Life was so much simpler for those of us who were 7-10 years old in 1968. I miss those days and the life I had in the USA of my youth. This was also the year my DAD finally bought a Color TV, a 25 inch Magnavox with a turn table stereo. Only in America!!
We got our first that year too. Dad was in the military, and bought two Panasonics through the base PX - a 'big' 19" table model , with a beautiful wood-veneer cabinet, for the rec-room, and a 16" 'portable' for the master-bedroom. I inherited the table set in 1978 when I moved to my first apartment. It died by the early '80s, and I converted the wood cainet to store LP records - which it still does today!
Although 1968 is considered by some historians to be one of the most tumultuous years since the Civil War period ,as a kid it was a great time to be alive . I have fond memories of '68
Agreed. It was great with the Flintstones being on after school. A variety of toys that were indestructible - they had to be with me constantly testing them to their limits. Plenty of other kids in the neighborhood to form a mob re-creating WWII movie scenes.
How much simpler our lives were back then.. No internet, cell phones, video games. We appreciated our few hours of TV each day. We didn't live by electronics
It's amazing how many synapses reconnect when you have not seen these ads in 50 years! I was 8 at the time and many of these have come back to memory! :-)
My first son was born in '68 and my second son in '73. You had to be careful where you walked in the house because of hot wheels and orange race tracks!
@@annapaulikonis2433 My dad was smoking heavy in 1968(was 37 years old then) and he is still around going to country dances on the weekends to ick up women. Of course my dad always worked and was always lightweight and still is. The Japanese smoke a lot and have much lower lung cancer rates than Americans. In fact more America's per capita get lung cancer today than in the 1950's through 70's.
Everyone WAS thin. It wasn’t until in the early 70s the corn lobby pushed for more grains and less fat in the “Food Pyramid”. That was the beginning of the obesity epidemic.
@@lohphat Back then Kool-Aid was unsweetened, you added your own... it's the sugars, they put just a little everywhere now, we don't really taste it but if they took it out we would become very depressed, it's more addictive than heroin and just like with cigarettes, they all know it but they are so wealthy they can hire the best liars... I MEAN LAWYERS, sorry, they have many friends in Washington, they still have children working for them in the Dominican Republic and they are such good salesmen, some people still think fat gets you fat and suar will give you enough energy for the whole day. I quit long ago and I read every label but nothing matters more than going outside to do things we truly enjoy. If you're interested there's a film called ''Sugar Inc'' and a lecturer named Robert Lutsig and millions... hundreds of free and honest sites. Cheers, have fun and if you ever find unsweetenedc Kool-Aid please let me know, I miss it so much!
I remember when we got a tv console. My Mom would lemon pledge it once a week. It was like a huge piece of fine furniture back then. LOL And WOW, the cars!
I can remember then, 14 years old, watching this nifty world, itching to reach the day when I could join in the fun,full speed...but when I got there,it had just left,and wouldn't be back...since then,been waiting for anything nearly as good..still waiting 🥺
I feel that way when I look at footage of the World's Fair in NYC in 64 and 65. I want to buy the future they are selling. I was born 10 years later and it was all long gone by then. Another thing I remember is the JC Whitney catalog. They would send you catalogs every few months for free for about a year. I sent off for them multiple times in my child hood. I would drool over all the cool accessories and dream of being old enough to drive and having a job to pay for them. .By the time I started working all the cool stuff was gone.
I was in a commercial with Linda Blair around 1966 - 1968. It was for County Fair Bread and Cupcakes, filmed in Washington DC. It aired everyday on all of the networks for over a year. I haven't seen it since then, but would love to see it again and show my kids. The commercial was in black and white and we sang a jingle: "County Fair's a great delight. It's Bread that makes you sharp and bright. It's made from the dough that makes kids grow, straight from County Fair." And we danced around a spaceship. Does anyone have it or remember it?
🙏If I knew that there could be a way to go back in time (like in the movie Somewhere in Time) and to keep my lessons learned from now, I would do it! Movies hold a great deal of truth and I believe we can manipulate time. Now I’m just hanging on to knowing God will (by grace 🙏) take me out of this demonic world soon! I’m tired and I can’t fight much longer.❤ All I have are these past memories to hang on to!❤
The Jeno’s (now Totino’s) Pizza Rolls commercial was the brainchild of the great comedian and writer Stan Freburg. The Jeno’s ad itself was a parody of the Lark cigarettes commercial that used the Lone Ranger theme and asked people to show them their pack of Lark, right down to that “Show Us Your Lark” sign.
I was born in 1968. That was a very special time era, when people had style, class and elegance. Hence! despite my younger age, i'm surely proud and glad to say that i come from the sixties and that i was a little part of it too, as well! Thanks! for this wonderful presentation, on the TH-cam channel. Johnny, Montreal, Canada ❤️
1968 was an unforgettable year for me. My dad got out of the Air Force after being gone for 3 years. My brother and I went to live with him due to his earlier divorce. I clearly remember both the MLK and RFK assassinations and the all day funeral train coverage of RFK. Later after spending a summer at my grandparents farm in Oklahoma, we drove cross country in my dad's new '68 Pontiac Lemans. My sister returned to our mother in Portsmouth NH and we all boarded a ship on our journey to South Africa. I was turning 10 that year.. I'll never forget those times! I returned to the US in 1979 and now I'm retired in the Philippines..
I was born in '62 as well. 1968 was first grade and the beginning of the end of the first phase of my life. The world portrayed in many of these commercials was the world I thought I would always live in. What a foolish child I was.
The First Car I remember walking down the street to the dealership with my Grandfather. Setting in the show Room was this BEAUTIFUL 68 Chevy Impalla sandstone Gold, ! He fell in Love with it as well! We walked in and I was looking over the Inside all while him and the Dealership owner were working out a Deal. Yes he bought it, OMG We had that car until 1979! It was my First Car!
I was 8, 9 years old in 68. Remember alot. In 67, our neighbors bought a brand new Mustang. I thought it was super cool! In 1977 I bought a 68 Mustang in very nice shape. 289, automatic, factory AC, power steering, and 4 wheel drum MANUAL brakes! Weird. Finally I had a cool car to drive to High school. Was my daily for 3 and a half years when I bought my 1st brand new car. I still have it, its in excellent condition, still going down the road. I have to say though that the reflection in the rear view mirror of the 17 year old looks quite different from the 64 year old! Lol.
TVs don't need AFT nowadays because they are solid state. In 1967 when I was 12 my parents bought our first color tv. Them days we only had one tv for the hole family. Iord do I miss my parents but I'm in no hurry to die to be with them I want every second of life the Lord will bless me with.
I wonder what the thought process was? "OK I am thinking we get a bunch of different colored clown shoes and matching silk PJs and have Nancy just sort of stomp around while screaming about going mad. Whad ya think?" Someone approved it. To tell the truth I doubt I would have clicked passed it.
@@1978garfield sales of RC jumped by triple digits. There were a lot of 1960s "mad, mad, mad ..." spoofs on the movie title It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Guessing they didn't care if someone not born until 10 years later proclaims in his middle age he woulda clicked on through it. You weren't their target market, sweetie.
Wow, I was just 8yrs old in ‘68, but I remember all these commercials - mostly by their jingles! This video brings back a lot of fond memories of relatives that were alive in those days! Thank you for sharing this 👍👌✌🏻😎
I remember a lot of these commercials when I was a kid man I used to love those hot wheel cars and tracks.I was about grown out of them in 68 good thing to. My mother figured out that the hot wheel tracks were real good to beat us kids with. WHEW those dam things hurt worse than a belt LOL.
All I can say is BETTER DAYS! Thanks for posting these great memories. Wish the country was still innocent, principled and united. Now they do everything possible to cancel and divide us.
I remember most of these commercials, I was 7 years old. I remember that a lot of old movie stars would pop up in television commercials (Frank Sinatra) and his daughter (Nancy Sinatra). Thanks for the memories.
I was there. Most enjoyable to see again. Imagine oil companies who cared about their full service stations and the whole retail experience. It really brings back memories. Thanks for posting!
Yes, and it's even better when you understand that the commercial is itself a parody of Lark cigarette commercials of the same period. Stan Freberg at his best.
You know these pathetic trolls are spreading their hate when you see all the thumbs down....on Freds wonderful videos!? Thank you so much Fred...the people who lived it appeciate them !!
Wow.. I remember that jenos pizza rolls spot with the Lone Ranger ! I met the Lone Ranger in 1985 in Encinitas, California.... It was a thrill ! And he called me " Citizen " !! 🇺🇸
'68 was the year we were given a color TV from my grandparents. Up until then we were watching TV on a round screen black and white. Finally...... Bonanza in color!
I was 11 when these were on. Only one television and it was black and white. I was 17 before my parents bought a colored TV. Most of my friends had the same situation. They were very expensive.
All these years later and I still remember my mom's take on that Lavoris ad: "My boyfriend told me my breath was strong enough to kill a moose!" "What did you do?" "I hit him over the head with a bottle of Lavoris!" (RIP Mom - you were always good with a funny line.)
I was eleven....i liked the toy commercials then....was playing little league baseball....riding my bike..was saving for a cb radio with my paper route and snow shoveling money....good times....oh yeah...built models...planes,cars ships,hot rods,rat rods..mercury and Apollo rockets rocket,lunar lander...a lot of fun...the days of innocence ....thanks Once again Fred....good stuff
Still wished they would make cars the way they did in 1968 this is a real car and today's generation could not handle a real car today's generation does not know what a real car is
Even though our society of today has many wonderful technologies but to me our society was much more advanced back in the 1960s. Mainly peoples behavior was kinder and more respectful to others. Culturally we are evolving into a dirty lawless third world country.
I couldn't agree more. All the car companies today copy each others ugly designs. Back then you could get cars with bench seats and no stupid center console. That's actually a great safety feature that let's you enter and exit a car from either side door. You don't have to step out into traffic to enter or exit the car when you park on a busy street. Bench seats are also great for dates at the drive in movie. I hate modern cars!
I only own/drive cars before 1980 and trucks before 1990. The newer ones are so ugly, and uncomfortable. It's a shame some guys paint over their chrome when restoring vintage cars, it makes them uglier. The other thing is how today's cars seem to be in bland boring colors. Oh and yes whatever happened to the bench seat? Even trucks today do not have it.
@@paul1242 In the 1960s, whenever we went to the grocery stores I wanted to see the 50s style cars (before I was 10 years old) but I saw Impala cars in the parking lots everywhere EVERYWHERE and I didn't like them looking so "modern",and NOW, after the year 2000 I kinda miss them...
So true! Kids dont get the same supervision at home now! It was great always having mom there when we played outside.. Lunch was ready.. If you got hurt she was there! She used to yell at us to go back outside to play when she washed the floor! We had no problem staying outside playing even in the winter too as we always had dry clothes and kept our boots dry. In for lunch and back outside to play in the winter too! Nowadays not so much.. Sometimes i see kids on bikes where i live but definitely not like in the 70s and 60s!
I was a kid in 1968. I would be 7 that year and I too wouldn't trade growing up in the late 60's and 1970's for anything that the kids have today. And these old ads remind me of those happier times.
I sure knew what I was doing delaying watching this vid. Just for "There's something about an Aqua Velva man" - wonderful surprise - has been worth it. I hope you do more of these. I'm a big fan of old commercials. Thanks for the wonderful memories.
I distinctly remember nearly every ad in this vid. I was 12 at the time so much of it would stick I suppose. But it sure takes me back in time to a much more innocent era -- though 1968 was one of the most tragic and tumultuous years of the 20th Century.
The incredible rides; the hot babes in their sexy mini-skirted outfits, and the killer tunes! Just light up a fresh Marlboro 100 while you fill your tank w/ Sky Chief premium and crank up the just released White album, on 8 track!
chills of childhood memories. When we could look at a pretty lady and actually think she was content with her husband, wasnt a 304, and might even want a family.
The Maxwell House instant coffee ad (17:18) is wickedly meta and dark. "I tried to help, like doing the marketing. . . . You be a good little Maxwell housewife and relax a little and this marriage might survive twins." She's going to need Valium, too, and she ought to divorce this guy.
This brings back real memories. Seriously. I can remember.... the toys, large tv's ( big wooden things ), RC Cola, I had a 67 firebird ( about 1975 ), Marlboro's, Winston's. Large facilities that made everything from tv's, to washing machines, to vehicles ( Ford, Chevy, etc. ) most everything was made in America. I sit in front of this computer now and...... think.... it's all kind of sad now. Thank you Fred for posting, this is a good one, very good one.
Wonderful old commercials. Even though I was 9 I remembered many of them vividly - especially the pizza roll one. The best thing about watching Bewitched in the fall was to see a preview of the new Chevy cars. Thanks much, Fred!
Hi Daniel, There are still very kind people (I at least try to be when I can). I live in a small, rural town in the south... people are very friendly here. Not so much in the bigger cities though. That is sad.
So true Walter. I remember it well even though 13 y.o. at the time. My dad always made us watch the news. I remember crying on Christmas Eve after watching the 10 o'clock news and it ending with clips from Nam and Connie Francis singing "Where The Boys Are'. Not to forget Bobby and Martin. But still, I'd go back in a heartbeat to know then what I know now. Ain't it?
Wow, Awesome commercials! Boy, it brings back so many great memories of the past. I wish I can go back and be a kid again. Thank you for the memories!❤️
I was a kid in 1968. I wouldn't trade my late 60's-70's childhood for anything kids have today.
I WISH I'd lived earlier sometimes, Damn the modern world sucks...
Me too! Especially as a sports fan in NYC when I saw 3 of my hometown teams win championships for the very first time!
I was born in 73, so a lot of my childhood was late 70s thru the 80s...miss a lot of those times...
Agree. Born in 1968. My childhood was all about the 1970’s. Teenager in the 1980’s. So much better.
Instablaster
The commercials back then were a million times better than the programs today!
I think you're correct. Best Wishes. Sincerely, Tom
I love how we tried so hard to cut the commercials when we taped a program, NOW we see them as defining our lives.
Thanks for the memories.
You had a VCR back then? Guess you were the first one ever!
Wonder how many people watch the Super Bowl JUST for the commercials?
@@TheBrooklynbodine Me !! Though this last year was a complete dud.
The really depressing thing is they still define our lives.
@@ADAMSIXTIES They weren't introduced until 1975 with the Betamax, followed by VHS in '76
Life was so much simpler for those of us who were 7-10 years old in 1968. I miss those days and the life I had in the USA of my youth. This was also the year my DAD finally bought a Color TV, a 25 inch Magnavox with a turn table stereo. Only in America!!
We got our first that year too. Dad was in the military, and bought two Panasonics through the base PX - a 'big' 19" table model , with a beautiful wood-veneer cabinet, for the rec-room, and a 16" 'portable' for the master-bedroom. I inherited the table set in 1978 when I moved to my first apartment. It died by the early '80s, and I converted the wood cainet to store LP records - which it still does today!
These commercials are better than regular programs are today.
Most of the commercials today are for drugs, lawyers, Medicare and insurance. Wish I could go back to the 60's and 70's and relive my childhood.
I agree. All the commercials today are obnoxious.😊💯
& Boner pill's.
Although 1968 is considered by some historians to be one of the most tumultuous years since the Civil War period ,as a kid it was a great time to be alive .
I have fond memories of '68
Agreed. It was great with the Flintstones being on after school. A variety of toys that were indestructible - they had to be with me constantly testing them to their limits. Plenty of other kids in the neighborhood to form a mob re-creating WWII movie scenes.
As do I. I was 13 and in junior high, worries were virtually nonexistent
I was a kid then too.
yes it was i was 10 yrs old with a bike and unlimited freedom
So do I rock and roll star trek dark shadows space ghost groovy ghoulies the Archie's cartoon show and my favorite the banana splits adventure hour
I was 3 years old in 1968. Still had very good memories of those days. Wished I could go back
Me too. Maybe in our next life we will get a choice to go back and live it again a little or a lot differently.
I wish I could have stayed there for ever.
I was 8 years old in 68 , And I wish I had that big color TV too watch cartoons on. Watched them all in black and white.
Edie Adams and the Muriel cigar commercials was a TV staple since the early 1960s.
How much simpler our lives were back then.. No internet, cell phones, video games. We appreciated our few hours of TV each day. We didn't live by electronics
Машиналар 60 70 жыл..Дизайндары ен мыкты,биз союзда турып бундай тусимиге кирмейтин.
Yeah no one relied on electricity back then...
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It's amazing how many synapses reconnect when you have not seen these ads in 50 years! I was 8 at the time and many of these have come back to memory! :-)
Yes, I've noticed that, too. I've heard commercial jingles on youtube that I'd forgotten about for decades myself.
@@willoughby1888 mmmmkay.
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I was 6 years old in 1968. I wish I could go back to that happier and simpler time.
You and me both.
Me Too 6 yrs old
I was 9 and I still want that Schwinn Orange Krate bike I never got...😭
@@telcobilly I wanted the green one. It was called the 'Pea Picker'.
Born March 26 1962
The Gulf big tire commercial is compelling I thought as a kid. Also remember well the RC Crown Cola with Nancy Sinatra, I tried to dance along.
My first son was born in '68 and my second son in '73. You had to be careful where you walked in the house because of hot wheels and orange race tracks!
I was 9 years old in 1968. What memories here! Thanks so much for what you do.
Everyone looks so slim , healthy and presentable. No tattoos to be found.Even the smokers look healthy.
Before the breathing issues kicked in.
@@annapaulikonis2433 My dad was smoking heavy in 1968(was 37 years old then) and he is still around going to country dances on the weekends to ick up women. Of course my dad always worked and was always lightweight and still is. The Japanese smoke a lot and have much lower lung cancer rates than Americans. In fact more America's per capita get lung cancer today than in the 1950's through 70's.
Everyone WAS thin. It wasn’t until in the early 70s the corn lobby pushed for more grains and less fat in the “Food Pyramid”. That was the beginning of the obesity epidemic.
@@lohphat Back then Kool-Aid was unsweetened, you added your own... it's the sugars, they put just a little everywhere now, we don't really taste it but if they took it out we would become very depressed, it's more addictive than heroin and just like with cigarettes, they all know it but they are so wealthy they can hire the best liars... I MEAN LAWYERS, sorry, they have many friends in Washington, they still have children working for them in the Dominican Republic and they are such good salesmen, some people still think fat gets you fat and suar will give you enough energy for the whole day. I quit long ago and I read every label but nothing matters more than going outside to do things we truly enjoy. If you're interested there's a film called ''Sugar Inc'' and a lecturer named Robert Lutsig and millions... hundreds of free and honest sites. Cheers, have fun and if you ever find unsweetenedc Kool-Aid please let me know, I miss it so much!
It’s the processed crap we eat and they did not have phones to waste away time.
I remember when we got a tv console. My Mom would lemon pledge it once a week. It was like a huge piece of fine furniture back then. LOL And WOW, the cars!
Being born in 1957 and watching these commercials is like going back in time
thank you FredFlix man how the world has changed.
It sure has, Donald.
And not necessarily for the better, either
David Russell ... how true that is.
Donald Brown ...same year here....agreed...WOW....great times....what the heck happened to the America we knew?
Paul Hawk ... America was taken over by domestic enemies ....peace.
I can remember then, 14 years old, watching this nifty world, itching to reach the day when I could join in the fun,full speed...but when I got there,it had just left,and wouldn't be back...since then,been waiting for anything nearly as good..still waiting 🥺
Thoughtful comment, Michael.
I feel that way when I look at footage of the World's Fair in NYC in 64 and 65.
I want to buy the future they are selling.
I was born 10 years later and it was all long gone by then.
Another thing I remember is the JC Whitney catalog.
They would send you catalogs every few months for free for about a year.
I sent off for them multiple times in my child hood.
I would drool over all the cool accessories and dream of being old enough to drive and having a job to pay for them.
.By the time I started working all the cool stuff was gone.
I was 8 years old in 1968 and the Detroit Tigers won the World Series. Good times in Michigan.
I love the 60s! Cruising in your muscle car, wreaking of Aqua Velva and smoking a Marlboro.
I was in a commercial with Linda Blair around 1966 - 1968. It was for County Fair Bread and Cupcakes, filmed in Washington DC. It aired everyday on all of the networks for over a year. I haven't seen it since then, but would love to see it again and show my kids. The commercial was in black and white and we sang a jingle: "County Fair's a great delight. It's Bread that makes you sharp and bright. It's made from the dough that makes kids grow, straight from County Fair." And we danced around a spaceship. Does anyone have it or remember it?
This one looks like early 60s: th-cam.com/video/KXJw_s9q1Qo/w-d-xo.html
I hope somebody does find it, because I want to see it now.
🙏If I knew that there could be a way to go back in time (like in the movie Somewhere in Time) and to keep my lessons learned from now, I would do it! Movies hold a great deal of truth and I believe we can manipulate time. Now I’m just hanging on to knowing God will (by grace 🙏) take me out of this demonic world soon! I’m tired and I can’t fight much longer.❤
All I have are these past memories to hang on to!❤
I was born in 1993, and I would have done ANYTHING for that voice controlled Kennedy Airport as a kid!
The Jeno’s (now Totino’s) Pizza Rolls commercial was the brainchild of the great comedian and writer Stan Freburg. The Jeno’s ad itself was a parody of the Lark cigarettes commercial that used the Lone Ranger theme and asked people to show them their pack of Lark, right down to that “Show Us Your Lark” sign.
Not a lover of pizza rolls but the commercial is priceless!
I was born in 1968. That was a very special time era, when people had style, class and elegance. Hence! despite my younger age, i'm surely proud and glad to say that i come from the sixties and that i was a little part of it too, as well! Thanks! for this wonderful presentation, on the TH-cam channel. Johnny, Montreal, Canada ❤️
Ha! I love this! In 1968, what determined your friends' circle was what Hot Wheels parts and/or cars you could bring to the meet! Such good times!
I was 23 and just released from the Army..it was bitchin..I purchased a 1966 canary yellow GTO with bucket seats....super Bitchin..
1968 was an unforgettable year for me. My dad got out of the Air Force after being gone for 3 years. My brother and I went to live with him due to his earlier divorce. I clearly remember both the MLK and RFK assassinations and the all day funeral train coverage of RFK. Later after spending a summer at my grandparents farm in Oklahoma, we drove cross country in my dad's new '68 Pontiac Lemans. My sister returned to our mother in Portsmouth NH and we all boarded a ship on our journey to South Africa. I was turning 10 that year.. I'll never forget those times! I returned to the US in 1979 and now I'm retired in the Philippines..
I love it!! Commercials that are not PC overloaded. Let’s go back!!
#triggered
I want to go home.
Binkle Babe: Just click those heels!
Im still hooked on the classic cars and music of the 60s! Its great to be a kid again! Thank you Fred! This is awesome
I'm a 1962 Baby & these commercials bring back so many memories......when life was simple & uncomplicated ❣
I was born in '62 as well. 1968 was first grade and the beginning of the end of the first phase of my life. The world portrayed in many of these commercials was the world I thought I would always live in. What a foolish child I was.
Ditto:)
@@DrowsyDoll1964 💪🏾👍🏾🙏🏽
That was eve Plumb "Jan Brady" in the stacy doll commercial
this video takes me back to a good time in my life I wish that I could go back
The year I was born! Love seeing what they were advertising then. Thank you for this compilation, Fred 🤗
You're welcome, Charles.
𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚗 𝚒𝚗 1967.
I wash 10 and memories come right back like it was yesterday,man what I would to go back to 68👍😃👍😃👍
The First Car I remember walking down the street to the dealership with my Grandfather. Setting in the show Room was this BEAUTIFUL 68 Chevy Impalla sandstone Gold, ! He fell in Love with it as well! We walked in and I was looking over the Inside all while him and the Dealership owner were working out a Deal.
Yes he bought it, OMG We had that car until 1979! It was my First Car!
I was 8, 9 years old in 68. Remember alot. In 67, our neighbors bought a brand new Mustang. I thought it was super cool! In 1977 I bought a 68 Mustang in very nice shape. 289, automatic, factory AC, power steering, and 4 wheel drum MANUAL brakes! Weird. Finally I had a cool car to drive to High school. Was my daily for 3 and a half years when I bought my 1st brand new car. I still have it, its in excellent condition, still going down the road. I have to say though that the reflection in the rear view mirror of the 17 year old looks quite different from the 64 year old! Lol.
Great memories of tv-- Dark Shadows, Star Trek, great cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Rocky and Bullwinkle, the Herculoids, Space Ghost.
The Monkees and Bewitched!
Chevy Nova SS!!! OMG...yes yes! 💖👍
TVs don't need AFT nowadays because they are solid state. In 1967 when I was 12 my parents bought our first color tv. Them days we only had one tv for the hole family. Iord do I miss my parents but I'm in no hurry to die to be with them I want every second of life the Lord will bless me with.
Nancy Sinatra in the RC commercial might be the greatest commercial of all time..........
As with "These Boots Are Made For Walking."
I wonder what the thought process was?
"OK I am thinking we get a bunch of different colored clown shoes and matching silk PJs and have Nancy just sort of stomp around while screaming about going mad. Whad ya think?"
Someone approved it.
To tell the truth I doubt I would have clicked passed it.
@@1978garfield sales of RC jumped by triple digits. There were a lot of 1960s "mad, mad, mad ..." spoofs on the movie title It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Guessing they didn't care if someone not born until 10 years later proclaims in his middle age he woulda clicked on through it. You weren't their target market, sweetie.
Joanne Worley that's my aunt LOL!
How cool! She had so much pizazz.:)
Wow, I was just 8yrs old in ‘68, but I remember all these commercials - mostly by their jingles! This video brings back a lot of fond memories of relatives that were alive in those days! Thank you for sharing this 👍👌✌🏻😎
You're welcome, Roberto.
You’re the same age as my parents! God bless!
I remember a lot of these commercials when I was a kid man I used to love those hot wheel cars and tracks.I was about grown out of them in 68 good thing to. My mother figured out that the hot wheel tracks were real good to beat us kids with. WHEW those dam things hurt worse than a belt LOL.
no shit man
I was 15 in 68. I remember all those commercials. I'd like to see more of different years.
All I can say is BETTER DAYS! Thanks for posting these great memories. Wish the country was still innocent, principled and united. Now they do everything possible to cancel and divide us.
Better days for white folks. People Of Color were still struggling for equality... and in 2024, are still struggling.
I remember when a tv show was in color and they would announce it.
Disney's wonderful world of color!. In color!
The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC which was owned by RCA
Dan Farley of course as NBC was owned by RCA and they wanted to sell color television sets. I remember that very well.
Who could forget the NBC peacock going from Black and White feathers to "Living Color?"
Damn. I remember when they'd say that, and I sit and wait for our old B&W to start doing "living color".
I started school in 1968. I sure miss those days.
Incredibly clean because it's a new T-shirt for the show haha
I absolutely love seeing the clothes and hairstyles and especially the cars from back in the day. Thank you Fred!
You're welcome, Leslie.
That "Gulf, No-nox" add must have taken forever to do that stop-motion effect.
I was just thinking the same thing!
OK, I almost PISSED myself with the "mouthwash for lovers" commercial. Breath that could kill a MOOSE!!! Priceless!!!
I remember most of these commercials, I was 7 years old. I remember that a lot of old movie stars would pop up in television commercials (Frank Sinatra) and his daughter (Nancy Sinatra). Thanks for the memories.
I was there. Most enjoyable to see again. Imagine oil companies who cared about their full service stations and the whole retail experience. It really brings back memories. Thanks for posting!
The Jeno's Pizza Rolls commercial is absolutely priceless. Thanks Fred.
Yes, and it's even better when you understand that the commercial is itself a parody of Lark cigarette commercials of the same period. Stan Freberg at his best.
I was thinking "Was that the year pizza-rolls came out?'
You know these pathetic trolls are spreading their hate when you see all the thumbs down....on Freds wonderful videos!? Thank you so much Fred...the people who lived it appeciate them !!
I appreciate that, Susan.
@@FredFlix Hey, whatever you may feel about childhood or the times these commercials are from, some of us are still glad to see them.
@@DTD110865 Do you think I'm not glad to see them too?
@@FredFlix I'm sure you are and I'm sure you're glad to show them to us. And we're glad you're showing them to us as well.
Wow.. I remember that jenos pizza rolls spot with the Lone Ranger !
I met the Lone Ranger in 1985 in Encinitas, California.... It was a thrill !
And he called me " Citizen " !! 🇺🇸
I was just 5 in 1968, but still remember a lot of these, especially the slogans and jingles. Thanks so much for the memories! 🤗
'68 was the year we were given a color TV from my grandparents. Up until then we were watching TV on a round screen black and white. Finally...... Bonanza in color!
I was 11 when these were on. Only one television and it was black and white. I was 17 before my parents bought a colored TV. Most of my friends had the same situation. They were very expensive.
Long ago and far away.
Rocking chair memories.
Thank you 💐
08-20-18. "feed the hungry"
All these years later and I still remember my mom's take on that Lavoris ad: "My boyfriend told me my breath was strong enough to kill a moose!" "What did you do?" "I hit him over the head with a bottle of Lavoris!" (RIP Mom - you were always good with a funny line.)
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I was eleven....i liked the toy commercials then....was playing little league baseball....riding my bike..was saving for a cb radio with my paper route and snow shoveling money....good times....oh yeah...built models...planes,cars ships,hot rods,rat rods..mercury and Apollo rockets rocket,lunar lander...a lot of fun...the days of innocence ....thanks Once again Fred....good stuff
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Gulf No Nox commercial! OMG...I totally forgot about that! That is truely a blast from the past! Thanks for the memories!!!
You're welcome, Frank.
I was 10 in 68, love these videos, brings back a time I wish we could go back to
WHEN I WAS YOUNG.......LATE GREAT '68.........REMEMBER CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE ?
1968 Mustang. I was 17, and wanted that car!
Love this video.its time out for me from the world we live in today. Thanks for this.
Still wished they would make cars the way they did in 1968 this is a real car and today's generation could not handle a real car today's generation does not know what a real car is
Even though our society of today has many wonderful technologies but to me our society was much more advanced back in the 1960s. Mainly peoples behavior was kinder and more respectful to others. Culturally we are evolving into a dirty lawless third world country.
Thanks for this video, too! I was hoping to see the '68 Mustang commercial - and I wasn't disappointed!! Good times; great memories. :-)
my dad didn't buy a color TV until December, 1973.....@$365 (NOW $2.5K) all these commericals were in B&W in 1968 for us lol
Wow. The cars back then were spectacular. Not like the cookie cutter plastic boxes we have today.
I couldn't agree more. All the car companies today copy each others ugly designs. Back then you could get cars with bench seats and no stupid center console. That's actually a great safety feature that let's you enter and exit a car from either side door. You don't have to step out into traffic to enter or exit the car when you park on a busy street. Bench seats are also great for dates at the drive in movie. I hate modern cars!
I only own/drive cars before 1980 and trucks before 1990. The newer ones are so ugly, and uncomfortable. It's a shame some guys paint over their chrome when restoring vintage cars, it makes them uglier. The other thing is how today's cars seem to be in bland boring colors. Oh and yes whatever happened to the bench seat? Even trucks today do not have it.
@@paul1242 In the 1960s, whenever we went to the grocery stores I wanted to see the 50s style cars (before I was 10 years old) but I saw Impala cars in the parking lots everywhere EVERYWHERE and I didn't like them looking so "modern",and NOW, after the year 2000 I kinda miss them...
Loved the cars back then. To think seat belts weren't mandatory & no solid DUI laws.
The old cars were so inefficient. Smog used to be a problem in North America until we made more fuel efficient cars.
Was an amazing time .quality of life was has good as ever .1 income paid the bills .mom could stay home
even the prospect of community or standard four-year college degrees.
Mom could stay home, until Dad had a mid life crisis 10 years later and left her for a younger woman he met in the work place.
@@rachelberry1623 Or Dad could stay home with the kids, and Mom could have an affair with a guy she met at work.HaHa.
So true! Kids dont get the same supervision at home now! It was great always having mom there when we played outside.. Lunch was ready.. If you got hurt she was there! She used to yell at us to go back outside to play when she washed the floor! We had no problem staying outside playing even in the winter too as we always had dry clothes and kept our boots dry. In for lunch and back outside to play in the winter too! Nowadays not so much.. Sometimes i see kids on bikes where i live but definitely not like in the 70s and 60s!
I agree
Wow this is great, I was born in '68.
1968- My birth year.
The cars in these commercials are fabulous! Anyone of them could now fetch a small fortune, restored, or in like new condition.
Manufactured in America-I definitely miss that
Those '68 Mustangs and Pontiacs. This was the best era for cars.
I was a kid in 1968. I would be 7 that year and I too wouldn't trade growing up in the late 60's and 1970's for anything that the kids have today. And these old ads remind me of those happier times.
I'm glad, Dorthy.
Nothing like that sparkling drop of Retsyn!
I sure knew what I was doing delaying watching this vid. Just for "There's something about an Aqua Velva man" - wonderful surprise - has been worth it. I hope you do more of these. I'm a big fan of old commercials. Thanks for the wonderful memories.
I distinctly remember nearly every ad in this vid. I was 12 at the time so much of it would stick I suppose. But it sure takes me back in time to a much more innocent era -- though 1968 was one of the most tragic and tumultuous years of the 20th Century.
It was tumultuous because the media/news made it so
@@Redwhiteblue-gr5em were you d enough to remember what was going on?
@@RepentfollowJesus I was born in 1956. Watched TV news everyday and read daily mewspaper. Also read my Dad's Time and Newsweek magazines
The incredible rides; the hot babes in their sexy mini-skirted outfits, and the killer tunes! Just light up a fresh Marlboro 100 while you fill your tank w/ Sky Chief premium and crank up the just released White album, on 8 track!
TEXACO.
chills of childhood memories. When we could look at a pretty lady and actually think she was content with her husband, wasnt a 304, and might even want a family.
The Maxwell House instant coffee ad (17:18) is wickedly meta and dark. "I tried to help, like doing the marketing. . . . You be a good little Maxwell housewife and relax a little and this marriage might survive twins." She's going to need Valium, too, and she ought to divorce this guy.
Yeah! Especially for buying the WRONG COFFEE!! 🙂
"Quiet I said!" Geesh!
This brings back real memories. Seriously. I can remember.... the toys, large tv's ( big wooden things ), RC Cola, I had a 67 firebird ( about 1975 ), Marlboro's, Winston's. Large facilities that made everything from tv's, to washing machines, to vehicles ( Ford, Chevy, etc. ) most everything was made in America. I sit in front of this computer now and...... think.... it's all kind of sad now. Thank you Fred for posting, this is a good one, very good one.
I appreciate it, Randall.
I agree with Randall.. a VERY good one!
Yeah, american made with pride
You bet your ass I remember You Know Who's daughter...
Randall Sage you’re crying over growing old.
Major Matt Mason was so Cool as a Kid!, Christmas 1968 :-)
24:07 1968 Firebird convertible...WOW, now thats a car!
We got our first television around 1975, was used and it was amazing!
Wonderful old commercials. Even though I was 9 I remembered many of them vividly - especially the pizza roll one. The best thing about watching Bewitched in the fall was to see a preview of the new Chevy cars. Thanks much, Fred!
I still remember my friends parents coming home in a brand new 1967 purple Malibu
They were great cars!
Winston, Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Muriel Cigars, Budweiser, RC Cola, Texaco, AMC Javelin, gotta love it.
What I remember about this time is kindness. Almost all the time. And look at us now
Hi Daniel,
There are still very kind people (I at least try to be when I can). I live in a small, rural town in the south... people are very friendly here. Not so much in the bigger cities though. That is sad.
Daniel Penn you are so right!
Daniel Penn Really? 1968? Do you remember the turmoil of 1968?
So true Walter. I remember it well even though 13 y.o. at the time. My dad always made us watch the news. I remember crying on Christmas Eve after watching the 10 o'clock news and it ending with clips from Nam and Connie Francis singing "Where The Boys Are'. Not to forget Bobby and Martin. But still, I'd go back in a heartbeat to know then what I know now. Ain't it?
1968 was a time of riots, anger and politics. It was a very negative time. Today is much better. Von Kleiga
1968...the year I went to Vietnam....and the America I knew was gone when I got back home.
Robby Combs thank you for your service.
Thnx my friend!
Nobody is more American than you! Thank You, I sure hope you were okay after that War.
Thanks for your service Robby!
Thank you for your service buddy 🇺🇸
Wow, Awesome commercials! Boy, it brings back so many great memories of the past. I wish I can go back and be a kid again. Thank you for the memories!❤️
Hey Fred, thanks for the stroll down memory lane! What a mind job!