Posts

Showing posts with the label Adverts from the 1960s to the 2010s. UK

OPEN POST: I Asked for Ad/verts From The Past. My UK and US People Represented, and My Canadian Came Through Too!

Image
I couldn't come up with anything from memory because my radical bohemian anti-corporate weed-smoking hippie adjacent alternative living parents thought watching television subjected us to capitalist propaganda, and a narrow materialistic view of the world that excluded everyone but conformist white heterosexuals. So there are many, many gaps in my television watching career. Not to say I never watched it, but it was mostly PBS, movie rentals, or basic cable. Nothing much has ever changed. I don't think it makes me superior. It just means the pop culture television landscape, and I rarely connect. A week ago, I sent an email to my friends and family asking for links to commercials they remember. I received many back with a lot of stories and anecdotes about that time in their lives or how the world was then. These are some from the UK and the US. I couldn't link them all because some people sent me a lot, and then kept sending them. Some weren't in English, and I have no...