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Looking at this ad made me yawn. Twice....The Fisk Tire Boy:
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Looking at this ad made me yawn. Twice....The Fisk Tire Boy:
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Spectacular! And we could say that "car cards" of the type that fit into those runners at the top of the car are another vintage thing that has disappeared in our lifetime.
I think if you posted it to You Tube and then linked to it from there it ought to work.
It's been a while since i rode the NYC subway, but the cars I've ridden lately in Boston don't use those kind of cards anymore. They do have frames on the wall for postery things, but that's not the same as a real car card. I once had the idea of putting up tracks on my office ceiling and running cards around it, but never got around to doing it...
I loved the Hamms bear. The old TV commercials were great.I just scanned through this thread and I didn't notice anyone mention one of my favorite characters, The Hamm's Bear. Here in the Midwest Hamm's is still available and regaining a foot hold on it's popularity. I drink a large quantity of the stuff along with my other favorite, Grain Belt also quite popular again.
Without clicking on the link, I can recite "From the land of sky blue waters" (with the back ground response "waters"). Growing up I thought the Hamm's Bear was a celebrity spokes-creature on loan from his own cartoon show, but couldn't find it on tv.I loved the Hamms bear. The old TV commercials were great.
I loved the Hamms bear. The old TV commercials were great.
Animated characters advertising beer had a major vogue in the late fifties and early sixties, just the precise point in time to impress them indelibly on the boomer consciousness. Northeasters got to enjoy the delightful Bert and Harry Piel -- whose TV and radio commercials were voiced by none other than Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding. The Brooklyn-based PIel Bros. Brewing Company made long use of Bert and Harry, even reviving them for one last call in the early '70s before the company vanished into the maw of Pabst.
Not to be outdone, the Narragansett Brewing Co, producers of New England's most popular beer, signed up the Broadway comedy team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May to try to give a beer associated with clambakes, lawnmowers, and the Red Sox a more urbane image --
I wish I had kept the Reddy Kilowatt stuff they gave away at the county fair. It's nuts what people will pay for it.
Remember “Reddy Kilowatt?”
I can recall seeing his likeness to promote rural electric co-ops, but he was initially designed to promote the use of electric appliances in the home.