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Advertising Icons

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RicoGregg

Speedy Alka-Seltzer is back!

http://www.alka-seltzer.com/home/default.htm

With the return of Speedy, I thought of a few other advertising icons, some still in use, some not:

The Hamm's Bear (From the land of sky blue water...)

The Leslie Salt Man (I thank you, Leslie thanks you.)

The Kool Penguin

The Ford Dog

Choo Choo Charlie (Good N' Plenty candy)

The Cheerios Kid & Cheerios Sue

The RCA Dog (Nipper, "His Master's Voice")

Betty Crocker & her various incarnations

The Fisk Tire boy with the candle

Already an icon:
The AOL Running Man

Welcome Back, Speedy!
 
The Ford Dog
Not familiar with that one...I do remember Alex, the dog who lived for fetching Stroh's for his master.

As far as Nipper The RCA Dog, the original incarnation for that one was rather creepy. It showed Nipper listening to "His Master's Voice" on the old phonograph, which was sitting on...his master's casket.
 
The Ford Dog was mainly in the late 60s, but he did turn up for a bit in the 70s. He was a deliberately badly drawn cartoon of a sheep dog, who's catch phrase was "Buy a Ford".

When he said the phrase, the letters F-O-R-D would appear one at a time in his mouth.

FYI: The original Nipper on the older RCA records (check your attic) is a pit bull. Lately, he and his "son" Chipper have been portrayed by Terriers.
 
Schultz & Dooley..the talking beer steins for Utica Club Beer
The Campbell Kids..Campbell's Soup
Elsie The Borden Cow
The original Mc Donald's Mascot "Speedee"
 
RicoGregg said:
FYI: The original Nipper on the older RCA records (check your attic) is a pit bull. Lately, he and his "son" Chipper have been portrayed by Terriers.
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...sorry, but the real life Nipper was *not* a Pit Bull. He was a Jack Russell Terrier. And by the time of Francis Barraud's original 1898 painting, in which Nipper actually looks into the bell of an Edison cylinder phonograph (NOT a Berliner disc gramophone as in the trademark image), both Nipper and his master, Mark Henry Barraud, had been dead for several years (thus the casket-like detail)...
 
"Hey Mabel! Black Label." You never actually saw her though.
The lil' Hillbilly that yelled "Yee-hoo! Mountain Dew! It'll tickle yer innards!"
Joe Izuzu and his modern day equivalent Smilin' Bob.
 
MACK184 said:
Elsie The Borden Cow
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And her "husband," Elmer the Bull, famous for Elmer's Glue-All.

Elmer and his Glue-All (and his School Glue) are still around, but no longer with Borden; today Elmer's Products is a separate company.
 
"Wheres the Beef?" lady
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Ahhhh, yes, the late Clara Peller...remember her well.

And David Leisure as:

Aljr said:
Joe Izuzu and his modern day equivalent Smilin' Bob.
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Actually, it was Joe Isuzu, and one of the most imitated ad campaigns of the mid-80s.
 
There was something creepy about Elmer...a cow selling glue made from the bones of his cow buddies ::)
 
It's KOOL-AID!!!

Oh yeah!!! ;D

(And before that, remember the Kool-Aid Kids? "Kool-Aid, Kool-Aid, tastes great, wish we had some, can't wait...")
 
jimwalsh2001 said:
It's KOOL-AID!!!

Oh yeah!!! ;D

(And before that, remember the Kool-Aid Kids? "Kool-Aid, Kool-Aid, tastes great, wish we had some, can't wait...")
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Was that a 'pre-Kool Aid Man' jingle? I seem to remember an ad in the '80s that featured 'him', but also included a snippet of 'Kool Aid, Kool Aid tastes great' at the beginning..some sort of 'flashback', maybe.
 
The Empire Carpet guy goes national with an 800 prefix

Remember his ads on WGN-TV in the 80s and a brief mention during the intro to "Wayne's World" movie.


"five eight eight...two three hundred...Empire!"
 
The lonely Maytag repairman- first portrayed by Jesse White and later by Gordon Jump
Gabe & Walker--- 2 cowboys who pitched Falstaff Beer in the early 70's(Walker was played by a young Sam Elliott)
David Naughton as that dancing Dr. Pepper guy

Animals:
Spuds McKenzie
Morris the Cat
The Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull
 
Rosie for Bounty Paper Towels...who was played by Nancy Walker...who would later on direct her first and last film, the cult classic "Can't Stop the Music."
 
Rosie for Bounty Paper Towels...who was played by Nancy Walker...who would later on direct her first and last film, the cult classic "Can't Stop the Music."

...and played Rhoda's mother, MacMillan & Wife's housekeeper and finally Sophia Petrillo's sister (the one that lived in Sicily, but came to visit) in the Golden Girls.
 
and those old cigarette ads...
and cigars too...

*Come to Marlboro Country
*You get a lot to like with a Marlboro
*You can take Salem out of the country but you can't take the country out of Salem
*Take a puff...Its Springtime..Salem
*Winston Taste good like a cigarette should
*Me and my Winstons
*Light up a Kent..you got a good thing going
*..shouldn't your cigarette..be True !!
*..Belair Belair Belair..just the right touch of menthol
*..come up to the KOOL taste
*..go steady with Raleigh
*Viceroy has all of the taste all of the time
*..call for Phillip Morris
*..oh those disadvantages ( Benson & Hedges )
* You come a long way..baby ( Virginia Slims )
*...wait til I finish my Saratoga
*Camel Filters..they aren't for everybody
*..should a man offer a Tiperallo to a lady?
*...let yourself go with an L&M
*..outstanding and they are mild ( Pall Mall )
*..lemon fresh..Twist menthol cigarettes
*....pretty Eve..with flowers on the filter
*....Kent Smokes...and thats where its at
*..to a smoker..its a Kent
*..Newport taste fresher..than any other menthol cigarette
*..Spud..cooler than Kool ( could be the first time a commercial actually mentions the name of a competitor )
*..bold..cold..Newport
*..Kent Menthol..got it all together
*..Parliment..with the recessed filter
*Lucky Strike...LS/MFT
*..I would rather fight than switch ( Tareyton )
*..its up front what counts ( Winston 100s )
*..and that famous/infamous commerical for Lark set to the theme of Lone Ranger

there were so many.
 
bk77 said:
*..Spud..cooler than Kool ( could be the first time a commercial actually mentions the name of a competitor )
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Though they may have gone around that by saying "cooler than cool", though many smokers may interpret cool as "Kool".

On the other hand, what kind of cigarette is "Spud" (other than menthol)?

bk77 said:
*..and that famous/infamous commerical for Lark set to the theme of Lone Ranger
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This was the one where everyone was holding their packs of Lark, with the announcer asking, "Show us your Lark pack", wasn't it? The ad was parodised at least twice -- in an ad for Jeno's Pizza Rolls (featuring The Lone Ranger and Tonto themselves), with everyone at a dinner party holding up cartons of Pizza Rolls; and in a 1975 Saturday Night Live sketch, where the request was "Show us your guns!", with everyone in the neighborhood packing heat.
 
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