Tell Me Your Age, Without Telling Me Your Age, Using Contemporaneous Ad and TV Show Slogans

Bet most people under 50 have never heard of the inch worm. Would this ad even be allowed today?

Inch worm, inch worm, I love you.
Ride up and down and up and down on the inch worm, by Romper Room.

In this commercial, Ricardo says “rich leather” and “Corinthian leather”, but not the three-word phrase everyone remembers.

I wonder what year that one was. Here’s one where he says “soft Corinthian leather.” Around :33.

Bingo!

“Fine Corinthian leather” at :26ish.

It’s Shake-n-Bake, and I helped!

Weekends were made for Michelob

A sprinkle a day keeps the odor away

I remember it as “A sprinkle a day helps keep odors away”.

Is it live, or is it Memorex?

Apparently it’s both, but ours scan better than the original

Sprinkle a day

Renault…the One to Watch.

Bounty…the Quicker-Picker-Upper.

If you got a passion for fashion,
and you got a craving for savings,
take the wheel of your automobile
and swing on down to…IDEAL.

Mother PLEASE! I’d rather do it myself!!! I still feel bad for the old lady, she reminded me of my Grandma.