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[@RerunZone]

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[@adamkhabazian3249]

I'm much more disturbed by ads today that are more of a freak show than anything else

[@aaronsterlind6334]

Agreed.

[@davedixon2068]

I usually have trouble working out what is actually being advertised

[@GhostK-cx9fq]

The camel cigarettes we're not as bad for ya cause there were no filters,that's where most of the poison is at

[@davedixon2068]

@@GhostK-cx9fq resume you are joking right?

[@janeflip1]

I’d much rather see a baby drinking coke than a trans drinking beer! Give that baby a cigarette too!

[@mwalker3547]

Who remembers candy cigarettes? We thought they were cool back in the day.

[@stevetheduck1425]

Brit here: sweet cigarettes never went away. Still available as 'candy sticks' usually still with a temporary tattoo or a collectible card.

[@ronfisher5259]

And they had a ‘red color’ on one end so it looked like they were lit

[@Sawlon]

They still sell them at a local grocery store where I live, also bubble gum cigars.

[@JazzFunk22]

Hel yea used to frikin love them 🍭🚬🍡

[@daneitel6937]

They still are cool man...😎

[@rjc7289]

I remember seeing this billboard ad for Coppertone sunblock every time my parents would take me to visit my grandmother in the neighboring town. You people know what I'm talking about -- the one with the dog tugging on the girl's bathing suit bottom to reveal her naked behind. Nobody thought anything of it at the time, but that apparently isn't the case now.

[@raymondhopwood9393]

I remember that billboard ad. Innocent looking then, scandalous now!

[@angeronalove5799]

I'm in my 50s. When I was in college, I was that girl for Halloween. It was one of my best costumes ever and lots of fun! I remember a handful of these ads, or similar.

[@pillred5974]

@@raymondhopwood9393 If it was innocent looking then what's changed? only peoples attitudes.

[@raymondhopwood9393]

@@pillred5974 Precisely!

[@donotwantahandle1111]

Now that would be child abuse with inappropiate dog control thrown in!

[@dlb3512]

I'm in my mid 80's. I am glad I grew up at a time we weren't offended by everything.

[@ShadowMan66]

Great Comment. Wasn't it a fantastic time to be alive and in your twenties?

[@paein9642]

Like selling cigarettes to kids?

[@majoroz4876]

@@paein9642 ........according to whom ?

[@paein9642]

@@majoroz4876 what, do you think it’s ok to run kids lungs

[@charleskramer7062]

So you’re okay with selling cocaine, heroine and arsenic in medicine? Of course, you’re probably cool with marketing cigarettes to children and beer to nursing moms, and Coke in baby bottles. But you should be aware that people aren’t “offended” by the adds - they just know better now.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

As someone in his mid-sixties, I can tell you that there was indeed a time when most women, being housewives in a single-income family, would have been thrilled to get an upright vacuum cleaner or a washer/dryer set for Christmas. This was a time when buying a house was affordable for even the lower middle-class, but buying appliances was often considered a luxury purchase.

[@billwilson3609]

A washing machine was mandatory if one had kids. Clothes dryers were optional since people dried laundry on lines outside the house, in the basement or in bedrooms.

[@harperstacey9604]

Buying a color TV set was considered a luxury item in the mid-sixties. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

[@susandoig4192]

Yes it was a luxury to have a colour tv and telephone

[@robmcgowan4034]

Agree 100% David. We're about the same age (turned 65 in May) and my mom DID get an upright Hoover for Christmas ('67 I think) and was quite happy because it made her housework easier. Easier=happier. My dad also got her jewelry and 'personal' gifts to balance things out. The ad guys in the 50's knew what they were doing. The ad never said "this is the ONLY gift she'll want for Christmas". Any husband then who did that would likely have been with disappointment. That ad was created for those people and times, not those of approximate age now nor meant to be "retro-judged" by this condescending narrator in the middle of 2022. Please.

[@stephenelkington4971]

@@robmcgowan4034 The key phrase is 'it made her housework easier' - good job she never wanted a career or aspired to any thing more than hoovering the house and general household drudgery eh ?

[@largethanks6376]

It's easy to judge the past. One day we will be judged just as harshly

[@jamesbugbee6812]

Or worse 👁️.

[@mikekelleher6940]

Hindsight is always 20 20.

[@jamesbugbee6812]

@@mikekelleher6940 Not always; some folks can't get it right even after the fact.

[@Mr.Goodkat]

I already judge the present very harshly and feel like someone from the future with my social views.

[@mikekelleher6940]

@@jamesbugbee6812 I didn’t mean people’s actions, but rather their judgements. We’re all familiar with the armchair ‘experts’ who tell you how THEY would have managed things, but nothing short of dynamite would ever get them out of that armchair.

[@chrischeshire6528]

I remember when people had a pack of cigarettes with them just as everyone now has a cell phone.

[@marksuits4379]

both will give one cancer

[@LionTroy]

So glad we're better than that now.

[@nicoleking772]

YahButt, you weren't required to have a pack of cigs to verify your authenticity or verify your address, or text you Dr's test results, or that medications were available for pickup (because they refuse to call you. You could actually, NOT SMOKE (like me) and no one gave a cr@p.

[@Wisdom-zv6zq]

And how's that a good thing?

[@LanielPhoto]

@@LionTroy - Everyone addicted to their cellphones is better ? Only physical health wise - but much worse mental wise.

[@thomascollins4325]

Really good and very funny!!! I turned 66 yesterday (Aug 30) and remember all the cigarette ads. Both my parents were smokers and told me and my siblings not to do this. After hearing their coughing and hacking every morning.I was convinced. Never took up the.habit. Thank myself everday.

[@raymondhopwood9393]

When I was a teenager (early to mid 70s), my mother not to make the.same mistake she made and start smoking. But if I did, she would rather buy me a pack, and not bum off my friends. Btw, I didn't start, and still don't.

[@stankygeorge]

Tobacco was never an issue, until, pesticides, herbicides and stabilizers were added! My grandparents grew their tobacco, twisted their own chew and rolled their cigarettes, yet they never coughed or had any medical complications from their tobacco addictions.

[@chanelfallon5248]

Now we are coughing from Covid. We were pushed into that also !

[@TomHoffman-uw7pf]

I'm 75 and I never smoked a tobacco cigarette in my life. Notice I said tobacco 🙂

[@josephwisniewski3673]

When I was a kid, you could get over-the-counter cough syrup that was 35% alcohol and had codeine in it. When my mother was a kid, cough syrup had tar and heroin.

[@shivasirons6159]

Joe you can still get cough syrup with codiene without a prescription, its at the pharmacist discretion, im a recovering opioid addict and the good stuff is tussinex, it had opioid in it but for that you need a script.

[@althunder4269]

Vicks Formula44 seemed to be pretty good back in the 70's

[@stankygeorge]

Tar and heroin cured her cough didn't it, just as codeine and alcohol cured yours! You want to clear your lungs, take two (2) cloves, place them in a good swallow of room tempreture water, lid it and let it set over night, first thing in the morning, on an empty stomach, drink it. Do this for two weeks!

[@timmmahhhh]

Tar??? Ugh!

[@faithlesshound5621]

@@shivasirons6159 "Codeine linctus" as it used to be called.

[@johnshields6852]

I was born in 1960, I remember standing on the front seat while my mom would drive, I wanted to see better, I loved driving with mom, the only thing that bothered me was those stupid buckles at my feet getting in my way. Nobody and I mean nobody used seatbelts, you'd stuff them under the seat as much as you could.

[@christophermyers3758]

My uncle Bob had a Dodge station wagon, with a 3rd row seat facing the back window, and without SEAT BELTS! Of course all my cousins and I wanted to sit there with the window DOWN to make faces, and wave at cars behind us! 🤤 The "fun" came when Uncle Bob, tapped the brakes! 🤣😂🤣

[@timlevis3630]

My dad cut the seatbelt warning buzzer connection.

[@AndrewVelonis]

I don't know where you lived, but I was born in 1956 and as a child we were all taught to cross the street at the corner, don't talk to strangers and wear your safety belt.

[@r0cketplumber]

In 1962 my mother had all six of us kids and a couple of the neighbor's kids in our '60 Mercury Commuter when she got run off the road and down an embankment. No damage or injuries, but the next day she took it in to the dealer to get a whole lot of seatbelts installed. We were a bit ahead of the curve. Driving it through the streets of Antwerp, Belgium a few years later and almost scraping on both sides, mom heard a bystander say, "Regard le bateau!" Eighteen feet long and almost seven feet wide it was a glorious symbol of American cultural imperialism.

[@HMMELD]

I personally think seatbelts suck. It pawns the safety of the vehicle off onto drivers and passengers thus relieving the maker of that responsibility. The onus should be on them, the pressure on them, the responsibility on them.

[@galaxieman1964]

If they could see our culture and commercials now, they'd probably be equally horrified.

[@kck9742]

And rightly so.

[@Wisdom-zv6zq]

U seriously think these ads were good for ppl? Lmao they are all insulting and inappropriate lmao we don't need this

[@blizyon30fps86]

Yeah because they were sexist, homophobic, and racist. Ofc they would be horrified to see that’s not the case anymore

[@Rick_King]

I remember the cigarette ads. When we were kids, we played "cigarette tag." When someone tagged you, you had to call out a brand of cigarettes, or you were "it." And any brand could only be used once in a game. But that didn't matter, we all knew lots of brands from the TV commercials!

[@rohnkd4hct260]

Have to remember, people were not offended by EVERYTHING back then. I'm old enough to remember some of those ads.

[@womanofsubstance8735]

Me too. And there was/is a little bit to support the nutrition supplied by beer, especially in those days before it was so highly processed as it is now. Many of these products had not been exposed as dangerous back in the day. We know more and better now. Haha! Yes, they still make Hoovers, and they are still pretty good products; I own 3 of 'em, and even the early vacuums were better than carpet sweepers or having to remove the rug to outdoors to beat until clean.

[@HMMELD]

@@womanofsubstance8735 Three? How many Hoovers does it take to vacuum your house.

[@womanofsubstance8735]

@@HMMELD Two-and-half story house, and one Hoover is a carpet shampooer.

[@HMMELD]

@@womanofsubstance8735 Oh

[@Teho231]

You mean white people were not offended by EVERYTHING back then .

[@susiesweet8003]

When I was a kid in the '50s & '60s, my doctor would come in the x-am room with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. It would fill the room with smoke while it burned away in the ashtray. The first cigarette I smoked was one of my Dad's Lucky Strikes when I was 13. Everyone smoked back then. The government supplied WWII soldiers & sailors with plenty of cigarettes for free back then.

[@brendanjobe6895]

I was born Jan 13, 1964, just a day or two after the Surgeon General's report. My grandmother, who was a heavy smoker, asked the doctor (who was also a heavy smoker) about it before he went in to deliver me by C-section. His reply, "Cigarettes, Hell. They don't cause cancer." I guess technically they don't since the majority of smokers do not get throat or lung cancer, but ironically, they both died of or with lung cancer in their mid 80's. My first cigarette was one my that same grandmother's Pall Malls.

[@susiesweet8003]

@@brendanjobe6895 I'm a retired RN. One of my first jobs was in a special care head & neck unit. In the early 1970s, the doctors carved people up with head and/or neck cancer. They all had a trach tube in their necks & when they woke after surgery...they would be trying to talk but couldn't. Their only means of communicating to us was writing. The problem with that was most of them were homeless & alcoholics. Some couldn't read or write. To prevent them from going through the DTs, we would pour beer or whiskey down their N/G tubes to their stomachs. This was surgical practice for the residents, since it had already metastasized somewhere else.

[@faithlesshound5621]

An unexpected benefit of the great increase in cigarette smoking during the war was the explosion in lung cancer in the 1940s and 50s, which led to Richard Doll's research which showed the link to cigarette smoking. However, the tobacco industry was able to persuade officialdom that "the jury's still out" for a few more decades.

[@brendanjobe6895]

@@susiesweet8003 I bet they loved to see you coming with the whiskey!

[@brendanjobe6895]

@@faithlesshound5621 Yes, I started during "the jury's still out" period. Plus, everyone smoked, and smoking was everywhere. Everyone from Johnny to Lucy to Frank to the Bear. I remember seeing Joe DiMaggio walk up to a microphone with a cigarette. I also distinctly remember seeing Helmut Schmidt, newly-elected leader of West Germany, smoking constantly.

[@rebeccacrouse1949]

As someone without a vacuum, I would actually really appreciate one as a Christmas present. I like practical gifts.

[@stevej7139]

I think one of the funniest commercials I have ever seen was for a diet drug I think, hard to recall it's been a very long time. The commercial starts out with a guy trying to close a suitcase that was overstuffed, in walks the young boy and he say "get mom to sit on it, that'll close it" to which the man starts laughing till he see's his wife standing there and stops and says "oh hi dear"...

[@jacksnyder7318]

The crap for commercials we have today would never be allowed on air back then. If your old enough, could you imagine an (erectile dysfunction) ad On T; my parents would have looked at each other and it would have been a race to turn the "dam" thing off. LoL

[@mwalker3547]

Or the woman pitching the stinky crotch medicine.... Ugh.

[@PlumbG64]

These nowadays commercials would also be banned in the future

[@JimVeneskey]

Society was very puritan back then, I can recall the playtex cross your heart bra ads where the model would wear it over her sweater - and even that was scandalous.

[@judygarretson3255]

I grew up with the Hamms beer bear. Loved those cartoons and they didn’t turn me into a drunk. Great video!

[@stankygeorge]

Love the commercials as a kid, never like the beer as an adult!

[@BrianSmith-ph6je]

Hamm’s is my brand now! The bear seems to be gone, though.

[@onlythewise1]

@@BrianSmith-ph6je sad

[@danielmocsny5066]

The cartoons didn't turn you into a drunk, but they don't seem to have turned you into a statistician either. If you played Russian Roulette and survived, would you conclude the game is harmless?

[@gregoryhagen8801]

@@danielmocsny5066 When your numbers up, there's nothing you can do about it. Live life to it's fullest.

[@stevencooper2464]

I remember cigarette vending machines in every restaurant...35 cents a pack. Such good times.

[@rentslave]

In the late 50's,early 60's,cigarettes increased from 25 cents a pack to 28 cents. Since the machines couldn't handle pennies,the manufacturer of the machines taped 2 pennies to each pack.

[@alonenjersey]

Especially diners and family type restaurants.

[@richardahola692]

I remember sitting in a restaurant with a bunch of buddies of our running club. A well built young lady passed and everyone said "not a runner". She came back a short time later with a pack of cigarettes and they said "definitely not a runner". We all had a good laugh. This was probably late 80's.

[@alonenjersey]

@@richardahola692 Sadly my Dad was addicted to nicotine for a long time. But I never saw him get a pack of Parliments from one of those machines. He didn't trust them.

[@toriless]

Yep, cancer is so much fun. Try it, dummy.

[@pillred5974]

Am I the only one who found some of these ads hilarious? amazing to think some of them were ever considered a good idea, but I still could not stop myself laughing out loud at some of them.

[@toriless]

Very few, giving a baby cocaine is not the same as a sip of beer.

[@DoctorQuackenbush]

I was triggered by your assumption that thinking adults would be triggered. Also, gay meant cheerful long before it was used to mean homosexual.

[@earlleeruhf3130]

I agree totally.

[@moosehead1183]

I've always kinda resented the takeover of that word!

[@LoneBrowncoat]

@@moosehead1183 ...Ditto.

[@stealthskater5674]

@@moosehead1183 same brother 😎

[@bernadetteturner1549]

@@earlleeruhf3130 s

[@Traderjoe]

I remember my mom sending me down to the tobacco store to buy her a carton of Kent cigarettes. For $8 a carton and I was ten years old. No problem, no question asked.

[@redleo2991]

Me too!

[@mikeonfreeserve2926]

All Mum's need some 'me time'

[@maryyoung4046]

I went to the restaurant and bought a pkg of cigarettes for my mum too with the money she gave me. Probably got myself a treat at the same time lol.

[@christopherwheeler688]

Of course there were no questions asked. Where else were you going to get $8 at ten years of age?

[@johnchandler1687]

We got ours from the cigarette machine at Dairy Queen for 35 cents a pack. Just like all the other "cool" teenagers.

[@redriveral2764]

I remember a lot of them. It was a different time. Why be offended, just laugh!

[@nathanj3114]

It was a better time.

[@RetroLiminal99444]

The racist ads were funny too?

[@nicoleking772]

Today people NEED to be offended. Just like they need "the likes". It's the ONLY thing that gives their miserable lives, meaning.

[@Wisdom-zv6zq]

Laugh at what? How is this stuff funny?

[@timacoata7456]

Those were the days! Grew up in the 60’s and guess what ; I didn’t grow up to be a smoker, didn’t become a bigot , didn’t become a misogynist got married at 20 and celebrating 50 years, bought my first BB gun at 8 ( mowing lawns $) was taught to shoot a .22 at 10 and didn’t grow up to be crazed shooter or shoot my eye out , nor did I grow up to be an alcoholic ( even tho commercials showed booze 🥃 between cartoons, nor did I grow up to be a bully bc of the road runner blowing up the coyote , I could go on! We did have parents that set rules and discipline, we were taught a set of right /wrong ( that will trigger some of you I’m sure) , we did have a parent at home (mom- who was scientifically/biologically a “woman”, we had parents/grandparents that taught manners & courtesy, we admired Fireman ( trigger again ), respected policeman (trigger again) , obeyed teachers and respected them or we’d got the paddle that hung up above the chalk board in the classroom! Lastly, we went to church as a family , we loved our country our flag 🇺🇸 and said the pledge with a song every morning before class started . So , it’s not the commercials, it’s not chauvinism, it’s not racism . It starts in the home, it’s starts with instilling respect for God, for country , for each other , and NOT being a victim at every turn, not realizing that biology is fact ( men cannot be woman or visa - versa ( trigger ) but fact /truth get over it, respect for those in authority , and STOP teaching our children that America is bad ! It’s the greatest country on earth. Now, I’ll just wait to get all the triggered hate mail cause I know you just can’t stand truth and want to be a victim!

[@pipesmoker4238]

Nicely said. Was not triggered once

[@michaelhalsall5684]

Totally agree! That self loathing "The US is evil" nonsense achieves nothing and only lowers peoples' self confidence. The "I'm a victim" nonsense isn't much better either. It seems to be the fashion to be guilt ridden nowadays!

[@somerset6646]

I miss the days when men were considered male and women female. And you didn't get to pick your pronoun.

[@trainliker100]

In early episodes of "Father Knows Best", Robert Young smoked cigarettes as his character. And in early episodes of "I Love Lucy", BOTH Lucy and Desi smoked. Cigarettes were simply everywhere thanks to a lot of very good marketing.

[@tygunn8183]

Desi was a life-long smoker. I think he died of lung cancer around 67 years old.

[@faithlesshound5621]

At the same time as research began to confirm that most lung cancer was due to cigarette smoking (as opposed to the other suspects: diesel fumes and tar used in road making) the tobacco companies were placing their products in films and TV for children as well as adults.

[@raymondhopwood9393]

Liquor ads were banned from radio and TV in 1947. Then the ban was lifted in the mid or late90s Yet they banned cigarettes ads in1971. Go figure!

[@trainliker100]

@@raymondhopwood9393 I think it depends on who has the best lobbyists and which way the political wind is blowing. Also, there is the notable difference that cigarette smoke wafts over other people which makes it a different source of risk, or at least nuisance, than alcohol. This subject reminds me of the excellent movie, "Thank You for Smoking." And on that note, I once wrote a college paper about how smoking is good for the government's coffers (just a coincidence that it rhymes with "coughers.") First, it is wrong that it saves medical costs. The greatest medical costs tend to exist in the last six months of life no matter what - on average. Somebody dying at age 60 from lung cancer isn't any more of a burden on the medical system than if they lived to be 90 and then became that burden. However, all or most of their working lives are over and they are transitioning into receiving social security. So, it is better for the social security system if they die before they start collecting. And preferably the moment they would start collecting and that is not very far away from the age in the center of the bell curve when people die from cigarette induced cancers and heart disease. So, the government should ENCOURAGE smoking sine that would be a good fiduciary decision. And all the excise tax on cigarettes is just another bonus to the government. (In New York, it is $4 per pack !!!)

[@stevebird9510]

It's a shame Aunt Jemima got fired. A lot of folks miss her..

[@stevebird9510]

@@kiltedwolf2 Are you aware Aunt Jemima was a real person ?

[@farmerbill6855]

And an award winning chef.

[@NuckyArch18]

And we got rid of the Land O Lakes indian, but kept the land. Lol

[@sammoore9120]

She got fired because she is black… that is racial prejudice…

[@HMMELD]

@@NuckyArch18 And the lakes, I take it.

[@billlebrave8539]

it would be fun to put these commercials along side commercials today. There are no shortage of pharmaceutical commercials we could pick from.

[@KB-ke3fi]

I think we need those ads back

[@williamstephenjackson6420]

Would it not be fascinating to see how horrified people of 100 years hence will be at our current ads and culture 🤔

[@gazza2933]

In this snowflake, whimpy world. No chance of that happening.

[@richpeggyfranks490]

I've seen some speculation where future generations will think the "over the top" pet commercials will be laughed at. Also, the commercials that depict people as complete idiots (think removing Tupperware from an upper kitchen cabinet, etc.) will be unbelievable. You can't apply today's sensitivities to yesterday's reality.

[@redriveral2764]

I think we'll be nuked off the planet by then, no one left to care.

[@marksteinberg1315]

If they’re smart in 100 years then yes I agree. There’s no freedom of speech today. Thanks to the racist left wing nuts.

[@davidallen5535]

In 100 years they'll be fascinated with our obsession of erectile dysfunction medicine.

[@kijanasik2908]

The thing is 🧐🤔people had SOOO much less anxiety back then 🧐🧐🧐

[@CharliRay]

I’m happy to have lived as a kid in some of this era life was so much better

[@MrTomengle]

That Jade East ad sure brought back some memories. I used it too.

[@seantig479]

Today we've degenerated to a level that makes these ads seem like art.

[@franklinstephen3268]

Hello how’re you doing?

[@toriless]

You mean dancing rats does not make you want to buy a car?

[@Wisdom-zv6zq]

How do we make anything in these ads look like art? Lmao u people are so edgy it's cringe, u would see a man being murdered on live tv in the 1940s and try to sympathize with it 😂

[@michaelmckenna6464]

The reason more doctors smoked Camel was not because of “kindness to the throat” but because they were kinder to the wallet. Camel donated cigarettes to VA hospitals and military hospitals. So patients who didn’t smoke, would give their free Camels to those who did. Or what was left over from those care packages, would be left on a table for anyone to take, which included a lot of Camels.

[@selfdo]

So many doctors are CHEAP bastards. Then again, many of them are, as one Archibald Bunker of "704 Hauser St, Queens, NY" would put it, "of DAT tribe, dere..."

[@Dani92670]

I wasn't aware of this, thanks for sharing it.

[@ct5006360]

Cigarette companies also would send free samples in the mail, containing two cigarettes! Back in the late 50's. Also Steve McQueen died of lung cancer.

[@michaelmckenna6464]

@@ct5006360 In 1968, LARK had a free promotion where they would send a free pack in the mail for 4 empty packs, “limited to one pack per family member”. Countless free packs were mailed to non smoking family members, including family pets with human names.

[@michaelmckenna6464]

@@ct5006360 Steve McQueen died of mesothelioma which was caused by breathing asbestos dust. When he was in the Marines in the 1950s, he went UA (unauthorized Absence) and as punishment, he had to work in the lower part of the ship where there was a lot of asbestos dust. In later years, he was an avid racer and there was also plenty of asbestos dust in the pit stops where brakes (made of asbestos) were also replaced. His being a smoker (who smoked Viceroys) certainly didn’t help.

[@ADAPTATION7]

For some reason, I suddenly have the urge for a cigarette and I don't even smoke.

[@edwardr7520]

Have you had sex recently?

[@rickriccardi4741]

I remember that they used to have toy cigarettes for little kids. They had some kind of powder in them and you could puff on them.

[@kathleenmorrissey2152]

Candy cigarettes but the ones that smoked were bubble gum

[@mtlava]

And cigars... ☺️

[@annebartells777]

I used to buy those when I was a kid. Thanks for the memory of a simpler time

[@stephanieyvonne9436]

They tasted horrible but it was fun to pretend we were old enough to smoke. The bubble gum cigarettes were really good though.

[@HMMELD]

@@annebartells777 You had money when you were a kid?

[@scoop4363]

02AUG2022 - When I was 8 years old, Mom would send me to the corner store with 3 bucks and change and I would come back with a carton of cigarettes. No problem. Can you imagine nowadays sending a 3rd grader to buy a carton of smokes? What a hoot life has been. No seat belts, mercury in tooth fillings, uranium ore in open rail cars going through the center of town, DDT being sprayed everywhere, and you could buy chloroform at the drug store. A 5-year-old dog was considered old, nobody had a cat, TV dinners were a treat, getting a hunting knife as a gift when I was 9, and pulling our own teeth. Road trips before interstates, no phone in the car along the way, no air conditioning in the summer (house or car), and the car was so cold in the winter you could see your breath inside the car the whole trip. Somehow I've managed to survive without being too angry, too depressed, or too proud. And I have 2 cats, both older than any dog I had as a kid. What a hoot.

[@karenk2409]

Born in '51 here. No one worried about poison in home-made Halloween treats or sending us out to play all day with no supervision, and no one ever got shot. What I think is a hoot is that we Boomers are the longest-living generation in history (check it out!)

[@garycostello4294]

You may be still around but thousands of others died sometimes horrible deaths due to no seatbelts, smoking, DDT. Playing outside alone also led to many many kids being abducted or worse. Lets not look at our ignorant past with rose coloured glasses. Thankfully the next generations were wiser and learned from the mistakes.

[@mrsamsung8184]

Well described...

[@roringusanda2837]

😝👍 Amen!

[@scoop4363]

@@garycostello4294 Ignorant is not the word I would have used.

[@simonignoblius8091]

2:42 What they considered "chubby" back then wouldn't get honorable mention in a fat contest nowadays.

[@perfesser944]

It was a simpler, less wussy, age. I'm glad I got to live it, if only it's tail end.

[@Imjustkendall]

Less wussy? You’re just mad that being a jerk isn’t acceptable anymore. Grow up. You’re racist and sexist. Glad I don’t have to live in that.

[@nicoleking772]

I'm hopeful that I'll be dead before this latest crop of sensitive flowers take control. Us Gen X-ers and the Y-ners have pooched things bad enough, but Zoomers are THE WORST

[@kirkmorrison6131]

You have to remember, up until the 1940s there weren't many drugs. I "shaved" with my Dad's razor as a kid without a blade of course.

[@stevethecountrycook1227]

Shaved with my Dad's razor too. That was 56 years ago. Have been addicted to the dern thing for 45 years now! Dang you Dad for letting me shave!!

[@brianquigley7336]

Miss those days when everybody didn't get butt hurt so easily.

[@Dr170]

And if you did manage to get your butt hurt, there were always plenty of cocaine-filtered cigarettes to ease the pain

[@danielmocsny5066]

I know what you mean, conservatives are the biggest whiny snowflakes ever. They get so butthurt over losing an election that they tell themselves a big lie about having won it, and then storm the Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the Constitution by force.

[@SuV33358]

Ya and you could buy heroin and cocaine at the drug store. Must have been nice

[@tonyprice2256]

@@Dr170 lol

[@MaggieMorrissey1916]

Ha!

[@toddjpiascik3653]

I remember as a school boy in the 80’s when we’d be separated by gender for gym or health class, I recall hearing the teacher scold the girls for acting unruly by saying “Now girls…act like Ladies!” Can’t say THAT anymore! To suggest that the gender other people identify or perceive you to be would dictate your personal conduct expectation of conformity by the community and society at large is a foreign and even rejected concept in 2023.

[@richallenxbox1976]

Yep, seperate changing rooms are still a thing all these years later! Also, cold showers, WTF?!

[@toriless]

Yeah, now you say "Do not act like TikTok whore selling your Only Fans pages", so much better.

[@ozymandias7940]

I remember as a teenager in Australia in the 70's, we used to buy a pack of cigarettes for around $1.50 and hide them under the house. Now, a pack of 25's will cost you a whopping $50+. A carton (8pks) will set you back about $400. Insane...

[@mikegrossberg8624]

There WAS a logical reason for "beer for babies" Beer is made with malted barley, which has nutritional value(in fact, you'll find it as an ingredient in a great many foods, especially breakfast cereals, like Chex, Cheerios, and other "unsweetened" cereals, so-called because they let the malted barley provide sweetness instead of adding extra sugar!). Up until the mid-19th century, "small" beer, low in alcohol content, high in malted barley, was used as a breakfast drink, or a thirst-quencher, as it wasn't always safe to drink the water

[@WickedWicka]

That's a myth, the water was safe to drink back then. People have just liked beer lol.

[@Cynsome1]

@@WickedWicka it’s not a myth. Beer actually saved lots of German lives once because of horrible water quality, and they let everyone drink it now, even children.

[@Cynsome1]

There’s another good thing about beer and babies. Nursing moms should know that drinking a small amount of beer (8oz) helps produce milk.

[@JD-ul8qu]

Indeed, my wife's German grandmother would drink beer when she was nursing.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

Guinness was prescribed for nursing mothers in Irish hospitals. May still be today.

[@chrischurch6187]

A time in history when people did not get offended over the smallest trivial things

[@JohnWick-rl7vb]

Yes because using the N word or stereotypical Native American caricatures was something to never be offended about. 😂

[@childrey14]

In a time if you were White you weren't Right 🙄

[@JohnWick-rl7vb]

@@childrey14 oh do tell when has that ever been the case?

[@fixeddice1982]

And when words' meanings didn't change with the wind.

[@leedswiggy]

@@JohnWick-rl7vbwhy do you have to say N word yet it’s fine for them to call each other it. What a hypocritical world the left have forged.

[@lisanull900]

Never had an issue with cigarette ads either as a kid or now. Can also say they had nothing to do with me starting smoking at 12. Obviously because when i asked the cashier for a pack she asked which one & I had no clue what the brands were lol . (it wasn't "peer pressure" either, I wanted to make my mom mad) As for the drugs........well, now maybe the public will begin to understand why we have the FDA. I don't get upset about old advertisements or commercials. I find them interesting as we can watch society evolve & change over time. You can be certain future generations will be just as harsh with what we find normal & acceptable today.

[@AdamsOlympia]

When I was a kid, I used to love getting this gum candy that came in a cigarette shaped pack , with each piece individually shaped like cigs. They'd even blow pretend smoke (from bein coated in powdered sugar) It was a unique product that seem to go out of style after the 80s for some odd reason.

[@lisanull900]

@@AdamsOlympia those were fun. If you really hunt online you can find them as novelty candy.....same for candy cigarettes.

[@MrDuncl]

My Mother said that if she ever caught us smoking she would bash me around my ears until I was deaf. It was a huge disappointment to me that once after a argument between my sister and parents my sister went outside and lit up a cigarette ......................... and nothing happened.

[@j.morrison73]

I remember many of these and even used Jade East. Jade East and Tabac were my most used cologne's in the 60's & early 70's. I would compare the scent of Jade East about as 'intoxicating' as the women's cologne 'Opium' today. Tabac was a more 'deep smokey' scent. But not of 'smoke' as one would consider fire or cigarettes. My third was 'Canoe'. "Can you 'Canoe?"

[@nessapainter]

Hurray for the many rational comments written here. They show a far better understanding of history, some compassion, and how cultures change (not always for the better) over time. I now see millennials bashing babyboomers for their attitudes or practices (some with far fewer negative consequences than seen in this video). I appreciate the comments here from people who understand the passage of time. Thank you.

[@stevemelancon6207]

Yes Nessa Morse, yes indeed. Thank you.

[@davedixon2068]

thats because many of us have seen a passage of time, and lived through the good and the bad

[@marklmansfield]

Hate on them all you want but in their day individuals never mass murdered random innocents , alcoholism, drug addiction , obesity was rare , children had a Mom and Dad that were in a lifetime commitment for better or worse and meant it . People generally considered themselves happy .

[@doorguru168888]

Sure there was.

[@TaraMolohon-lb1zn]

I did marketing all through highschool and I can tell you that without all the love and happiness I felt for those 5 years I would have really fallen apart in the mischief of the whole decade and would not have had such a great school career. Thank goodness for all I was given and Lord bless us all for the crazy stuff I went through that decade. ❣️😁

[@EmeraldEyesEsoteric]

In those good old days, I would've been a man, had a job, bought a home, fell in love, and raised a family. I can't see doing ANY of those things today. Everything is toxic, confusing, and a rip off. I just collect food, video games, watch KZbin, eat, and I'm happy alone with my dog.

[@laurenanderson61]

OMG that is SO true! I mean, I and many, many others can relate.

[@markwoods1530]

people knew where they were back then, i was born in the 60s and the map of our futures was already changing then, it was the teachers

[@zulu0219]

Ditto, buddy.

[@martinpugh1008]

Emerald Eyes that is so true I once had all of those things you mentioned in your comments I am now in my early 60s divorced I have 4 adult children who I rarely see and I am also a grandfather I also live alone with my dog a greyhound bitch an ex racer who is my constant companion which takes the edge off my loneliness on the other side of it does have its advantages too ie no nagging or questioning about where I have been if I am late getting home from work or an evening out I can come and go and do as I please so onwards and upwards good luck

[@PlanetToca]

I think about that as well if I live back then I guarantee I could find a good woman to marry and have a good life but the women nowadays are just ridiculous. So I'm probably gonna be single for life

[@ralphiewigs2208]

And, of course, a favorite from my youth...actor Billie Dee Williams with a beautiful girl in the background advertising Colt 45 Malt Liquor. The motto of the ad campaign was "Works every time".

[@seanb447]

"I'm Lando Calrissian and I drink Colt...45"

[@terrychambers6726]

The one about Love ways wins my vote, because it relieves stress also fun to try & puts a smile on your face all day long.

[@kjellrode2434]

We can all be thankful that today all advertising is truthful, inclusive, science based, and totally focused on improving our lives, society and the good of the planet!

[@steveforbes7718]

This one has consumed all of the Kool-aid!

[@honeym210]

😂😂😂😂

[@frankforrest1597]

No different than the pharmaceutical ads that "ask your doctor if...is right for you" or any of the mass marketing ads that are forced upon us in every media out there, even while pumping gasoline. ✌️

[@dixiefix6055]

Some pumps around here have white squares around the screen, if you push one (lower right) it will mute the volume

[@frankforrest1597]

@@dixiefix6055 lucky you, I wish that was available near me 🤙

[@dixiefix6055]

@@frankforrest1597 you can also put black tape over the speaker and it will mite it

[@jamesbugbee6812]

The Endless pharmaceutical ads.

[@grantechsweng5268]

@@jamesbugbee6812 now endless political ads. at least this week.

[@mm-hk2qw]

The entire idea that these ads are somehow insensitive or should be banned are ridiculous!

[@kregchapman6981]

of course that's back when kids that thought they could not pay attention in class were introduced to punishment and NOT drugs from doctors to keep them jelly-headed.

[@rascal211]

That one at 3:55 no denying is bad.

[@mlbowen6476]

Agreed!

[@fjcjcjdnse4077]

I’ve got the pin up from the thumbnail hanging on my wall! It’s from a calendar that was released in 1953. She’s the December girl:)

[@OmniGuy]

I remember going to the store for my mom at about 7..... probably 10-12 blocks, one way, by myself to buy her a pack of cigarettes for a quarter.

[@johnnyg4941]

Oh for God's sake! These ads were from a time when stuff was what it was and was advertised they way they saw it. If you're offended by something from history then turn the page, switch it off etc. but don't start pontificating. Live with it. it's part of history

[@jnstonbely5215]

I remember some of those cigarette ads and tv commercials. Even then, my Dad who didn’t smoke cigarettes would say, “;that’s a lot of bull ! And smoking them is no damn good for anyone, plus, they stink “!

[@FrankiesFancy]

Burning skunk smells even worse but here we are, listening to potheads virtue signaling that smoking another plant is good for you because today's doctors say it is. Smdh.

[@Mike-qp8bv]

What do you use to get rid of whisky breath you ask ? Well, a Lucky Strike cigarette of course. I thought that would of been a no brainer.

[@MrAvenger1975]

I still smoke Luckies. It's my #1 American brand.

[@chavruta2000]

the malt beer for nursing mothers is actually a bone fide health benefit against jaundice

[@starababa1985]

When I was a girl, it was common for older women to advise nursing mothers to drink beer as an aid to milk production. Young moms also carried around a little bottle of whiskey for teething babies. They would rub some on the baby's gums with a moistened finger to relieve their pain, and chuckle when their eyes would glaze over a bit. Stopped the screaming right away. In my dad's day, young kids were sent to the tavern to fill up a tin pail with beer and then carry home. It had a loose flat lid, so sometimes little boys would sneak a sip on the way back.

[@1950Grendel]

When my wife was pregnant in 1979, her OB/GYN advised her to drink one beer a day because the yeast was good for her, and the alcohol content of one beer was insignificant to the baby's health. My son weighed in at 10 pounds and is today 6'4", so I don't think it hurt him.

[@moniquedefranca5759]

The dark beer known as stout. Its very bitter but great for milk production if you can handle the bitterness.

[@johndilloway9762]

@@moniquedefranca5759 Here i uk it was given to hospital patients at breakfast, especially if you were pregnant.

[@jameshogan6142]

In the early nineteen seventies it was very common for doctors to prescribe milk and stout to any adult that had become "run down". It was a vitamin and mineral supplement for people whose nutrition had become lacking.

[@scottaustin4035]

When I was a kid around 8 I bought my mom a carton of cigarettes. I never seen her laugh so hard in my life. Yes kids could buy cigarettes.

[@marktwain2053]

When I was about that age, my mom would send me to the store, with $1.00, to buy her a pack of Pall Malls, a Dr. Pepper, and a Coke for my sister and I, and there would be change. Of course, that dollar was pretty hard to come by in 1961.

[@baldeagle5297]

@@marktwain2053 That would be slightly over $9.00 in today's money.

[@swilliams2229]

@@marktwain2053 when i was a kid a pack of luckys was 25 cents from a machine. 2 pennies were in the pack with the luckys. the only way to give change with a machine. at least they wernt taking advantage of people.

[@PDXLANDBARON]

I would buy a bucket of beer for my Grammy with a paper lid from the corner bar. Bring the bucket back and my Grammy and Great Aunt would slug it down on a hot muggy Dog Day Afternoon.

[@jenniferdjaslowskj993]

@@marktwain2053 omg....what a hoot! I can relate to going to the corner store for an ice cream cone AND getting a pack of sigs for my Pop, who smoked Camels; never a problem! And some of the ads are downright hysterical/ Well, like every thing else through the ages, it comes with knowledge, ideas, invention, trial and error, . It all had to start somewhere, eh? Fun to see where much of it started.

[@stevedunningduckinggiraffe6296]

I bought my wife a new belt and a bag for Christmas - she was so pleased - and now the vacuum cleaner works like new!

[@scottleadbetter7167]

What is really funny about the Ovaltine "wake up gay!" ad is the caption at the bottom that says: "try it at bedtime tonight" lol

[@familyproctor8061]

Products and attitudes of the past. Judging the past by modern standards is just wrong.

[@barryf5479]

Back then, they'd probably be offended at douche commercials that we show at prime time television.

[@lincbond442]

Or erectile dysfunction and vaginal cream commercials.

[@thomascattington1660]

Oh, yeah. I remember the first time I saw one of those silly ads pouring blue liquid (for some reason) on a pad. I looked at my girlfriend in total cluelessness and then we died laughing.

[@selfdo]

There was actually an activist group that wanted feminine hygiene commercials taken off the air. True story.

[@johnchandler1687]

In the 1970s Richard Prior did a skit on TV ads. He said it was only a matter of time until you'd be eating dinner and a guy would come on sitting on the toilet and wipe his but and hold it up and say , " See how much more sh*t I get off with brand X instead of ordinary paper?" Kinda gross, but not far from today's truth.

[@mvp019]

Isn't it ironic that drugs are a bigger societal problem now than when so many were available over the counter? We don't have a drug problem in the USA, we have a societal and mental health problem.

[@dlamancha5697]

I had to giggle at the "Clothes for Chubbies," from Lane Bryant. It was pretty funny. As for the rest, cigarettes were often used as a prop in movies for years! Years ago, MGM gave packs of cigs for Judy Garland as part of her diet to slim down. (poor girl).

[@davidallen5535]

There was the counterpart for little fat boys ... Huskies.

[@toriless]

What is ironic is the girl shown is NOT chubby at all, she is NOT a typical Lane Bryant customer.

[@iamhossmw]

It's so interesting to look at the past especially through the eyes of perfect people and the Sanctimonious Narrator always helps.

[@Vic-lk1zq]

Was wondering if anyone else caught his smug, holier than thou, and naive at the same time attitude.

[@ac9559]

Thank you! You summarized my contempt for the virtue signaling narrator perfectly.

[@thomassant2154]

A dopey disclaimer and the horror of these commercials! What a snowflake this narrator is.

[@nessapainter]

Exactly my reaction whenever I see or hear current "We are holier than thou" condescending reactions to life before people had the information to change certain attitudes or practices. Nothing like arriving on this planet as a totally perfect person with no faults, thus allowing you to criticize all that happened before you showed up!

[@Vic-lk1zq]

@@nessapainter Very good. You've said it better than I had. Sometimes called "Monday morning quarterbacking".

[@user-gu1jk4qn6b]

Cigarettes actually did help my asthma, when my inhalers were not working. I got the idea from my mother, when my grandfather used them on her, before there were medicines for it. I wanted things like vacuums, steam irons, sewing machines, and pots and pans.

[@Apollos_Triumph]

😅

[@johnlemoine5571]

What a historical lesson in showing how things used to be. That's our history. Most important to me are the many comments that were inspired by this presentation. It invoked a lot of memories from people, which I can relate to.

[@markchoate9021]

Well, perhaps a few of these are a stretch when measured by todays "values." But, pound for pound, it was a happier time and everyone did not spend every waking moment trying to figure out how to be "offended" by one thing or another.

[@stankygeorge]

I'm offended, I just seen a China man wearing Western clothing, eating a McDonalds! He just Appropriated my culture!

[@nowthatsjustducky]

@@stankygeorge Whoa! He ate an entire McDonalds? :D

[@faithlesshound5621]

Actually, the 1950s were a time when Americans went overboard looking for things to be offended by, just not the same things as now. Eisenhower issued a presidential order banning the employment of homosexuals by the federal government. That was used by Joe McCarthy for his "Pink List," which he used in parallel to his "Red List." The press created a furore when Ike had a couple of black officers to dinner in the White House. No one turned a hair about child abuse, but Ingrid Bergman was denounced on the floor of the Senate and exiled from Hollywood for having an affair.

[@AndrewVelonis]

Or worse people trying to be offended by claiming that others are offended.

[@HMMELD]

Lawsuits drove much of this.

[@mushroommandrake7157]

1) The ad for the "Oriental Love Ways" was published in stag magazines, and was carefully worded to avoid being hit by the obscenity police... yes, that was a thing with the Postal Service. There would also be ads for maritals aids and 'things that go buzz in the night', but say those bullet-shaped vibrating tools were for sore muscles. ;-) Now, if you mean speaking about "oriental" as something other than a rug or a soup base flavor, that I can understand, but the ad itself for what it's about, nope, it was in softcore-skin and hardcore-adventure magazines for horny men in the 1970s. Ads for sex help products nowadays are WAY more direct and blatent. 2) While I don't disagree that Lane Bryant came at people with the word "fat" and that wouldn't fly today (they'd say "plus-size" and mean the exact same thing), look up a competing company for youth called Chubettes, which put the weight-shaming right into the name. And... "She can have a tummy and still look yummy!" was their slogan, which as applied to teens and tweens (the clothing maker's demographic) truly wouldn't fly today. 3) The Ironized Yeast ad... The weight-gain product from back in the day Wate-On is still in production and advertises in women's magazines, and the 'meal supplement' Ensure serves a similar purpose without saying it so directly in daytime TV ads, but the products' ads no longer speak about desireability to the opposite sex so much as how unhealthy it is to be boney or undernourished, with the occasional prod at looking healthy to the world in general. You are right about the narrow zone in perception between anorexic and obese; judgy people are annoying. 4) Yes, Hoover is still in business, and is now a part of Milwaukee Tools. You asked.

[@zulu0219]

Hoover vacuum cleaners suck.

[@mushroommandrake7157]

@@zulu0219 - And that's why they're still in business: effective products. :)

[@toriless]

Yeahs, it is back massager shaped like a sausage.

[@MrDuncl]

In the 1980s I worked with an out gay who was always complaining about his post from Amsterdam being intercepted.

[@gracemanock2471]

Those were the days!

[@Why...So...Stupid...]

But you gotta remember, these ads were made before everyone was sissyfied and offended by everything.

[@alienboy1322]

@SpankDeezNuggets It's not nice to call people "sissys" sissy.

[@victorsamuelson3589]

Meet me out in the street you’ll see what a sissy I am and I’m 70 years old

[@LG123ABC]

@@alienboy1322 How about "asshole"? Are you okay with that?

[@alienboy1322]

@@LG123ABC Who are you?

[@David-uf8ex]

@@LG123ABC 😂😂👏👏

[@jeffmckee1825]

The tobacco ad from Wm. S. Kimball was from a company that was in my hometown of Rochester , NY. The location where it was is now the Blue Cross Arena and the statue of Mercury is atop a nearby building. As a side note , Kimball was also a well-known orchid grower. At least 2 species were named for him - Spathoglottis kimballiana and Vanda (Holcoglossum) kimballiana. .

[@Ratt2004]

Rochester representing!

[@jeffmckee1825]

@@Ratt2004 i have lived in Rochester , NY all of my 66 years.

[@fasthracing]

Fascinating. Tell me more.

[@Videogamer-555]

Who ever thought it was a good idea for babies to drink caffeinated soda?

[@SuperMinion-vy1hk]

My Dr when I was a kid in the ‘70’s in Australia smoked Pall Malls in his office, you could see the smoke haze through the sunlight coming through the window lol 😂 that’s just how it was.

[@richallenxbox1976]

These days if a Doctor was caught smoking in front of a Patient, he'd get struck off post haste... Although to be honest, given that it was 25 years last August since we lost my Grandad to Cancer, who was a smoker, I've been very anti-smoking since forever.

[@MrTomOff]

I met my wife to be at "Sambo's Restaurant where she was a waitress. I never thought a "pancake theme" would become so volatile.

[@barronvonpitbull4544]

My aunt worked their as a waitress too!

[@JoeDizard]

Loved Sambo's

[@farmerbill6855]

You never really get out of mom's basement, do you?

[@babs5573]

I’m 68 yo female… there was a Winston commercial with a beautiful brunette in a red evening gown, laying across a baby grand piano singing 🎶 Me and my Winston, we’ve got a real good thing🎶 I have no idea why that impressed me so much… so much so that I started smoking at 14 yo! And still smoke to this day!! Of course the added influence of the rich girls in my classes who pretty much did what that wanted and got what they wanted, smoked regularly!! Of course the peer pressure was tough to say no!!!

[@peredhillover1]

As a child of the 1970's, I remember buying my poor addicted mom cigarettes as a perfectly acceptable Christmas present. I'm grateful to say that, despite the second-hand smoke swirling around my face and into my lungs throughout my childhood, I was smart enough never to succumb to the addiction.

[@richallenxbox1976]

Aye, I'm sure if I actually said it, Mum would disown me, but I half reckon the fact my late Grandad was a pipe smoker most of his adult life is part of the reason I have Autism.

[@bryanmelton5538]

THATS GREAT IM SORRY I DID

[@ticktick1981]

I miss the good old days 😂😂😂😂

[@stefanfrankel8157]

Yeah, I really miss living with a semi-alcoholic chain-smoking father that would hit me for saying the wrong thing, but never told me what the rules were. I have been a stutterer ever since.

[@ticktick1981]

@@stefanfrankel8157 😂😂😂😂

[@conservativemike3768]

I sure picked the wrong century to stop snorting cocaine.

[@lincbond442]

Lloyd Bridges.

[@johnotto4931]

I don’t remember it being 15 cents

[@kregchapman6981]

Yeah, Imagine if Airplane came out today, they would have a $hit-fit... Air-Israel, the woman laying in bed with the horse as well as Mrs. Cleaver speaking Jive :-). funny thing is now on Netflix at the beginning of movies there is a warning if there are images of anyone smoking :-), all of these protections and still some folks are just bat $hit crazy :-)

[@mlbowen6476]

Nick! Heath! Jarrod! There's a fire in the barn!

[@Dani92670]

@@lincbond442 Thank you...that was bugging the hell out of me trying to remember...Airplane, right?

[@tobiasbritton]

See a young Ronald Raegin advertising cigarettes back in the day.

[@kenpyle1716]

First cigarette I smoked was an asthma cig my buddy stole from his dad.

[@glennso47]

I couldn’t believe Fred Flintstones smoke cigarettes and advertise them

[@clarencewalker3925]

I saw that commercial when I was kid in the Sixties. I don't know what to say.

[@glennso47]

@@clarencewalker3925 Another website says that The Flintstones was supposed to be a sitcom for the whole family. But it eventually came to be a favorite show for kids. The cigarette sponsor was discontinued.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

@@glennso47 They parted ways with Winston when Pebbles was born, and Welch's became the new sponsor. It is quite possible the folk at Winston actually initiated the change, likely realizing that their show was becoming more for the kids and their product was not appropriate for that demographic.

[@AndrewVelonis]

The Clampetts did also.

[@glennso47]

@@AndrewVelonis I think Beverly Hillbilly was at first a replacement for the game show I've Got A Secret which was sponsored by Winston.

[@jamesbugbee6812]

Dating these ads would increase relevance.

[@AndrewVelonis]

Agree. I'm not so sure all of them were 20th Century.

[@chrisc6857]

@@AndrewVelonis Save for the cocaine cough drops and heroin I'm pretty sure they were. (And even those could have been from the first decade or so.)

[@larsedik]

@4:00 That is a very expensive price for washer and dryer circa 1960 (I think) compared to what they would cost in today's dollars. Multiply those prices by 10. @5:49, Mad Magazine had a parody featuring whiskey flavored toothpaste in the 1960s - I wonder if they got the idea from this.

[@jiminnorthdallas1227]

Being 63, I remember some of these, but you really dug up some I never saw! Well researched!

[@teejae2065]

When my mother was pregnant with me in 1964...she was hiding it so she wouldn't be fired. (America!) So she asked her doctor and he said to just eat one meal a day (2000 cal) so she smoked to supress her appetite. (And she was fired from her job as a phone operator when they figured it out) anyway, I was born with a severe neural tube defect and have had a lifetime of pain and suffering including over 40 surgeries. Smoking is now known to cause these defects.

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

Well, THIS post should have received more responses. I hope life has brought you some compensations for your misfortunes.

[@nessapainter]

So sorry you had to suffer. Sounds like your mom was stuck in a difficult situation without information that we now have.

[@snowwpea]

I’m sorry you went through that

[@KJ-md2wj]

Slave owners didn't fire their slaves when pregnant. So much for super rich capitalists taking care of their workers.

[@jimtownsend7899]

I'm eager for the day when "period panties" will be in one of these videos. Some of these old ads might be offensive, but at least they weren't disgusting and gross.

[@honeym210]

Agree 100%! And when did people start needing adult diapers?? Disgusting!

[@Fossilsnake]

I'll vouch, Winston still tastes good like a cigarette should.

[@spaceace1006]

Being born in 1958, I remember the Cigarette Commercials well!

[@TheRagingPlatypus]

The problem isn't that Aunt Jemima talked in a slang accent. The problem is snowflakes denigrating that accent and finding the way people actually spoke as a bad thing. Furthermore, those "racist" ads made Aunt Jemima the first black woman self made millionaire in America and a beloved icon...oh, the horror.

[@billwilson3609]

The name and image was created by Pillsbury's ad agency. Believe her name was Mary and was brought to the company's attention by winning a nationwide contest for recipes using their new all-purpose flour. The company paid for her travel to get her prize at their HQ and was surprised that she was a negro then even more as she talked about cooking. She was clear, concise and spoke in a manner that held people's attention plus had a winning personality that made everyone like her. The executives moved quickly to sign her on as a company spokeswoman and sent her out on tours of the Nation conducting baking seminars and answering questions about Pillsbury products. (edit) The contest winner's name was Lillian Richard. She grew up in Hawkins, Texas and left for Dallas to work as a domestic in 1911 where she ended up winning the contest at the age of 20. In 1995 the Texas legislature name Hawkins The Pancake Capital of Texas to honor Lillian Richards.

[@AmyDaisy69]

No better way to preach anti-racism by removing the presence of black people. Absolute hypocrisy! They always pull this stuff. Remember when they tried to cancel Speedy Gonzales for being a Mexican stereotype? Turns out that Hispanics loved him and the representation, so that backfired on them.

[@TheRagingPlatypus]

@@AmyDaisy69 Everyone loves these characters except Pepe Le Pew... the French can't laugh at themselves.

[@AmyDaisy69]

@@TheRagingPlatypus Pepe Le Pew was cancelled because he is a sex pest.

[@markwilliams2620]

Learn how to spell. Aunt Jemima never existed. It was a marketing promotion. You're free to buy the company from PepsiCo and rename it, snowflake.

[@MIKELIN8]

Steve McQueen and John both died of...lung cancer.

[@davidwesley2525]

John Wayne also had 45 pounds of waste in his colon.

[@sullytrny]

When you get older I hope people come back and look at the way you lived and dissect it like you are the way we did we didn't know any different that's how it was and that's how things change and that's what it's called being an adult unless you're like these people who are always looking back 50 years and want something for free