Vintage TV Commercial: Quaker Oats

[minggnim]

Stop and think, the next time you eat a Quaker Oats product. In the late 1940s and again in the early 1950s, breakfast food containing minute amounts of radioactive iron and calcium was fed to a number of students at the Walter E. Fernald School, a Massachusetts institution for "mentally retarded" children. The National Institutes of Health, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Quaker Oats Company funded the research.

[eleanorroosevelt1]

she's a hottie

[ironbuttermilk]

I made these for my girlfriend and added chopped walnuts, brown sugar and cinnamon. . .but I got more than a hug.

[cman86s]

you know if they still had narrators like this one there would probably be no porn movies

[naturaltrance]

nice and cool

[naturaltrance]

nice and cool

[ichbingott4510]

Dont forget the ancient radio broadcasts of the show "Boston Blacky". They still play it on the local college radio station 88.5FM here in Atlanta. It was funny hearing them cut to Quaker Oats commercials. "And remember kids; it's the only cereal shot from guns"

[HectorLex]

Wow, its realy amaizing to see how the social norms of that time are reflected in all aspects of their life, in this case commercials.

[fromthesidelines]

Quaker Oats was a co-sponsor of "THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE & HARRIET" in the early '60s, and this one of their opening title sequences, which segues right into an "Aunt Jemima" commercial (and don't be surprised if the Nelsons also plug that very same pancake mix at the end of the program- they had to, as part of their sponsorship deal with Quaker!)