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Post by Batgirl on Nov 26, 2017 12:32:35 GMT
Yeah, shame about that. Now we'll never know if she was a real 70's girl.
I'll wager she was, judging by the size of the concealing heart shape.
Gene Genie.
You know when you decide to read old threads you missed, then wish you hadn't. This is probably the most known old tv ad we have.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 26, 2017 16:32:21 GMT
Over here on Channel 4 we saw Paul Hogan's 70's shows in the 1980's, Leo w***er etc. One bit that has stayed in my memory is where he makes a sandwich & avoids using the top slice ( not the crust ), because 'that one's poison'. I've never used the top slice of bread ( unless it's a new loaf I've opened myself ) since. Later in the 80s he featured in a series of UK tv ads for Fosters, the lager no Aussie professes to drink ( except possibly Col & Ray ) & I don't blame them
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 22, 2021 18:59:21 GMT
Some more TV Times ads from 1972-
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Post by Steve Austin on Nov 22, 2021 20:15:02 GMT
These are great Arthur, hope you have more. Can't help feeling that advertising exec's put a lot more thought into the ad's back then.
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Post by Sparky on Nov 22, 2021 20:19:35 GMT
The Baldness ads clearly produced in the days long before Photoshop!
The Baldness adds used to make me crease laughing as they always seemed to look like those old Police Identikit pictures they used to show on Police 5.
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Post by Del Boy on Nov 23, 2021 12:31:01 GMT
The Baldness ads clearly produced in the days long before Photoshop!
The Baldness adds used to make me crease laughing as they always seemed to look like those old Police Identikit pictures they used to show on Police 5.
They were selling miracles back then
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Post by Sparky on Nov 23, 2021 15:04:22 GMT
I remember finding an old 1950s newspaper in the loft when we re-did the insulation - there was a Charles Atlas 'Muscle Building Program' ad in there - the before and after pic clearly showed pictures of two totally different bodies with heads showing identical expressions which had been cut and pasted. By the 70s, the cut & paste tech hadn't really progressed it seems!
It seems the sale of miracles had begun long before the 70s!!
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 23, 2021 18:31:41 GMT
Some of those Charles Atlas ads would be considered 'body shaming' by today's standards with language like 'hey skinny!' & cartoons of 'weak' thin men. I remember them in comics in the 80's along with American looking ads for other improbable products. I bought some x ray glasses & was disappointed when I couldn't see through clothing or see the bones in my hand, I genuinely believed as no doubt many others did that they would work as they claimed. From memory all they did was give a red coloured outline to whatever you looked at.
Bought some 'sea monkeys' as well, didn't work of course. Again these were fraudulently advertised, being nothing more than brine shrimp. Kids looking at the ads were shown magical creatures wearing crowns & getting up to all kinds of hijinks including 'making love' as I recall
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Post by Sparky on Nov 23, 2021 19:06:40 GMT
Some of those Charles Atlas ads would be considered 'body shaming' by today's standards with language like 'hey skinny!' & cartoons of 'weak' thin men. I remember them in comics in the 80's along with American looking ads for other improbable products. I bought some x ray glasses & was disappointed when I couldn't see through clothing or see the bones in my hand, I genuinely believed as no doubt many others did that they would work as they claimed. From memory all they did was give a red coloured outline to whatever you looked at.
Bought some 'sea monkeys' as well, didn't work of course. Again these were fraudulently advertised, being nothing more than brine shrimp. Kids looking at the ads were shown magical creatures wearing crowns & getting up to all kinds of hijinks including 'making love' as I recall You weren't the only one to be fooled by the X Ray glasses Arthur. I was too - in fact, my brother had them and "claimed" (bulls*itted me) that they worked - but wouldn't show them. He hid them somewhere in his room. I was pretty p*ssed off when I did discover that he had been stringing me on - and the fact they never did work. Not sure who was the bigger knob head, Him, or me for being so gullible.
I never had the delight of the Sea Monkeys.
There was another ad - possibly running for years on end in various papers/mags - and it centered around some "magic spray" to make you irresistable to women. According to the advert, it claimed a seat in a Dentists waiting room was sprayed with it, and women automatically headed to sit in that seat. It didn't mention that it may have been the only seat available though.
Someone at school double dared his elder brother to buy it and try some - though the elder brother refused as he was frightened that their sister could take a fancy to him if it was supposed to be that good.....
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Post by Dirty Epic on Nov 23, 2021 20:37:36 GMT
Great finds these Art.
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