@nathanrykers4577 Back in the day, we would auto record a TV series on late at night & watch it next day. We would ff ads. After visiting mates in US found they watched too & was well ahead of us. Was offered to rec for me & send. I bought carton of tapes & waited & when arrived included ads that enthralled us no end, sometimes rewinding to watch again. There's novelty in difference & especially nostalgia
My Dad used to get his petrol from BP and pick up a Smurf for me, and hide them in the house for me to find. I still have just about all of them. I'm 44 now 😁
Hell no, you're not alone. 80's Rockabilly, psychobilly and just never changed. I don't know if that's anything to be proud of though. One thing's for sure and it's that globalization ruined all the Australian made product industry.
I get the feeling it was a tough time to be an adult but it was a great time to be a kid. So much media, so many toys, computer games, great music, and too young to worry about mortgages.
Wow I was 6 year's old. My beautiful Mother was 25 years old. Bless her left us for the golden Gates in 2016. My kids think it's from another planet lol. How things have changed. I certainly miss the Easy times.
@@auroraborealis5565t’s not it’s been taken over by culturally diverse people who only migrate here for lifestyle and money. Australia as it was is dead.
@@auroraborealis5565 Only in so far as the landmass remains. Beyond that, it is an outpost of the Anglo hegemon; a globalised and soulless land where 97% of the occupants are city dwellers, indistinguishable from the masses anywhere else in the Anglosphere.
Wow , what a blast from the past, I was a 70's child, 80's a teenager, years like that will never be again unfortunately, memories always there , great video, thank you 😊
I remember as a kid putting money into the bank - no matter how little - and it made interest. Made me so excited. Had a bank book so you could keep track. No wonder much older people in this country are so confused and upset.
Yeah they used to make kids open a bank account in schools during primary school funny thing is they still didn't teach kids about money in high school, and they still don't today. Funny that?
Australia was good back then. Seemed like it had a real purpose to it. A place you could get ahead. Not so nowdays. More than half the population broke, record homelessness everywhere, generations of people never being able to afford a house any longer. Not much chop anymore.
From what I hear and see on the news, it's not any better in the U.S., home of the American Dream. Maybe you've seen the videos up here on CZcams about tent cities, blocks of parked cars and vehicles which are the homes of people (many of them working in part or full-time jobs), etc.
The decline is because the wages at the bottom end are too high. Manufacturers can't maintain the labour costs without raising prices, which are then passed on to the consumer, who of course, will buy cheaper goods from Asia. It snowballs. Factories with 50 employees are replaced by warehouses (for the Asian goods) with 5 employees driving forklifts. I read of some industrial area like this in Sydney, rows upon rows of warehouses with hardly any employees.
That's because social housing was a priority in the 70s and 80s but Howard set the wheels of the housing crisis in motion when his govt reduced social housing expenditure and made housing an investment rather than a human need by making changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax.
These ads bring back memories like it was yesterday. I was 15 in 1981. Bruce Mansfield did the voice over for the Dallas ad on Channel 10. All these ads are great...the Gillette ads area blast from the past 🙂 Alan Seal on the Thai Airways plane. Aussie bonds ad it's just like yesterday! The joint has gone to hell these days. Australia was Australia then!
Melinials - Tape was our USB stick. We stuck it in our music computer - or "Tape recorder". It was our goto for music on the go. You could fit 30 songs on one side.
Hang on... are you saying any kid that isn't white, can't be Australian? 🤦♀ It wasn't that long ago when Greeks, Italians, etc, were not considered as Aussies, too, if you care to remember through your bigotry.
@@peachyb1969 The adverts don't represent the demographics, let alone the Aboriginal and Settler first nations people. It's like honour your parents theme too.
@peachyb1969 Many ads today are internationised. There's a toothbrush ad that comes to mind, you know the one with the round head. I've seen that in several Euro countries in their language, toilet fresheners, kids chocs, shavers, cars etc. Same ad diff language
@@peachyb1969 You can't buy race, nor get a citizenship certificate to be that race. Settler Australia are mainly from UK and to a lessor, Northern Europe. So if you're from those groups? if you live here you can be a corporate Australian, but not Settler Australian. Settlers are First Nations People, along with Black & Brown Aboriginal Tribes/Races. Settlers are technically Aboriginal, Of the Original (Land Claimants)
ESSO, BP, Myer Miss Shop, Australia Post, Coles New World..........great Victorian based companies. Melbourne TV ads were clearly the best. I loved the Ken Bruce Electrical Appliance store & Franco Cozzo furniture ads as well as Alan Mance Holden............"Don't take a chance, don't take a chance......don't take a chance, go to Alan Mance!" Oh and Eric Planinsek Fur clothing............"2...........230.................230 Brunswick street...............230 Brunswick street.....Fitzroy!" Go the Vics! ✌️
I finished high school in 1981. I remember seeing all of these ads, really brought back memories. It was fascinating to see the prices for things too, to see how much or how little prices had moved in 40+ years.
Oh yeah? Nobody promised me a great future, but I got it regardless. Love my family, dream home, lovely car, nice salary, we can dine at a nice restaurant, any time. I also wear clothes my father could have only dreamed about. I would not have believed what I’ve managed to enjoy today. My brother has done even better…lives in the US and plays Golf where Donald Trump plays. What I’d like to know is whom it was that promised you anything mate. Tell me more about your privileged life.
I'm fairly sure that that is the British comedian and actor Les Dennis, though quite how he came to be in an Australian commercial for what I presume is a chocolate bar I don't know.
@@MrDannyDetail Yes he did , it was a nice chocolate bar too , had hazelnut's in it as I recall , but like most products I take a liking to it was discontinued. Those Chokito bars are very nice , that's one that's still with us.
Thank you this is so magnificent to sit through and watch. I was 10 in '81 and pretty much remember all of these ad's, which with time, i had forgotten. Brought a tear to my eye, as that was the great uncomplicated time i grew up in, in the lucky land, and nothing is the same anymore..the world has become messed up. I guess im an old fogey now haaaa... Beautiful time capsule thanks for this 27 mins of pure reminiscing joy🤗👌
Had a friend who did the Matchbox Australia TV ad at the end of the 1970's from Crestwood Public school in Sydney, who mimes the line with a deep voice over and goes something like, "Matchbox toys... they're tough like me!". I know who the kid is, and used to live in the street behind the school and was in my yr at school. No older than about 6 or 7. His parents must've signed him to an agent or so at the time. He was never in anything after that. And another kid I knew when I changed schools, was in the Meadow Lea margarine ad on TV at the turn of the 1980s.
*I remember those first ATMs well. When there were two side by side you could withdraw $50 from one, go to the next and withdraw another $50 ($100) and it would only appear as minus $50 on your account. The banks unfortunately soon got wise to this flaw, though*
@@JeffreyArthur-ff3vv That clearly would have been a temporary glitch. The big wigs at the banks were hardly gonna allow that glitch to go on for a decade, and who cares how many millions or billions they might lose. 😜
@@jimmyohara2601 setting off on your bike after breakfast and coming home when it got dark, all the kids in the neighbourhood playing cricket on the road and only pausing occasionally to let a car go by. Uncrowded beaches, local milkbars, relaxed life where people weren't going mad working to pay for their houses. I think the basic difference is that the old culture treated 'Yuppies' with suspicion, they were seen as soulless and materialistic, too fixated on living out the modern corporate hyperreality at the expense of family and community and traditional culture. Now no-one even knows what a yuppie is because somehow they took over everything.
1981 memories of mine. The memory of the painfull loss of john Lennon. John mcenroe winning against borg at Wimbledon. The 1981 newtown jets. Flowers became icehouse at sydnes capital theatre with men at work also performed. What a year.!!.
I was 18 in 1981. I remember almost all of the ads, although like most ads they get pushed to the back of your mind to be recalled when the time is right. The Nestlè Chokito ad at 16.20, I had a Ford van with those wheels and that colour! Sadly I didn’t have a girl like the blonde in the red T-Shirt, but then if I did I probably wouldn’t have had the van.
Why not? My eldest brother managed to have a g.f (who later became his wife) AND also had some cool cars back in the late 70's and early 80's. A panel van, a Torana, and a very nice Fairlane.
That was the return on a gov bond, always the poorest paying return for money one can get! Interest on borrowing was much much higher. I paid around 30% on my Holden dealer financed new Commodore four years later. About same time interest bearing deposits & superannuation were paying 17, 18%. Would've been a good time to be rich
@@Jimmy911ism They are a fixed term debt security that carries an rate of interest fixed over the life of the security. The bonds are repayable at face value on maturity. It's kinda like you lending the gov money & they pay you interest & when it expires you get your money back
@@originalsusser damn. This should be taught in school. If it was, there wasn't any emphasis. Get the country out if a jam *and* profit from it! I bet 95% of viewers had no clue what bonds were.
@@Jimmy911ism 'get the country out of a jam' a very succinct & accurate portrayal of bond use by governments. They effectively helped the US win WW2 with 'War Bonds'
The 80s had challenges , coming from immigrant parents, and being first generation Australian. However Australia ( Melbourne Victoria ) was fantastic to grow up. Australia today is ruined.
Watching the Daryl Braithwaite music video for 'One Summer' invokes teenage memories at the beach in Australia back in the Eighties. They truely were the best years.
Mom wanted to get me them, i even remember the price (i nearly never complained), but i really didn't want them ended up with Dunlop KT26's ($25), later black volley ball shoes, the only cool-ish stuff i got in high school (and a backpack).
I'm repairing pinballs from the 70's & 80's listening to ads from the same time period. Can't help but remember Demolition man when they sing the old commercial jingles.
I grew up in Scarborough beach in perth ..the guy on the chokito add was basically the standard look for every surfie looking 17 yr old at the time with a shell necklace 🤣
It had been around a long time. Not sure when it stopped but has to be less than 10 years. Closest thing to it is a chunky Milo kit kat bar. From any woollies or Coles chocolate bar isle.
Rosemary Margan, had to look her up, you must be Melbournian, what about Nolene Brown? Did she ever look so young? BTW had a junky old Windsor powered XW in 81 that had Super roo stickers on its sides. It wasn't original or I wouldn't have dumped it in a back lane when its rego ran out.
I remember them all like it was yesterday. Good old Julius Sumner Miller, the first ATM'S and being 'Wet, Homesick and Frightened'. Grosby Desert Boots were our school shoes and the Chokito ad was motivation for a 6am Sat morning surf session.
If only I could go back to this time in Australia, where life was not spent worrying about inclusion, diversity and the individuals demands. causing tension divisions and social unrest with the focus on only certain races, genders or ethnicity. It was more about getting along as whole, as a community happily living together despite our differences, and acting in a more cohesive unified community enjoying the best of what unites us and not focusing on those parts that divide us. I want that back.
@@PaulB19677I'm 54 from Perth and I'm the same. Don't like the direction it's heading. Especially since early 2020. People have become lobotomized to believe that the media wont lie to them about serious health matters, and most are reprogrammed by simple repetition of certain points.
Love the guy at 5 minutes in the Toshiba ad sitting in his small dinghy, relaxing with a pipe, fishing rod in hand whilst watching reef fish on his 4 inch battery powered portable. LOL Who didn't want a TV they could take fishing.
I remember the 1st time I used my handycard for eftpos, I didn't have credit card then. It was early 80s & the servo had these banners on the pumps advertising it. Not having a clue what it meant I asked the guy pumping my petrol, yes I miss that, what it was all about. Had cash but used it for novelty value. I remember driving away thinking the world's becoming an easier place
And wow hasn't the world changed? Now the big 4 are selling off their remaining ATMs to third party operators or just removing the machines and closing branches down all together. 😪
@@maxineb9598 Nor is Cadbury. Whittaker's from NZ is closer than Birmingham, England though, isn't it? Of course, I was referring to the quality of product and not the origin anyway.
Anyone who thinks Australia wasn't better back then is deluded . I bought my first house in 1989 at the age of 20 and paid it off in 5 years on . Now that same property is worth %1700 more than i paid , how much do you think wages have increased by in that time frame?. All because of extreme demand due to our politicians populate Australia priority. Good luck having a house deposit for a now , $4 million house by the age of twenty and paying it off in 5 years , like i did in 2023 .
@@BlairSauer I think they mean Deborah (not Debra) Hutton, a very familiar face in the 80s as a fashion model, and as the model/"face of"/spokesperson fronting Grace Bros department store (TV ads, print etc). She was later familiar as a TV personality as well.
@@SY-ok2dq Ah righto. I think she was on a tv show called location location later in life as well. Used to air on channel 9. I remember seeing ads for the show when it was going around 15 years ago or more.
@@BlairSauer She was the Grace Bros face/spokesperson for years, so she was very recognizable to the general public, even if they didn't know her name. And yeah, then she did more TV work and shows like the one you mentioned. I've never seen the shampoo ad though.
I skipped the CZcams ad to watch more ads. What a time to be alive
That’s funny, so ironic isn’t it.
Who would have ever thought we’d be watching old ads for fun.
@nathanrykers4577 Back in the day, we would auto record a TV series on late at night & watch it next day. We would ff ads. After visiting mates in US found they watched too & was well ahead of us. Was offered to rec for me & send. I bought carton of tapes & waited & when arrived included ads that enthralled us no end, sometimes rewinding to watch again. There's novelty in difference & especially nostalgia
😂😂😂😂😂😂
install an adblocker.nobody sits through youtube ads.
You tha dude😂
The decade of the 80's - BEST time to be a teenager! I'll stand by that.
I’ll stand with you
So blessed
Yes they were.
Absolutely!..I was 15 at the start of the decade 25 at the end loved it all good,bad,fashion,music,TV,movies,tech...a time never to come again..
I was in primary school in the 80’s it was a great time to be a kid.
@@robertdemon3550 THE BEST!
Watching this is like I've travelled back in time and sitting on the floor at my grandma's house watching tv at night .
I’d add to this….looking through a box of old photographs ❤
My Dad used to get his petrol from BP and pick up a Smurf for me, and hide them in the house for me to find. I still have just about all of them. I'm 44 now 😁
My mums 2 corgi's ate mine 😂
I'm 49 I had a whole collection of them in 82 🙄
Awesome lol...
So many memories god i miss these times😢
It is INSANE how these ads take us back to our youth. Stupid ads that we probably remember more than any of the shows. Thank you.
Professor Julius Sumner Miller was a bloody legend. He taught more kids more science than every school teacher in the country.
we all knew how to get the egg in a bottle ....just like Cadbury's glass & a half in every block
He was used to give a scientific image to chocolate, one of the biggest causes of health issues.
why is it so?
@@LegendLengthchocolate is? What a load of rubbish
While we were all learning about Captain Bloody Cook how short sighted we were
I am still stuck in the 80’s , I’ve noticed I am not the only one ! Great era indeed !
Hell no, you're not alone. 80's Rockabilly, psychobilly and just never changed. I don't know if that's anything to be proud of though. One thing's for sure and it's that globalization ruined all the Australian made product industry.
I get the feeling it was a tough time to be an adult but it was a great time to be a kid. So much media, so many toys, computer games, great music, and too young to worry about mortgages.
I'm stuck in the 90's and I'm 49. 😢
@@craigwilson4439
It was bound to happen.
Almost everybody wants to buy things as cheaply as possible. Can't blame globalisation for that.
Wow I was 6 year's old. My beautiful Mother was 25 years old. Bless her left us for the golden Gates in 2016. My kids think it's from another planet lol. How things have changed. I certainly miss the Easy times.
Early times ⏱️ ?? 🤔
Awwwwwww😢
@@jimmyohara2601
Who mentioned "Early"? 😜
So many memories. I was 16 then. Sometimes I think I'm actually homesick for this era.
I was 9 lol
It's tough sometimes, recalling our youth. For me, it's wishing I'd been more aware and that I'd made the most of my chances.
I was 8
@@Jimmy911ism Yep....sigh
I wish I could stream a channel non stop as it was 40 years ago. I fucken hate the garbage today
who would've thought, we'd be watching these for entertainment, on something called 'the internet' 42 years later...
I wasn't aged 10 in 1981, I was 16 and am now almost 57, some great advertising memories here.
Who said you were ten in 1981?
Back when Australia was a real country...I miss it.
I love your profile pic.Flintstone smoking 😂😂
@@auroraborealis5565t’s not it’s been taken over by culturally diverse people who only migrate here for lifestyle and money. Australia as it was is dead.
See the ad for the BP Smurf figurines, I used to have some of them as a kid, I forgot all about them.
@@auroraborealis5565 Only in so far as the landmass remains. Beyond that, it is an outpost of the Anglo hegemon; a globalised and soulless land where 97% of the occupants are city dwellers, indistinguishable from the masses anywhere else in the Anglosphere.
@@darkglasseswoody Not like rugged individualists such as you. You are above such things.
Wow , what a blast from the past, I was a 70's child, 80's a teenager, years like that will never be again unfortunately, memories always there , great video, thank you 😊
Years like that ?? 🤔
The 1980’s were a great era, when TV was worth watching.
It still is.
@@davidhoward4715 whats you're favourite show?
@@cozenwilsheen4188- NHK WORLD-JAPAN. Lol. I watch it every morning at 3, as I get ready for war 😂
TVs even better now…heard about streaming services? 😄
to Bloody Right.
Commercial Land is a magical realm where Dairy Milk is a health food and Kit Kats don't melt when they've been in some dude's pocket.
I remember as a kid putting money into the bank - no matter how little - and it made interest. Made me so excited. Had a bank book so you could keep track. No wonder much older people in this country are so confused and upset.
Yeah they used to make kids open a bank account in schools during primary school funny thing is they still didn't teach kids about money in high school, and they still don't today. Funny that?
The good old time's when life was so simpler.
I think this is true for every generation, life is progressively getting more and more complex with each decade!
Simple err ?? 🤔
@jimmyohara2601 Johns obviously not back with proper grammar!
@@originalsusserol johno is from the school of sky news….
You know, my parents used to say that same thing in the 80's about the 50's.
Australia was good back then. Seemed like it had a real purpose to it. A place you could get ahead. Not so nowdays. More than half the population broke, record homelessness everywhere, generations of people never being able to afford a house any longer.
Not much chop anymore.
From what I hear and see on the news, it's not any better in the U.S., home of the American Dream.
Maybe you've seen the videos up here on CZcams about tent cities, blocks of parked cars and vehicles which are the homes of people (many of them working in part or full-time jobs), etc.
@@SY-ok2dq…Hah…Australia is nowhere near as bad as America. Many of their cities are complete no-go areas.
The decline is because the wages at the bottom end are too high. Manufacturers can't maintain the labour costs without raising prices, which are then passed on to the consumer, who of course, will buy cheaper goods from Asia. It snowballs.
Factories with 50 employees are replaced by warehouses (for the Asian goods) with 5 employees driving forklifts. I read of some industrial area like this in Sydney, rows upon rows of warehouses with hardly any employees.
That's because social housing was a priority in the 70s and 80s but Howard set the wheels of the housing crisis in motion when his govt reduced social housing expenditure and made housing an investment rather than a human need by making changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax.
Yeah the generations before us and ours helped cause that you realise? Or do you think its the fault of the latest generation lol
40 years later and once again i cant get the Aussie Bonds jingle out of my head
These ads bring back memories like it was yesterday. I was 15 in 1981. Bruce Mansfield did the voice over for the Dallas ad on Channel 10. All these ads are great...the Gillette ads area blast from the past 🙂 Alan Seal on the Thai Airways plane. Aussie bonds ad it's just like yesterday! The joint has gone to hell these days. Australia was Australia then!
A lot of the humour in these ads has now fallen victim to political correctness.
Agree 👍
Alan Ssssseal & his aphidssss, lacsssebugssss & caterpillarssss
I was 11 in 1981 and yep could not agree more! We lived in the TRUE Australia - not this lying corrupt rubbish now.
Never mind old man, you're not long for this world and we can all get on without your "good old days " rhetoric.
Melinials - Tape was our USB stick. We stuck it in our music computer - or "Tape recorder". It was our goto for music on the go. You could fit 30 songs on one side.
I am a qualified lesbian
Australia was good back then
When Australian adverts were useful to watch
Back when retired Australian men went to Thailand to enjoy the orchids.
And ping pong tournaments
@@johnhynds941 and thai babies
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😂😂😂
And absolutely no other reasons, except the brochures. nothin sus!
At least we have our memories. When it all gets too much in this crazy new world just close your eyes and remember the good ol' 80's.....
Many of today's adverts you're lucky to see an Australian in them, especially the toy ads.
Hang on... are you saying any kid that isn't white, can't be Australian? 🤦♀
It wasn't that long ago when Greeks, Italians, etc, were not considered as Aussies, too, if you care to remember through your bigotry.
@@peachyb1969 The adverts don't represent the demographics, let alone the Aboriginal and Settler first nations people. It's like honour your parents theme too.
Racist shit.
@peachyb1969 Many ads today are internationised. There's a toothbrush ad that comes to mind, you know the one with the round head. I've seen that in several Euro countries in their language, toilet fresheners, kids chocs, shavers, cars etc. Same ad diff language
@@peachyb1969 You can't buy race, nor get a citizenship certificate to be that race. Settler Australia are mainly from UK and to a lessor, Northern Europe. So if you're from those groups? if you live here you can be a corporate Australian, but not Settler Australian. Settlers are First Nations People, along with Black & Brown Aboriginal Tribes/Races. Settlers are technically Aboriginal, Of the Original (Land Claimants)
ESSO, BP, Myer Miss Shop, Australia Post, Coles New World..........great Victorian based companies.
Melbourne TV ads were clearly the best.
I loved the Ken Bruce Electrical Appliance store & Franco Cozzo furniture ads as well as Alan Mance Holden............"Don't take a chance, don't take a chance......don't take a chance, go to Alan Mance!"
Oh and Eric Planinsek Fur clothing............"2...........230.................230 Brunswick street...............230 Brunswick street.....Fitzroy!" Go the Vics! ✌️
I finished high school in 1981. I remember seeing all of these ads, really brought back memories. It was fascinating to see the prices for things too, to see how much or how little prices had moved in 40+ years.
I'll have to rewatch. Didn't notice any prices.
Edit: I'm calling bullshit. What ads had prices in them?
@@Jimmy911ismCrosby shoes $12.99 - $15.99 , and I'm only a few ads in. You might have to watch yet again.
Truly the good old days, decent clothes and shoes too. With the promise of a great future.....
Oh yeah? Nobody promised me a great future, but I got it regardless. Love my family, dream home, lovely car, nice salary, we can dine at a nice restaurant, any time. I also wear clothes my father could have only dreamed about. I would not have believed what I’ve managed to enjoy today. My brother has done even better…lives in the US and plays Golf where Donald Trump plays.
What I’d like to know is whom it was that promised you anything mate. Tell me more about your privileged life.
Some real classic "Sheila's" in these commercials!!!!😀
This makes me want to buy more things than any other new ad
That young guy was super impressed with that chokito.
I'm fairly sure that that is the British comedian and actor Les Dennis, though quite how he came to be in an Australian commercial for what I presume is a chocolate bar I don't know.
@@MrDannyDetail We had Eric Idle on a chocolate bar ad here in New Zealand in about 1980 , it was called the "Nudge" bar.
@@barrycuda3769 Presumably he was doing the 'nudge nudge wink wink say no more' routine from Monty Python then?
@@MrDannyDetail Yes he did , it was a nice chocolate bar too , had hazelnut's in it as I recall , but like most products I take a liking to it was discontinued. Those Chokito bars are very nice , that's one that's still with us.
Thank you this is so magnificent to sit through and watch.
I was 10 in '81 and pretty much remember all of these ad's, which with time, i had forgotten.
Brought a tear to my eye, as that was the great uncomplicated time i grew up in, in the lucky land, and nothing is the same anymore..the world has become messed up.
I guess im an old fogey now haaaa...
Beautiful time capsule thanks for this 27 mins of pure reminiscing joy🤗👌
Ye watching these clips really brought a tear to me as well
Watching these again Bring back so much Fantastic memories especially with my Parents....
Your not wrong there turbo i was 5 years old back then everything was cheap i never heard a byron bay town back in them days
Yep I was also 10 too. What a great time wish I could be back there. What a blast!
White Australia was the lucky country. Everything has degenerated now. Australia is nothing more than an economic zone now, it isn’t a “nation”.
i was just born one year before
I still have my smurf plushie and I’m 50 now.
I wish
geez they were good days.
ESSO - 0:01
Selleys - 1:00
Dallas - 1:30
Scotch - 2:00
Grosby boots - 3:00
Faberge organics shampoo - 3:31
OMO Washing - 4:00
Toshiba TV and products - 4:30
Myer Miss Shop - 6:28
Air Thai - 6:57
Superman - 7:58
BP Wierd Smurf - 8:28
Aussie Bonds - 8:58
Maggie flavour - 9:58
Slumberland beds - 10:27
Lee jeans (great ad) - 10:56
Australian Navy - 11:57
The Age - 12:25
HandyBank - 12:55
Cadbury - 13:55
AirWick - 14:53
Waltons - 15:22
Chokito - 16:22
Charge Iron Aid - 16:52
EON 92.3FM - 17:22
Ansett Holiday - 17:50
Milo - 18:20
Lawford furniture - 18:50
Coles New World - 19:21
Hushpuppies shoes - 20:20
Nescafe - 20:50
Kit-Kat - 21:18
Decrabond roofing - 21:49
Faberge hair organic hairspray or something - 22:18
Nashua copy - 22:27
Fur... This is a real ad about fur - 23:27
Mccains Pizza - 23:57
Alpine Ski - 24:25
Sunsilk shampoo - 24:55
Tasmania ad - 26:23
Faberge / scent fiducia - 27:24
When Gross Boots were only $1:00
Ur not wrong .Now it’s sad to say our products are all imported and turning into American produce :( chocolates are getting bigger?
@@animatedollyAmerican products are all Asian now. Ethnic European people need to wake up. We make NOTHING anymore.
Had a friend who did the Matchbox Australia TV ad at the end of the 1970's from Crestwood Public school in Sydney, who mimes the line with a deep voice over and goes something like, "Matchbox toys... they're tough like me!". I know who the kid is, and used to live in the street behind the school and was in my yr at school. No older than about 6 or 7. His parents must've signed him to an agent or so at the time. He was never in anything after that. And another kid I knew when I changed schools, was in the Meadow Lea margarine ad on TV at the turn of the 1980s.
Thankyou!
My hair was so big in the 80's that i never got to see all these
Love that big 80s bush 😘👌
16:52
That first woman in the ironing aid ad, was the woman who played Sandy Edwards in Prisoner. 😃
Certainty was!!!
I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out who she was 😩 thank god for comments 😀
*I remember those first ATMs well. When there were two side by side you could withdraw $50 from one, go to the next and withdraw another $50 ($100) and it would only appear as minus $50 on your account. The banks unfortunately soon got wise to this flaw, though*
I remember the ATM's being exactly the same in the early 90's, surprised how little they had changed
@@JeffreyArthur-ff3vv
That clearly would have been a temporary glitch.
The big wigs at the banks were hardly gonna allow that glitch to go on for a decade, and who cares how many millions or billions they might lose. 😜
And the con was that by using the ATM's you wouldn't be charged.... so gullible...
Such a time capsule of memories.
Oh, gosh!!!. Just wonderful. The old ATM's, loooove it!!. ❤
I remember those old Cadbury ads with that old dude. I was probably 4 years old LoL.
Yes I remember him. He was a bit of a agro and scare me a bit.
These were the good old days. Sad to see its changed
Changed from ?? 🤔
@@jimmyohara2601 setting off on your bike after breakfast and coming home when it got dark, all the kids in the neighbourhood playing cricket on the road and only pausing occasionally to let a car go by. Uncrowded beaches, local milkbars, relaxed life where people weren't going mad working to pay for their houses.
I think the basic difference is that the old culture treated 'Yuppies' with suspicion, they were seen as soulless and materialistic, too fixated on living out the modern corporate hyperreality at the expense of family and community and traditional culture. Now no-one even knows what a yuppie is because somehow they took over everything.
"the good old days" NEVER existed unless you were rich, white and religious. Ugh, Australia
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Excellent 1981 television ads!!
1981 memories of mine. The memory of the painfull loss of john Lennon. John mcenroe winning against borg at Wimbledon. The 1981 newtown jets. Flowers became icehouse at sydnes capital theatre with men at work also performed. What a year.!!.
Hey you dude I saw John Lennon ghost last night like the image on the album Imagine.
@@anthonywilfredwong4545 then the cold woke you & you pulled the doona back up
Pretty sure John Lennon died in 1980, I remember the exact moment hearing on the radio
80s America, 80s Australia, and Japan post ww2 are peak of human culture
I miss those Milo bars!
Loved em, but used to stick in my teeth bad...!!!
I was 18 in 1981. I remember almost all of the ads, although like most ads they get pushed to the back of your mind to be recalled when the time is right. The Nestlè Chokito ad at 16.20, I had a Ford van with those wheels and that colour! Sadly I didn’t have a girl like the blonde in the red T-Shirt, but then if I did I probably wouldn’t have had the van.
Why not?
My eldest brother managed to have a g.f (who later became his wife) AND also had some cool cars back in the late 70's and early 80's.
A panel van, a Torana, and a very nice Fairlane.
@@peachyb1969 long run it wouldn’t have mattered. Today no cute blonde girl in a red t-shirt, and no blue XB Van.
@@peachyb1969 Remember the 'Sandman'?
@@davidpalmer9780 I've have a HJ Belmont Panel Van! 3 on the tree Poverty Pack! Still love it anyway!👍
1) The golden age of Ocker ads 2) The golden age of catchy tune ads 3) The golden age of Japanese electronics
Japanese & Taiwanese then Chinese 🌚
A Panasonic VCR was $1000 back in the day. Not everything was cheap in 1981.
Our first VCR was delivered and set up because it was so expensive and new.
Can’t even buy a Panasonic TV in Australia anymore.
@@wilmaw1190mine’s still going strong.
@@joools1953 that’s awesome! Hope it was a VHS and not a Beta 🤣
@@wilmaw1190VHS. 😊
Ahh the good ol' days when chocolate was advertised for its nutritional value.
Thank you
I really reliving and remembering a wonderful time of my life with your memories
Aussie Bonds - 12.25% return. Incredible to see all of the fuss made these days about 7% inflation when you see how it was in the 80’s.
That was the return on a gov bond, always the poorest paying return for money one can get! Interest on borrowing was much much higher. I paid around 30% on my Holden dealer financed new Commodore four years later. About same time interest bearing deposits & superannuation were paying 17, 18%. Would've been a good time to be rich
What is a bond?
@@Jimmy911ism They are a fixed term debt security that carries an rate of interest fixed over the life of the security. The bonds are repayable at face value on maturity. It's kinda like you lending the gov money & they pay you interest & when it expires you get your money back
@@originalsusser damn. This should be taught in school. If it was, there wasn't any emphasis. Get the country out if a jam *and* profit from it! I bet 95% of viewers had no clue what bonds were.
@@Jimmy911ism 'get the country out of a jam' a very succinct & accurate portrayal of bond use by governments. They effectively helped the US win WW2 with 'War Bonds'
Oh damn that navy ad takes me waaaay back..
My Uncle served on HMAS Vampire, the one in Darling harbour. (and on one of the Oberon subs, can't remember which one).
Australia that was. It’s like watching a different country. Different people. Different culture.
There's plenty of it still around, we don't have a generation left though, no-one had the balls to fight though.
The 80s had challenges , coming from immigrant parents, and being first generation Australian. However Australia ( Melbourne Victoria ) was fantastic to grow up. Australia today is ruined.
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Watching the Daryl Braithwaite music video for 'One Summer' invokes teenage memories at the beach in Australia back in the Eighties. They truely were the best years.
@@davidpalmer9780 I am a woman
@@sharongoodsell9341 I am planning to get pregnant
Man the good old DB's for sixteen bucks...what a time ? to be alive!!
Mom wanted to get me them, i even remember the price (i nearly never complained), but i really didn't want them ended up with Dunlop KT26's ($25), later black volley ball shoes, the only cool-ish stuff i got in high school (and a backpack).
I'm repairing pinballs from the 70's & 80's listening to ads from the same time period. Can't help but remember Demolition man when they sing the old commercial jingles.
I grew up in Scarborough beach in perth ..the guy on the chokito add was basically the standard look for every surfie looking 17 yr old at the time with a shell necklace 🤣
I was only about 10... brings back great memories and a few laughs, though. Thanks!
The original Milo bar.. the best chocolate bar ever made and they need to be brought back!.. and use the same recipe as it used to be. 👌
It had been around a long time. Not sure when it stopped but has to be less than 10 years. Closest thing to it is a chunky Milo kit kat bar. From any woollies or Coles chocolate bar isle.
Crosby studded lace ups....my school shoes in the 70s
Now every Australian AD must contain at least one Chinese or Indian 😢
most offensive in those advs are East European Inferior races Untermensh.
Wow! Old memories firing off in my head. And Rosemary Margan! Loved her.
Rosemary Margan, had to look her up, you must be Melbournian, what about Nolene Brown? Did she ever look so young? BTW had a junky old Windsor powered XW in 81 that had Super roo stickers on its sides. It wasn't original or I wouldn't have dumped it in a back lane when its rego ran out.
I know her face just not the shows...
Was that Debra Hutton doing the Faberge shampoo ad?
Looks like her.
The only thing that these ads remind me of is that I'm old 🤣😂😅 Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I remember them all like it was yesterday. Good old Julius Sumner Miller, the first ATM'S and being 'Wet, Homesick and Frightened'. Grosby Desert Boots were our school shoes and the Chokito ad was motivation for a 6am Sat morning surf session.
Think I want to buy another pair of desert boots now.
And at $16.99 they’re a bargain!!!
I saw a pair of Treads on Ebay :)
Part of my school uniform. Haven't worn any since.
Coles new world so many hilarious ads
Ironic watching that Toshiba television commercial on my Toshiba laptop. 😀
I've been looking for the Pollywog Biscuit commercial...with the bute new pollywog taste!!
Didn't they have polywaffles as well back in the 80s? Choo Choo bars?
Timestamp?
Many of these ads had Cinema ratio long versions...Val Morgan cinema advertising.
OMG I remember getting Smurf figures when my dad would fill up with petrol. That took me back for sure!
Back when we were sensible about energy
I miss the air Thai commercial, Bangkok.
Deborah Hutton "Super" beautiful
This video dragged my brain through forty of the last fifty years of my life 🤣😳😂😭😭😭😳😳😭😭😭😭😭
I'm 50. I remember all this. Makes me laugh. Cheer's for this . 😂Furniture model TV's all in dark brown foe wood and i also shopped at Miss Shop.
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I miss the Australia of the 80s and 90s
If only I could go back to this time in Australia, where life was not spent worrying about inclusion, diversity and the individuals demands. causing tension divisions and social unrest with the focus on only certain races, genders or ethnicity.
It was more about getting along as whole, as a community happily living together despite our differences, and acting in a more cohesive unified community enjoying the best of what unites us and not focusing on those parts that divide us. I want that back.
I bet I'm older than you, and I recognize it. Of course, I'm not stupid.
@@PaulB19677 like?
@@PaulB19677I'm 54 from Perth and I'm the same.
Don't like the direction it's heading.
Especially since early 2020.
People have become lobotomized to believe that the media wont lie to them about serious health matters, and most are reprogrammed by simple repetition of certain points.
@@rogerramjet6429iving in Perth is like living in 1981 lol Wa is still the most racist, backward, non progressive state we have!
@@PaulB19677 I can say the same about boomers complaining about happier times, they weren’t.
$470 dollars for all paid 15 day trip! Holy shit balls batman!
Love the navy ad
Hmmm $130 for an eight day holiday in Thailand? I want to know more about that deal ...
I am getting the CZcams ads with the 1981 ads!
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Love the guy at 5 minutes in the Toshiba ad sitting in his small dinghy, relaxing with a pipe, fishing rod in hand whilst watching reef fish on his 4 inch battery powered portable. LOL Who didn't want a TV they could take fishing.
13:00 - "Thanks to Wales Handy Bank, I'm free to do my banking any day or night of the week" - FFWD to current year - "Bank, what's a bank?...."
I remember the 1st time I used my handycard for eftpos, I didn't have credit card then. It was early 80s & the servo had these banners on the pumps advertising it. Not having a clue what it meant I asked the guy pumping my petrol, yes I miss that, what it was all about. Had cash but used it for novelty value. I remember driving away thinking the world's becoming an easier place
@@originalsusser"the guy pumping the petrol" 😅
@ZestySea mate, he put it in all the way & filled it right up, I was impressed with his staying power
And wow hasn't the world changed? Now the big 4 are selling off their remaining ATMs to third party operators or just removing the machines and closing branches down all together. 😪
One word describes tv back then: wholesome.
For most people, there was darkness just under the surface, now it's the other way around.
Ahh, back when Cadbury chocolate WASN'T sugary brown wax!
I guess there's Whittaker's now, 99% as good as old-school Cad.
And it was 200g, now 180g shrinkflation at work.
Whittakers aint Australian.
@@maxineb9598 Nor is Cadbury. Whittaker's from NZ is closer than Birmingham, England though, isn't it?
Of course, I was referring to the quality of product and not the origin anyway.
Deborah Hutton was super cute back then. Only 19yrs old. 3:31
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@@jimmyohara2601 what?
@@WarmerMusicVideos if Jimmy the DC knew he'd be the only one
she was born in 1961 so she was 20 in 1981.
Oh the memories....
Seems like all of us were aged 10 at the time.
Ummm, but I was!
I was 12. We must get nostalgic around the 50s
I was 11 lol umm 51 now oh what a dag I am
I was 18 and remember 1981 like it was last week.
I was only just born!
I was 8 years old in '81. Good times! I remember desert boots were popular as at my high school. Can we go back to the 80's please?
Anyone who thinks Australia wasn't better back then is deluded . I bought my first house in 1989 at the age of 20 and paid it off in 5 years on . Now that same property is worth %1700 more than i paid , how much do you think wages have increased by in that time frame?. All because of extreme demand due to our politicians populate Australia priority. Good luck having a house deposit for a now , $4 million house by the age of twenty and paying it off in 5 years , like i did in 2023 .
How young was Debra in that shampoo commercial 😳
Who's Debra? Is she a famous Australian tv personality?
About 20, born in 1961.
@@BlairSauer I think they mean Deborah (not Debra) Hutton, a very familiar face in the 80s as a fashion model, and as the model/"face of"/spokesperson fronting Grace Bros department store (TV ads, print etc). She was later familiar as a TV personality as well.
@@SY-ok2dq Ah righto. I think she was on a tv show called location location later in life as well. Used to air on channel 9. I remember seeing ads for the show when it was going around 15 years ago or more.
@@BlairSauer She was the Grace Bros face/spokesperson for years, so she was very recognizable to the general public, even if they didn't know her name. And yeah, then she did more TV work and shows like the one you mentioned.
I've never seen the shampoo ad though.
Pleaser, someone invent a time machine. SO glad I grew up in the 80s. Everything was so fun and fabulous. Now SUCKS!
Ok I’m really depressed now 😢I miss Australia RIP 😭
supermarkets were massive back in the day, they made alot of money