0:56 " now I'm free to go anywhere, do anything see anybody anytime I want to" ... This was obviously made before the women's liberation movement began to destroy the fabric of American family life.
The first yearnings and reaching of the now massive consumer culture. So that is what the Beats rebelled against. Oh yes, lets sniff glue and sleep in the bus station.Such a better world, at least as seen through the eyes of FMCO and Madison Ave.
Idk if anyone else mentioned this but notice how the commercial is mostly about her husband getting the new car shes bragging about and she gets the second rate piece of shit
I'd love to find a man who could earn enough so I could marry and stay home with the kids. Isn't possible. Pushing woman out of the house was the most important think corporations did to control lives and make a better profit. I don't understand the point of having kids and dropping them off in the morning and picking them up just in time to feed them supper and put them to bed. My grandmother was a housewife and NEVER considered herself to be subservient. Not did her husband or kids.
HaHaHaHaHa I am 66 years old, and, in 1961 we had some Driver's Ed "Simulators" in a double-wide 50 foot trailer, and they were cannabalised 1956 Ford Instrument Panels, and steering wheel and column-shift 3 speed manual transmission, ANd, yes, a Clutch Pedal that you must push before changing gears, hahahahaha. In my dreams I Drive a 1956 FORD hahahahahahahahah
@cthluthlu Not only that, but even in today's money Customline Vic would only cost about $13,000...yet your average sedan is $25000-$30000 these days. What's wrong with this picture?
I think it's a generational thing. My dad could tell all the 20's and early 30's cars apart at a glance, but to him 50's and 60's cars all looked the same. I can tell all the cars apart now, but to most people 50's cars all look alike. You have to admit, they do have similar features. headlight treatment, tailfins ( unless the company was broke and couldn't follow the trend ), sweeping side trim, etc. They may look radically different to us, but not to most.
@DuallyDieselFord I dont know how old you are. But in my generation when I was a kid my Mom stayed home while my Dad was in Vietnam in the Military. In those days it was easy for the wife to stay home as the husband was the bread winner. Honestly I wished those days would come back.
@Manongjojo another reason why it was easy for a wife to stay home (financially) is because families were not paying for cell phones for each kid, internet, computers, $100 pairs of sneekers, a second car, huge health care costs, cable TV (remember when watching TV was free?)
You turds that criticize the 50's are so ignorant and pathetic. A wonderful way of life then, even though i didn't come of age i have a great appreciation for it. Why don't you talk to people who lived thru it and research it.
@seekermichael007 Yes, such a wonderful way of life. Women were much happier in their rightful role as servants for their hard working husbands. How ignorant are we to criticize such a fantastic period.
"go anywhere, do any thing, fuck who we want" that's basically what she's saying. now that brenton's gone i can call over frederick and have sex *yelps!*
Do we really need all of these foreign cars that are being sold these days? The Toyota fiasco has shown definitively that the foreign brands are not better than American cars hands down like the liberal news media has made them out to be.
@TheAdultChild101 Shes not on drugs bone head that is how a quality White person is suppose to act with excellent people and presentation skills. Its today's screwed up people who are on drugs with their nutty ideas like unsafe driving, buying anything just so long as it is foreign made and endless and degenerate sporting events that prove nothing and are incredibly boring. Question answered?
@TheAdultChild101 : no drugs, it seems that suburban housewives started to hook up in prozac and valium in the good 60s when kids became simply unbearable to raise like in previous times
The Customline and Fairlane, in their American form (except RHD) did have a run in Australia in the 50s. They had stiff competition from Ford's English Zephyr, and GM Holden's FJ, FE and FC Holdens. In 1960, they called off the "experiment" completely, and started building a RHD version of the Canadian Falcon
Now that she's got her own car, does this mean she'll stop popping Valium with her morning glass of wine? The shiny-happy veneer of 50's suburbia was the catalyst for post-war social rot.
A sedative that was later found to be no safer despite it's marketing, and caused physical and psychological dependency. It's maker was found to have conspired to monopolize the market by the U.S. government.
Hidden, unknown dangers mixed with corruption, how very 50's!
Wow this so cool watching these old commercials!! :) My grandma used to have a victoria but she sold it :( Oh well the commercial is so much better then the new ones :)
If they were buying a second car for the first time, it's very unlikely they would have bought 2 brand new 1956 Fords at once. Dave might've gotten the stunning Customline Victoria new, but Mrs. Dave would've most likely would've received Dave's previous car, or else some other used car. Although - they do have a rather nice suburban home - maybe they could've afforded two new Fords if they'd chosen to.
A Betty Crocker vision of American suburban life that only need's the arrival of Elizabeth Montgomerry to make the WHOLE SWEET PRODUCT complete.Beautiful!
You know if say Volvo made an advert like this one encouraging people to own two cars and broadcasted it here in Sweden, they'd probably be hauled off to jail. These days it's almost a crime to encourage driving. I want to go back...
@pfatpat32 True. Otherwise, if her lovers came to see her, they would have the nosey neighbours to worry about. Of course there is always the milkman, plumber, electrician, pool boy etc..., haaaa! :P
@floooky1, one of the dumbest notions I've ever heard of. People assume they had guns to their heads when many enjoyed what they did, plus did much more than that. But people stereotype, so no wonder the 50's looks like fake, cardboard take off from movies like pleasantville.
commercials from back in the day are ridiculous...their so blunt wit the message.."if you dont have this....your lame" or my favorite "your life is insignificant without this product"
don't take any of my comments literally. the internet is full of mean spirited people like myself. civility is dead and has been since the advent of the internet. i do apologize if you took it to heart. people write rude comments directed at me as well and i never take anything that is written seriously.
@kiragumanyara and commercials today aren't? As people in 2010, we just don't full realise everything that's lame. But in 30-50 years someone will... If anything today's commercials do the same thing, only more efficiently and faster.
Cool.. That station wagon is the same car that I took my drivers licence test in back in 1956. The family car but a lot of fun when when you put the back seat down at the drive in.
I lived in the burbs for awhile. The houses there were in fact built in the fifties. It was all designed to accommodate the car. Without one, as this lady correctly states, a person could indeed feel like a "prisoner in their own home". Now I am back in the city and have no need to own a vehicle.
A lady in her situation before the second car was purchased would be a candidate for hanky-panky with the milkman, plumber, contractor, repairman, gardener etc..., LOL! :P
@fuklibs not like new cars just had to wear ur seat belts ..i know got in a bad 55 mph one in my 56 chev hit a 66 olds...these cars are tanks ..just what to stay in them ..oh and i still have my 56 only did 300 us money damage back in 73..
@FURY1958 Yeah, 1950s cars were a lot better, with their airbags, anti-lock brakes, EFI, oh that's right.........Well at least they had huge-ass bodies that produced a lot of drag while you drove.
You're kidding yourself. Car manufacturers have always had stunningly similar designs. Chevy had their Bel Air, Plymouth had their Belvedere, and Ford had this. In fact, it was probably worse back then, with so few models on the market. They might seem "original" now, but the fact is, car companies have always positioned their model lineups in direct competition with each other, and this here Ford was about the closest thing you could get to a completely cookie-cutter vehicle.
@HostageKiller You honestly think a Bel Air looks like a Fury? Please. In the late 50s, Chevy stayed with a basic Bel-Air style family, and in 1959 went lower and more streamlined. Chrysler's Forward Look looked like nothing else on the road. There is no comparison to styles, colors and trim options of 50s and 60s cars and today. Most cars are grey, white, black, steel blue and tan. You have three shapes, larger SUV, small SUV and car; save for maybe Cadillac, most cars look the same.
Luckily, I'm not comparing cars today to cars in the 50's and 60's, so no argument there.
But yes, I do believe the early-to-mid-50's Belvedere bears more than a passing resemblance to the same-generation Bel Air, as well as occupying the same market segment. That's like denying the resemblance between modern day Challengers and Camaros because their front end has a different shape to it. You aren't likely to confuse the two, but they still maintain an overall similar form.
@ToyKingWonder Yes They had 2 tone and even 3 tone color schemes with various ammounts of crome. There were hundeds of variations. The cars were awfull quality then (by todays standards) but they never lacked style and personallity, and they did improve every year
@Lanceisabeach I don't think they were as much "awful quality" as they were very bare bones basic. The good thing about cars back then was you could just about repair anything under the hood yourself
oh sexism...
AlexFoeShizzle 3 weeks ago
She sounds like Wilma Flinstone or Betty Ruble.
No doubt there is a lovely figure under that dress... which some guys other than her husband got to enjoy, lol! xD
pickledtochus 1 month ago
0:56 " now I'm free to go anywhere, do anything see anybody anytime I want to" ... This was obviously made before the women's liberation movement began to destroy the fabric of American family life.
Plshipme 1 month ago
@Plshipme so your idea of a proper American family is a suppressed woman who is forced to stay at home?
benbargain 2 weeks ago
@benbargain Don't be absurd. Women should not be forced out into the workplace if they would rather stay home.
Plshipme 1 week ago
haha PTA meetings.
carlosb1 2 months ago
why was it so easy to live in the suburbs back then? now its pretty hard unless you have a very good job
odisus69 2 months ago
Finally....a way to escape from that abusive jerk I married and go visit my boyfriend.
thdog52 2 months ago
she's a slut. I was the milk man doing her in the back of that wagon.
crusher1944 4 months ago
@crusher1944 Then thhat means your a jigalo...
bucketofshrimp9897 3 months ago
I wish I was born in that nostalgic time sometimes.
94IAW 4 months ago
Fisrt scene, a woman in the kitchen xD, BAMMM sold hahahah
HawK271080 4 months ago
hmm the way she said 'see anyone anytime I want to' at 1:00.... Dave man she's having an affair dog, soon she'll divorce your ass and have BOTH cars.
darkling9109 5 months ago
She needed the wagon to cart around the ten kids who were at school.
JeanKM1 5 months ago
She got stuck with the wagon? Geeez Dave.
stpbrakefluid 5 months ago
The first yearnings and reaching of the now massive consumer culture. So that is what the Beats rebelled against. Oh yes, lets sniff glue and sleep in the bus station.Such a better world, at least as seen through the eyes of FMCO and Madison Ave.
japinvt 5 months ago
second 00:12 to 00:13 made me lol for some reason.
IIIArrow711 6 months ago
The wife wanted a car, so the husband buys himself a new car and lets her have the old one. What a douche.
TheLonelyImmortal 6 months ago
@TheLonelyImmortal but women are inferior! LOL!
ChrisVaughn85 5 months ago
press the CC box
transcribe audio
watch it
"to a crack"
Nukurosama 6 months ago
Ah, the joys of life in the World That Made Sense
plymouthbelvedere 7 months ago
move to the city bitch!
VeryHugeAss 7 months ago
"I have the coupe, you keep and use the station wagon, bitch!!", LOL
TheSRalston 7 months ago
ha, haaa, this advertisement is the nightmare of today´s feminists, LOL... "I was a prisoner in my own home, couldn´t do much..."
TheSRalston 7 months ago
Mechanics love Fords because there is so much to fix.
Cozybop 7 months ago
socialists
olekkuvppl 8 months ago
Found On Road Dead. FORD.
DavidMedia 8 months ago
@DavidMedia fix or repair daily, FORD
JakerO4 7 months ago
"He gets the brand new, luxurious, Custom Crest line Victoria. I get the Ranch Wagon. AWESOME"
Chrisgottschalk2 8 months ago 11
@BMAN295 I agree with you 100%
Aquadreamify 8 months ago
Fords rock.
spxmet 8 months ago
you don't need a car if you don't live in the middle of nowhere like...the suburbs
Sheenious 8 months ago
Idk if anyone else mentioned this but notice how the commercial is mostly about her husband getting the new car shes bragging about and she gets the second rate piece of shit
lol ahh the 50's, so much different than today
cvallaro4 8 months ago 2
I'd love to find a man who could earn enough so I could marry and stay home with the kids. Isn't possible. Pushing woman out of the house was the most important think corporations did to control lives and make a better profit. I don't understand the point of having kids and dropping them off in the morning and picking them up just in time to feed them supper and put them to bed. My grandmother was a housewife and NEVER considered herself to be subservient. Not did her husband or kids.
zamusicza 8 months ago 3
I remember that Ford emblem all too well.
auaiao9 8 months ago
Maybe "Jean" was really "Gene" and she can now have that affair while the husband is slaving to provide her with "two fine Fords!" lol
ncmountaingal1960 8 months ago
@ncmountaingal1960 I agree. She grabbed her coat and was heading out the door to meet him. She knows hubby won't be home for another 2 hours. lol
auaiao9 8 months ago
HaHaHaHaHa I am 66 years old, and, in 1961 we had some Driver's Ed "Simulators" in a double-wide 50 foot trailer, and they were cannabalised 1956 Ford Instrument Panels, and steering wheel and column-shift 3 speed manual transmission, ANd, yes, a Clutch Pedal that you must push before changing gears, hahahahaha. In my dreams I Drive a 1956 FORD hahahahahahahahah
elmerhdga 9 months ago
colors galore? you definitely dont get that anymore. cars are so booooooring these days
hakalakalaka1 9 months ago
i just love old American cars because most of them looks so beautiful
Createris 9 months ago 2
why couldnt i have lived during the time of great cars like these...
BMAN294 9 months ago 5
0:13... IM GONA EAT YO FACE. lol look :)
RavenNight2641 9 months ago
back when all cars used bulletproof glass
tattoo576 9 months ago
She can see anyone, anytime. Allah would not be pleased.
wojtek0000 10 months ago 2
She has the wagon..does the back seat go down?
varrick1226 10 months ago
@varrick1226 yes, it does
auaiao9 8 months ago
never mind the ford. she actually left the kitchen?
glossyxokizzez 10 months ago
What about the plumber and the teenage boy next door?
TommyRayBoy 10 months ago
56 fords are amazing!
Not like today's boring cars
64TbirdLandau 10 months ago
thenoblequran (Ctrl+Enter)
thankallahalltime 10 months ago
i think this is 1956 or 1955????
themamagoatshow 11 months ago
@themamagoatshow - 1956
Toni7859 10 months ago
@themamagoatshow 1956
sexysagi 1 month ago
This is hilarious! Of course, hubby gets the new car.
charlyW34 11 months ago
See anyone you want, bitch!!!! Are you cheating on me!!!!
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CCDVccx 11 months ago
@brainslow Prozac was late 80's. I went on Zoloft in 1992 when it hadn't been out very long.
sneakers55 1 year ago
@calvinscool2 IIRC, you could get them back there with seat belts. The real improvements were in the 1970s and later.
sneakers55 1 year ago
Two Fords... given cars way back then, you'd be lucky to have one that runs.
sneakers55 1 year ago
haha @2pm meets her lover .....thanks FORD you homewrecker!
"like so many people these days ...we live in suburbs" if you were white sure!
supremes1964 1 year ago
Why have expensive car, when you can have Two. :D
vawriss3 1 year ago 2
Whoa... Those cars had a very nice color selection.
ScottishPeterYoalky 1 year ago
I would kill for that wagon.
zamusicza 1 year ago
i was born 40 years too late
chunk123123 1 year ago 43
@chunk123123 if u was born that time u would be dead by now
SWLILAMAZING 5 months ago
INOCENT MILF
surg559 1 year ago
@surg559 She's getting it on with the car salesman.
auaiao9 8 months ago
its the 50s.......no negroes
gopconservative78 1 year ago
They can afford two new cars, a house in the suburbs and children on one income. Try doing that today.
cthluthlu 1 year ago 46
@cthluthlu It's very possible, it's the "NEW" American way of life that's impossible.
supabudycat 7 months ago
@cthluthlu thats b/c u live in canada lol
r2d23678 7 months ago
@cthluthlu Not only that, but even in today's money Customline Vic would only cost about $13,000...yet your average sedan is $25000-$30000 these days. What's wrong with this picture?
BEEGER1 4 months ago
The idea of discovery of owning more than one car! LoL
TheNoisePolluter 1 year ago
He's got the cool car, she's go the station wagon.
baracuda5555 1 year ago
@baracuda5555 He got the Customline, I got the shaft!!!!!!!
landyachtfan79 7 months ago
With the Extra Protection, of Fords lifelong Design!
yeah. Protection alright.
calvinscool2 1 year ago
Ford stands for Fall On Road Dead FORD
yapboy09 1 year ago
@yapboy09 well my my aren't you funny... -.-
metlahead6 1 year ago
"Coudn't shop, see friends, go to the PTA" the good old days when women stayed home took care of the kids and the men worked.
TheJomogogo 1 year ago
@TheJomogogo
...and don't forget the kitchen.
SeberHusky 1 year ago
see how she gets the old car and the bloke gets the new one haha
Mr5teve 1 year ago
FORDS SUCK
JusticeCrew13 1 year ago
Buy American. Buy Ford.
MrBEB123 1 year ago
........."thats all changed now , three weeks ago we went into even more debt, why be stuck with no massive debt when you can take on two car loans"?
inkey2 1 year ago
God I love '50s cars.
Dodo251 1 year ago
I think it's a generational thing. My dad could tell all the 20's and early 30's cars apart at a glance, but to him 50's and 60's cars all looked the same. I can tell all the cars apart now, but to most people 50's cars all look alike. You have to admit, they do have similar features. headlight treatment, tailfins ( unless the company was broke and couldn't follow the trend ), sweeping side trim, etc. They may look radically different to us, but not to most.
roadstarman58 1 year ago
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"I voted for Eisenhower, my husband told me to'!
imusfan48 1 year ago
Did they all wear dresses and pearls in the kitchen back then, see what you started Mrs. Cleaver. Rest In Peace Barbara Billingsley.
cinerama62 1 year ago
Great time to be a milkman, plumber, electrician, gardener, contractor etc... :P
CalypsoJuice 1 year ago 3
Poor 'ol things are probably long gone by now ..
fjbutch 1 year ago
why would she need a car? It's not like she ever leaves the kitchen anyway
DuallyDieselFord 1 year ago
@DuallyDieselFord I dont know how old you are. But in my generation when I was a kid my Mom stayed home while my Dad was in Vietnam in the Military. In those days it was easy for the wife to stay home as the husband was the bread winner. Honestly I wished those days would come back.
Manongjojo 1 year ago 3
@Manongjojo Haha my comment was a joke. But yes my mom stayed home when I was little too and that's the way it outa be
DuallyDieselFord 1 year ago
@Manongjojo another reason why it was easy for a wife to stay home (financially) is because families were not paying for cell phones for each kid, internet, computers, $100 pairs of sneekers, a second car, huge health care costs, cable TV (remember when watching TV was free?)
inkey2 1 year ago 4
@Manongjojo I bet you do, you misogynistic piece of shit.
smuldia 9 months ago
They had me sold when I saw the car...
BinLadenMustDie368 1 year ago
the cars look like a 1956 Ford Fairlane 2-door sedan, and a 1956 Ford Fairlane 2-door station wagon
frankisfunny2007 1 year ago
@frankisfunny2007 actually it's a 1956 Ford Customline Victoria (note the chrome)
frankisfunny2007 1 year ago
COLORS GALORE EVERYBODY!!!
qarusel 1 year ago
You turds that criticize the 50's are so ignorant and pathetic. A wonderful way of life then, even though i didn't come of age i have a great appreciation for it. Why don't you talk to people who lived thru it and research it.
seekermichael007 1 year ago 4
@seekermichael007 Yes, such a wonderful way of life. Women were much happier in their rightful role as servants for their hard working husbands. How ignorant are we to criticize such a fantastic period.
smuldia 9 months ago 2
"go anywhere, do any thing, fuck who we want" that's basically what she's saying. now that brenton's gone i can call over frederick and have sex *yelps!*
C00Lcat69 1 year ago
ugh. the history of motor vehicle promotion and the sabotage of inner city modes of transportation is depressing.
CrimsonEmpire 1 year ago
Do we really need all of these foreign cars that are being sold these days? The Toyota fiasco has shown definitively that the foreign brands are not better than American cars hands down like the liberal news media has made them out to be.
MrBEB123 1 year ago 4
And what drugs was she on?
TheAdultChild101 1 year ago
@TheAdultChild101 Shes not on drugs bone head that is how a quality White person is suppose to act with excellent people and presentation skills. Its today's screwed up people who are on drugs with their nutty ideas like unsafe driving, buying anything just so long as it is foreign made and endless and degenerate sporting events that prove nothing and are incredibly boring. Question answered?
MrBEB123 1 year ago 4
@MrBEB123 It was a joke, fool.
TheAdultChild101 1 year ago
@TheAdultChild101 : no drugs, it seems that suburban housewives started to hook up in prozac and valium in the good 60s when kids became simply unbearable to raise like in previous times
brainslow 1 year ago
The Customline and Fairlane, in their American form (except RHD) did have a run in Australia in the 50s. They had stiff competition from Ford's English Zephyr, and GM Holden's FJ, FE and FC Holdens. In 1960, they called off the "experiment" completely, and started building a RHD version of the Canadian Falcon
Mechknight73 1 year ago
as long as she had housework done and food ready when hubs came home
shinesthrudarain 1 year ago
thats how me and my wife live 1 car
shinesthrudarain 1 year ago
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inside shes screaming
foreveryouforeverme 1 year ago
Now that she's got her own car, does this mean she'll stop popping Valium with her morning glass of wine? The shiny-happy veneer of 50's suburbia was the catalyst for post-war social rot.
normvb 1 year ago
@normvb, valiium didn't come out until the 60's and wasn't widley known until 1969.
onetwonine2 1 year ago
@normvb They used Miltown.
A sedative that was later found to be no safer despite it's marketing, and caused physical and psychological dependency. It's maker was found to have conspired to monopolize the market by the U.S. government.
Hidden, unknown dangers mixed with corruption, how very 50's!
floooky1 1 year ago
@normvb : NAH that was the 60s
brainslow 1 year ago
Wow this so cool watching these old commercials!! :) My grandma used to have a victoria but she sold it :( Oh well the commercial is so much better then the new ones :)
Theallyandashleyshow 1 year ago
If they were buying a second car for the first time, it's very unlikely they would have bought 2 brand new 1956 Fords at once. Dave might've gotten the stunning Customline Victoria new, but Mrs. Dave would've most likely would've received Dave's previous car, or else some other used car. Although - they do have a rather nice suburban home - maybe they could've afforded two new Fords if they'd chosen to.
hebneh 1 year ago
coincidence she's in the kitchen? I think not
secretagentclank123 1 year ago 50
@secretagentclank123 ha
myluckyday20 1 year ago
@secretagentclank123 HAHAHAHHAAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHA
ccPARTIZANIcc 11 months ago
A Betty Crocker vision of American suburban life that only need's the arrival of Elizabeth Montgomerry to make the WHOLE SWEET PRODUCT complete.Beautiful!
eeeiiipod 1 year ago
The Atomic Family!!!
THX1205 1 year ago
intresting the ford logo at the end :D
mrpsp91 1 year ago
Why now she can go have an affair with Ward Cleaver while her husband is working!!!
MrMusicman488 1 year ago 3
So thanks to Ford.......women no longer stay at home....Damn you Ford
LitterboxDiorama 1 year ago 11
@LitterboxDiorama lmao
supremes1964 1 year ago
@LitterboxDiorama Yeah, but it's good for them to go to the mall for us guys to stare at and pick up
countrytuber 10 months ago
You know if say Volvo made an advert like this one encouraging people to own two cars and broadcasted it here in Sweden, they'd probably be hauled off to jail. These days it's almost a crime to encourage driving. I want to go back...
Illousion1 1 year ago
now she can go see her boyfriend while her husband at work...thanks ford
pfatpat32 1 year ago 47
She seems very well-spoken...
dudemantwo 1 year ago 2
@pfatpat32 True. Otherwise, if her lovers came to see her, they would have the nosey neighbours to worry about. Of course there is always the milkman, plumber, electrician, pool boy etc..., haaaa! :P
UngratefulSwine 1 year ago
@pfatpat32 Yeah maybe "Jean" was really "Gene". Fine-2:00-see you at the No-tell Motel- I'll bring the condoms and you bring the cheap wine! lol
ncmountaingal1960 11 months ago
@ncmountaingal1960 shes probably gonna arive there in a wheel chair and an oxygen tank. shes gonna be like 98 yrs old LMAO stiffler go get'em
stangowner8687 10 months ago
@pfatpat32 Take a lay in the back of the big station wagon . Well done , Power from Thunderbird. What a car
fordroad 10 months ago
lol wow cars sure have changed,
barbj7121 1 year ago
obedient wife. i like.
iliketospampeoplee 1 year ago 7
Good stuff
BrotherJulien 1 year ago
Brings back good memories
BrotherJulien 1 year ago
they were blunt because they thought women were ....well, just a little dumb.
dangermous1968 1 year ago
You only think you're free, lady. You're still in your kitchen, and that's just where you will stay, for ever and ever.
floooky1 1 year ago 6
@floooky1, one of the dumbest notions I've ever heard of. People assume they had guns to their heads when many enjoyed what they did, plus did much more than that. But people stereotype, so no wonder the 50's looks like fake, cardboard take off from movies like pleasantville.
onetwonine2 1 year ago
commercials from back in the day are ridiculous...their so blunt wit the message.."if you dont have this....your lame" or my favorite "your life is insignificant without this product"
kiragumanyara 1 year ago 2
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UngratefulSwine 1 year ago
@kiragumanyara
these commercials catered to dumb people like yourself.
1usc2 1 year ago
@1usc2 > > Be Nice or Be Gone ...
JKM070 1 year ago
@1usc2
your response hurts my feelings
kiragumanyara 1 year ago
don't take any of my comments literally. the internet is full of mean spirited people like myself. civility is dead and has been since the advent of the internet. i do apologize if you took it to heart. people write rude comments directed at me as well and i never take anything that is written seriously.
1usc2 1 year ago
@kiragumanyara and commercials today aren't? As people in 2010, we just don't full realise everything that's lame. But in 30-50 years someone will... If anything today's commercials do the same thing, only more efficiently and faster.
onetwonine2 1 year ago 3
Cool.. That station wagon is the same car that I took my drivers licence test in back in 1956. The family car but a lot of fun when when you put the back seat down at the drive in.
howardyearone 1 year ago
..........AND the internet came along and busted up alot of marriges
1968DodgePolara 1 year ago
The actress could still be alive. The Fords are mid-1950s (55-years ago) and she was around 30-years-old which would make her 85 today.
lasuvidaboy 1 year ago
@lasuvidaboy Yea my grandmother was 26 in 1955, and now is 80, it wasn't THAT long ago but still a longtime ago if you get what I mean.
RippleAffectMedia 1 year ago
during the 50's in usa life is good ,standard of living is high...
slazzer145 1 year ago 3
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UngratefulSwine 1 year ago
That's a pretty big block of land for the suburbs.
ALFAGOMMA 1 year ago
Haha! I wonder what would happen If my dad bought my mom a '56 Ford?
Kolfritz 1 year ago
I lived in the burbs for awhile. The houses there were in fact built in the fifties. It was all designed to accommodate the car. Without one, as this lady correctly states, a person could indeed feel like a "prisoner in their own home". Now I am back in the city and have no need to own a vehicle.
UngratefulSwine 2 years ago 4
A lady in her situation before the second car was purchased would be a candidate for hanky-panky with the milkman, plumber, contractor, repairman, gardener etc..., LOL! :P
UngratefulSwine 2 years ago 4
Yeah! Good thing the old man didn't buy her a HUDSON! ;-D
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theshadow1932 1 year ago
@UngratefulSwine yup... here comes big Otis The Milkman... dum-tee-dum-tee-dummm...
That commercial lady is a real turn-on... Me likey
DancingSpiderman 1 year ago
@DancingSpiderman Indeed, she has a certain attractiveness.
HairlessSalmon 1 year ago
do you recon the lady in this video still alive ??????
gen456789 2 years ago
Hard to say. This would be almost 60 years ago..
UngratefulSwine 2 years ago
i have 2 fords an escape and an f-150
Westgate52 2 years ago
gorgeous cars!
thunderandthreads 2 years ago
Beautiful cars! Not like me-too designs of today.
BrandyConnery 5 years ago 111
@BrandyConnery Beautiful yes. But man were they death traps in accidents!
fuklibs 1 year ago 2
@fuklibs not like new cars just had to wear ur seat belts ..i know got in a bad 55 mph one in my 56 chev hit a 66 olds...these cars are tanks ..just what to stay in them ..oh and i still have my 56 only did 300 us money damage back in 73..
animalcorvair 1 year ago
@BrandyConnery I say that today cars are plastic condoms on wheels. Without quality, style and the glamour as the jewels on wheels from the fifties.
FURY1958 1 year ago
@FURY1958 Yeah, 1950s cars were a lot better, with their airbags, anti-lock brakes, EFI, oh that's right.........Well at least they had huge-ass bodies that produced a lot of drag while you drove.
dagomif 1 year ago
@dagomif Surely you are of that you believe that the cars always have been like they it are today.
FURY1958 1 year ago
@FURY1958 Was that even a complete thought? Put together a real sentence.
dagomif 1 year ago
@FURY1958 Was that even a real sentence? Sounds like you had a good thought but it broke down like a 1950s Ford.
dagomif 1 year ago
@BrandyConnery
You're kidding yourself. Car manufacturers have always had stunningly similar designs. Chevy had their Bel Air, Plymouth had their Belvedere, and Ford had this. In fact, it was probably worse back then, with so few models on the market. They might seem "original" now, but the fact is, car companies have always positioned their model lineups in direct competition with each other, and this here Ford was about the closest thing you could get to a completely cookie-cutter vehicle.
HostageKiller 1 year ago
@HostageKiller You honestly think a Bel Air looks like a Fury? Please. In the late 50s, Chevy stayed with a basic Bel-Air style family, and in 1959 went lower and more streamlined. Chrysler's Forward Look looked like nothing else on the road. There is no comparison to styles, colors and trim options of 50s and 60s cars and today. Most cars are grey, white, black, steel blue and tan. You have three shapes, larger SUV, small SUV and car; save for maybe Cadillac, most cars look the same.
ToyKingWonder 1 year ago
@ToyKingWonder
Luckily, I'm not comparing cars today to cars in the 50's and 60's, so no argument there.
But yes, I do believe the early-to-mid-50's Belvedere bears more than a passing resemblance to the same-generation Bel Air, as well as occupying the same market segment. That's like denying the resemblance between modern day Challengers and Camaros because their front end has a different shape to it. You aren't likely to confuse the two, but they still maintain an overall similar form.
HostageKiller 1 year ago
@ToyKingWonder Yes They had 2 tone and even 3 tone color schemes with various ammounts of crome. There were hundeds of variations. The cars were awfull quality then (by todays standards) but they never lacked style and personallity, and they did improve every year
Lanceisabeach 1 year ago
@Lanceisabeach I don't think they were as much "awful quality" as they were very bare bones basic. The good thing about cars back then was you could just about repair anything under the hood yourself
inkey2 1 year ago