I would love Fedizens in other cities and towns in Australia to please share their local TV ads from decades past; things I would never have seen in Melbourne.
@troberts This has been the top submission and it’s a cracker.
@futzle coincidentally we were telling the kids about how new suburbs come about and vividly remember the ad for Forest Lake in QLD in the 90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibEaMJyTU8s
Forest Lake Commercial - 1996
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@futzle I'm from Sydney and my mind was blown when I first saw the Megalo Megalo Megalo ads
@futzle omg this might qualify - I couldn't remember if this was a chain but yeah looks Sydney local I realise
Mr Yawns Mattress Factory - Australian Advertisement
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@futzle Little Doer Carpets in Sydney. Tell them the price, son!
The Little Doer Carpets TVC
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@pelicangut Dad’s the true actor in that family.
@futzle hard to go past Crown forklifts. Likely national, certainly NSW.
🎶 there is nothing like a Crown,
for picking it up and putting it down 🎶
Crown fork lifts - 'there is nothing like a Crown' (Australian ad, 1982)
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@pelicangut A great song, we had these in Melbourne too.
@futzle im thinking you probably aren’t aware of Joyce Mayne? Sydney furniture mogul iirc from the 80s? Lucky you 😊 don’t look up her commercials on youtube :)
@futzle Ag Quip, the farming equipment show in Gunnedah. Any farmer with a telly in the eighties is guaranteed to have the theme song burned into their grey matter:
https://youtu.be/hPpOn7Qv_PA
1984 AG Quip '84 TV Ad Gunnedah Australia
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@gusseting Epic synth orchestra.
@futzle Growing up working on the family farm in rural NSW, we had a second Christmas.
"We're going to the Henty Field Days"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NsJghP6IRJk
Henty Field Days Video
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@futzle dammit, the everlast automotive ad I can vividly recall is not online apparently.
I'm gonna have to go through old VCR footage to see if I have it recorded
Rockhampton Ads 1988
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@futzle ... and here a peanutbutter ad from NL ... "My mum says that it is so good for me because it contains so many 'pitamins' ... aint that stupid? I just like it!" ... ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy6AhWkSKo8
@otte_homan Regrettably YouTube won’t show me that video unless I sign in.
Franco Cozzo TV Commercial Melbourne 1980s (Rebroadcast in 2014)
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@LapTop006 We were all thinking it. But somewhere one of my followers has not yet experienced Franco Cozzo (RIP), our beloved Mediterranean furniture vendor from Footiscray.
The best of Ken Bruce
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@LapTop006 Oh that hurt. But I deserve it.
@futzle https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NsJghP6IRJk i feel this can be my only contribution
Henty Field Days Video
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@steadilyebbing It’s even got a truck driver’s gear change! Perfect.
@futzle @steadilyebbing Was about to post this! it's the one that still gets stuck in my head too
@futzle a classic of the genre from Adelaide https://youtu.be/vISbFnga788
They Don't Have Fritz in Sydney
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@futzle The Henty Field Days song was burned into my brain.
We essentially got a lot of TV ads from Wagga Wagga and surrounding areas.
https://youtu.be/NsJghP6IRJk
Henty Field Days Video
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