Here’s a wonderful fifteen minute reel of TV commercials from 1965. This is what the world looked and sounded like when I was one year old. It was a world of Ford Mustangs, cigarettes, new pocketbook sized cameras, cleaning products advertised by housewives talking to each other in kitchens and the use of the word ‘retarded’ to described the mentally challenged. (Or has that phrase gone out of use as well?). The world was still living in a black&white tv-land which is why the magic NBC Peacock words had such resonance: the following program is brought to you in living color on NBC. (What is ‘living color’ anyway?) Dig the go-go hairdo’s and emergence of the rock and roll beat going mainstream behind formerly conservative ad styles. And the Westinghouse TV ad , pitching a less ugly TV than most, is still quite funny and well done…