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Ten memorable ads of the '70s
Television ads aren't fun anymore. There's a sameness to them: the fast edits, the young bodies, the deep-voiced announcers who all sound alike. And, with the advent of TiVo and the DVR, most of them are just a blur to us as we fast-forward from the end of one scene to the beginning of another. You would have to go all the way back to the days just around the advent of the personal VCR to find entertaining commercials that featured characters and slogans that would stick in your brain.
Rebbecca Brown just went back to the '70s. By culling the parents' garage known as the Internet, Brown was able to put together 10 memorable ads from the decade of Watergate, leisure suits and the 8-track cassette. If you were around during that decade you will remember most, if not all, of the ads that Brown picked.
Featured are Mr. Whipple, the shop-owner who would not let his patrons squeeze the Charmin; Madge, who would go cheap and have her customers soak their hands in Palmolive because it softened hands while they did dishes; and the Chinese-laundry owner who would rip-off his customers by using Calgon to make their shirts so clean. Ancient Chinese secret indeed!
Out of the 10 ads that Rebecca features only one of them was unknown to me -- Ronco's Mr. Microphone. When you watch the ad look at how excited the people are hearing their voices on the radio when Mr. Microphone is hooked up. It's interesting to see this in today's world where anyone can be a star on the World Wide Web. We have come very far. Or, maybe not.[via digg]
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