Retro Commercials

These commercials aired during the 1984 Olympics on ABC on July 30th, 1984. These are from a 24 year old beta tape that my Aunt and Uncle recorded, so the quality isn’t the best. 1. Diet Coke (With Tommy Lasorda, Christie Brinkley, Chuck Yeager and probably some others) 2. Chevrolet Sprint 3. Xerox Memory Writer (Never thought I’d see a commercial for a typewriter…) 4. General Motors 5. Meister Brau (Brauermeister Meisterbrauer) 6. GE Electronic Refrigerator (Open the fridge bay doors, HAL …

These commercials aired on NBC during the 1988 Olympics on September 17th, 1988. Thanks to my aunt and uncle for recording this! 1. Bud Light (With Spuds MacKenzie!) 2. McDonald’s (I bet none of those babies turned out to be Olympians. What failures!) 3. GTE 4. John Doolittle for State Senate (I can’t believe this is a real campaign ad) 5. Chevron (“Here’s your Bullwinkle, Miss Change!”) 6. No on Proposition 99 7. Florin Road Toyota Warehouse (Whoa, awesome graphics!) 8. Gatorade (I like the …

These commercials aired on NBC during the 1988 Olympics on September 17th, 1988. Thanks to my aunt and uncle for recording this! 1. Kodak Colorwatch System (With Bill Cosby!) 2. AT&T (With Cliff Robertson) 3. Isuzu Trooper (That looks like way more money than 0) 4. Phillips 5. Murphy’s Oil Soap Spray (“Let us spray” indeed) 6. Olympic Commercial Bumpers for Coca Cola, Pontiac, Phillips and Shearson Lehman Hutton 7. IBM Application System 400 (With the cast of M*A*S*H*) 8. Visa 9. Huggies …