Cleveland Nostalgia Video 2
One thing I've discovered in talking to my fellow age cohorts about nostalgia is that television plays a key role in what we remember fondly from our youth.
Specifically, TV commercials.
Sure, the Baby Boomers have a lot of TV memories, too. But whereas the Baby Boomers huddled around the one TV set on the block to gaze slackjawed at the test pattern, Gen X and Gen Y came of age alongside a veritable cornucopia of TV stations -- and, therefore, a staggering array of consumer product advertisements.
And in these days of TiVo and YouTube and Hulu, we might be the first and last generations to fondly reminisce about the TV commercial.
So for this week's Cleveland Nostagia Video, here's a selection of commercials and bumpers that ran during a made-for-TV movie on WUAB-43 in June 1980. This is part 1 of 3 and contains the most local content (gotta love John Lanigan's sexy 80s mustache), but I encourage you to watch parts 2 and 3 for their historic value (as well as local news coverage from the Plain Dealer, which was a much different paper back then).
Enjoy!
Specifically, TV commercials.
Sure, the Baby Boomers have a lot of TV memories, too. But whereas the Baby Boomers huddled around the one TV set on the block to gaze slackjawed at the test pattern, Gen X and Gen Y came of age alongside a veritable cornucopia of TV stations -- and, therefore, a staggering array of consumer product advertisements.
And in these days of TiVo and YouTube and Hulu, we might be the first and last generations to fondly reminisce about the TV commercial.
So for this week's Cleveland Nostagia Video, here's a selection of commercials and bumpers that ran during a made-for-TV movie on WUAB-43 in June 1980. This is part 1 of 3 and contains the most local content (gotta love John Lanigan's sexy 80s mustache), but I encourage you to watch parts 2 and 3 for their historic value (as well as local news coverage from the Plain Dealer, which was a much different paper back then).
Enjoy!
posted by Christine Borne at 8:51 AM
3 Comments:
80s food was gross!
Funny, but you seem to young to be into nostalgia already, Christine. But you're certainly right about TV commercials. That's an instant memory bonder, and one cultural artifact everyone experiences in common.
I can't remember where, but I read not long ago that nostalgia has sped up because culture has sped up.
Also, I'm not in the youngest generation of adults anymore, so that has something to do with it probably. I feel like there's a huge cultural gap between me and the kids in college these days. The incoming class of college freshmen doesn't even remember Desert Storm!
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