I'm quite struck by young people who say they wished that they grew up back then - I'm really very impressed. They seem to understand the simpler times and how it made for nicer times! Very nice to see!!!
"Impressed", by their Suicidal Tende4ncies, what with all the Asbestos, Toxic everything and Choking Hazards, in the "Good Old Days." Edit: "Tende9cies"
They would pump this stuff on saturday morning during the cartoon hours :). every kid back then got up on saturday to watch cartoons till they had to go thru the saturday chore scene :D
I don't know why but it hurts my heart when I realize almost 65% of people back then already...uh..pass away. And I wish kids these day would play stuffs like this rather than phone and laptop.
Some of those toys such as dump trucks and toy cars would be seen as okay for kids today (just as long as girls are included), but playing as an indigenous culture or gunslingers would not fly.
@@skymaster1221 More like, when you insult an entire minoritized, racial and cultural group of people, that creates problems. To illustrate to portray Black men as rapists, murderers and thieves because they are naturally like that is a harmful stereotype because it dehumanizes them and makes them and otherizes them. This ignores the fact that due to a lack of jobs or proper housing given to African-Americans is why they would do this, and being brought up in a male dominated household. Then you have the exoticizing of Chinese dragons which appear to be strange to white folk, while ignoring that dragons appear in European culture as well.
Man, does this bring back memories. I had a Varoom motor on my bike. Everybody loved it. We spent hours playing operation. That had to be a big money maker.
I had 2 or 3 from Cheerios cereal " proof of purchase" nothing like a 7 year old running to our rural mailbox every day to see if it came yet Bombardier pushed the original Sea Doo on cereal boxes in the late 60s. Mine was rubber band powered.
that truck is supposed to make that sound? imagine a parent having to deal with that for a month after: "JIMMY! SHUT THAT THING UP BEFORE I DO IT FOR YOU!"
You know whats funny? i was born in 1987...and I feel nostalgic just watching these commercials...i guess its probably because i was raised in a household with morals values and ethics and watching things from a simpler time where people had morals and values is just close to home
Happy 35th., Grandpa and/or Grandma. I know of a few Humans (i guess they are Human, anyway), who possess nothing, in the way of "Morals/Values/Ethics/Empathy." Sucks, to be them. Happy belated New Year, to you and yours.
I just thought the same as mandr79. When Time Machines are invented, this is where I will go first. Such a great time in life. I can still remember seeing all these commercials on Saturday mornings with my bowl of Frosted Flakes in hand. Just seeing and hearing these bring a large smile to my face. Thanks for the post!
The last commercial was a December 1955 tie-in for Colgate-Palmolive's "Fab" detergent; at the time, Bess Myerson appeared on Colgate's daily game show "THE BIG PAYOFF" (with host Randy Merriman) as model and spokeswoman for the sponsor's products. This ad originally appeared during NBC's Sunday night "COLGATE VARIETY HOUR" {Wendell Niles, announcer}.
my brother received several of these.... to this day we laugh about the crazy things we did with them.. pure fun and joy... plus WE USED our IMAGINATION!
We didn't have much toy wise due to finances as kids and had to use our imagination but I always loved to see the commercials. Some toys my Mom wouldn't approve of and they governed how much and what we watched so I didn't see all of these. Miss those days.
The "Vrroom Construction Equipment" toys were probably as loud as the real equipment they were modeled after. Somehow I think the "not included" D batteries disappeared from all these about five minutes after the kids first switched them on.
Fang Bang LOL This has made me laugh all day. So weird. Too bad my kids don't get to have such funny adverts, or interesting toys. All we have today is crap. Really love all these old TV adverts.
I remember when I was a kid and wanted a toy, my father would always say what a bunch of junk it was. Now looking back at these commercials of those toys, now that I'm old, I see how right my father was. They really were a bunch of junk.
I am currently a prominent neurosurgeon in a major medical facility. When I am confronted with a really difficult case instead of conferring with my colleagues I bring out my Operation game from when I was 8 years old and it usually will give me the answer that I'm looking for.
oh, operation game what a blast, we played that as a kid. i miss those times, growing up and i really never heard of the jolly lolly ice cream, bet it was good.
When I was between age 4 and age 10, my family moved once a year 1960-1966. When I see these commercials I remember the house I lived in while pining for the advertised toy. Memory is...I forgot what I was going to write.
Thanks for 2 classic ones! Operation (I still remember it almost word for word btw...except I thought it was "great new" instead of "goofy") and Poppamatic. Also cool to hear the inimitable William Conrad doing VO.
amazing how back then it was so easy to be entertained because they were truly the front line of the toys I know today some of those toys would be had today :p
Evel Knievel! I had the stunt cycle in the mid to late 70s. Hot Wheels! I collected those from the mid 70s to early 80s (I still have them). Operation! I still play it!
I wonder if anyone who was a kid in those days still have have any of these toys, with all the pieces and original box? I don't mean bought on Ebay but family kept the game and always kept it for the children to keep when they grew up.
Can I still get my Christmas doll free if I send in the Fab boxtop?? 😎🤗😂😂😂thanks for sharing I enjoyed these! I remember the headache game and the trouble game. I was born in the early 60's👩👸🦸♀️🧚♀️🚵♀️
OK help a Sr. Cit out. I remember buying the Evel Knievel for my son around 79 or 80 when he was 5/6? He is now 41. I remember him using me my hip as I lay on my side (sleep) as a jump ramp. Was there something else (like this in 79-80?)
If it is and its still in good shape it may be worth some money to a collector. I don't think there are many of those original Red Ryder's around. That was the BB gun Ralphie wanted for Xmas in the Movie "A Christmas Story" :)
I know that's William Conrad (TV's "Cannon" ) on the Hot Wheels Ad, but I can't decide if the "Varoom" ad at the beginning is him or Lorne Greene from "Bonanza". Great voices. Deep and convincing. How could a kid NOT bug his parents for these toys?!
3:31- Kaiser Aluminum was the primary sponsor of "MAVERICK" during its initial seasons on ABC. From time to time, they offered "Maverick" premiums to boys and girls watching, for a dollar and an end flap from a box of Kaiser "Quilted" Foil. This example is from 1958.
Remember Kaboom it was a sound wave generator turned into a hand held weapon, we had three of them one Christmas drove the folks absolutely nuts in about five minutes, they were loud and I'm sure lots of hearing loss was caused by them. 65-66 maybe? I had a dart gun that could chamber a sharpened pencil and could go through two dry wall, walls and into another room. I also had a thing called a burp gun, it was a fake machine gun, made a pretty loud chatter, scared the shit out of the Gangsters. I had two cap guns that I remember as being as big as a real pistol, and back then caps were loud too. They were getting us ready for war, 😂, they are still getting kids ready for war, just with playstation instead of plastic guns.
I'm looking for an old toy commercial, but recall very little of it. An alien kid (not too alien-looking, just enough to show this off) was living with an Earth family, and the Human kid showed him how impressive Earth tech was with the toys they were adverting. I think one of them might have been Etch-A-Sketch, but it's been that long I'm not sure.
OMG.. I LOVED Trouble...that was one of my favorite games. I still have it !! I have Operation too but not my original one :( Wondering when some of these ads were from. Surprised to see that they're integrated.
I had one of those rockets you would fill with water, then pump it with a lever. When it took off it was actually dangerous since it went so far. It would land back with a parachute. Problem was finding and recovering it after.
Popomatic Trouble was called Frustration in the UK in the sixties ,It used to drive you to frustration, Got one for my son in the eighties when he was about 6 used to always end in him taking a wobbler when he was losing, we bought him one for a laugh this christmas he,s 23 now still he does not like playing it.
Wow, toy ads were long back then 1:48 "Heavy duty dumper!" Sounds like me after eating at Wendys or Taco Bell ;p Wow, the Operation box didn't change at all from when I was a kid (Child of the 80s) 5:25 BEST LAUGH EVER! XD 9:0-0 AHH! Scary Santa puppet is scary! O_O
OMG, I've been searching for an upload that includes the '60s Operation game commercial, with the Grace Slick-sounding jingle singer, at about 6:00. Thanks for making this fellow Baby Boomer's day! ;)
As a musician who still performs ... I wonder what the decibel level was on the 'Vrrroom' trucks? I had a 'Vrrroom Hot Motor' attached to my bike when I was a kid in the 60s. It was loud! ... kind of like my Marshall guitar amplifier.
Well, during 10 mn, i have forgotten everything around me !!! I was in 1956, in my lovely house in Australia...Why did my parents returned to France ??? Thanks a lot for your videos.
I was born in 63. Speaking of guns I remember the all metal colt 45's in the western holters with the winchester rifles. I also remember back in the early or mid 70s of a snub nosed all metal 38 special cap gun that used the individual plastic caps that resembled cartridges. The gun was made by a company called Wasp I think. I remember it had a wasp on the side of the grip. Anyway you could hardly tell it from a real 38 snubbie. Wish I still had it. Those kinds of toys are gone forever.
I'm quite struck by young people who say they wished that they grew up back then - I'm really very impressed. They seem to understand the simpler times and how it made for nicer times! Very nice to see!!!
"Impressed", by their Suicidal Tende4ncies, what with all the Asbestos, Toxic everything and Choking Hazards, in the "Good Old Days." Edit: "Tende9cies"
Duck and cover! I've got the Hiroshima Nuke!
I love how they always show the family...as the family of 4, 1 mother, 1 father, 1 daughter, 1 son. Yup! I like that!
Typical "Masonic/Satanic" Family.
When we all played outside
They would pump this stuff on saturday morning during the cartoon hours :). every kid back then got up on saturday to watch cartoons till they had to go thru the saturday chore scene :D
"Chore scene" = "Farting, in the Bathtub, with your Sibling, of the opposite Sex and Exploring each others Body, in as many ways as possible. Twice."
@@ihavefallenandicantreachmy2113 haha
I don't know why but it hurts my heart when I realize almost 65% of people back then already...uh..pass away.
And I wish kids these day would play stuffs like this rather than phone and laptop.
Some of those toys such as dump trucks and toy cars would be seen as okay for kids today (just as long as girls are included), but playing as an indigenous culture or gunslingers would not fly.
@@skymaster1221 More like, when you insult an entire minoritized, racial and cultural group of people, that creates problems. To illustrate to portray Black men as rapists, murderers and thieves because they are naturally like that is a harmful stereotype because it dehumanizes them and makes them and otherizes them. This ignores the fact that due to a lack of jobs or proper housing given to African-Americans is why they would do this, and being brought up in a male dominated household.
Then you have the exoticizing of Chinese dragons which appear to be strange to white folk, while ignoring that dragons appear in European culture as well.
Being a kid back then was the best!
Jason Schultz, no gun violence in schools, no gangs, and a kid was safe to walk to school. And no drugs.
Except for a lot of toys back then were made with dangerous chemicals/painted with lead paint or were just plain deadly
Man, does this bring back memories. I had a Varoom motor on my bike. Everybody loved it. We spent hours playing operation. That had to be a big money maker.
Even for Hospitals/Morgues, when neglected Children choked to Death on the small, Toxic Parts/Pieces.
I forgot about the Varoom, my brother had one on his bike, what a hoot, lol!
OMG! I had the Operation game. I loved it. Thanks for posting these. It was a time travel back to the past. :)
Ahh, the good old days, when, as kids, we got toys by sending in box tops....what memories.
Thanks tvdays!
I had 2 or 3 from Cheerios cereal " proof of purchase" nothing like a 7 year old running to our rural mailbox every day to see if it came yet Bombardier pushed the original Sea Doo on cereal boxes in the late 60s. Mine was rubber band powered.
that truck is supposed to make that sound? imagine a parent having to deal with that for a month after: "JIMMY! SHUT THAT THING UP BEFORE I DO IT FOR YOU!"
Hahaha!! That was a good one you made me laugh
We had a large backyard and a nice sandbox under a tree. Had a lot of fun.
Somehow the batteries would come up missing.
Even the commercial noise was irritating.
That's why we played outside🤣
I would buy my 11 year old son a Trumpet Bubble Blower in a hot second just to see his reaction.
You know whats funny? i was born in 1987...and I feel nostalgic just watching these commercials...i guess its probably because i was raised in a household with morals values and ethics and watching things from a simpler time where people had morals and values is just close to home
Happy 35th., Grandpa and/or Grandma. I know of a few Humans (i guess they are Human, anyway), who possess nothing, in the way of "Morals/Values/Ethics/Empathy." Sucks, to be them. Happy belated New Year, to you and yours.
👍
Wish we could turn back time
To the good old days
When we buy Mattel,Ideal's toy and machine guns
I just thought the same as mandr79. When Time Machines are invented, this is where I will go first. Such a great time in life. I can still remember seeing all these commercials on Saturday mornings with my bowl of Frosted Flakes in hand. Just seeing and hearing these bring a large smile to my face. Thanks for the post!
This brought back a lot of memories but was also a little disconcerting as I realized how much I’ve begun to resemble the patient in Operation.
The last commercial was a December 1955 tie-in for Colgate-Palmolive's "Fab" detergent; at the time, Bess Myerson appeared on Colgate's daily game show "THE BIG PAYOFF" (with host Randy Merriman) as model and spokeswoman for the sponsor's products. This ad originally appeared during NBC's Sunday night "COLGATE VARIETY HOUR" {Wendell Niles, announcer}.
my brother received several of these.... to this day we laugh about the crazy things we did with them..
pure fun and joy... plus WE USED our IMAGINATION!
I remember the Operation commercial, with the woman singing "Awwp - err - ayy - SHUNN!" and the girl going "Ha... ha...ha!" at the end.
We didn't have much toy wise due to finances as kids and had to use our imagination but I always loved to see the commercials. Some toys my Mom wouldn't approve of and they governed how much and what we watched so I didn't see all of these. Miss those days.
The "Vrroom Construction Equipment" toys were probably as loud as the real equipment they were modeled after. Somehow I think the "not included" D batteries disappeared from all these about five minutes after the kids first switched them on.
These toys together with their original packaging would be worth big bucks today!
Fang Bang LOL This has made me laugh all day. So weird. Too bad my kids don't get to have such funny adverts, or interesting toys. All we have today is crap. Really love all these old TV adverts.
I remember when I was a kid and wanted a toy, my father would always say what a bunch of junk it was. Now looking back at these commercials of those toys, now that I'm old, I see how right my father was. They really were a bunch of junk.
I am currently a prominent neurosurgeon in a major medical facility. When I am confronted with a really difficult case instead of conferring with my colleagues I bring out my Operation game from when I was 8 years old and it usually will give me the answer that I'm looking for.
I bet having that toy prevented the need for medical school. 😂
Christ, l can still remember some of these commercials almost word for word.
oh, operation game what a blast, we played that as a kid. i miss those times, growing up and i really never heard of the jolly lolly ice cream, bet it was good.
Thanks for posting these old commercials.
When I was between age 4 and age 10, my family moved once a year 1960-1966. When I see these commercials I remember the house I lived in while pining for the advertised toy. Memory is...I forgot what I was going to write.
Love it..thank you for all the work you are doing...I've been looking for that old pop a matic Trouble commercial for a very long time!
I was partly because of these toy commercials that I became a high tech toy developer.
Santa at the end looks like the stuff that nightmares are made of....
isnt the 50s and 60,s commercials a real mash, wonderful and beautiful times, of the 20th centary.
Thanks for 2 classic ones! Operation (I still remember it almost word for word btw...except I thought it was "great new" instead of "goofy") and Poppamatic. Also cool to hear the inimitable William Conrad doing VO.
amazing how back then it was so easy to be entertained because they were truly the front line of the toys I know today some of those toys would be had today :p
Evel Knievel! I had the stunt cycle in the mid to late 70s. Hot Wheels! I collected those from the mid 70s to early 80s (I still have them). Operation! I still play it!
I had a Vrooom motor on my bike when I was a kid.
Re that Ideal Motorific commercial: That phrase "heavy duty dumper" has a completely different meaning today than it did back in the '60s...
I remember that commercial for that game Trouble pop a Matic use to be on TV many times in Toronto Ontario Canada
I wonder how many parents were driven crazy by the noise the Varoom dumper uses.
I wonder if anyone who was a kid in those days still have have any of these toys, with all the pieces and original box? I don't mean bought on Ebay but family kept the game and always kept it for the children to keep when they grew up.
I DID grow up back then, and I am SO grateful!
"Fang Bang" (2:30) is a masterpiece! What a bizarre concept.
Im still in therapy after playing the Operation game.. Damned thing made me a nervous wreck !
Loved those Mattel hot wheels.
GREAT Post takes me back...THANX!!!!!!
Thanks for the video. I had one of those VROOM dump trucks.
Can I still get my Christmas doll free if I send in the Fab boxtop?? 😎🤗😂😂😂thanks for sharing I enjoyed these! I remember the headache game and the trouble game. I was born in the early 60's👩👸🦸♀️🧚♀️🚵♀️
Still have my Operations game! Got a new one last year too.
Poor kids today, playing smartphone all day long.
I was reminded just now of my niece...now in her early teens.
OK help a Sr. Cit out. I remember buying the Evel Knievel for my son around 79 or 80 when he was 5/6? He is now 41. I remember him using me my hip as I lay on my side (sleep) as a jump ramp. Was there something else (like this in 79-80?)
Wow, those trucks are really nice.
The Hot Wheels Tune Up Tower, Evel Knievel and Cover Girl Darci ads are actually from the '70s.
Great stuff. It's a wonder the voice-over guy on the Motorific ad.didn't have a heart attack!
If it is and its still in good shape it may be worth some money to a collector. I don't think there are many of those original Red Ryder's around. That was the BB gun Ralphie wanted for Xmas in the Movie "A Christmas Story" :)
If you had the bubbl matic now you would be expelled from school questioned for hours and then arrested.....what a world we live in... :(
I know that's William Conrad (TV's "Cannon" ) on the Hot Wheels Ad, but I can't decide if the "Varoom" ad at the beginning is him or Lorne Greene from "Bonanza". Great voices. Deep and convincing. How could a kid NOT bug his parents for these toys?!
That Gang Bang toy was way ahead of its time!
Lol, I had some of those toys. Back when they were American Made.
3:31- Kaiser Aluminum was the primary sponsor of "MAVERICK" during its initial seasons on ABC. From time to time, they offered "Maverick" premiums to boys and girls watching, for a dollar and an end flap from a box of Kaiser "Quilted" Foil. This example is from 1958.
My mom and Dad used to beat my ass with the hot wheels track lol
Noticed the patient in OPERATION looks like Moe, of Three Stooges
I remember that commercial for OPERATION. ("The Goofy Game for Dopey Doctors.")
Looks more like Shemp to me.
I think those toys are what the government must be using for those shovel ready projects. It would explain all the hold up.
the voice for the Varoom Dump Truck ad is William Conrad, Narrator for Rocky and Bullwinkle and TV's "Cannon"....a Quinn Martin production...
All those toys & games from decades past.
The 1996 movie "Big Bully" also referenced the Evel Knievel action figure & motorbike.
i love how old cap guns are modeled after real guns with no orange tip. its just funny
Remember Kaboom it was a sound wave generator turned into a hand held weapon, we had three of them one Christmas drove the folks absolutely nuts in about five minutes, they were loud and I'm sure lots of hearing loss was caused by them. 65-66 maybe? I had a dart gun that could chamber a sharpened pencil and could go through two dry wall, walls and into another room. I also had a thing called a burp gun, it was a fake machine gun, made a pretty loud chatter, scared the shit out of the Gangsters. I had two cap guns that I remember as being as big as a real pistol, and back then caps were loud too. They were getting us ready for war, 😂, they are still getting kids ready for war, just with playstation instead of plastic guns.
Lol true that..I remember
I miss those toys.
$1.00!? Wow! My little brother collected Hot Wheels, still has them.
I want all of these.
Some dynamite in that Top Flite Atlas tube and away we go. 😂
Ooh. Bill Conrad (Matt Dillon on radio, Cannon on TV, and narrator for Rocky and Bullwinkle) for the Vrooom Dumpster.
I'm looking for an old toy commercial, but recall very little of it. An alien kid (not too alien-looking, just enough to show this off) was living with an Earth family, and the Human kid showed him how impressive Earth tech was with the toys they were adverting. I think one of them might have been Etch-A-Sketch, but it's been that long I'm not sure.
OMG.. I LOVED Trouble...that was one of my favorite games. I still have it !! I have Operation too but not my original one :( Wondering when some of these ads were from. Surprised to see that they're integrated.
I had one of those rockets you would fill with water, then pump it with a lever. When it took off it was actually dangerous since it went so far. It would land back with a parachute. Problem was finding and recovering it after.
Popomatic Trouble was called Frustration in the UK in the sixties ,It used to drive you to frustration, Got one for my son in the eighties when he was about 6 used to always end in him taking a wobbler when he was losing, we bought him one for a laugh this christmas he,s 23 now still he does not like playing it.
Wow, toy ads were long back then
1:48 "Heavy duty dumper!" Sounds like me after eating at Wendys or Taco Bell ;p
Wow, the Operation box didn't change at all from when I was a kid (Child of the 80s)
5:25 BEST LAUGH EVER! XD
9:0-0 AHH! Scary Santa puppet is scary! O_O
I want that dump truck! LOL
Childhood Memories
OMG, I've been searching for an upload that includes the '60s Operation game commercial, with the Grace Slick-sounding jingle singer, at about 6:00. Thanks for making this fellow Baby Boomer's day! ;)
italoman9 Operation Happy 53rd Anniversary
Up,up,up ,
And over into the neighbors yard
Yeah, the neighbor with a mean dog
Wow very convincing Commercials I would buy that stuff damn i had shitty toys as a kid i was born in the wrong decade *tear*
i wanna show this to my dad and ask him if he remembers any of these commercials.
As a musician who still performs ... I wonder what the decibel level was on the 'Vrrroom' trucks? I had a 'Vrrroom Hot Motor' attached to my bike when I was a kid in the 60s. It was loud! ... kind of like my Marshall guitar amplifier.
You should also check out the levels on the bubble trumpet.
I enjoyed this.
do you think some of these toys have improved or have they lost thier appeal as they were improved. and how many toys can not be found anymore?
I loved my Motorific cars-a big upgrade from Hot Wheels-until I was old enough for slot cars-and Darci was hot-I miss the '70s!
I was a Colorforms freak :)
Me too
Well, during 10 mn, i have forgotten everything around me !!! I was in 1956, in my lovely house in Australia...Why did my parents returned to France ??? Thanks a lot for your videos.
That was long ago nice to see ( any who ) anyhow😃🙂
I was born in 63. Speaking of guns I remember the all metal colt 45's in the western holters with the winchester rifles. I also remember back in the early or mid 70s of a snub nosed all metal 38 special cap gun that used the individual plastic caps that resembled cartridges. The gun was made by a company called Wasp I think. I remember it had a wasp on the side of the grip. Anyway you could hardly tell it from a real 38 snubbie. Wish I still had it. Those kinds of toys are gone forever.
I wonder if you have any colored Milton Bradley game commercials from the early to mid 1970s, such as for the 1972 update of the Mystery Date Game?
Yes that was it! I wonder if it is still tucked away in the attic somewhere...
I like the Vrooom trucks and the Maverick kit.
The little girl on the Maverick commercial looks like Patty McCormick from the movie "The Bad Seed".
@ 3:48 Looks like her, but I don't think it is...one of my favorite movies, btw
That Fang Bang commercial was actually a little terrifying haha.
i wanted that Evil Kinevil bike so bad back then.
all six trucks looked cool
In the Evel Knievel bike ad, the voice-over is by Jackson Beck, who voiced Bluto/Brutus in the Popeye cartoons, 1945-1961.
LOOK at the QUALITY these toys had back THEN! Made in the U.S.A.! By moms and dads workers for AMERICAN companies back then. Real STEEL! WOW!
Wonder how safe that rocket toy would be if you pointed it at someones face. lol