Oh, I loved that one too.
Let me tell you though, there were some catchy commercials FOR tobacco, too.
Who remembers:
You can take Salem out of the country
BUT!
You can’t take the country out of Sa-lem!
and
And Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should!
and, of course
You’ve come along way, baby, to get where you started today! (that doesn’t make sense) You’ve got your own cigarette now, baby. You’ve come a long, long way!
Oh yes, I remember those! It was a big topic in my family as my Uncle Ike had lost an eye when one did not go off when it was supposed to…he went over to check and it blew up then. My grandparents were not at home at the time. It was a HUGE family warning story during my entire childhood.
I was just thinking about Ace-Sew-Vac. This was a TV pitch to get a vacuum and a sewing machine (which was a real old reconditioned Singer), with the bonus of a complete set of green Anchor Hocking dishes. I grew up in Norfolk, Virginia and wonder to this day who their customers were. There were also commercials for those custom made plastic slip covers for furniture that you never see anymore.
I remember seeing Amos 'n Andy on after-school TV. I thought the cab driver was so handsome! Of course there were also the Three Stooges (which I called the Three Stoogers for years).
Anyone remember Ipana toothpaste? I always wanted to try it but we were strictlu Colgate at our house. I never got to try Bosco either (and I was dying for one of those toys they packed in the lids).
One thing I was not said to see go was celophane bread wrappers. There were exactly 2 fresh pieces of bread in the loaf and after that, the celophane let in air and the rest was always stale.
The PSAs worked! Huzzah!
Let’s see, there was Zoom, which I remember watching on WGBH while vacationing with my grandparents in Massachusetts. Anyone else from the D.C. area recall Captain 20 on WDCA during weekday afternoons? Didn’t he used to do some kind of chimp race or something on the air? And of course that staple of afternoon TV, Ultraman.
Anyone remember Scott and Joey? From the Cheese, Please! adverts.
**The Littlest Hobo ** theme song used to make me burst into tears, for some inexplicable reason (I was just a wee stump!)
I had a Fairy Tail. I had Tinsel Tails.
The 1963 printing of Collier’s Junior Classics Young Folks Shelf of Books. I would give anything to have that set again, not just for my kids, but I loved those old stories and poems. Oh, well, apparently I can get them all on eBay for $13.00 USD. :smack:
Great thread!
How about Viewmasters? Those binocular type thingies that you put the wheel of photos in and got a 3-D image.
Trac-Ball, where you had two racket type thingies that had teeth on them and would throw wicked curve-balls that your buddy would try to catch.
I doubt I need to mention the late, lemented “Jarts”. I’m not talking the girly blunt-ended ones either.
Anyone ever watch the show “3-2-1 Contact” in school? How about “Inside out” where some poor kid would face some terrible dilemma and you were supposed to discuss it.
Most of all, anyone remember riding your bike on a summer afternoon with nowhere to go and all day to get there?
If this isn’t just t.v., I actually miss how the air in the neighborhood used to be kind of greyish-blue on Saturday afternoons this time of year. Everyone raked their leaves into the street by the curb and set them afire. Really. We didn’t think it was air pollution, it was just how you got rid of leaves.
Time for Timer!
We had a Show’n Tell too. I really thought it was cool at the time. The unit is long gone but I still have a couple of records that went with it. I kept them because they had songs on the reverse side. One is a selection from “Swan Lake” and it got me started on classical music.
It was called In the News. I can remember the first time my siblings and I heard Christopher Glenn on the car radio as he was doing an update. It wasn’t until then that we realized he was a “real” newsman, with a life and career outside Saturday morning television.
I still have my copy. And I have our old copy of Uncle wiggly too. He used to make me vaguely uncomfortable.
The Magic Garden was my favorite show. So much so that I watched that reunion show they had earlier this year. (I tried to tape it but that was the day my VCR decided to crap out on me and ate the tape 
)
Wonderama singing Kids are people too.
The Great Space Coaster? Sorry, got nuthin’. No recollection of that one at all.
A boy I went to school with got on WPIX for one of those games. Remember that? PIX PIX PIX PIX LOL
They said my sister’s and my names on Romper Room! Remember that one? Be a Do Bee. 
Thank you, Sternvogel. That was killing me. I will be able to sleep tonight 
I’m surprised no one has mentioned…
waking up one day in early June and realizing that you don't have to go to school for THREE MONTHS!!
(This was an even bigger deal for me, because I didn't get weekends off. I'd go to school all week, then have to spend the weekend helping my father with his projects. Thus, summer vacation was the ONLY time I got to myself.)
Some others:
being able to read a comic book without part of my brain constantly picking out the technical impossibilities.
looking through the massive, toy-laden Sears catalog that always came out as Christmas approached. I probably got more entertainment out of that than I would have gotten out of the toys!
being able to consider a trip to McDonald’s as something special
What were those color changing glove dealies - Freaky Freezies? Something like that.
And I loved 3-2-1 Contact. And Mr. Wizard. And “You Can’t Do that on Television”
Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day!
Battleship without batteries.
BIG BLUE MARBLE
nuff said…
Oh yeah…
Check this out!
Oh man, I picked a letter at random from the index of that site and saw “It’s the Garry Shandling Show” and instantly, I could hear it:
This is the theme to Garry’s show, the opening theme to Garry’s show,
Garry called me up and asked if I would write his theme song,
I’m almost halfway finished, how do you like it so far?
This is the music that you hear as you watch the creee-dits!
…
We’re almost to the part where I start to whistle!
Mr. Yuk is meeeeeeean . . .
Mr. Yuk . . . is . . . greeeeeeeeeeeen!
For the truly ancient:
“Call. For. Phil-lip. Mor-r-risss!”
Dancing boxes of Old Gold cigarettes (one of them was Grace Kelly)
Arthur Godfrey singing “I’m a Lonely Little Petunia In An Onion Patch”
Lowell Thomas
Red Barber or Mel Allen calling a baseball game on the radio.
Felix the Cat cartoons
Some of those old cigerette ads are astonishing (looking back on them).
I’ve got an old Camel ad in my cube (wish I had a scanner).
It has endorsements by pro baseball palyers, and the following statement: “In a recent test of hundreds of people who smoked only Camels, noted throat specialists, making weekly examinations, reported NOT ONE SINGLE CASE OF THROAT IRRITATION due to smoking Camels”.
Also, I’ve got another ad at home (I sorta collect really old magazines) that claims “Not a COUGH in a carload”. (I think this one’s for Pall Malls, but I can’t remember for sure).
Anyone remember these?
(Bonus points if you can name the brand for 1 and 3 )
And along with In The News, there was “Make A Wish,” another five minute long Saturday morning thing on CBS with Tom Chapin (Harry’s younger brother.)
I also remember watching Batman and Star Trek episodes when they originally aired.
Ahh, the sixties. Great time to be a kid.
I love these threads, I really do.
Anyone for green stamps? We collected and collected, but never seemed to get anything. I loved sticking them in the books. The occasional green stamp can still be found in my parents’ house, it’s bizarre and scary to think about how long they’ve been there.
Riding in the back of the station wagon, hanging out the back window. Yes, I know it’s wrong to be nostalgic for something so dangerous.
Long distance calls. I swear I was in college before I made a casual long distance call. In high school, I was allowed to phone a friend I had made at summer camp for her birthday. During the school year, we wrote each other letters. Being able to call her was a special treat, and it had to be kept to about 5 minutes.