80's Commercials Vol. 67

These commercials aired on August 4th, 1984 during the 1984 Olympics on local ABC affiliate KGO. Thanks to my Aunt & Uncle for recording these.

1. Kodak Videotape
2. Johnson Controls
3. Levi's Cords
4. True Value
5. Miller High Life
6. Ban (This product should be banned LOL)
7. Promo for "Finder Of Lost Loves"
8. Coming up... (Secret Olympic Junk Food?)
9. Chevrolet (I love the "high technology" part. What's the moon doing in there?)
10. Bud Light (I love beer commercials that involve lightsabers!)
11. Rice Krispies (Any trucker that disses Rice Krispies is gonna be eating out of a trashcan!)
12. Promo for Olympics XXIII coverage
13. Boeing
14. Promo for "Call To Glory" (Ironic that the 80's are now viewed as a time of innocence)
15. Foster Farms
16. Citicorp Traveler's Checks
17. Promo for "Honor"
18. Olympic Commercial Bumpers for True Value, Bud Light and Nissan
19. Bud Light

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[llparad0xll]

Everyone reminiscences about the decade they grew up in. People from the 60's and 70's think the 80's were horrid. Im sure 20 years from now the kids of today will be all nostalgic about the 00's or something. Everything is amazing when you're a kid we sort of lose that the older we get..

[80sCommercialVault]

@llparad0xll I'm *really* tired of this argument. The 80's and 90's were (generally) periods of peace after decades of foreign entanglements. After a brief recession in the early 80's the economy took of to unprecedented heights. Popular culture for children and young adults was probably the best it's ever been. Before you accuse people of wearing nostalgia colored glasses, at least actually know the decade you're talking about.

[jwgreek8606]

Mike,The 60s were not really a time of innocence with the war and all. The 80s were a time of innocence.

[80sCommercialVault]

I think you'd be hard pressed to find any era of the 20th century not influenced in some way by war or conflict. I would say the early 60's time period of "Call to Glory" was legitimately innocent compared to what happened on later in the 60's and 70's.

I think the relative calm and prosperity of the 80's/90's was just a fluke in history. Hopefully we'll have another one really soon.

[dack1011]

were these on a kodak video

[80sCommercialVault]

No. I can't remember the exact brand, but these Olympics tapes have a white label on them, so they definitely weren't recorded on Kodak.

My Aunt & Uncle did record on several Kodak beta tapes though.

[troodon311]

Nice to see someone have a run-in with a lightsaber at a bar and not lose an arm.

[davidknight4]

Coming Soon, The New Chevy Moon! It's Today's Chevrolet! :-)

[Dementiumfan1990]

@jwgreek8606 The 80's I Agree were A Time Of Innocence But The 90's Were Too

[MattTheSaiyan]

@llparad0xll "People from the 60's and 70's think the 80's were horrid." - My Grandmother, born 1928, when I asked her to rate each decade she could remember of the 20th Century, gave the 50s, 70s, 90s an "acceptable" grade, though said she was too busy raising a family/holding a low-paying job to really see the 60s. It has been a while since I asked and I'm not sure what she said about the 40s and 80s though, but she once said that she didn't mind the 40s except for that disaster called WW2.

[techweenie1]

I forgot how "Jolly" the commercials were back in the 80s.

[MeInTX]

I loved those "Gimme a light" ads when I was a kid. I could have sworn they didn't start until 86 or 87, though.

Sorry, Ban, but "Love and Marriage" makes me think of Married With Children these days.

Did the Levi's jingle actually say the cords were providing light?

I wonder if any of the found loves on that short-lived show wanted to stay lost? Speaking of short-lived ABC shows, I'm not sure if a military base is exactly "innocent".

And wow, mid-80s Chevys sure were ugly!

[AshleyMarkPomeroy]

The 1840s were pretty placid.

[calico992]

@jwgreek8606

Actually the 80's had Idi Amin \Uganda,

The 70's had Pol Pot Cambodia

The 60's had the U.S. invasion in Vietnam

The 50's had Stalin

The 40's Hitler

the 30's Mao Tse Tung

[Donovan448]

Call to Glory! I forgot about that series!