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nerds

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sigh. old ad slogans, miss 'em

Brylcreem - "a little dab'll do ya"

Noxema shave cream - "take it off, take it all off"

Burma Shave shave cream - "so creamy, it's almost fattening"

American Coach Lines - "if man were meant to fly, God would have lowered the fares"

Amtrak - "see America at see level"

Chevy - "see the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet"

BVD skivvies - "next to myself, I like BVD best"

Black Velvet whiskey - "feel the velvet"

Canada Dry - "drink Canada Dry"

" mixers - "emigrate to Canada Dry (for the sake of your Scotch)"

"I'd walk a mile for a Camel"

Clairol hair color - "does she or doesn't she?"

Dial soap - "Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did?" :D

Esso (now Exxon) - Put a Tiger in Your Tank

Kentucky Fried Chicken - Corn and cluck, for a buck

MUM deodorant - Has your girl turned into a refrigerator? If her air is arctic, try ... MUM

National Airlines - "I'm Margie. Fly me."

Pan Am - "Live today. Tomorrow will cost more."

Quaker Oats - "Does it make sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal?"

Seagram's Gin - "Dryest gin in town. Ask any Martini."

7-up - the un-cola

Texaco - You can trust your car to the man who wears the star.

Volkswagen - Relieves gas pains
If gas pains persist, try Volkswagen
 

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"Oh, Rob!"
and someone else had a variety show, a country singer, I can't remember ...


Campbell did, also Johnny Cash.
 

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  • Your Show of Shows
  • Toast of the Town
  • Red Skelton
  • The June Taylor Dancers
  • Pallidan
  • Cheyenne
  • Friday night fights
  • Test patterns
  • UHF converters
  • "Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do."
 

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How about Amos and Andy on the radio ?

Along with Fibber, McGee & Molly?

And who can forget The Jack Benny Show?

Or...George Burns and Gracie Allen?

How about Jimmy Durante's style of singing then his "Good night, Mrs. Callabash. Wherever you are."
 

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I can't forget that little blonde-headed girl who sat in the front row of my Freshman English class. *sigh*
 

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stock car racing, Petty, Yarborough, Unser, Allison, et al et al.


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roller derbies !!!!!!!!!!!!! OW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Honeymooners -

bang, zoom, to the moon Alice, to the moon

NORTON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're the greatest.

Hummahummahummahumma
 

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weekly and daily tv closing lines

"Good night and good luck." Edward R. Murrow

"I'm so glad we had this time together
Just to have a laugh
And sing a song or two" Carol Burnett

"Good night Chet." "Good night David, and good night for NBC news." Huntley-Brinkley.

"And that's the way it is." Walter Cronkite
 

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Taste that beats the others cold!
Pepsi pours it on!
Taste that beats the others cold!
Pepsi pours it on!

Pepsi's got that special taste created for the cold!
The cold turns on that Pepsi drive, makes Pepsi-Cola come alive!

Taste that beats the others cold!
Pepsi pours it on! Pepsi pours it on! Pepsi pours it on!
 

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and then there was that lovely ad calling for gay lovers-Call for Phillip Morris! Well come to stink of it it might have been a call for normal lovers-but then again he was awfully and rampantyoually short?
 

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Cars with rumble seats, running boards, window shades, and yes, even planters, that carried us through WWII.

Listening to the World Series on radio in PE classes instead of exercising.

I escaped having to wear knickers until I was 13, but my older male cousins had to. I did wear short pants until the middle of the 2nd grade.

My uncle owned a drugstore, and he used to give me new comic books as they came out including all the Number 1's --Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel, Torch and Submariner, Daredevil, Sheena, Planet Comics, even the special DC World's Fair editions. Then I donated them all to the wounded vets at SF's Letterman Hospital in 1944. No good deed goes unpunished.
 

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"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"
 

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Playing Kick the Can, One Foot off the Gutter, and Dodge Ball aside from regular sports.
Metal slides with sharp edges. Spinster teachers. Inkwells on desks and wishing the girl in front had a pigtail for the dipping.
 

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The Sears catalogue at Christmas ... oh, the possibilities
unbendable Barbie!!
 

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This thread has been a gas! Really swell! The cat's pajamas! The ginchiest!

Piggy-backing on things in other threads (not quoting them--I might not have enough lifetime left):
Someone mentioned the Coppertone girl and little puppy. That was Jodie Foster, you know.

I bought gas on my way to college at 18 cents/gallon. For a 1958 Rambler station wagon with push-button automatic transmission. Had a suicide knob on the steering wheel and everything.

"Good night and God bless" - Red Skeleton

Kim Novak and Polly Bergen -- va-va-voom!

Quart of Squirt and bag of M'n'Ms for 25-cents---including bottle deposit of a nickel.

In my teens: 8 hamburgers and 2 french fries at Carrol's (a predecessor to Mikey D's) for the grand total of $1 (no tax).

Lawrence Welk on Sunday nights (B&W, naturally), with the 4 Lennon sisters (mad crush on Kathy Lennon).

Chinos with the little fake belt in the back (buckled if you were going steady)

Madras shorts.
Mohair sweaters --for men.
Leisure suits (polyester, what else?)

Ahh - Vaughan Monroe (The Marvelous Monotone) and Mel Torme (The Velvet Fog)
Spike Jones and his City Slickers. Arthur Godfrey and his ukulele

Absolutely fantastic-paying summer job that payed $2.50 an hour--more than twice what most of my friends were making--and about what my father earned.

Whoa--too much excitement for one day--I need another shot of Geritol. Fortunately, I don't need Serutan (that's Nature's spelled backward).
 

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Sorry Don, Sunday night TV did not consist of Lawrence Welk; we had:
Lassie
Land of the Giants (my cousins loved this show; I hated it but they got me back because I was obsessive over Lost in Space)
Wonderful World of Disney AND ... on with the sheuw ....
Ed Sullivan.

funny story: I'm a late boomer (1960) so I don't remember Presley or the Beatles on Sullivan. In fact, I don't remember anyone significant. Know what I remember? The plate spinners. That's all - just the plate spinners. The act that kept the plates spinning on the tall poles.
 

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funny story: I'm a late boomer (1960) so I don't remember Presley or the Beatles on Sullivan. In fact, I don't remember anyone significant. Know what I remember? The plate spinners. That's all - just the plate spinners. The act that kept the plates spinning on the tall poles.
I remember Topo Gigio.
 

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  • Steve Allen, Louis Nye, Howard Morris
  • Dragnet-"Just the facts, ma'am."
  • Uncle Miltie
  • Ernie Kovacs
  • Cigarette commercials on television
  • Gene Autry
  • Hopalong Cassidy
  • LSMFT
 

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  • Steve Allen, Louis Nye, Howard Morris
  • Dragnet-"Just the facts, ma'am."
  • Uncle Miltie
  • Ernie Kovacs
  • Cigarette commercials on television
  • Gene Autry
  • Hopalong Cassidy
  • LSMFT
Dragnet - what was his badge number?
 
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