Old Radio and TV Advertisements

[adorshki]

And now, "Back to....." (commercials) *

An all-time winner: "Takes a lickin' and....."

*Bonus points: my grampa used to send me to the kitchen for snacks during the commercialis and then yell "Back to....." when the show came back on. Can you name the show?

PS Nobody's ID'd "A silly millimeter longer...." yet, either.

 

[RBSinTo]

PS Nobody's ID'd "A silly millimeter longer...." yet, either.

Adorshki,
Chesterfield's 101mm long cigarette introduced in 1967.
RBSinTo

 

[RBSinTo]

An all-time winner: "Takes a lickin' and....."

adorshki,
Bulova watches: "take a licking and keep on ticking."
This was the slogan that John Cameron Swayze, an early TV journalist/news caster used when he promoted Bulova watches in early television commercials.
In each one, a Bulova watch would be subjected to a "torture test " of sort, (trampled by a herd of raging elephants, strapped to the tower of an atomic bomb being tested, dropped into an erupting volcano, smashed between the fronts of two colliding cars, you know, the usual things a wrist watch encounters in every day wear) and after he'd hold it up to the camera to show that the watch was still working.
Whatcha think?
RBSinTo

 

[steve488]

Actually it was Timex watches that took a licking and kept on ticking

"_______" the beer that made Milwaukee famous.....

 

[RBSinTo]

Actually it was Timex watches that took a licking and kept on ticking

"_______" the beer that made Milwaukee famous.....

steve488,
Right you are. Timex, not Bulova.
Schlitz was the beer that made Milwaukee famous.
RBSinTo

 

[silverfox103]

Actually it was Timex watches that took a licking and kept on ticking

"_______" the beer that made Milwaukee famous.....

The obvious answer would be "Old Milwaukee". But I don't think that is correct. It is "Schlitz", the beer that made Milwaukee famous! Do they still make that today?

Tom

 

[GGJaguar]

Yes, it's Schlitz's slogan and they still make it though the company HQ is now in LA.

 

[Rocky]

Yes, it's Schlitz's slogan and they still make it though the company HQ is now in LA.

Pretty sure it went under in the 80's and was exhumed by venture capital, like so many other brands. (Abercrombie, Mullard, Genelex, Svetlana)

 

[walrus]

Yes, it's Schlitz's slogan and they still make it though the company HQ is now in LA.

Does anybody really drink beer in a hammock?

 

[Rocky]

Does anybody really drink beer in a hammock?

Only if they want to drink & wear it fast.

 

[adorshki]

steve488,
Right you are. Timex, not Bulova.

RBSinTo

That was right up there with one of my other all time favorites:" ..... writes first time, .....".
Also loved that the Chesterfield jingle was set to "La Bamba".

 

[GGJaguar]

Does anybody really drink beer in a hammock?

I guess they did in 1961 when they did that ad.

 

[Bill Ashton]

...and just to show I am a complete non-conformist, chopped up dates in my steel-cut oatmeal..sometimes also dusted with maple sugar...

 

[adorshki]

Y'know this thread got me thinking about how the advertising landscape has changed in 60 years. Liquor and tobacco used to be major fixtures beside auto-related sponsors...then liquor and tobacco ads got axed....what replaced 'em?

Pharmaceuticals and fast food?

To quote the Yardbirds: When will it end?

 

[RBSinTo]

Y'know this thread got me thinking about how the advertising landscape has changed in 60 years. Liquor and tobacco used to be major fixtures beside auto-related sponsors...then liquor and tobacco ads got axed....what replaced 'em?

Pharmaceuticals and fast food?

To quote the Yardbirds: When will it end?

adorshki,
The logic of pharmaceutical ads for medications that treat mostly serious medical problems escapes me.
Whenever a physican has diagnosed a problem I have never suggested to them what meds they should prescribe.
Not being a doctor, I in fact have neither the expertise nor right to do so, and in fact would be very suspicious of any doctor who did rely on their patients to suggest medications they should prescribe.
RBSinTo

 

[Rocky]

adorshki,
The logic of pharmaceutical ads for medications that treat mostly serious medical problems escapes me.
Whenever a physican has diagnosed a problem I have never suggested to them what meds they should prescribe.
Not being a doctor, I in fact have neither the expertise nor right to do so, and in fact would be very suspicious of any doctor who did rely on their patients to suggest medications they should prescribe.
RBSinTo

But, the ads wouldn't exist if they didn't work.

 

[adorshki]

But, the ads wouldn't exist if they didn't work.

I seem to recall a notorious minister of propaganda declaring if you tell somebody something enough times they believe it. Marketing gurus of the era snickered at the newby's discovery of something they'd known since the camels started crossing the sands.

 

[guitarslinger]

Camel, the cigarette more doctors recommend.

 

[RBSinTo]

I seem to recall a notorious minister of propaganda declaring if you tell somebody something enough times they believe it. Marketing gurus of the era snickered at the newby's discovery of something they'd known since the camels started crossing the sands.

adorshki,
Unfortunately, that behaviour didn't stop in 1945.
RBSinTo

 

[Stuball48]

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