You had me at The Towering Inferno ad.

I love these vintage commercial channels. I'd rather watch endless loops of these than just about anything on tv these days.

Thank you! I love these classic commercials.

2:06 That is one of the best Columbo episodes.

“The Towering Inferno. See it for Christmas.” What a wonderful gift for the entire family!

you're probably old if you remember when the SB was played in Jan.

The unmistakable tones of Richard Basehart on the Chrysler commercial.

4:46- David Wayne speaks for IBM.

I Was 9 Months Old!

Excellent quality

Interesting to see three separate ads referencing US dependence on foreign fuels, and Don Shula promoting energy conservation, but the two car ads haven't caught up at all. Only a few years later and not only did every car ad include gas mileage (I assume by law?) but plenty of ads made a virtue of fuel economy.

Joel Crager is speaking for your Saving and Loan Association. Mel Brandt is doing the voiceover for "Columbo" on NBC.

@jehobden

5 жыл бұрын

Mel Brandt was the announcer for SNL for 1981-82, after Michael O'Donoghue had Don Pardo "fired" from the show for a year.

"Withdraw $50 a month, every month for the rest of your life " Be still my beating heart . Btw , $50 in 1974 is equivalent to $263 in 2020 . If the people who did that were still living today and the S&L s didn't go under , the deal couldn't get you a week's worth of groceries, now

Loved the old commercials

@amycrumedy6586

4 жыл бұрын

They bring back memos for me.

Game show host/announcer Jack Clark is the man in the FSLIC commercial at 11:34. The commercial stops abruptly when he mentions that "no one has ever lost a penny [in the S&Ls]". I don't think that remained true about 10-15 years afterward.

6:57 Bob Landers for Sears. He was a disc jockey on WNEW-AM in New York in the early to mid 60s.

It was interesting to see what oil shale looks like.

Go organized.

I LOVE THESE!! More please!! Thanks!

@ClaudiusPGreen-il4nf

7 жыл бұрын

Todd Grunwald

I think that's Pat Morita as the tourist taking a picture of the Dodge Charger at around 11:10.

@brentmann2988

3 жыл бұрын

Good catch! That is Pat Morita.

Go good Files and Xerox[s].

I miss Sears.

I like these selling things American made and not sad Sack like today endless lawyer abd drug bs commercials..tnx

I didn't know that Genghis Kahn sounded like Bela Lugosi.

11:02 - 1974 Dodge ‘Charger’: Bebara’s 🥇🚗!

That's the late Jack Clark in the FSLIC (now FDIC) commercial and the late Pat Morita of "Karate Kid" fame in the Dodge Charger ad.

Just discovered your channel, you have got some great stuff!! Keep it up!

6:16 - Holy Shit !! Ted Bundy did commercials?

How and on what kind of media are these old commercials found from? I know one that had a VCR before like 1980. Guess they were stored on video tape?

How is this aired on December 29th when at 1:00 it said "see on Christmas...?"

@King_Colombia_Inc

5 жыл бұрын

Hill Country The Towering Inferno was released on December 14th, 1974.

@Copeandseethe822

4 жыл бұрын

The same way we still see Christmas commercials after Christmas now. Ad space is bought in blocks of time.

The "Columbo" promo is for a rerun of the May 5, 1974 episode, where Richard Kiley played Columbo's boss, who murdered his wife and enlisted the aid of a friend who had also murdered someone else, to cover up both their murders.

I remember that movie the towering inferno watched it on tv that first commercial sounds good but it probably be $50 a week now instead of a month but still if it is true I would do it

What is it about skyscrapers that are on fire that become Christmas movies?

@cpapafunk

3 жыл бұрын

Christmas Day biggest movie day of the year

@luisreyes1963

Жыл бұрын

It would be another year when a little-known film from Steven Spielberg would become the first ever Summer blockbuster, Jaws. 🦈

0:35 That Burning, Churning, Durning, Kaburrming, Incinerating, Blazing, Smoking, Hot as Bulma Briefs-ing GODDAMNING Towering Inferno... I love that film.

0:00-0:34 The way banking used to be. Savings accounts paid 5-7 percent. Now you are lucky if savings or checking accounts pay more than 2-2.5 percent.

@howardcitizen2471

4 жыл бұрын

Even less; you're lucky to get 0.5%

@jamespfitz

11 ай бұрын

LOL. All we needed was Democrats being Democrats and interest rates are like the 70s.

If it was ten years after, no doubt "The Towering Inferno" would be rated PG-13.

@gochem3013

5 жыл бұрын

Tower of Hell.

@King_Colombia_Inc

4 жыл бұрын

gladasya 10 The greatest movie ever made.

@rynehall9990

3 жыл бұрын

I saw that at the movies...I think it was The Norridge

@luisreyes1963

Жыл бұрын

@@King_Colombia_Inc Funny, James Cameron would beg to differ. 🤨

Who's the driver in the "Hey, Charger" commercial? He looks very familiar.

3:30 - no tie off protection or lanyards required.

At 3:56, that looks like Alvarado Street in downtown Monterey, California

I was 14 years old living in Okinawa ..,

@nancycampbell9554

4 жыл бұрын

I was 6 years old living in Kentucky

5:46 - Derek Smalls for Schick.

That's Ted Cassidy doing the voiceover for Sears steelbelted radials.

don shula the coach with the most wins in nfl :)

4:21 40s years? this commercial from 40 years ago.

@fscap811

5 жыл бұрын

well, if you posted in 2016, it was 42 years ago

The year of my birth!!!

@King_Colombia_Inc

5 жыл бұрын

lymarie1974 That is beautiful. I love the 70’s. I can name the amazing movies that were released in 1974. :)

@amycrumedy6586

4 жыл бұрын

Aww a good time to be born in and be a kid I was seven but I remember a lot.

Savings and loan, every one of them stole their customers blind.

How was someone able to tape this? Betamax wouldn't exist for another year. A U-Matic machine, perhaps?

@DavidAfforo

8 жыл бұрын

perchance a videotape recorder, a shibaden maybe

@Patrick19833

8 жыл бұрын

People able to tape commericals from the 1950s. Why not 1974?

@antoniod

7 жыл бұрын

Looks like an original tape that was stored at the network.

@antoniod

7 жыл бұрын

Commercials from the 50s were saved on 16mm film, not tape. They were transferred to tape later.

@VahanNisanian

7 жыл бұрын

You mean like an aircheck that an affiliate of the network kept?

Whatever became of that Lancers rotgut?

RIP USS

@luisreyes1963

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, China. 😡

Still don't know what the inventors of football were thinking putting the goal post smack on the goal line. Makes no sense. It does give new insight in what a "post route" is. The idea was to use the goal post as a pick, hoping that the defender would run into it.

10:02- John C. Becher, veteran commercial actor.

That commercial about shale oil was right on the money. 40 years later shale oil has made the USA energy independent. However the world is moving to renewable resources. Too bad shale oil extraction wasn't more efficient back in the 1970s. Oh well. Technology develops slowly.

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Towering inferno???... I saw that on TV September 11, that was reality!

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Super Bowl IX of course, is when the Steelers won their first Super Bowl and first ever championship after 43 seasons.

@luisreyes1963

Жыл бұрын

The late Franco Harris for United Way.

Eveready is Mark is Black Cat alkaline ?

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How and on what kind of media are these old commercials found from? I know one that had a VCR before like 1980. Guess they were stored on video tape?