I grew up with this guy. Age 2 to 4 in Brooklyn NY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4A3mdG5zbQ
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I grew up with this guy. Age 2 to 4 in Brooklyn NY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4A3mdG5zbQ
Oh no, I remember him! He was on the tv and I'm sure it was mom watching his show because I think I was really young then too.
Which made me remember another one. Do you remember Charles Atlas? Something about a guy who would pull a boxcar with a rope?
Here - https://www.charlesatlas.com/atlas_strength.html
Crazy memory jog Charles. Wow
Yeah, Atlas was in the back of all the magazines at some point, including Boy's Life.
Here's a throwback. Commercial jingles are short and have a tendency to stick, as is the goal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkPn5hATkLk
Jack LaPennylane was always on grandma's TV. She looked so funny trying to do his exercises grunting and straining against a tight girdle. She went from one diet to another and always was barrel shaped never losing a pound. She was fat from WAY back, she had one of those 1930s or 40s electric flab shakers in an upstairs bedroom never used. Still, grandma was cool, I loved going shopping with her, I just HAD to get a bag of hot fresh roasted peanuts from the peanut wagon on the corner under the clock. Speaking of clocks, I found two working steam powered clocks. Check the Internet, you can find them too.
Tang, the astronaut drink that NASA didn't invent. I'm glad I didn't have to eat and drink out of plastic bags, poo in a vacuum toilet, drink recycled pee, or send dehydrated crap home in a rocket. I'm glad I didn't have to use The Intergalactic Laxative to get me from here to Mars either!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWghCdIqedA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCpnwJQhoYY
The Schwinn Stingray bicycle.
I had a 1970 Jet Star.
Backing up a bit, commercials WERE short following the 10 & 2 format, 10 minutes of program, 2 minutes of commercials, mostly 30 second spots. Now they're 10 & 10 mostly 60 second spots and the ID "bug" disappears by day and 1 hour after 1 hour "infomercials" by night. Those are Biblical, the same thing repeated 3 times per 1 hour slot. Then come Sunday the Bible thumpers with their send money and I'll pray for you lectures come out of the rat infested woodwork......
I stopped that cigarette commercial dead in its tracks when the lying bastard said only Chesterfoof dog ends don't irritate when irritation doesn't show up in x rays. I smoked and cigarettes didn't irritate my ears either, ROTFLMAO! They irritated everything else as the poisons carried by blood circulated throughout my body. Now I have COPD and use a maintenance inhaler daily, heart disease and have a pacemaker with defibrillator, and PAD so I can barely walk, and nothing from the waist down works as intended. Like most ex-smokers I have become an adamant anti-smoker for 2 reasons, the selfish one being the stink drifting in through cracks in the courtyard door from the smokers intent on slow suicide brings on craving that drives me up a wall, and the selfless one admonishing smokers of what they're doing to themselves. Frankly I'm surprised the government hasn't stamped out what used to be considered "a filthy habit" now a known addiction entirely through taxation. How anyone can afford a national $6.65 average and Rhode Islanders paying $10.15 a PACK is beyond crazy!
Rant mode off.
I had an I don't know how old used 3 speed Columbia bike I smoked the brakes on trying to stop when the light at the bottom of a hill went red, I went through and luckily didn't get hit. My friends and I went on long rides, they had 10 speed Schwinn English Racers and waited an hour for me to show up.
Now for some REAL nostalgia, a badass Defibrillator with Achmed The Dead Terrorist at the wheel. I recognized it as a show deuce coupe, what once was a 1932 Ford 2 door aka coupe. Also pictured is a road version that Bruce Springsteen sang about, "Ripped off by a deuce, another runner in the night." covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band and misheard as "ripped off like a douche, another runner in the night". Mondegreens only get worse. (;->) Funny that album, Greetings From Asbury Park when "The Boss" is from Freehold and The E Street Band likewise phony, there are NO alphabet streets in Asbury Park.
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