More vintage advertising

[Ted51]

I have never tried Blatz. But it cannot be as bad as Schlitz. Hopefully that brand is not produced anymore.

I remember a TV advert in America, in 1972, with a bunch of lifesavers running down a beach in Australia, all smiling as they carried an esky (icebox) full of Schlitz. That really was some licence. I am sure no one in Australia, at least then, had ever heard of Schlitz beer.

 

[Ted51]

I do not buy alcohol much..so do not know how much more this stuff costs today

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I bought a bottle of Harvey's Bristol Cream recently. I cannot remember how much it cost... It was only about a week ago.

 

[MarkinPhx]

1949​

 

[MarkinPhx]

1962​

 

[Pappy]

 

[ChiroDoc]

1949​

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Wow. 60 bucks was a lot of money in 1949. Some people weren't making that much in a week! These were probably great portable radios though.

 

[MarkinPhx]

Wow. 60 bucks was a lot of money in 1949. Some people weren't making that much in a week! These were probably great portable radios though.

I did a search and apparently is was popular to radio enthusiasts because of it's ability to receive distant and shortwave radio signals.

 

[RadishRose]

 

[squatting dog]

 

[ChiroDoc]

Only in Venice. They must have been used in Stanley Steamers...

 

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[Pappy]

 

[RadishRose]

 

[ChiroDoc]

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I remember those commercials very well from the 1950s. I think Dennis James was the featured spokesman. The commercials may have been on Bert Parks' "Stop the Music" TV show.

 

[Pappy]

I remember those commercials very well from the 1950s. I think Dennis James was the featured spokesman. The commercials may have been on Bert Parks' "Stop the Music" TV show.

Yes. I remember them from Jimmy Durante show and Ted Mack amateur show, and a few more too.

 

[ChiroDoc]

Yes. I remember them from Jimmy Durante show and Ted Mack amateur show, and a few more too.

Right, I'd forgotten about the Jimmy Durante show. It was a great show, with Durante always ending, "Good night, Mrs Calabash, wherever you are."

His was also Carmen Miranda's last appearance. In 1955 during the filming of her segment on the show, Miranda suffered a mild heart attack, but continued. She died later that night back at her hotel.

 

[Pappy]

 

[Pappy]

 

[Paladin1950]

 

[Paladin1950]

 

[Paladin1950]

 

[Paladin1950]

 

[Paladin1950]

 

[MarkinPhx]

1968

 

[Pappy]