭😭😭

  • @3hooks781
    @3hooks781 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    These are amazing! It's tempting to think of that as Tony the Tiger appearing in the Exxon ad.

    • @mystymtnkrissy
      @mystymtnkrissy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That wasn't Tony The Tiger. It was the Exxon tiger

  • @rangers199487
    @rangers199487 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    The SSP cars were great toys.

    • @5argetech56
      @5argetech56 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      rangers199487 Wirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..................

    • @Footjones
      @Footjones 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One of my favorite toys growing up!

    • @welltorleasing
      @welltorleasing 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I loved the sound of those. :)

    • @juniorxeastny8169
      @juniorxeastny8169 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      yeah.....my third grade teacher had a desk drawer filled with confiscated SSP and Matchbox cars!!!!

    • @silvereagle2061
      @silvereagle2061 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Those pull cords tore up my hand between my thumb and index finger but I didn't care lol

  • @adoria5
    @adoria5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was 4 in 1972, so cool watching these commercials from my time as a child.

  • @jesusmartinez5494
    @jesusmartinez5494 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I was 7 & my favorite cereal was Franken Berry. Even the Saturday cartoons seemed genuinely funny

    • @johnsmith-ug5tp
      @johnsmith-ug5tp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Count chocula was damn good too. ha

    • @shawnee1895
      @shawnee1895 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was 7 in 1972. My favorite cereal was Captain Crunch. Still around today. Not 1972, but I remember cartoon coming on around 6am. The last two that I watched were The Jetsons and Fat Albert. Think one of those ended at 1:00 pm. Such an awesome time when Kids Ruled Saturday mornings. Great memories. God bless. Probably diff channels, but I also like HR Puff N Stuff, Scooby Doo, Looney Tunes, The Archies, Groovie Ghoulies. Cartoon Olympics, Sabrina the Teenage Witch. etc etc. Way Cool. 💕♥

    • @lindasimard1902
      @lindasimard1902 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The best cartoons ever

    • @merriemisfit8406
      @merriemisfit8406 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was more fickle with my cereal. Kaboom (WILD colors, man!), Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch, and just regular ol' Kellogg's Raisin Bran got equal love.

  • @sambradley2975
    @sambradley2975 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Gordon Jump from "WKRP " played the father in the Eggo waffles commercial.

    • @robertlafferty3532
      @robertlafferty3532 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also was the lonely Maytag repairman.

    • @eduardo_corrochio
      @eduardo_corrochio 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      And wasn't he the pedophile character on that "very special" episode of Diff'rent Strokes back in the day?

    • @gramethyst2920
      @gramethyst2920 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you sure? I thought it looked like Jonathan Winters

    • @maxmulsanne7054
      @maxmulsanne7054 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      30:15 yeah, that's definitely (a young) Gordon Jump.

  • @thelonearranger1
    @thelonearranger1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I just learned why we don't see Esso anymore, LOL!

    • @matthewjahnke588
      @matthewjahnke588 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't know. I guesss it has had it's turn and died out.

    • @Dallas_K
      @Dallas_K 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@matthewjahnke588 The became Exxon.

  • @hiridavidfeign
    @hiridavidfeign หลายเดือนก่อน

    One thing that I've learned from these videos is how much work Herschel Bernardi got as a voice-over artist. I never realized it before. Along with people like Alan Melvin, Dick Tufeld, Henry Corden, these guys were the voices of my youth and I always love hearing them. Great work as always, thanks.

    • @FredFlix
      @FredFlix  หลายเดือนก่อน

      You're welcome.

  • @bqkmg2037
    @bqkmg2037 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Wow...life was sooo much BETTER back than I wish I was back in 1972 again, the world changed after 9/11/2001....: (

    • @blueskies1848
      @blueskies1848 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The world changed beginning with JFK's assassination. Much changed after that