Old Adverts

Didn't realise this had been re-opened, we were only talking recently about "Don't forget the Fruit Gums Mum" - when the children were younger I was quite poorly and taking Phospherine (which I regularly forgot to do) and my husband pasted a large notice on the kitchen wall - "Don't Forget the Phospherine" - you know of course what my four year old daughter changed that to!

A Double Diamond works wonders so drink some today.

Silexene emulsion
Silexene gloss
Get it from the factory at half the cost
Put it on your paintbrush
Then it can be seen
Wonderful marvellous Silexene.

I think this was a Radio Luxemburg or Caroline advert. I can still remember the tune.

Boom boom boom boom Esso Blue.

This is luxury you can afford from Cyril Lord. ( I can still sing the whole song, sadly! )

That cough does upset her what can mummy get her........ Venos cough mixture. (I actually sang that in assembly when I was five.).

"You can't have your kayak and heat it too." It's a Mackesans' maxim.

I remember going to a Glasgow pantomime circa 1958 where they taught the audience an Italian song written on a huge screen. It went something like:

Diesso sine mensa pimoto ring ( repeat x 3)
Colla tiesso sine.

It was only when the music played for us to sing along that the penny dropped and the place was in an uproar. Never forgotten that magic moment

Pears soap 'preparing to be a beautiful lady'.

Sorry, I have only just realised there are several pages and the Murry one had already been posted.

Murry Mints, Murry mints, the too good to hurry mints.

PK chewing gum I think. Anyone watching Ade on Adverts? Bringing back some memories for me.

Does anyone know?

I'm guessing this was an advert:

PK, penny a packet
first you chew it then you crack it
then you stick it on your jacket
PK, penny a packet

Was it? Or just a kids' skipping rhyme?

Ticker ticker Timex tra la la .(Christmas ad)

Bum bum bum bum Esso blu.

Pilsbury dough boy getting prodded in the tummy. He was cute.Think he wore a little chef hat.

Dancing Aztec for Aztec choc bar.

@Ariadne : 'Made to make..." That's a hoot!

"It's not me Ma'am - it's me little perforations!" - Roy Hudd, for Lyons' Quick Brew Tea. They 'let the flavour flood out', apparently...

Does anyone remember Jimmy Young as Mrs. Bradshaws lodger in the old Surf adverts, circa very early 60s?

There's a C&A in Bruges, as well. Always nip in if I get the chance.

'Cadum for Madam' (soap which was a bit like Camay).

nightowl Yes, I love that Yorkshire Airlines spoof too. Loved the idea of 'Alan Bennet' class and wish I could write comedy like that.

Mamalu. Somewhere in the depths of my mind I seem to think the 'proper little madam' ad was for Clarks Shoes.

Or Theseus' version - "made to make your gob dribble." You can see the problems I have! DC thought it was hysterically funny, and repeated it at inopportune moments..

Opal Fruits!
Made to make your mouth water!

Joan I have only just seen the Yorkshire Airlines spoof, and I love it! All the details are there, I particularly love the antimacassars on the seat backs (not that they are specific to Yorkshire, I'm sure).

It reminded me of another old advert for beer? Two men on a hill looking at the landscape and one says 'you don't find much like it outside Yorkshire' -must go off and google it now to see whether my memory is playing tricks.....

Anyone remember the little girl who said 'Mummy says when I grow up I am going to be a proper little madam?' I think it may have been Cadbury chocolate fingers

Pedant!

I think that should be until

Ariadne my husbands nan lived till she was 98, her secret was a Beechams powder in the morning and one in the evening. I can remember my own nan having bile beans but can't remember the colour.