That's wise and profound !!!!😊

So true.

Very true

I know, it was my 1981 High School yearbook quote. After dusting off my yearbook, I found this quote, "It is characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone."

One more thing wrong, it's too freaking late when you find out. Even though some of us think it's pretty shitty right now, myself included. Just think about what's up ahead.

You're welcome, TS.

Yes they were. Born in 62.

J Hart agree ! ✌

I agree

It was the best. And 1971 is my favorite year. When it opened with the classic beautiful Coke commercial I started crying.

amen!

I was born in 1972. Thank you for making me feel so young when I've been feeling so old. I think everyone feels nostalgic about childhood no matter when we were kids. It was the best time of our lives.

@@orchids3332: How could you POSSIBLY feel old when you weren't even BORN until 1972?? I was born in 1963, so if you are "old", what the heck does that make ME???

@@mel1nda12ax7 Old as dirt

I graduated in 71 as well. Time sure flies.

You think you're old.... I tell ya', I'm so old, even my vile of Botox is getting wrinkles!🥁(((rimshot)))🥁 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆 Actually, I was born in 1959, and so, this is like a 'Magical Memory Tour", when life was simpler back then.

I hear you! It’s. Nostalgic but gives you a melancholy feeling and yearning for as you say those simpler days

ghost2527A,I feel the same.I miss those days so much,and would give anything to be able to go back.

The melancholy physically hurts me at times... That can't be healthy.

Of course you were a kid.

Maybe when we die we are allowed to loop back into past and relive...maybe that is why we get Deja Vu.

I remember nearly all of the commercials vividly, except one or two!

You ain't dead by now? Ha ha

So, born in 1899? Turning 125 in 2024? Congrats!

LOL !! right, who knew? but, these are fabulous!

Commercials were actually fun to watch then.

I like them too.

It's not the commercials we miss , it a life in a more simpler time .

Back before Facebook , 24hr day news bombardment , cameras everywhere , and everybody in the country so tense and polarized

You're welcome, James.

I have been adding these segments to my Classic TV1 Play list. Thank you, Fred!

Thanks go out to Fred Flix for letting me re-live a snippet of my childhood. A time I thought was gone forever. These memories are so precious. Even if just for a few minutes. Thank you!!!!

Agree ! ✌

I liked Sammy Davis Jr.'s commercial for GE cassette recorders.

You're welcome, Daniel.

Glad to be of service, Hank.

i turned -37 back in 1971, i miss those days very much

I was 7 back in 1971. When the Coke commercial came on, I was surprised I still knew most of the words. Lol

So true ! ✌

Ha! Good One !

You're welcome, Teresa.

Me too! Fred is the man!

You poor thing.

I actually met him when I was six years old in Greenwood Indiana at a Benjamin Franklin Five and Dime.

Michael Jackson did the Pepsi commercial from Billie Jean

@Foxonian Correct. I was just a little kid back then but we did go to Kentucky Fried Chicken occasionally during that time and the food was excellent. I miss the old ads with the real Colonel! Sadly after the company has changed hand over the years the quality of the food isn't that good anymore.

@@jetstream6389 Yes. That chicken is greasy. It's awful.

GreatGarloo: It really seems to depend on what time of the day you go. I love Kentucky Fried Chicken, and usually it is very good. We went one time, just before they were closing, and the chicken was dried out and tasteless.

Pressed Steel: 2019 DOES totally suck!!!

Pressed Steel ~ You had a TV repair man make a home visit in 1985? Where did you live? I could see it happening if it was 1965, but by '85 it was practically unheard of.

@@Stranger Danu The Mandela Effect is working perfectly

I have repaired the color tv s from Phillips and Slyvania great televisions great to work on could get parts shipped easy great company in USA

@@slimshine953 we used to get tv repairman in the UK. Most of us couldn't afford to buy a TV so used to rent them along with a VCR. If they couldn't fix it there and then they'd swap it for another out the van and it would be a bit of a lottery on what model you'd get. Then (as kids) we'd spend the next few days teaching our parents how to use them.

My family's first remote control television was a Magnavox. Our TV crashed dung half time. I went with my dad when he purchased the new TV, brought it home and had it up and running before the second half of the game started. I'd lo to have another console television. They were actually part of the furniture and no two were ever completely alike.

@@hankcovey4420 Great story, fantastic memories ! This football game was not during Sunday, lucky for you !...

"Zenith , the quality goes in before the name goes on"!

Don't forget Admiral, GE, Zenith, and Motorola!

Our first cool TV was a then-new late 70s Zenith System 3 with “Space Command” remote. Picture was remarkable and the mono speaker had great output too.

Plus the voice of Tom Bosley in one of the commercials.

@@maureen669 The Shasta commercial, right? (That was John Fiedler as the cashier.)

You're welcome, sentforth5.

@sentforth5 Indeed. There was real character and "soul" in these ads back then you could tell that it was the efforts of individuals with their own ideas. Now it's all by committee and surveys with computer processing all the data.

"2019 just seems so junky." ... Then 2020 hit with Covid. And now inflation is sky high. 2019 seems like the good old days!

Now it’s Woke-a-Cola I miss my childhood….

@@elvis13577 Ahh the good ol days, when men were getting away with murder on the daily and war was rampant 🤘🏻

Kenneth Butler: '71 Plymouth Road Runners were (and still are) the coolest cars and, in a way, it's a shame that they have become such valuable classic cars, only because, as a result of being considered such classic cars now, I can't afford to buy one!

Indeed nobody drives them anymore, they are only show pieces, it's a shame because they were meant to be driven hard.

As our we !!!

A friend of mine has a 1971 RR, orange with black stripes. Car looks mean as hell and he drives it all the time.

Most welcome, Mindy.

Todd Foret I thought the exact thing. Do they no longer exist?

Todd Foret: There was also "Fruit Brute", with a werewolf mascot. Remember that one? It was the fourth of the "monster cereals", which included Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo-Berry, and Fruit Brute...

Does anyone remember Baron Von Redberry and Sir Grapefellow cereals? They came out in the fall of 1972, I believe, and they had a World War I flying ace theme, with WWI fighter pilots "Sir Grapefellow", a tall British flying ace, and "Baron Von Redberry", a short German flier who was supposed to be like "The Red Baron". I think they were from the same company (General Mills, I think it was?) that put out Count Chocula and Frankenberry (and Boo-Berry, and Fruit Brute). Of course, Sir Grapefellow was grape flavored and colored purple, and Baron Von Redberry was strawberry flavored and pinkish-red, and both had miniature marshmallows. I used to love those!

@@ckeilah You can still get Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry. I've bought boxes of all three at Dollar Tree within the past two years. Fruit Brute hasn't been available since the '70s, though. I loved the Monster Cereals. I even had a Monster Cereals flag on my bike.

Bad time to join. Did you get to see Nam? So sorry if so. Thank you for your service.

Hahaha. Yep.

Not us. My mother's (sensible) rule was, either use the TV right, or we wouldn't get to watch it. We knew she meant it, so we were gentle.

David Hendrickson. Don't forget funeral planning commercials, or my personal favorite, A Place For Mom. Sheesh! I told my kids, the only place for THEIR mom is Nieman Marcus!😉

@@janupczak5059 So they're gonna sprinkle your ashes in Dallas? lol

And commercials for rotten over-priced vehicles and stupid over-priced movies.

@@ChristopherUSSmith Ouch! I was thinking more along the lines of shopping at the Tom Ford cosmetics counter... Now I have to think about my ashes?! 😮 Now I must go have a glass of wine...

@John Bold Life insurance, yes. But that isn't in all the home and car bundles being hawked on TV these days by a gecko, the Allstate guy, and a comedian named Stephanie better known as Flo (or some of Flo's relatives).

ckeilah The comments reflect the inner natures of the writers. We’re fortunate to have been brought up when courtesy was the norm.

@@Name-ps9fx hhhhhhhhhghhbjjjhhhhhhhhhjjjjjjüjjjb. Ijibb b bbihjhb u ibu hoi njjbh hhiiiiii jhhuuu jjkkjjjjjjjk&kkkkkkkiii jfffffffgfftfffff kkn. O i nkn8kko.i kkollploo j in nòj8j u uu. J j j. Nnnj. Jjjiu jffff ijkkkkkkkkkkkkk.fdcc. cc. C

Hhhhhhh n bjhhhhhhbbhhh hbhhhhjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjnjnnn jnn. N rrttf fdfc. Ccfzd D ssdddfffftdddddrrr Lllttfffttttttf4feddc zcad d jjjjj jn j mmm 'll jjjjjjjjjjjj76uhhuuuujjjjjuuuiiiiiiiiikjiiiiik(kkkkkkkkkkmk h

.18 to .23 cents per gal. you could go somewhere for a buck

I remember my Grandmother shopping around for the best price one day in '69-'70 and she asked me to keep track of the prices so she could concentrate on driving. I remember the average being around 38¢ to 40¢ per gallon, and she found one on a road leading out of town that had a gallon of ethyl at 36¢ People don't believe me when I tell them that.

Filling an empty tank with a dollar of gas today, you wouldn't reach the end of the street, LOL.

Remembering commercials from the 1970s does NOT make you old. Unless you enjoy calling yourself old.

oneblackhorse: It certainly does NOT make a person "old", all right! What next, if you remember commercials from the early 2000s, you're old?

If you're Methuselah, you're just a Spring Chicken. It's all just relative.

Hell no. We're just getting started.

Carol Harris yeah. I wish I could have some Pink Panther cereal with a pink glow ball! :-)

ckeilah: I remember the "RPX Racer" car that came free inside Pink Panther Flakes! They really should bring those back!

I was 6 and remember all these commercials Burger king had a cartoon king back then also

I was 3 in '71, but I can't believe there were any commercials I truly remembered from that age. Most people cannot remember the vast majority of things that happened before the age of 4, forgetting most of those things by age 7 in what is called childhood amnesia. My guess is with the Coke commercial, specifically, it was a long-running commercial (the sequel was shown at Christmas for years), thus MY memory is not from seeing it in 1971 but rather probably seeing it sometime in 1972-73.

@@royrowland5763 + I remember things as far back as 2 years old. I have a photographic memory they say. I easy remember my dads 26th birthday, and I was 2 and a half. He couldn't believe I remembered what we ate and everything. Blew his mind with that one.

I was 4!

zim1966: I remember the Burger King cartoon king! He had the "royal motorcycle", which was a really cool chopper. Way cooler than that live human "king" wearing the plastic king's head they had recently. I still remember that cartoon Burger King commercial from that time (around 1971 or '72), where he had the "magic clerk" at the Burger King counter, who would magically wave his hands and whip up their food, then, at the end, the cartoon king says "Give me a bill", and the clerk waves his hands and says "You've got a bill!", and the king suddenly has a duck bill on his face, and he says "Burger King! Where kids are king!" in a funny Donald Duck voice.

And I don't rot your teeth.

@@FredFlix LOL :)

right?! it is all SO RACIST!

Yes! Now its sucky dicky with queer rights, ISIS how want to chop off our heads and other body parts. And very poor sound mixing of ads!

@@alexkije What's with the goofy sounding, I was going to type jingles, but they don't even qualify as jingles... Somebody, or some sound effect whistling in accompaniment to another sound effect of a strummed ukelele and a glockenspiel. This?! is a jingle?! Those Go Daddy, and Peleton ads make me so sick to my stomach that I wanna roll a seven.

@@maxiepattie85 Uh uh...we are from the past, we don't say racist, we say prejudiced, remember?

That's very true.

Ahh yes, The Troubles. Cheers Army!

He was still alive back then. So we got the original recipe.

Back when chicken was.. chicken

U mean when the chiken was actually chiken & not by product compressed to resemble a chicken piece

in youtube watch....mercy for animals commercials.....all true

I do lol

Same lol

Yup I always had trouble getting out of them!!!

Oh yes, I remember those phone booths with the glass door. I tell my little sister about those phone booths and that I actually used them in the late 70's early 80's and she is quick to tell me " Damn, your old". I was 15yrs old when my little sister was born. Anyway, these commercials really took me back to my childhood. Thank you for sharing.

Yeah, but Count Chocula was the SHIT!

I could eat Boo Berry till I overdosed.

Born in '71...they pushed that stuff like crack during the Saturday morning cartoons (Pebbles and BamBam! Hong Kong Fooey!) the sugar content in 70's cereals was TOXIC...responsible for many a baby tooth cavity...not to mention many a smack at the A&P aisle for jumping up and down like an addict in the cereal aisle for the fix

How many cereal boxes did you dig into for the toy surprise?

@@Dkymoby That Is Hilarious!!! You nailed it! LOL!!!

I appreciate that very much, Larry.

Yep I remember those.

Yup. Born in 62. We were lucky.

Me too ! ✌

Funny. We were the last of my friends' families to get a colour tv. And just last week I purchased my first (used) flatscreen tv. Same dynamics....different stuff.

That's the year we got our first color TV as well! Before that, if we wanted to see color TV we had to go to the neighbor's house!

You're welcome, Nicole.

I sometimes feel like I was born in another Era as well *60s also

Thanks, Dizz.

Thanks, Tony!

I remember having one...😏

I STILL HAVE VIEW MASTER. L.O.L..

Jeff polara: They were pretty cool, and what was even cooler and more high-tech was that, by the early 1970s, there were "Talking View-Master" viewers and later, there were "talking", rear-screen projector View-Masters! I always wanted each of those, but never got to have either. Those were really cool, and talk about being the KZfaq of the 1970s!

I still have mine. I have View-Master reels of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Captain Kangaroo, and the Monkees!

@@erilaz7 Awesome..trying to get back all the old toys I had via Ebay...can be expensive..

Autostade67 ~ Lol it wasn't strange at the time, but yeah I hear ya. Flying was a much more pleasant experience, practically glamorous. Look at all that space between the nice, comfortable seats, with arm rests, those clean, white thingies for your head, wine, liquor, and what appears to be a full course meal!!! As for the calculator, it was like the early VHS and Beta players, or the first cell phones... over the top expensive. Gosh if you had one of those calculators you were important!

Yup

Schlitz gives you the 💩

So true

Jack Aubrey: Just like Shannen Doherty!

My baby sister was born in July 1971.

You're welcome, John.

The coolest voiceover guy ever.

@@FawleyJude Peter Thomas was better. ;)

@@ChristopherUSSmith I'm not familiar with him so I looked up some videos of his work. He's good, but I still think Nordine's cooler. I've always thought that the guy who seemed to do all the voiceovers for movie trailers was really over the top. I like this Geico ad that has fun with it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kLB9erZo0ZbbhGw.html

Ken Nordine also did ads for The Chicago Blackhawks. His unique voice saying ... " The Chicago Blackhawks ... Cold Steel On Ice ". Classic.

It was also weird seeing a young Tom Selleck.

And she didn't need to be identified either. But I appreciate it 😊

What commercial?

@@RussDRocker 12:44 The Mustang commercial with Father Mulcahy. Too bad the '71 Mustang was a piece of crap.

@@ClayLoomis1958 Did you see the video of her on the 1969 Dating Game show? She was so damn cute!!

Thanks. I was gonna try & figure it out.

Except for the fact that electronic items are one of the very few areas that have become less expensive and better as the years go by.

People were smarter and didn't rely on calculators to do math

2 grand for a calculator, next commercial: "I need gas; one dollars worth please?" LOL

Especially the analyst calculator

when I was a little girl I had a wind up that played that song I was born in 75 the wind up turns a window of pictures of flowers and trees and butterflies

That's the point.

I miss ESSO. ⛽

You're welcome, manofmanyinterests.

Thanks, W2m3.

Great post! Yep..Freds the man! If you ever figure out how to make that time machine just let me know..Ill ride with you!!

W2mnm 928: Oh, you mean the Aurora "All American Skittle Bowl"? I had that!

KC Casey: Me too!

@@mel1nda12ax7 Omg! 😂 Yes!! Swing that heavy ball and knock out any kid that was sitting too close! 🤣

@RochelleEskue At 19:43 is Dallas McKennon He was the Voice of Archie Andrews from the Archies Cartoon Series. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Me to

I remember being able to get a McDonalds burger fries and coke for just under a dollar. We had a McDonalds about six blocks from school and you could just get there , get your meal to go, and walk back in time to eat before having to go to the next class.

Was no such thing as restaurant freakouts then people got along better then in part to the coca cola 😃😃commercial

You're welcome, Rob.

By the mid-70's, a basic Texas Instruments calculator was down to $90, which was still a lot of money at the time.

17 was great for me too, Jan.