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Ryan, FYI most Aussies refer to what you call 'Scotch tape' as 'Sticky tape'.
When we first came to Australia in 1979 they referred to sticky tape or cellotape as Durex!
@@lyndabignell9660That’s hilarious! 😅
Pretty sure that was Deb Hutton in the hair shampoo ad. Gorgeous lady who has aged so well. I don’t recall any of these ads at all!!! Amazing! Looking out for part 2!
And she has a beautiful tone in her voice, that slight husk 😊
Great stuff, Ryan I'm looking forward to parts 2 & 3. 👏 life was so less complicated back then.
"I didn't know flowers made that noise" you crack me up Ryan 😂
Keep bringing back the blasts from my past mate. 👍🇦🇺🪃🦘🐨
The 80s really were awesome. Best decade of my life. Nothing felt impossible. 43 years ago? I am SO old.
It's scary that I still remember all of the words of Aussie Bonds!
I was 11 in 1981 and in Grade 6.
I was 12 and remember it too!
Ah, the 80's. BMX, roller-skating, Hubba Bubba, The Goodies, Knight Rider, Monkey, Countdown and kitchen carpet.
Was that scotch tape bust Red ?
Growing up in South Australia in the 80s was THE BEST! We lived just off the esplanade from one of the best beaches in the world and it was brilliant! 🎉
Hell yeah Adelaide was so good
I'm a 70's Kid & remember the 70's & 80's well, you know everyone from that era knew " Mrs Marsh doing the Colgate test with that purple liquid " or " Professor Julius Sumner Miller doing the Egg in the Bottle " but sad I didn't see " Kingswood Country with Ted Bullpit "
"Put your money on the fridge wog!" 🤣
Aww, KC was great. My hubby & I used to go to the recordings. They did it twice & used the best takes from both.
One of my favourite exchanges was
“You’re not taking the Kingswoood!” (of course) “Take the Mercedes instead!” “
What Mercedes?”
“The one with the driver & conductor!”
All the Sydney buses were Mercs back then.
"Ooh, it does get in!" 😅
What about the Palmolive dishwashing liquid... "you know you're soaking in it, relax, it's Palmolive!" 🤣
I was born in 1960 and remember these all so well. What a great time to be alive it was!!
“Besides using Scotch as a prefix in its brand names (Scotchgard, Scotchlite, and Scotch-Brite), the company also used the Scotch name for its (mainly professional) audiovisual magnetic tape products, until the early 1990s when the tapes were branded solely with the 3M logo.”
The bust is of Beethoven, a very recognisable face!
I recognised him. Perhaps not everyone! 😅
Yep, Beethoven = Music is not a meme that Australians would have missed, back in the day. Now, I'm not so sure...
Toshiba is still around. They’re HUGE (electronics, defense systems etc). As for computers and TVs, you can still get them but there’s many more alternative brands now. Back then they were a major player in consumer electronics (along with Sony, Hitachi and others).
Good for us Australians to watch brings back memories when your in your 80’s like me 👍🏻
Until the end of 1982 the Aussie dollar was quite a bit stronger than the US dollar. I had a Toshiba computer until recently... Toshiba makes high-end consumer-level Japanese products.
Aussie dollars downfalll began when Malcolm Fraser put it on the international trading platform
It was stronger again in the mid to late 2000's and very early 2010's at around $1.10USD from memory
In the early 80s the Aus dollar was around parity with the USD. From memory, in the 70s it was worth around $1.40 USD.
wow!
That was way before Keating floated the Aus dollar. We just said how much it was worth and crossed our fingers that others agreed. Pretty much none did. The floating of the dollar was undeniably the best thing that has ever happened in terms of Australia’s economy and time hasproved it.
Paul Keating was Australia’s greatest Treasurer. He did so much and people hardly know it.
These days we refer to the Aussie Dollar as the “Pacific Peso”. ‘Strewth!
A lot of those voice overs were done by John Blackman of Hey Hey its Saturday fame. He did the voice of Dicky Knee in the show.
The next time you go in for an x-ray, chances are the x-ray machine or some part of it like the x-ray tube or digital flat panel image receptor will be Toshiba.
"Probably not here anymore" hahaha !! You're funny ! Loved the clip, those were the good old days when life seemed so much simpler..
Yep! 😢
Wu Tang Clan - Can It Be All So Simple
🎉
Esso was the local name for Standard Oil (S.O.) in Oz.
Now Exxon.
Damn. I turned 17 in 1981. I remember Apollo and grew up watching this schitz in Australia. I saw your eyebrows go into orbit at the 12 1/4% on the Aussie bonds LOL. The 60s to the 80s was the best time in Australia. It's been downhill ever since, but still the lucky country.
Scotch did lots of products. Including professional grade audio and video tape, which became 3M later on. Iconic brand. I can still buy scotch (sticky) tape today. Thin film polymers were state of the art in the middle of the 20th century and supported recording media well into the digital age. I believe the Scotch/3M secret was bonding layers indelibly onto the substrate, and of course the consistency of the thin film polymers. Real world material science that everybody used.
If you're having trouble imagining this period, think old fashioned decadic telephones, zero personal computers, zero takeaway food in most places, and if you wanted to bootleg your favourite songs you recorded them off the AM radio, onto scotch tape if you could afford it.
In 1981 I was 24 years old and loved living in Australia then. We were definitely the lucky country.
@@cherylemaybury9967 Ha, do you remember pubs in the 70s used to close at 1PM on Saturday and stayed closed all day Sunday. Most service stations and practically everything else were closed from 12AM Saturday until Monday so if you needed fuel you had better get it before then. We didn't care, we had air rifles and push bikes and AM radio and the ABC plus one local TV channel. You mowed the lawn on Sunday and Dad let you have a beer and $2 pocket money afterwards. You learned to make "apricot chicken" off the recipe on the back of a packet of french onion soup, and you thought it was the best food. Different times, the best times.
Growing up in the 80's here was awesome. Today, its a fucking lunatic asylum.
Agreed. We're still not America though, thank god. I truly hope we never fall that far.
Agree
@@Erizeddthat’s a bit harsh.
@@stelmosfire11 Harsh? Hardly.
The first ad was narrated by Michael Willessee, a popular and well-respected TV journalist in Australia. He’s gone now.
as a side note Michael Willessee's son is married to Allison Langdon who is the current host of a Current Affair on the 9 network
Yes he had a very distinct voice didn't he??? I knew it was him as soon as he started talking 😊
@@keithevans1442I did not know this. Thanks for sharing this info
Thanks for a fantastic trip down memory lane... I was 26 then. Keep up the great work you're doing - your reactions are fantastic, mate.
1981 dollars, the Aussie dollar was worth more than the US dollar.
Toshiba must still be making things because I drove past a very large building with Toshiba on the side out in a Western Sydney industrial park. My wife and I discussed this issue of what they are doing these days because neither of us had seen Toshiba products in many years. It is not TV's and other consumer electronics that they used to make. When I looked on the Toshiba Australia website it seems they make industrial machinery, lithium ion batteries, bar code scanners, retail POS equipment, power generation components, and printers. No wonder they had such a huge factory building.
In the UK Toshiba just destroys peoples lives
I loved being a teenager in the 80's. What a time to be one in Australia. Best of times 💚💚💚🇦🇺
I bought my first 12 inch Toshiba tv in 1980 for $200. This was 2 weeks pay. I have since had many tvs, VCRs and laptops made from Toshiba.
I was 12 in 1981 - found myself singing along to the Aussie Bonds jingle. It's amazing jungles aren't used much in advertising any more they were so effective in promoting a brand. Our generation is so sun aware because of the "Slip, Slop, Slap" jingle - it was so effective it's no longer needed. And yes it was an AFL (yes we call the game that here too) footy.
“Dallas, American television soap opera that revolutionized prime-time drama and was one of the most popular programs of the 1980s. Dallas started as a five-part miniseries on CBS in April 1978 and continued to air for 13 full seasons (1978-91), becoming one of the era's signature shows and a global phenomenon.”
Dull Ass
Can't believe Ryan has never heard of it. How downright American 🤭
This was big here in Sweden @@optimusmaximus9646
Cannot understand why Ryan couldn't comprehend the ad for a famous American TV show..if the name "Dallas" wasn't a dead giveaway, you'd think the accents would be? Even The Simpsons did a spoof on the "Who Shot JR?" episode! 😅
"Who shot JR" was a mystery that everyone wanted solved at the time . Funny now but even the papers posed the question and we waited impatiently for the answer 😂
TVs were very expensive back then - relative to incomes. I recall taking out a personal loan to buy a tv and video player in the mid-80s. The two were around $1200, with our annual income being about 20k
Wow, i didnt even think you could find an American that didn't know Dallas and Dynasty. Dont worry Ryan thats only the biggest tv show you ever made. Was there even a country that didnt show Dallas for 8-10 years or so ? Germany went even further than some places with all the specials up through the 90's and if you count the revival show into the 21st century.
Esso oil is associated with ExxonMobil Oil, Dallas was a dram show from the US - their main star was JR "Larry Hagman" who was also in the TV show "I dream of Jeannie", prior to DVD & CD's cassette & VHS tapes were made by companies like Scotch, TDK, Sony, BASF, Maxell, JVC & Fuji. The AFL "Aussie Rules" ball is slightly thinner & smoother than a rugby ball and have a more pointed end - designed for kicking in the air vs rugby balls that are mostly passed by hand. Toshiba electronics are designed and owned in Japan, they make everything from batteries, semiconductors and lights to laptops, SSD storage devices, medical equipment and home appliances. In 1981 the Aussie Bond rate might have been 12.25% but Home Loan rates were ~16%.
I also looked up Toshiba and then went on X and immediately got an ad for a Toshiba OLED TV😂
The bloke on the 'plane is Allan Seale. He had a gardening program on ABC TV (our ABC, not yours).
folding the washing is just as important LOL 😆
just as important as wearing or sleeping in clean laundry lol ;)
Wow I was 6 so I don't remember alot of those commercials but we as kids in the 80s were always outside anyway on the old trampoline or playing dress up or riding our bikes. Those were the days! 😀
That was fantastic. In 1981 I turned 12. Some of them I don’t remember so they might not have been shown in Victoria. Others like the Bond add I could sing along to. Looking forward to watching the rest with you 😘
Brings back memories. I turned 24 that year. Didn't watch much tv, but I remember half of those ad's.
I don't know, Ryan. There were SO many great ads from the 1970s and 1980s, but these didn't seem to be those ones. They were okay, but hopefully, the next ones will be the good ones. I suppose the number one will be the best, so I will keep watching. You should know about Dallas as it is an American soap opera!!
The older man in the Thailand holidays ad was a host of TV and radio gardening shows for many years. That's why she said something about the right time to pick orchids.
In 1981 the AUD was worth more than the USD at about 1.10 or so from memory. This was prior to it being floated in 1983 (made available to be traded as a commodity basically).
Omg.i cannot believe I still remember the words to Aussie Bonds!
DALLAS was the biggest drama show in the 80's in the US and Australia. In 1981 the Aussie dollar had the same value as the US dollar. Donald Campbell was British. I enjoyed the video on Aussie ads but it kept being interrupted by bloody ads.
The Aussie ads are ❤🔥 Those damned YT ads are 🤮
Ryan! How do you not know Dallas, it was the biggest show on American tv in its day! It was HUGE when JR was shot on the show. The newspapers had headlines saying...'Who shot JR' Dallas was big here as well. It did so well that a competing show was created, called Dynasty.
Also, the actor that played JR Ewing was called Larry Hagman and he played Tony Nelson in I Dream of Jeannie. I thought his acting was really good in it.
Ryan is only approx only 29 ish, and lives in semi rural Indiana! 🤔
I migrated to Australia 1987, so those ads as in the 1981 , are new to me, of course many of the items were in ads then and still are, but interesting, please continue reacting to the rest of them.
I watched all these ads on a rank-arena 😂
Omigosh the superman ad! Those movies were soooo exciting (then) 😂
Hi Ryan, I'd love to see other 80s ads and promotions, amazing how things have changed
So enjoying seeing adverts from my childhood - wonder if you need Uncle Sam ad will pop up
I really enjoyed the ads, even though I don't remember most of them. The one that shocked me most, was Thai Airlines, and the low cost of holidays in Thailand! I flew to Bali in 1981. I'm guessing my holiday for 10 days must have been something similar. I'm going again this year and it will cost me around $1500, including airfares.
The Thai holiday was excluding flights, just accommodation
Enjoyed seeing the old ads, and found myself singing along to the Aussie Bonds ad lol. Surprising what the subconscious retains :)
I remember all those ads. I had just started high school in that year. Remember all the jingles to the ads as well. More would be great to see.
One of the prettiest ads was the AGL natural gas one with the blue ballerinas. Although it first aired in 1979, it ran right into the 80's
Hi Ryan, I sang in an ESSO advertisement when I was a choir boy in the 1970s. I watched a lot of TV in the 1980s and don't remember most of these. Actually, in 1981, AUD1.00 was worth about USD1.15.
Food adds were the best back then. Maggi ,meadow lee margarine adds even .everything looked more delicious and homely .
That was funny to look back at some old ads from forty years ago. I remember them all. My youngest child was born in 1980 so I was a housewife back then.
07:19 Based on income values, multiply by 8.69 times. (x 5.61 for USD). Shoes for between $112 and $138 (AUD).
Loved seeing the old commercials.
Look forward to watching more ads..(never thought I'd say that!) 😅
What happened to the Decore shampoo ad? That was referenced constantly for years afterwards! And the dinner with Tom cruise (lamb)? And the Kantong ads?
Maybe in the next 20 minutes of the video to which he's reacting?
My childhood friend was in that ad singing ‘so does the family ’. We still bag him out about it.
That's so cool! My friends and I used to sing the song and do all the actions just crack one another up. Was almost done with primary school at the time.
Too early for the Tom cruise lamb ad, before his fame
This was an era when digital memory storage didn't exist. So everything you wanted to store had to be written to disc (expensive) or magnetic tape (cheap). Sound was recorded on cassettes, video on VHS (or Beta) tapes and computer code on magnetic floppy discs. Scotch already made plastic tape. All they needed to do was add a magnetic coating (rust) and bingo!
Keep them coming. They were great.👍
Yes we have scotch tape here too. Yes it's an AFL ball. We call it AFL not the full name so you're all good with the AFL thing.
Yes we say AFL or Aussie Rules. Australians won't take the time to say Australian Football lol.
The footy was a VFL (Victorian Football League) football back then. It did not become known as AFL (Australian Football League) until 1990 (9 years later)!
Looks like Toshiba is 'sort of' still operating and was bought out by a Japanese consortium. It has since been delisted from the Stock Excahnges.
Your "Happy Arvo" is adorable...So back at you, just its 4:51pm here in Tassie Australia.
Loved it. My son born Dec'79 had one of those cuddly blue soft Smurfs. The Aussie Bonds advert mentions one, now disgraced ex-icon. The model with the lush hair, I think is a very young Deborah Hutton. It was a little naff back then I think, if you go by this video.
Ryan, If you stop and look at the steps for the boot ad, that's what the old $1 note looked like (he obviously climbed 16 of them) before we made it a coin.
Love the memories need more! Thanks Sunshine 👏
Keep going, I quite enjoyed this.
Companies sponsor surf life-saving clubs. Hence the name on the boat.
Aaah, 1981, when it was inconceivable that anyone but a woman, could take on the 'OMO' challenge and all the most spoiled housewives got to have their own telly in the kitchen, Glory days 🤣🤣🤣🤣. ❤
Bringing back memories 😎
Nup. Iconic was the Harris coffee and tea ad, the ants pants ad, the Naomi Watts lamb dinner ad, the Telstra overseas calls ad etc etc. these sure sub par.
1981 was awesome, I listened to Back in Black 365 times that year.
Loved it! I'm going to ask my parents if they got any 'Aussie Bomds" during the 80's. I'll let you know.
I absolutely ;ove your channel.
Love your faces when the cassette and video tapes came on 🎉
That was entertaining, Ryan, going back along memory lane to the early 80s.
Look at it 😆 I was living and watching that TV 🤣🤣 no remote controls back then, you had to get up to change the channel or volume. Toshiba is still a bring brand here. Yes Gillete has always been a razor brand.
That was great to see Aussie 80’s adverts.
I would like to see more of them please.
I think that you should do British 80’s adverts on your other channel.
Love it and quite keen on you as well! (You’re safe, I’m in Australia so a fair distance away.) I loved the Aussie Bonds ad. I hope you one day find the Antz Pantz ad and the Come On Aussie ad (for the cricket)…now they’re fun!
Ryan has an identical twin I believe…..maybe he is unattached 😂😂😂😂😂
Sick'em Rex, No Happy Jan
Ahhh simplify times
Prices seem cheap back then like the shoes
But wages would've been $100 for a weeks work
The difference was food water electricity cost almost nothing
You'd pay a teary fee for water no restrictions on ammount used
Same electricity was super cheap and gas
Most government fees where minimum and cost $8 to fill the car
Also homes on quarter acre and everyone had fruit trees and vegetable garden chooks for eggs and eat
Used to be able to hunt rabbits for food most bought from pub You'd get two cleaned gutted $2-
All you had to do was cook them so people where self sufficient even made jams cream butter from milk cheese
Very little sweets or chips / crisps as you say
But lots of cakes biscuits made from flour even bread
Was lots of stuff persevered for out of season
Some used to smoke their meat to make it last a year bacon fish others meat
Also pickle meats vegetables so you didn't need alot of Money
But interest rates on homes where 18 + % they where like 20 gran but most of wages go on as only $100 a week wages
Fridges TV washing machines furniture all expensive due to being made in country
So it looks cheap but compare the wage differences at times
But your money generally went further as amenities and food but clothes much more expensive and wife's used to make family clothes
Which daughter's helped while being taught
Boys had to do chores cut fire wood with axe for fires to cook meals and stack inside for the female's of family
You'd clean out chook pens and gather eggs help digging in gardens planting food all this after school
Was a hard but a great time compared today everyone was taught where their food came from and the effort it took
But all natural clean of chemicals as crooks used to look after bugs
Much different times why I never agree with bigger the country the better it is for everyone the politicians like to say
No more people less resouces land smaller everything unaffordable and now relying on government's and corporations
For everything including food and why chemicals as sonny to feed can't afford to loose crops
Think of life like a pie small surmount of people all get a piece of the pie and full belly
Same pie lots more people to share with less pie and everyone hungry and some don't even get any pie now
You can use the same system for money the dollar worth alot when less of it but the more you print the less it's worth
Which is what government's have been doing to hide recession or depression
Cheers mate 🦘🇦🇺👍
7:15 Deborah Hutton?
Not that I'm not familiar with most of the brands advertised here but the only ad that rung any bells was the "Aussie bonds" 1. Feel like that was iconic for the 80s
You should watch the ads like antz pantz, Toyota hilux, Colgate toothpaste, Palmolive detergent, sheep shaggers. 3:32
It's the same company that makes (sticky tape), they used to make video and cassette tapes to. And "Dallas" was a US tv drama.
Part 2 and 3 would be 👍
Ah the Desert Boots, DB's as they were known. I don't think they are a thing any more. The cool kids got ripple soled DB's.
I used to have a pair of DBs!
Wore mine to high school and levi jeans great memories
Yes please!
I got suckered into using that Faberge shampoo & conditioner by that commercial & OMO was my mum's washing powder of choice 😆
Aussie Rules, Rugby League and Rugby Union balls are all different. Aussie rules - small and light (top brand Sherrin), RL (perfect, leading brand is Steeden), RU (rounder than a RL ball, leading brand Gilbert).
These are such obscure ads
Brings back alot of memories 👍
What about the base singing in the 'Hard Yakka' adverts! And the VB adverts from the 80's? So good!
Esso was an American petroleum company that changed its name to Exxon.
Nope...Ill debate you on that one...The fifties when I was growing up, were definitely the simpler times....BTW Ryan, we do have scotch tape (as in the adhesive tape) in Australia as well....
In my classes, I often ask students (especially boys) if they have magic self-cleaning clothes - you put them in the dirty clothes basket and they magically wash and fold themselves and pack themselves back in your drawers? ;)
If the answer is a sheepish "yes" (it often is), then the next thing I'll do is to take them through the operation of the washing machine, and tell them "Wash them yourselves. The machine is designed to be easy to use." :)
One of my girlfriends when I was eighteen, here cousin was the director of Superman the original movie.
I even remember these Adds.
Oh shit I remember that Aussie Bonds add and it’s just reminded me to withdraw my money. 😂
Hurry up, cash may soon disappear! 🧐
8 days in thailand for $130
Loved the smurfs tried to collect them all
your face said it all..😂😂😂...seriously ..I grew up with that shite..