Okay, I can’t wait until tomorrow to give you the answers to my previous post. Here they are now. Consider this a Happy Thanksgiving Day present from me to you.

1.      I still remember this commercial.  It had a HUGE red convertible zipping along the coast line with a smiling couple, she being blonde, of course, riding and having the time of their lives in their Pontiac!

2.      Pepsodent. Do they still make that toothpaste?

3.      Buster Brown

4.      Old Gold Cigarettes. (Each pack used to come with a coupon. When you got about five billion of them, you could trade them in for a “gift” from the Old Gold Catalogue. I used to smoke these things, and I collected the coupons. I told everybody I was saving them in order to trade them in for a heart-lung machine.

5.      Taryton Cigarettes. They had a “micro-filter” on them that was flected with bits of charcoal.

6.      The blond Doublemint twins would leisurely stroll along smiling and one another and everything around them and chewing Doublemint Gum.

7.      Aqua Velva. (I think the only other aftershaves on the market at the time were Old Spice and ‘Electric Shave by Mennen.

8.      Noxema Medicated Comfort Shaving Cream. (While the blonde bombshell      spokeswoman pouted for the camera and said those words, The David Rose Orchestra played “The Stripper” in the background.

9.      Winston

10.  Certs. “Certs is candy! Certs is a breath mint!”

11.  Fritos Corn Chips. (with the Frito Bandito.)

12.  Lay’s Potato Chips. (I remember Burt Lars, The Cowardly Lion himself, selling these things!

13.  Brylcreme Hair Lotion (They still make this stuff today!)

14.  Coca-Cola

15.  An irate woman would scream this at her elderly mother because she had a horrible headache. So the understanding mother would offer her errant daughter two Excedrin tablets.

16.  Alka-Seltzer. These were absolutely HILARIOUS commercials!

17.  Mapo. (Maple-flavored oatmeal cereal.)

18.  Miss Clairol hair color

 19. Bit-O-Honey candy

20.  Chevrolet

21.  Again, Coca-Cola

22.  Pepsi Cola. The company was originally owned by Joan Crawford. The jingle was written by a very young Barry Manilow.

23.  McDonalds.

24.  Virginia Slims. This was the first cigarette marketed directly at women. They were liberated now. So they had an equal opportunity to get lung cancer along with their male counterparts! (Now that I think about it, commercials for this product may have aired in the early seventies, at the height of The Women’s Movement,  and not the sixties.)

25. Schaefer Beer. (This may be an unfair question. I’m not sure if Schaefer is a national or

regional brand.) However, this one is interesting because I doubt if, in today’s politically correct society, lyrics would be so blatantly sexist, nor would a beer maker encourage people to have more than one beer and to keep right on drinking even when they’re not “thirsty.”

 The entire jingle goes as follows:

“Schaefer is the one beer to have

When you’re having more than one.

Schaefer pleasure doesn’t fade

Even when your thirst is done.

The most rewarding flavor in this man’s world

For people who are having fun!

Schaefer is the one beer to have

When you’re having more than one!”

Hope you had fun with this.