i thought i was born my time before seeing this, how warped the world truly was whenever these ads were created i cant believe made it out of those two decades alive.
I heard that Superman could not be seen doing ads, so only "Clark Kent" was seen eating Corn Flakes and such. I loved the Yoo Hoo Swiss Cream sandwich ad, they had good voices, and I loved the cute little cartoon calf in the Bosco commercial. Always liked Speedy Alka Seltza and Buster Keaton
Absolutely love the Lifebuoy ad. The woman's face when she develops the horns.. LOLLOL I love vintage commersial. World was so much simpler then, and the commercials were polite, funny, and even when they sort of fudged over the truth, you just felt certain that they could make your world a better one ;) We've gotten so jaded these days. I'm sure that the people back then were aware that the admen were trying to sell them a product. They tried harder to entertain you, I think.
@@TimelordR No doubt it would fly. Lucifer's had a pretty fair run... Make it online accessible and it'd be a winner, especially if it trys to be all edgy, ironic, and bemusedly self aware. Once it goes manga and anime... woosh off to the bank. If you've any talent. you might want to get on that :) Not being a total git here either... Though I was kidding around a little, I'm sure the right person could take that idea and do really well, in today's markets and audiences. Cheers :)
Yes, made by tobacco men so you will see nothing but medicine men...the cigarette that treats you better in every way...because it gives you many treatments....until you croak...for all those Old Gold Smoking treats! ;P
I used to think that "medicine men" remark referred to doctors. But now, I suspect it was really a sarcastic allusion to the very first Americans, the Indians. After all, each tribe had its own medicine man, and it was the Native Americans who taught the white man how to use tobacco. It sort of reminds me of a joke I saw in "Mad" magazine many years ago which said that the Indians are getting even for all the injustices the whites had committed against them all these years because "they taught paleface how to smoke." This, of course, was a reference to all the diseases caused by tobacco-smoking, like cancer.
i had forgotten all about Bosco, that syrup you added to milk to make the milk chocolate; i guess it must've been cheaper than buying real chocolate milk lol
The worst part of the smoking commercial at 6:02 is the box of matches is so much smaller it was probably a child. Yup... a child advertising for cigarettes. Only in the 50s.
Lol, people really didn't care what was in their food back then. Sugar and fat and and all kinds of junk. I read somewhere that the companies were trying to get people used to eating stuff full of chemicals because that's all they would have in their fallout shelters.
I remember some of the ads with spine tingling accuracy, some products I have heard of but some commercials were before my time.. Some products still exist, some dont.So interesting!Dancing Cigarettes? I remember the last cig commercial they showed in Los Angeles in the 1660's. I realized even as a kid that was important. Dennis James part of a natural style of announcers that dick clark and now ryan seacrest carry on. So many things to comment on. enjoying reading all the posts!
"a treat instead of a treatment. .... keep on smoking! " 😨😮 Sounds like the cigarette companies anticipated the battles they'd be facing with consumer advocates and medicine.
The somewhat vaguely sexual imagery of the dancing Old Gold cigarette pack, accompanied by a dancing box of matches is enough to make anyone quit smoking. 🚬
Even in spite of racism, most of us lived better lives then. There are things today that are just as bad as racism, but we don't have a solid foundation of family and support and values to fall back on. Those of us who lived then, regardless of our color know the difference between then and now. Big homes today but nobody home. Neighborhoods are empty because the kids are all at daycare. Obesity because the kids don't get outside and play. Children are not allowed a Childhood.
Jimmy know he likes those new Sugar Smacks! Clark Kent likes those new Sugar Smacks! I guess that means I should buy them cause I'm gonna like them, too!
whenever i visit my grandma (we're mexican) she always has a tang bottle in the fridge, and its always opened, but E V E R Y T I M E i get some its always at its fullest. i swear, my grandma got a blessed tang
OK. Good to know - I'll be looking for it if I'm in the US Midwest - I'm from Canada so my last exposure to Bosco was when I heard about it on "Seinfeld"...
i wish i was a teenager in the 50's or 80's .. but im just a teenager in the stupid 10's.. or infact we dont call it that anymore, do we? its the 2010's.
........Now when we watch this Sugar Smacks ad we can euloguize how these 3 are no longer with us The Chief as of 1957:Clark Kent as of 1959;and now Jimmy Olsen as of recently in this year 2016. ...............................Speedy Alka Seltzer has his backs and forths to TV in ads................Tang and Ovaltine alike taste bad.
Lifebuoy drives wives wicked....It would have been too over the top back then to simply say Lifebuoy it drives women wicked. And with todays PC BS this commercial would also be considered sexist.... "wat-a-shame"
I'll take a case of Lifebouy }:0) Besides Bosco (I miss that stuff) and Ovaltine (which I still drink) was Cocoa Marsh. They don't show it here but they came in great pump bottles. Cocoa Marsh in a lion shaped bottle (my fav) and Bosco in a clown shaped bottle with a point shaped cap I got my tongue stuck inside. LOL. And they say chocolate's not addictive?! ;0)
@seanthamaster i know right...i'm the same as you. i'm 21 and perfer 50's life to this life...if there wasn't racism back then it would of been perfect :D i wish we had the prices from those days.
True...Americans ate more BUTTER, cream, and processed sugar then than we 'health-conscious' of today...and were generally THINNER. Kids didn't park it right after school with cable TV and/or video games, they went outside, played pickup games of baseball and football, and girls played hopscotch and jumped rope (save for the tomboys that were often better than most of the boys at baseball and football!). Kids played outside until it got dark or Mom dragged them in, kicking and screaming, to eat dinner. There was little of what we consider 'fast food' until about the mid-60's. Even then, due to most families making it on the father's income, going out to eat was not only a luxury, done maybe twice a month, you 'dressed up', jacket and tie for men and boys, women and girls wore a nice dress, and you sat down and WAITED for your meal...and didn't whip out the smartphone and ignore everyone else!
I love Bosco! It’s rich and chocolaty. Chocolate flavored Bosco, it’s mighty good for me! Mama puts it in my milk for extra energy, Bosco gives me iron, and sunshine vitamin D! Oh I love Bosco, that’s the drink for me!
The people in the 50's thought being fat meant you were healthy and had wealth. Also sugar was thought to have healthy qualities and/or healthy properties. Kids could also play outside and all over the block but with their friends, other children who happened to be new to the block and/or neighborhood, children how happened to be there at sa particular time and in their friends' houses without ever being kidnapped or thinking of being kidnapped. Becasuse of this trust kidnappeings did happen but not offen, since parents, families, school, Churches, government, School Films warned the children of various age groups about kidnappings. The people who worked in a kids' sschool, the kids' friends parents, and the entire adult family spanked and/or gave paddlings to kids when they misbehaved and everyone accepted and encouraged spanking and/or paddling to thier kids and the kids of other people by themselves and by anyone else they knew and trusted.
Actually life was good and there was no watch dog groups telling you how to live nor was there fear mongers scaring you by repeating the boogey man will get you stories traumatized by the news media. You messed up in school and got a paddling you can bet your bottom dollar you would get another from your father. You showed respect for your parents,elders, teachers, Policemen-if you didn't you knew what awaited you when you got home.We ate our sweets, drank our pop and stayed skinny in the process because we played hard and used up those calories. We wasn't allowed to spend hours watching TV not even on Saturday mornings.I recall around Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays while having a tradional family dinner my Grandfather only told us kids one time to settle down.. Ignore that simple warning and pay the price-all of us paid because we was into it together as a group. Oddly enough us boys got into trouble far more then the girls. LOL!
commercials were so much more straight forward, they practically said "BUY THIS THING"
Brings me back to a more innocent time... not that the world was more innocent, but it was a time in my life when everything was.
i thought i was born my time before seeing this, how warped the world truly was whenever these ads were created i cant believe made it out of those two decades alive.
These are a treat, one and all. Thanks for posting!
I heard that Superman could not be seen doing ads, so only "Clark Kent" was seen eating Corn Flakes and such. I loved the Yoo Hoo Swiss Cream sandwich ad, they had good voices, and I loved the cute little cartoon calf in the Bosco commercial. Always liked Speedy Alka Seltza and Buster Keaton
Most shows only had one or two commercials shown during the commercial break, so the commercials could be one minute or more to fill up the time.
Sugar smacks terrifying clown on the box included.
Have an issue with coulrophobia (fear of clowns)?
Killenwolf Thank God they replaced it with a cartoon frog.
everyone was so happy back then
Buster Keaton advertising Alka Seltzer has to be the absolute highlight of this clip.
Absolutely love the Lifebuoy ad. The woman's face when she develops the horns.. LOLLOL I love vintage commersial. World was so much simpler then, and the commercials were polite, funny, and even when they sort of fudged over the truth, you just felt certain that they could make your world a better one ;) We've gotten so jaded these days. I'm sure that the people back then were aware that the admen were trying to sell them a product. They tried harder to entertain you, I think.
Interesting premise for a Sitcom, "I Married A Succubus". 🧛
@@TimelordR No doubt it would fly. Lucifer's had a pretty fair run... Make it online accessible and it'd be a winner, especially if it trys to be all edgy, ironic, and bemusedly self aware. Once it goes manga and anime... woosh off to the bank. If you've any talent. you might want to get on that :)
Not being a total git here either... Though I was kidding around a little, I'm sure the right person could take that idea and do really well, in today's markets and audiences. Cheers :)
"made by tobacco men, not medicine men. .... the cigarette that treats you better in every way "
Yup. It's war.
Yes, made by tobacco men so you will see nothing but medicine men...the cigarette that treats you better in every way...because it gives you many treatments....until you croak...for all those Old Gold Smoking treats! ;P
I used to think that "medicine men" remark referred to doctors. But now, I suspect it was really a sarcastic allusion to the very first Americans, the Indians. After all, each tribe had its own medicine man, and it was the Native Americans who taught the white man how to use tobacco. It sort of reminds me of a joke I saw in "Mad" magazine many years ago which said that the Indians are getting even for all the injustices the whites had committed against them all these years because "they taught paleface how to smoke." This, of course, was a reference to all the diseases caused by tobacco-smoking, like cancer.
The Ovaltine ad reminds me of the scene in "A Christmas Story" where Ralphie decodes the message and it's nothing but a "lousy commercial!"
The Lifebuoy ad reminds me of that as well.
I can't believe I remember some of these...except Fluffo, news to me, Mike Walace!
Whatever my mum used, she made THE best pies! mmmmmmmm!!
i had forgotten all about Bosco, that syrup you added to milk to make the milk chocolate; i guess it must've been cheaper than buying real chocolate milk lol
The worst part of the smoking commercial at 6:02 is the box of matches is so much smaller it was probably a child. Yup... a child advertising for cigarettes. Only in the 50s.
4:08 Fluffo? Really, it sounds like something the writers of SNL would come up with!
Guess plop plop fizz fizz wasn't done yet? LOL
Commercials were so long back then!
So fascinating how a lot of that stuff is still around today. XD
Not quite, Nabisco Swiss Creme cookies, Fluffo shortening, Tang drink mix & the worst of the lot, Old Gold cancer sticks are no longer available.
I love thease 50s and 60s ads
Wow great memories. : D
That lifebuoy commerial at the end... just compare that to axe commercials today and compare how much has changed, its just sad
Check out Mike Wallace in the Fluffo commercial. Awesome.
My Hero..
Lol, people really didn't care what was in their food back then. Sugar and fat and and all kinds of junk. I read somewhere that the companies were trying to get people used to eating stuff full of chemicals because that's all they would have in their fallout shelters.
Holy shit. Lifebuoy has been missing from my life!
I highly doubt Lifebuoy had any "magical properties".
longest commercial break ever
I love the Ovaltine commercial too. I feel a nostalgic need to go watch a Christmas Story.
the clown on the Sugar Smacks box is going to kill us all...
CatherineSolo
Until it was replaced by a frog
The only clown you'll see on a box of cereal is on Kaboom.
I remember some of the ads with spine tingling accuracy, some products I have heard of but some commercials were before my time.. Some products still exist, some dont.So interesting!Dancing Cigarettes? I remember the last cig commercial they showed in Los Angeles in the 1660's. I realized even as a kid that was important. Dennis James part of a natural style of announcers that dick clark and now ryan seacrest carry on. So many things to comment on. enjoying reading all the posts!
These are great thanks for sharing love these
Well I'm 14 and I'd rather live in the mid 50s too.
"a treat instead of a treatment. .... keep on smoking! " 😨😮 Sounds like the cigarette companies anticipated the battles they'd be facing with consumer advocates and medicine.
The somewhat vaguely sexual imagery of the dancing Old Gold cigarette pack, accompanied by a dancing box of matches is enough to make anyone quit smoking. 🚬
Im pretty sure Id take more ammo over a fucking Alka-Seltzer tablet.
Funny to think they sell DVD's of these commercials for defunct products you can't get anymore.
Even in spite of racism, most of us lived better lives then. There are things today that are just as bad as racism, but we don't have a solid foundation of family and support and values to fall back on. Those of us who lived then, regardless of our color know the difference between then and now. Big homes today but nobody home. Neighborhoods are empty because the kids are all at daycare. Obesity because the kids don't get outside and play. Children are not allowed a Childhood.
Jimmy know he likes those new Sugar Smacks! Clark Kent likes those new Sugar Smacks! I guess that means I should buy them cause I'm gonna like them, too!
Alka-seltzer ads, seems like the other first 3D adverts in the 50s/60s
at 17 i think i could agree... even though your life expectancy might have been shorter because of lack of medical advancements
Airtime must have been cheap in those days. Some of these are just short of feature film length haha.
2:30 watch out it's George's atm code
swiss cream sandwhich. cream. sandwhich. cream sandwhich...hmmm....*rubs chin*
It's a richer version of the creme filling used for OREO cookies.
Kindly get your mind out of the gutter. 🧐
Buster Keaton!!!
Ovaltine really sounds like the energy drink of the day.
If you've ever chewed an aspirin, that's what drinking Alka-Seltzer was like; an aspirin soda.
SKÖL!
After the Sugar Smacks clown, their next spokes-icons were...Quick Draw McGraw & Baba Looey!
Bwahahaha! The wicked wife!
If I had her & the 2 dancing boxes from the Old Gold cigarette ad....🤤
the funny thing is that tang is like a kool-aid in mexico x3
whenever i visit my grandma (we're mexican) she always has a tang bottle in the fridge, and its always opened, but E V E R Y T I M E i get some its always at its fullest. i swear, my grandma got a blessed tang
That's fantastic! I was always wondering how to 'amplify' my milk...now if I could only find some Bosco...
It's still around, but more of a Midwest thing. I see it once in awhile, especially at Dollar Tree when they buy overstock.
OK. Good to know - I'll be looking for it if I'm in the US Midwest - I'm from Canada so my last exposure to Bosco was when I heard about it on "Seinfeld"...
"helps you be a leader in your gang" rofl
I would say I would want to live in this era like the people below but then I remember that I'm half Asian.
Great Caesar's Ghost! Lmfao!!!
Soooo gooood!
Ovaltines got what it takes to help you to be a leader in your (Gang!)
Funny how words take on complete new meaning with the passage of time.
Omg I can't believe we found a cigarette commercial 6:08
With a sinister erotic undertone, I reckon. 🔞
There's no such thing as too much sugar. Shortening, it shortens your life.
9:38........"Ovaltine's got what it takes for you to be a leader in your gang" ......priceless.
Golden Fluffo for me!
Memories!!
such vaporwave
Fluffo comes in a paint can..
Based on their behavior, I'm guessing Sugar Smacks were made with real smack.
Jonas Polsky
but now its changed to a frog
I Bet Those Swiss Creme Sandwich Cookies Were Delicious
Guess we'll never know since Nabisco discontinued them some time in the 70's.
So because astronauts drink it, EVERYONE WILL LOVE IT
i wish i was a teenager in the 50's or 80's .. but im just a teenager in the stupid 10's.. or infact we dont call it that anymore, do we? its the 2010's.
mOm I wAnT bAAAAAAAHsco cuz it's got NUTRIENTS
This is hilarious.
♪♫♪ Relief is just.. a swallow away! ♪♫♪
Rather obscene, yes? 😏
@@TimelordR You were supposed to wait until this comment was a decade old before replying!
Tang "tastes" 'orangey!'
CHARLES NOLAN So does warm Orange Crush.
Lifebouy with 120 aphrodisiacs and pheromones, will drive your wife wicked!!
If my wife or g/f, or both, were THAT hot, I'd have myself dipped headfirst in Viagra...
Cheaper than an ED prescription drug.
........Now when we watch this Sugar Smacks ad we can euloguize how these 3 are no longer with us The Chief as of 1957:Clark Kent as of 1959;and now Jimmy Olsen as of recently in this year 2016. ...............................Speedy Alka Seltzer has his backs and forths to TV in ads................Tang and Ovaltine alike taste bad.
I noticed that the presenter cringed a bit when he had a sip of Ovaltine. Good times!
I used to LOVE BOSCO!!!!!
Wonder how much lard was in that golden "Fluffo."
Golden Fluffo!
Instant Ovaltine ... that never dissolved in the milk!
I see they had a problem with clowns back then too!
Take it from me, Tang is gross! I tried it as an adult and said to myself, "Only a kid could drink this! It's disgusting!
I love tang
Anita Stodolak I didn't like it as a kid.
Anita Stodolak Orange Yang wasn't to bad, but their grape Tang... yuk!
Lifebuoy drives wives wicked....It would have been too over the top back then to simply say Lifebuoy it drives women wicked.
And with todays PC BS this commercial would also be considered sexist....
"wat-a-shame"
Buster Keaton for Alka Seltzer.
I'll take a case of Lifebouy }:0) Besides Bosco (I miss that stuff) and Ovaltine (which I still drink) was Cocoa Marsh. They don't show it here but they came in great pump bottles. Cocoa Marsh in a lion shaped bottle (my fav) and Bosco in a clown shaped bottle with a point shaped cap I got my tongue stuck inside. LOL. And they say chocolate's not addictive?! ;0)
Gag me with a forklift, no, a Euclid earth mover
@Spjungen true!!!!
Actress in Life Buoy commercial looks like Helen Gurley Brown.
@seanthamaster i know right...i'm the same as you. i'm 21 and perfer 50's life to this life...if there wasn't racism back then it would of been perfect :D i wish we had the prices from those days.
YESSS
Hilarious
I want some sugar smacks now.
They're now Honey Smacks.
Pam, with all due respect, we are overweight because of our inactive lifestyles and our "super size" food culture.
True...Americans ate more BUTTER, cream, and processed sugar then than we 'health-conscious' of today...and were generally THINNER. Kids didn't park it right after school with cable TV and/or video games, they went outside, played pickup games of baseball and football, and girls played hopscotch and jumped rope (save for the tomboys that were often better than most of the boys at baseball and football!). Kids played outside until it got dark or Mom dragged them in, kicking and screaming, to eat dinner.
There was little of what we consider 'fast food' until about the mid-60's. Even then, due to most families making it on the father's income, going out to eat was not only a luxury, done maybe twice a month, you 'dressed up', jacket and tie for men and boys, women and girls wore a nice dress, and you sat down and WAITED for your meal...and didn't whip out the smartphone and ignore everyone else!
omg its like a mitt romney ad! :O especially the cigarette ad when they sqid its good for you........LIES!!
Mike Wallace wasn't above making a few bucks shilling for Fluffo
I hated those swiss cream sandwiches!!! YUK!!!
I love Bosco! It’s rich and chocolaty. Chocolate flavored Bosco, it’s mighty good for me! Mama puts it in my milk for extra energy, Bosco gives me iron, and sunshine vitamin D! Oh I love Bosco, that’s the drink for me!
For me, it's an acquired taste.
The people in the 50's thought being fat meant you were healthy and had wealth. Also sugar was thought to have healthy qualities and/or healthy properties. Kids could also play outside and all over the block but with their friends, other children who happened to be new to the block and/or neighborhood, children how happened to be there at sa particular time and in their friends' houses without ever being kidnapped or thinking of being kidnapped. Becasuse of this trust kidnappeings did happen but not offen, since parents, families, school, Churches, government, School Films warned the children of various age groups about kidnappings. The people who worked in a kids' sschool, the kids' friends parents, and the entire adult family spanked and/or gave paddlings to kids when they misbehaved and everyone accepted and encouraged spanking and/or paddling to thier kids and the kids of other people by themselves and by anyone else they knew and trusted.
Actually life was good and there was no watch dog groups telling you how to live nor was there fear mongers scaring you by repeating the boogey man will get you stories traumatized by the news media. You messed up in school and got a paddling you can bet your bottom dollar you would get another from your father. You showed respect for your parents,elders, teachers, Policemen-if you didn't you knew what awaited you when you got home.We ate our sweets, drank our pop and stayed skinny in the process because we played hard and used up those calories. We wasn't allowed to spend hours watching TV not even on Saturday mornings.I recall around Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays while having a tradional family dinner my Grandfather only told us kids one time to settle down.. Ignore that simple warning and pay the price-all of us paid because we was into it together as a group. Oddly enough us boys got into trouble far more then the girls. LOL!
brakie44820 It sucked back then. No individuality, no art, nothing.
i wish i could have been born in thise time.. but noooooo~ i HAD to be born in this terrable era
and we still have tang every day
Wished they still have Grape Tang.
I know he was really handsome.
*why am i here?
Sans the Skeleton The "lewd" Old Gold cigarette ad? 😅
3:54 my ears
Fluffo O.O
@Gaziproductions i dont know...HOW to be classy, im an otaku TwT