1980s
Delta airlines trips back to the eighties
Delta doesn’t mind reminiscing about the decade of big hair, leg warmers, neon colors and breakdancing.
Delta doesn’t mind reminiscing about the decade of big hair, leg warmers, neon colors and breakdancing.
Capitalizing on the success of The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman was a spin off that ran for three seasons between ABC and NBC from 1976 to 1978. The show starred Lindsay Wagner…
The original: Just You, Just Me (1929) The song’s first performance, by Lawrence Gray and Marion Davies Duke Ellington “Just You, Just Me”
Watch the top 10 songs from the last year of the sixties in this video countdown!
I had a headache this big… “I had a headache this big… but I took Excedrin, and it’s gone.” Excedrin headache medicine TV commercials (1985)
The Dukes of Hazzard The Dukes of Hazzard opening credits Dukes of Hazzard theme song lyrics Just the good ol’ boys, Never meanin’ no harm,
Fill your home with magic! New! Walt Disney Mini-Classics at a mini-price! Now, your favorite classic tales are on videocassette at the mini-price of $14.95!
Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved “Sweet Charity” was a 1969 movie, starring Shirley MacLaine, Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis
Put a little love in lunch with Skippy Serving Skippy is a loving way to give your kids the good nutrition they need. Because it’s
The Unsinkable Molly Brown Get out of the way… or get hit in the heart! Here comes… The Unsinkable Molly Brown, starring Debbie Reynolds, Harve
Bruce Willis is Tom Mix. James Garner is Wyatt Earp. Two legends out to make a movie, solve a murder, and have a good ol’
Attention, shoppers: The new Atari cartridge game is in A very early Atari 2600 commercial, broadcast during NFL Today on December 17, 1977. Atari
The reel dope: Miracle in the Rain “Miracle in the Rain” is a sad anecdote stretched to 110 minutes of old-fashioned storytelling by Ben Hecht, whose
Bubble Yum TV commercial with Leonardo DiCaprio In addition to to the future Titanic and Great Gatsby movie actor, this bubble gum ad also
Why Disney changed his mind about TV >> Also see: Disneyland opens (1955) Disneyland TV show opening credits Disneyland (the TV series), also
Third Man on the Mountain “Third Man on the Mountain” represents the first successful effort to capture the mystical quality of James Ramsey Ullman’s stories
The reel dope: Pillow Talk “Pillow Talk” doesn’t go quite that far — at least the pillows are on separate beds — but it’s frankly
Shamrock Shakes (1979) “’tis the first green of spring – MINT flavor” McDonald’s Shamrock Shake TV ad (1983) McDonald’s Shamrock shake & sundaes
New Datril 500 “It’s strong medicine for a headache, but gentle on the rest of your system.” New Datril 500 has 50% more strength than
Old Yeller movie “Old Yeller” is mostly for the older youngsters. In it Walt Disney’s latest “live” hero is an “ugly lop-eared mongrel,” played by
Movie review: The Bridge On The River Kwai “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” like “Beau Geste” before it, may well become the stiff-upper-lip classic
Moon River (video) https://youtu.be/flm4xcOyiCo Can’t Get Used to Losing You (video)
What A Wonderful World >> Also see: Louis Armstrong’s WWI draft registration
A day in the life of a small town in the 1950s MORE: Why old drive-in movie theaters were popular, and what they were like
New! Buc-Wheats is nutritionally improved (1978) Now, compared to this bacon and egg breakfast, Buc*Wheats gives you more vitamins, more iron, 80% of the protein,
Featured here is one of his classic ads for Paul Masson champagne. Of course, no mention of his commercial work is complete without some of the classic outtakes…
Here’s Groucho singing the song he’s famously associated with from his time with the Marx Brothers: ‘Hello, I Must Be Going,’ as seen in the 1930 film Animal Crackers.
Presley Signed by Ed Sullivan Singer to appear on 3 CBS Shows, Beginning Sept. 9, reportedly for $50,000 Ed Sullivan joined the crowd beating a
Miss Shirley Temple taps with Mr Bojangles In this clip from 1935’s “The Little Colonel,” watch as 7-year-old child star Shirley Temple dances on the
50+ sexist vintage ads so bad, you almost won’t believe they were real 
See 30 photos of daredevil skyscraper construction workers hanging out at dizzying heights over New York City 
Vietnam War map: Corps to corps (1968) 
Young actor James Dean was killed in a car crash in 1955, but his fame kept growing 
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