If you’ve never been told the deeply emotional and truly profound story of the birth, success and death of the junk food Los Angeles stop ‘Pup N’ Taco’ then look no further. The above mini-doc lays out the whole sordid tale. Actually Pup ‘N Taco served excellent chili dogs to
The 1970s were peak TV-watching years for me. I logged about five hours of TV a day–starting with old syndicated shows in the afternoons after I got from school, (Andy Griffith, Ozzie and Harriet etc.) moving onto dinner served on a stack table while watching The Three Stooges and ‘I
Here’s a continuation of yesterday’s reel of commercials, station I.D.s, intros and outros etc. from a 1967 CBS summer replacement show called ‘Away We Go’. There are almost no repeat commercials which makes for fresh, enjoyable views of what our culture looked and sounded like in that now-distant year. The
Here’s a reel of alternately funny, scary, disgusting or disturbing TV ads from the golden 80s. Lots of Cocaine and AIDS nostalgia, of course, and Brenda Vaccaro shilling for Tampons while inhaling through an iron lung in between sentences is pretty messed up. Cosby makes an appearance, natch, and a
I guess I always assumed that the Milton Bradley sung about on TV in commercials for games that I saw on TV as a youth was either the last two names of the men who invented the games (Bob Milton and Eddie Bradley), or the Anglicized name of a fat
Anti-Cigarette ads began with PSA’s brought to us by the American Cancer Society in the late 1960s. They were considered controversial at the time, as was putting warning labels on cigarette packages, a practice which started in 1965. It’s astounding to me that sixty years later the damn things still
Do you remember in Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” the looks on the faces of the audience members as they watched ‘Springtime For Hitler” unfold? That reaction is roughly the same as the one you’ll likely be having as you watch some of the most unbearably awful, insensitive and hilariously dated
Compare and contrast two different 7-Up ads from two different decades. Above, we see a retread of the famous Gene Kelly/Jerry the Mouse half live-acrtion half-animation dance routine–and quite well accomplished it is. Below we see the great Geoffrey Holder twenty-some years later shilling for the caffeine-free soda in a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt3Mi1YAcshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PluLAxa3u2A Continuing our look at commercials for old soda brands–yesterday we watched some RC Cola ads–today lets focus on Fresca. Above are two commercials from the 1960s. In the first, the idea was to show icy, snowy weather environments in order to invoke Fresca’s icy, snowy refreshing taste. Was this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm_LmlFeNnMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md7DIQW01aM Royal Crown Cola was invented in the early 1900s as a result of a Georgia based general store owner having a dispute with Coca-Cola over…well, read the Wikipedia article if you’re really interested. My interest has to do with the storylines of RC Cola–as it had been renamed during