47 Vintage Christmas Commercials from the 1970's | Travel Back in Time
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- These are the vintage Christmas commercials from the 1970's that all Baby Boomers (and some Generation Xers) will remember fondly. It is a bit sad to think about how many of these brands and stores are no longer around.
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There are so many different types that jar certain memories, events, experiences, and other childhood adventures. I used to love the Christmas 🎄 holidays because the 📺TV📺shows were all Christmas themed. The commercials were all Christmas themed. Getting the Sears Wish Book, or the JC Penny's Christmas Catalog was ALWAYS a special time! I loved the Toys R Us ads with Geoffrey. The Norelco Razor where 🎅Santa🤶rides the razor over the snow covered hills! Epic! So many jingles, commercial "tunes" that were extremely catchy! These really make me miss my childhood! Speaking of Jingles? The 🎵🎵song🎵🎵 I'd like to by the world a Coke! That was a favorite I had. Singing along to it, with my Mom. So many beautiful memories! Epic and heartwarming!
Santa riding the Norelco razor. I knew it was Christmas time when I saw that one.
"I'd like to teach the world to sing...," Andre Champagne 🍾, Hershey kisses, Norelco, any local store greetings and the TV stations' Holiday best wishes, ads for local highschool choruses présentations of Christmas music usually aired Christmas Eve. Thanks for sharing the commercials! Christmas blessings! ✨🎄🙏☮️
The Budweiser Clydesdale commercial. Ed McMahon did the voice over
Mainly u s adverts hopefully wanted British ones.😢
If I could go back in time, I would only change one thing. I would take more time to enjoy when life was simpler for me.
Same
Yes, it was definitely a simpler time, but for me, the 1970s were pure hell. My parents divorced in 1970 and my mom, sister and I must've moved over a dozen times through the decade, so needless to say, school and making lasting friendships were a real struggle. I wouldn't go back if you paid me! For me, the '80s were a much calmer and more stable decade.
Me too
But - i love WATCHING stuff like shows and these kinds of things from the 70s (plus it's when star wars came out)
But I would love to LIVE in the 80s again
@@jamesdavison2927 I hear you mate...I must've gone to see Star Wars 3 or 4 times when it first came out in '77!
Yes wasn’t it? We watch Talking Picture’s channel Another reminder of how great it was but we didn’t know it.
To me it wasn't Christmas time until I saw the Santa Claus riding through the snow on a Norelco Triple head. I haven't seen that for many years until just now on this video! Thank you for making an old man's Christmas wish come true!
That is the exact commercial I was hoping to see on this commercial montage.
I was thinking the same thing!!! Loved that commercial!!!
The coolest fact is that as of the moment of me writing this reply to your comment, Jim, it says you wrote it 12 days ago. "On the 12 days of christmas....". I thought that was pretty special, especially given the topic of your comment. Have the Merriest Christmas and not just a Happy New Year, but may all of 2024 keep you in top form, healthy, happy and content with everything :)
Same here. I always knew it was really Christmas time when I saw that commercial.
Me too!
Those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end.
We’d sing and dance forever, and a day. It was the life we’d choose, we’d fight and never lose, those were the days, oh yes those who were the days.
(Thanks for your comment and the memories)
Warm wishes to you. :-)
The incandescent Christmas lights in the 70s looked much better than the LED ones they’re pushing today.
Yup, they sure do. I'm still using incandescents in my Christmas display.
@@LandruLandruthey actually last too !
My whole house has incandescent right now, don't like the LED's at all.
My entire house is LED including my christmas lights. You can buy LED bulbs that give off the same colour light as old incandescent bulbs. Just pay attention to the type/temperature you're buying.
Of course!, these led's (light emitting diodes ) don't give nearly the same beautiful glow as the glass bulbs.They're all we can get now because they consume less electricity and they're safer. Even the glass bulbs of chromy colors and the frosted ones were beautiful too but step on one and you got cut real bad and they contained lead causing infections. So tree decorations have changed for safety reasons but nothing is like our old vintage decorations which had far more eye catching sparkle !
I'd love to time travel back to the 1970s! I miss those days!
before internet and 3 channels and shops
Me too, but at the time, we didn't know how great it was....
Do what I did. Convert your Mountain Bike into a Mustang.
High-rise handlebars, Banana Seat, Sissy Bar, Metallic Paint Job! I've moved back to 1973, and I'm staying there!
@@carladaniels7910 And 50 years from now, people will be nostalgic for this time. It’s a never ending cycle.
@carladaniels7910 born in 68 kid in the 70's teenager throughout the 80's us that were young in this era were truly lucky. No we didn't know then how drastically things would change. Remember most of these commercials. Time is sneaky scary fast. I'll àllways cherish the memories of my youth. Reminiscing a bit here. Where's Marty McFly and Doc when you need them 😮. Peace...........
i love the Norelco commercial where Santa is riding on the Norelco shaver
Me too. I think the first one was in 1965 during the first Rudolph (Rankin-Bass) tv showing. I remember it well!
Yes, we used to look forward to the new one each year, lol. Merry Christmas!
@@CPAndy-x5x Yes, they used to come on during Rudolph each year. So fun.
ME TOO RICKY BOBBY 💖. MY MIND IS HAPPY.
My dad Had one of those shavers and he'd be a hundred and four years old Now and I still have it said it was the best razor ever
Back when life was real ❤
back when they said "Merry Christmas" too.
It sure was!! The best!!
So blessed to have been a child of the 70s. Wouldnt trade it for a billion dollars.
Can I just go back? I just turned 66 and don’t want to leave this earth with memories of how our country and world is now. Please?
Me too 66 🙏
Same. (I get you)
I agree and am ready to travel back.
Me too! ❤
Yup you said it best
I'm just here time traveling trying to bring back some of those lovely Christmas vibes from past years.
As s kid in the 60s and 70s, l would get so excited when the Christmas catalogs came out and flyers for toys appeared in the newspaper.
I love these, and remember… todays TV is all about drug commercials, Medicare, hearing aids, I really hate the commercials today, I actually record shows, just so I can fast forward…these are special memories for me…
Anyone else wish we had these prices back?
And 50 years ago we wished the prices from 20 years before that would come back. It’s a never ending cycle. There is no perfect time in history.
I wish we had the 70s and 80s back, period!
These wages too?
Anyone else wish we had those WAGES back????
Realize that salaries and wages were commensurate with those prices.
I miss the SEARS catalogue! I used to “study,” that!!! ❤
Me too, miss those days so very much. By the way, you can thank the many lawsuits Sears brought upon themselves over the years for losing the wish book and having to liquidate all their inventory, including the many ware houses they had for storing Christmas items.
I am fortunate to still have some old Sears Christmas catalogs so at the age of 77 can time travel back and look through the pages of the wish book & DREAM!!!!!!
I did, too, until I heard my mom coming . . .
@@scottfrye7027 I worked at Sears in Hardware, and our department had to set up and run the Christmas Trim Shop every year (Trees, ornaments, lights, all that.) It got to the point that we would put it up over the Labor Day Weekend, keep it open through Christmas and on the day after, sell everything off at 75% off, until about the 1st week of January or so, by which time only scraps were left (which got boxed up and saved for next Christmas. There were never any trees left!) That meant that by the mid-'90s, the Christmas Trim Shop was open for ONE-THIRD OF THE FRIGGIN' YEAR!!!!!!!! Now that is absolutely out of control!
Life without so much Technology. What a different world it was 🙂
The 70’s had most everything other than the internet & cell phones .
It was a richer fuller life for sure. I wish I could go back all the time.
And vastly better than today
These commercials bring me to tears sometimes. Because I lived those times, and the Christmases of those more innocent eras are more genuine and heartfelt. When carolers would walk in the neighborhoods bringing Christmas joy, when people weren't afraid of a genuine "Merry Christmas", and you saw genuine smiles on people's faces as they rushed around for those last minute gifts from mom and pop stores. Such amazing times when little Susie's face was lit up when she unwrapped her Betsy doll and Jimmy's eyes with joy when he unwrapped his first slot car set.
What happened? Why is all that is left of these moments is videos on TH-cam? Has technology blinded us so much about the simplicity and meaning of Christmas we find joy in Amazon? Or drown out sorrows with Netflix and a bottle of Scotch? I tried to keep the magic in my home with old Sears Christmas catalogs, old bubble tube ornaments and a "Deck the Halls" record compilation. Just wished some would remember that Christmas is about giving.
Too much corruption. Now people especially females show hatefulness and/or Charlie Brown blues.
Liberals took over
What happened was you grew up. You're parents are no longer there taking care of everything for you. I hope you're doing a better job of doing the same for your children than this comment suggests.
I was crying during those COKE commercials! 😢😥
People are not afraid of a genuine, "Merry Christmas," nor a genuine, "Happy Holidays,". Some try to manufacture offense or derision where none exists. Bing Crosby sang the song, "Happy Holidays," in 1942. Many people know what Christmas is all about. We can cherish our memories and keep the magic each year. PS Not the best screen name for someone bemoaning a loss of joy. Hmmm...
Thanks for the memories I’m 62 years old and I remember all of those commercials!!!!
I just turned 60 and just happened to find this on TH-cam tonight. Pretty nostalgic
63, Same here.
62 here too and I only remember about 4 of them, my mom was real strict about how much tv we watched even back then and the later years I was probably partying ✌️
70, and my favorite memory here is “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony”..🎶❤️
Me too! I’m 62!!! Aw the good ole days! So sad what the world has become! We always believed it would only get better!
These commercials are so soft and gentle. Nowadays commercials are shouting at you to buy their products.
With rap music. 😢
I think the world needs those Coke commercials right now...
10 months later, and the world is at war.
Coke still spells the Holidays NAFLD.
Just not the coke
i tried to bring it back ......... they said i am too white
No, just the coke by itself. Original recipe.
Born in 1972. Would love to go back. Our world is horrible now.
Yes it is. Nothing feels magical or special like it used to. Now life is like a bad dream you wish would end.
I was born in 1973. Remember that we were kids in the 1979s, protected from responsibility and the realities of what was going on. Some notable difficulties our parents might have lived through: Recession in 1970, a fed funds rate of 9% early in the decade, by 1979 mortgage rates hit 12.9% for 30 year fixed, an OPEC oil embargo against the US because we were supplying arms to Israel as they fought against Arab Countries leading oil prices to jump $2.90/barrel to $11.65/barrel within a couple months (gas prices at the pump nearly quadrupling). Oil prices rose again 1979 due to the Iranian Revolution, more than doubling between April 1979 - April 1980. We were still pulling out of Vietnam in 1973. We can’t forget about Watergate and Nixon resigning. There was a severe recession 1973-1975 with a stock market crash after the value of the dollar was so weak that it caused the dollar to never again be tied to gold, unemployment over 7%, coupled with inflation hitting at high of 12.3% in 1974 with it falling and back up to 14.5% by summer 1980. Honestly, I don’t think I’d want to be an adult at that time.
Take me back to the 70s. Times were much better, and so was the music.
The commercials featured people who could actually sing and beautiful melodies.
Kinder, simpler, gentler...wish I could go back.
The seventies were special to me I came home from the army in 1973 to the girl who waited 3 years for me married her had a son in 77 a daughter in 78 and she is still the love of my life ❤❤❤❤
My Mom 🎄🎄made Christmas beautiful for us kids. My dad gave us the magic and joy. I miss them so much. ❤❤
BLESS
When my Dad died, Christmas, to a large degree, died too. He died just before Christmas 25 years ago and for several years I could not celebrate the holiday because of the memories. He put his heart in to Christmas. It has never been the same without him. Now all my family are dead and I am divorced so Christmas can be quite lonely. Glad Dad never experienced that.
Keep the spirit of Christmas and Jesus in your heart and you will be with them again some day.
@@torydz Absolutely 🥰🙏
I used to like it when Hickory Farms had regular mall stores before they went to seasonal kiosks.
If time travel was available I would go back to the 70’s when life was more simple
I was 8 years old in 1971 when the original 'I'd Like To Teach the World to Sing' Coca-Cola commercial first aired, and I've never forgotten it. During the mid to late seventies(and well into the 80s and 90s), it was resurrected several times, as in the revamped Disney version in this video, but the original was the best IMO. Quite the 'stroll' down memory lane!
I was 11 and saved coke caps to send for a 45 rpm of this song. It arrived in a Manila envelope in many pieces😢. I’m sure I would still have it if it were in one piece 😄
The coke one unexpectedly made me burst into tears. It's weird how commercials are making me feel nostalgic and sad... lol
It’s not weird, it’s the sadness being released of what things are today. You’re not alone.
@@dustyflats3832 Thank you
Lydia can I buy you a Coke? I’ll bring the tissues. Lol
@@TC-dw6wg Ha! Yes!
Back before life became too complicated.
Hallmark keepsake ornaments just hit home. Christmas of '78 was one of my best ever. 8 year old boy in New England. Christmas was still magic and we got 3 feet of snow!
That was enough snow to dig a maze in the yard…
@@fightinfetus the ol' man did it with a snowblower
Commercials today don't have jingles anymore
I agree with you. The “Wake “ culture is destroying everything.
That’s because most commercials are for PRESCRIPTION DRUGS and they use gimmicky songs to push them!
Bear in mind that back then, most commercials had 60 seconds to get their message across to you.. Today they have at best, 30 seconds to 'hit you over the head'. There just isn't any time for subtlety, charm, or an unforgettable jingle anymore.
Too busy conditioning you to celebrate interracial and homosexual couples.
That’s because they steel old pop music songs to push some drug, and have fat people dancing around!!
The big reason we love the 70's is that we all still had our lives ahead of us. Now, we have lived those lives. Like everyone, I wish I could go back and do some things differently, but we all did what seemed best at the time. I enjoy looking back and comparing how I viewed those commercials then compared to how I view them now. Really, people haven't changed that much, they never do.
I wish that was true.
The world sucks now
I know Earl, what the Hell happened?🤣
Christmas was so much better when we were kids.
Earl you can always leave this world that "sucks"
Beyond sucks. Freak show with dumbed down zombies, some still with masks on, don't know if they're a boy or a girl, 400lb whales walking in slippers and PJ'S in public, rings all over their face, multiple tatoos, drugged out on street and pharmaceutical drugs, rage issues, nasty to customer service workers, entitled narcissistic cretins with nose in a phone, holding a Starbucks. SANE people can't wait to get home after work and shut the door from all of it. Up is now down, right is now wrong, and most people have maybe 1 functioning brain cell in their head. Majority of people back then were SANE, had common sense and critical thinking skill. Now? 🤡 car show.
@@dwightpowell6673feel free to go ahead of Earl. LS
I always liked the Budweiser Clydesdales commercial and the Miller beer commercial. Both are instrumental, country scenes of days gone by and remind of Christmases as a kid. The Kmart commercial at 9:20 is nice too.
These commercials would have been perfect to show my Dad during his last days in the hospital. So much comfort in watching them. RIP Dad 🙏🏼❤️
Thanks for sharing
I am sorry for your loss! I'm sure he's still with you in spirit. ❤
My dad’s gone too. These commercials bring back so many memories of Christmas with both parents.
I long for the simple times.
I miss those days on holidays the most because everyone was still alive and we were having those big get togethers at on grandparent's or the other and everyone was there and they lasted for hours. Havent really had one in 20 years or more
So true!
True. I lost most of my family. That's what happens as we get older.
I wish someone could stop the insane commercials of today! What are today’s youth going to look back on?! It’s hideous.
Car, car insurance and injury lawyer commercials.
That Coke commercial where they sing “Id like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony…” is beautiful. It is still considered to be the brst TV commercial ever made. ☮️💟
Ben Franklin, Radio Shack gone but not forgotten
And Woolworth, and K-Mart! You could get practically EVERYTHING needed for Christmas at those two stores.
These really take me back, it's really nice NOT to see those damn big pharma commercials all the time!!!!!!
Excellent point! And to not see those damned "Hey, I was in an accident, and S.A. Shiester goy me a MILLION dollars!".
YES! Or those Medicare, funeral home and incontinence commercials. And what the other post said. Wish they could ban them all.
Big Pharma kills more people than it helps
I used to love the Kmart Christmas commercial/jingle when I was a kid. I remember all these commercials. Such a simpler time. Fun times!
I remember my dad giving me a $20 bill and dropping me off at K Mart to get Christmas presents for my younger siblings. I managed to get a LOT with that twenty!
Ever since this lousy global revolution we have lost what means most to us. We lost our identity as Americans, Christians, and our national culture.
Amen. Brought to you by the traitorous manchurian Kenyan.
Some of us are still holding on to and proudly waving our beautiful Americanism in the air. We don't give up.
@@spankynater4242honestly you would never know it with just how crappy this country has become. The bs we accept now as the truth is genuinely frightening. Merry Christmas tatersalad5149.
Amen to that!
@@TC-dw6wgThanks to MAGA. 🤮
I remember those commercials! I wish I could go back to that time. Had a wonderful time in the 70’s!! 💖🎄
The commercials today REALLY SUCK!!!
At 57, I feel like I hit the lottery growing up with the media, malls, and toys of the 70s and 80s and young enough to usher in and understand the digital age, internet and all this fun 😂!
I'm 58...and want to go back to 1976 and stay there ☺
Lets all find a portal and go back!!
57 here also, I feel the exact same way
The Lord blessed me
The 70s, 80s and 90s were the best years in America it started going down by 2000. So many self centered disrespectful young people now. I wish I could live in the 70s and 80s again forever.
Sitting in the living room with the family watching the movie of the week on the color console tv. Just one of many wonderful memories.
If we could only go back and stay there...😍😢
I remember in 1979, wearing the Burger King uniform. Also, met my husband while working the specialty sandwich station next to his fry station. 43 years later, here we are. ❤
That's so cute! 💕
That’s lovely…
When we had common interests and society was more cohesive. How far this country has fallen in such a short amount of time. Terribly sad...
Christmas spirit was alive and well back then. Christmas wasn’t promoted until after Thanksgiving, families were closer and kids weren’t spoiled brats that didnt know what they wanted for xmas because mommy and daddy have already given them everything. Kids were respectful and parents made sure of it…..anyone that lived back then knows how money, gluttony, cell phones have destroyed this world…..Merry Christmas…oh wait…Happy Holidays, I dont want to offend someone…
You will offend me if you DON'T say "Merry Christmas"! Don't stop saying it.
Merry Christmas guys!
The commercials had heart and made you happy what a different world it was
The one that said Christmas of 1976 got me...because our dad had died in October, and my brother was 14 and I was 16, and Christmas sucked. That was the year we grew up and nothing was the same again.
Sorry to hear that. What happened?
It was the same for us in 1975.My Dad had a massive stroke in September of that year (my senior year had just started).Life changed that year,but we still had our faith and our family-the best gifts you could get!
I'm from UK. Same thing happened to me. I was 13. My dad died of a brain tumour in August 76. Life turned upside down. Never the same. Altered my view of life forever. Christmas was Same for me too.
My dad died the week before Christmas in 1978, when I was 14. But oddly, it wasn't a horrible Christmas...Mom knew that she couldn't ignore it, and made it as good as she could. And everyone pulled together, friends and family, and it was o.k.
I had no dad. I had a grandpa, and he was the best! He died a few days after Thanksgiving in 1977. Christmas sucked that year, and I was just 8. Never had a Christmas since I was 7.
thanks for doing this. I remember most of them and one thing that's different from the ads today is that everyone is so happy and touching/hugging each other with a jingle to sing! LOL
One of my favorites as a kid in the 70s was the Toys R Us commercial!
I remember I believe it was the 1990s reading an article about a fashion shoot and how they had to keep telling the models to NOT smile. They made them do it over and over because they kept smiling. They were told to 'have an attitude'. I was flabbergasted at the time but the trend caught on and here was are decades later with growly pouty models and celebrities that look anything but happy.
Hey!! Mrs. Costanza in another nostalgic Christmas commercial. Cool.
Santa riding in the Norelco shaving bottom was always among my favorites, as well as the one with little toddler Corey Feldman giving Santa the McDonald's gift certificate, and the little girl & her college brother surprising Mom & Dad with a pot of Maxwell House coffee. ☕
Actually, it as Folgers coffee not Maxwell House.
I thought that was her! 😂
And same commercial had Jerry's original father
And to think the 70s was the last of our best times!!!!
I wish I could go back to the seventies and stay there.
Holy crap i tots forgot about Hickory Farms! Now I want Summer sausage and cheese. Thanks for jogging the memory banks.⛄🧀😃🎅
The bacon cheese flavor was the best
They still exist online
The good old days. When no one was getting shot, not many on drugs at least not narcotics . Kids are safe. Not everyone hated each other. What happened?
We need more of this kind of old holiday stuff to come back
Back before they took Christ out of Christmas.
Christ was not mentioned in any of these commercials.
@@CPAndy-x5xyou are correct, but so is Robert. This is before they took Christ out of Christmas.
Isn’t that the exact point of the Charlie Brown Christmas Special? the commercialization Christmas? That was in 1965, so when was it “they” took your dead carpenter out of saturnalia and replaced him with that other mythic guy aka Santa Claus?
I'll be 67 on September 27th, '24 and I'd give almost anything to have the thrill of the Christmas Sears and Roebuck Catalog arriving ❤
Happy birthday 🎉
Back when the world made sense…
Wow commercials actually saying the word Christmas. And showing intact families who are white.
Joe DiMaggio for Mister Coffee. I saw him in Dinky Donuts. He's a dunker.
😂😂😂😂 Did you make a noise and slam your fist on the table?
Hey, LOOK AT 3:40! Disney characters in a Christmas Coke commercial... no woke crap, no LGTBQ+ idiocy, just singing and people being happy. Can you imagine???? If you like that dose of Disney, there's an even better one at 21:55 with Sun Bank & the Magic Kingdom.
I miss those days
I love these videos. They make me sad though. It reminds me of when I was little and my dad, little sister, grandparents, and other family members were still alive. How we'd gather at my paternal grandparent's house on Christmas Eve with all of our family, and then we'd gather at my maternal grandparent's house on Christmas Day with all of our family. It never failed that my Pawpaw on my mother's side, would always show up at our house on Christmas morning, bright and early, to see what 🎅 had brought us. There was so many of us on my dad's side, with him having 6 siblings, that the house, back, and front porch would all be full of people. And we'd always laugh because we knew our grandparents were going to get everyone a pair of socks. They didn't have much money, but we were always appreciative of our socks. I can smell my grandmother's pumpkin pies and all of the other delicious food we'd have. I know I'm rambling. Oh, how I miss those days. Just a lot of love and happiness. ❤
I never realized how internationally loved those Coke commercials were till I lived overseas and everyone from every country knew and loved them.
Was that Sammy Davis Jr. in the first commercial?
Yes it was! I did the same thing and it took me a minute for it to register that it was Sammy!
I haven't seen the Pillsbury dough boy in forever 🍪
Watching commercials and getting annoyed at TH-cam commercials 😂
Yes. I got annoyed when TH-cam served up a Christmas commercial while I was watching Christmas commercials.
A time that seemed so magical and peaceful, men & women had class and had a high moral compass
You mean the era of Richard Nixon and Watergate?
@@PapagenoMF better than the era of alphabet mobs and pedos
@@jlambe19 You're kidding right? Please study a little history. There were far left and far right groups during this era. Plenty child abusers who were getting away with their crimes far more frequently than they do now. Look at the Catholic Church in the 70s, just for starters...
Yep.....better than f'n pizza gate!
@@PapagenoMFyou need to educate yourself kid. Nixon was set up. Info available if you want to pursue it. And yes we had class and high morals, something the young lacl now! We've become a nation of shit!
i like these commercials so much better than the ones that are on TV today
Everything was better back then!
My favorite commercials are: Foldgers Coffee when Peter surprises his family by coming home for Christmas waking them up with the aroma of fresh coffee brewing. And when Jeffery and his family are putting on their coats to go out to Toys R' Us. And the Nestly Toll House cookies when the family visits grandma/grandad to make cookies.
Couldn't you just smell the coffee yourself ☕
❤❤❤❤❤
I love Christmas commercials from the past where they actually say Merry Christmas not Happy Holidays all the time.
I also remember the time of these commercials. People still say Merry Christmas. So what if peoplex also say Happy Holidays? It was also a common thing to say in the past, too. It may be more common now, but what's wromg in trying to include people who might not celebrate Christmas but want to celebrate and enjoy the season? Anyway, people are still free to say Merry Christmas and I guarantee no one will be upset. That's just Fox "News" propaganda BS.
@@tophers3756 Well said! I still say Merry Christmas most of the time, unless I'm talking to someone I know doesn't celebrate.
@@tophers3756yeah..besides Joy Behar from The Spew told you so.
@@BIGLOVE4TRUTH what a bizzare response. I know who she is, but I don't watch her show. I'm speaking from experience and reality. This Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas nonsense is simply right-wing propaganda pushed every year.
I'm often nostalgic for things from decades ago, and certainly things were simpler in many ways. That said we need to stop fetishing the past through a nostalgic haze and pretending they weren't worse in many ways as well. Personally I was treated much worse to damaging affect having grown up in the 70s and 80s than if I were growing up now.
@@tophers3756not really, many employees are told not to say Merry Christmas, at least it was that way especially at a library. We couldn’t wear a cross either-had to be totally neutral.
Corey Feldman was the kid that left Santa the gift certificate!🤩🙂💖
I thought that looked like him.
I remember every one of these, the one I use to love and looked forward to each year was the McDonald’s gift certificates to give literally to the mailman as advertised in the commercial and just about anyone else. The mid 70s and 80s were the best years of my life and in my opinion the last best decades in America. I would go back and do it all over again if I could. I don’t even recognize America anymore now in 2024 with men wearing dresses in our government thinking they are something they are not, people being shot at fast food restaurants, mall, theaters, schools..that just didn’t happen at all back then and people were more respectable to each other. We really did not lock our doors on those long summer nights. If only we could go back… *THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS GREAT TIME MACHINE*
I remember how prevalent Ziggy greeting cards were
Was that a little Corey Feldman in the McDonald's commercial?
Back when things were priced at a reasonable price.
From what the commercials say it's 1978 when these aired. The inflation rate was 7.59%. I'm sure people then would say "prices are crazy high!!" Today the inflation rate is 3.14%. The 70's were not a time of "reasonable prices."
@@sarahb7861I don’t know where you live , but I pay at least 40% more for groceries then I did three years ago .
@@sarahb78613.14%? I’d believe you if it wasn’t for a little thing called intelligence. It’s apparent you choose to believe whatever is thrown at you today by whatever mass media you follow. Do the math for yourself and watch for all the catches to these untrue and unrealistic numbers.
3.14% hahaha!
My generation we learned to think for ourselves. Don’t allow yourself to be deluded so quickly and you’ll see the erroneous statement holds no truth.
We just had no idea beck then how bad things were going to get.
I was age 10-19 in the 1970s so these are all vivid memories of my Christmases. I remember almost every single one of these ads.
Im same age as you! I graduated class of '78. You and me was the target demographic of MTV! lol! I comfortably pissed the 80s away watching MTV.
@@Izumi-sp6fp I may have been the target demo for MTV, but for the most part I hated it. They seldom showed videos of the performers and kinds of music I liked. They lumped practically all the metal videos into one block on Saturday night (Headbangers' Ball), and most of that was the hair metal/pop metal stuff that largely appealed to teen girls, their REAL target demo.
Class of 79 for HS. Merry Christmas
@@TC-dw6wg Merry Christmas to you too.
. Class of '79 also, I watched early MTV but after awhile it just seemed monotonous, same old videos. Love these old commercials 😊
The valentine's day cards were SO MUCH better then too ❤
Was that Mrs. Costanza in the American Greetings commercial?
Odd how, being 56 in 2023, it was like yesterday. I knew nearly everyone....ahhh, the memories.
I found a book with green stamps in it, not filled out yet. Dang. We could have gotten something!
My mom has a blue chip stamp book..filled up to..😁
These commercials just melts my heart away ❤
I love it. Bring back great memories.
I want the 70s back😢😢😢😢
Was that "Estell", George's mom from Seinfeld?
Back when you could afford to buyM&Ms!
True!
I miss arther treacher, wonderful fish and chips.
😢🐟🍟Me, too!
Oh yeah!
Back in those days the corporations actually cared about their customers. ❤
The commercial with Bing Crosby was the best. My parents had a few of those Goodyear/Firestone Christmas albums!!
That is my favorite christmas album.
My dad got 1 every year in the 70s.
But that
" Christmas is"
Is the Best one and its still not Christmas until i hear it..
I still have that album.
🎄❤
I loved it back then. Simple electronics, a touch tone phone or even rotary, TV with only a few channels, a hand written letter, or Christmas card in the mailbox, and fast food restaurant gift certificates, not gift cards.
I think people actually liked one another back then.
What's happened to us? I feel blessed to have been a young adult back then.
Praying for peace and love this Christmas.
We liked ourselves better. It starts with that.
Remember when people could unite on at least one principle? Christmas?
My Dad was a theater mime and we lived in the rural NC mountains so he didn't get much work. When Christmas came we all got tons of toys. So much family came and made pallets on the floor to sleep. I grew up and Mom confessed her family always paid for our Christmas :)
❤
I'd love to go through all the major department stores catalogs at Christmas