Retro Commercials

These commercials aired during the 1984 Olympics on ABC on August 12th, 1984. These are from a 24 year old beta tape that my Aunt and Uncle recorded, so the quality isn’t the best. 1. McDonald’s (An EPIC one minute ad, featuring that great 80′s jingle) 2. Dean Witter (With Paul Gleason) 3. General Motors (Their feeble robots couldn’t hold up to the brutal efficiency of the Japanese variety) 4. Gatorade (I love the pixelated bodies) 5. Symphony Software by Lotus (A word processing suite for …

(September 17, 1914 September 1, 2008), also known as Tomas Bata Jr. and Tom Baa ml., ran the Bata Shoe Company from the 1940s until the ’80s. Bata was born in the Czech city of Prague, in what is now the Czech Republic, the son of Czech industrialist Tom Baa. As a boy he apprenticed under his father, Thomas Sr., who began the Bata Shoe company in 1894 in Zlin, Czechoslovakia. His father, however, was killed in a plane crash when Thomas was only 18, in 1932. Bata attended school in …

1. Oil Heat–This is a funny parody to Alka Seltzer’s classic 1977 commercial “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!” I can’t believe that he converted to gas heat! 2. Top Job–It’s the greasy screen and the greasy kitchen! Someone’s not using the Top Job! **These commercials are from 1977 to 1983 Commercials Volume 10. This volume ranges from 1980 to 1983 and were recorded in Brooklyn, NY***