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Vintage TV Beer Commercials

A friend forwarded a link this weekend to a classic beer commercial, which promptly started me on a 30-minute binge of vintage suds ads via You Tube. I thought I'd share some of the pain. First up: Hamm's.

PBR, before its ironic hipness:

Schlitz, with McLean Stevenson proving, once again, that he'll do anything for a buck:

Schaefer, for when you really want to get drunk:

Schlitz, your preferred disco-era suds:

Miller Lite, more disco era, complete with blatant racism:

Miller High Life, what every '50s-era hostess craves:

Comments

  1. Kelly in the Big Blind
    #1

    I love the vintage beer commercials. More than I love the vintage beer.

  2. #2

    The Miller Lite disco man one is fake. The giveaway? COMIC SANS... released in 1994.

  3. #3

    The Miller Lite 70's man is clearly home-made. At first I thought, why would a professional ad agency use Comic Sans? Then I thought, oh right, they wouldn't.

  4. #4

    Where are the vintage rainier ad's? The running rainiers and the motorcycle ad's are far better than these..

  5. #5

    Does anybody have a copy of the Schaefer Beer commercial where the "rookie" is made to sing the Schaefer jingle and he is a knockout? Nearly makes them all cry. Better than the Britain's Got Talent surprises.

  6. #6

    It is hard to believe that this was a sales booster some decades ago. It is believable that people used to take those commercials seriously.

  7. #7

    i was also looking for the "rookie on the barrel" Shaefer commercial with no luck!!!

  8. #8

    What about OLYMPIA. The Artiesians were cool.

  9. #9

    Haha i love with bear

  10. #10

    you're forgetting some of the best from UC (maker of Saranac):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn7b2djfMKY&feature=related

  11. #11

    Not only that(comic sans), but groovy is spelled wrong.

  12. #12

    what a great collection of ads!

  13. #13

    I added this post to my favorites <3 More of this plz

  14. #14

    It was a beer commercial in the 60's. A man lived next door (reaching distance across an alley to a brewery). He was watching a ball game and gets up and uses a fishing pole with a hook and reaches across the alley into the window of the brewery next door and grabs a bottle of beer off the conveyor line. He opens it up and sits down to watch the ball game. I do not remember what kind of beer the commercial was but it had to be a classic. Would love to see it again......... thanks

  15. #15

    Hi,

    I am searching for a vintage black and white TV commercial for a beer. It featured a talking dog and his owner. The owner told the bartender that his dog talked. Eventually he asked the dog a hard question about a president and the dog answered Calvin Coolidge?

    Can anyone tell me where to find a video of this ad and what the beer was?

    THANKS
    Donna Sullivan

  16. #16

    this link is for sandy-rookie of the year clip on youtube
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8__0FfSR_mw

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