Memorable Adverts From Your Childhood

[Nocturnal Submission]

[ursus arctos]

[Stumpy Pepys]

I'm disappointed there is no sign on YouTube of Blackburn's finest shoe emporium, Tommy Ball's.

COME TO TOMMY BALL'S, HART STREET, BLACKBURN!!

[ursus arctos]

We need Inca to bring the Cal Worthington et al.

I only saw them as an adult.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Not quite childhood, but...:

[ursus arctos]

If we allow adolescence (and radio)

[Hot Pepsi]

We saw a lot of NYC ads.

[Hot Pepsi]

[3 Colours Red]

[Guy Profumo]

Graded grains make finer flour?

[San Bernardhinault]

[ursus arctos]

The trans-Atlantic difference in production costs is intriguing

[delicatemoth]

Ah, SB has saved me the bother. That bear tries so fucking hard.

This always seemed to be on in the cinema in the early 80s (content note for 'dated cartoon racial stereotypes') - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS44El_V7SM

[George]

A bastardised version of Israelites was used on Vitalite adverts for years. Desmond Dekker must have been coining it in.

[Sporting]

Fairy Liquid ones. Sexist even for their time.

[Sporting]

[Sporting]

[Sean of the Shed]

[Simon G]

Remember the kids in my school going mental over the first one here:

[ursus arctos]

You kids with you colour televisions . .

[Jon]

I'm disappointed there is no sign on YouTube of Blackburn's finest shoe emporium, Tommy Ball's.

COME TO TOMMY BALL'S, HART STREET, BLACKBURN!!

There was a similarly parochial advert on Sky Sports during the India Pakistan game over the weekend, for a Chicken shop in Small Heath, Birmingham.

[Kevin S]

Remember the kids in my school going mental over the first one here:

I know these ones got the whole thing started but I preferred the later "hit of the whole fruit" ones.

Anyway, more early 90s joy with this:

[Kevin S]

And of course the earlier milk advert:

[Kevin S]

Monster Munch

Sugar Puffs

[Hot Pepsi]

I watched an ungodly amount of TV and listened to the radio a lot as a kid, so there are so many ads and jingles clogging up my brain.