Subliminal Coffee
An animated television commercial for Instant Butternut Coffee from 1967 with “subliminal” messaging.
MORE ...Time For Coffee
Time For Coffee – 1940’s
MORE ...Cab Calloway: Minnie the Moocher
Performing his signature number, Cab Calloway sings Minnie the Moocher in this performance from the 1950’s. As ever he adds a few surprises like the sexy shadow dancer gyrating in the background and a new spin on his familiar scat singing. Born in New York State with a middle class upbringing, Calloway’s parents pushed him […]
MORE ...Brooklyn Goes to San Francisco
Brooklyn Goes to San Francisco, produced in 1956, is a guided tour of mid-1950s San Francisco through the eyes of an authentic Brooklynite. Narrated by Phil Foster, best know for playing Laverne’s father Frank DeFazio on 1970s sitcom Laverne & Shirley, wisecracks and a classic New York drawl counterpoint panoramas of the Golden Gate City’s […]
MORE ...This is Coffee!
In the mid-1960s, The Coffee Brewing Institute produced This is Coffee! And so, the Institute whisks us off to a coffee dreamworld. Pouring beans dissolve into coffee grounds that are filtered through water in a percolator. This is coffee! Visit the coffee fields where pickers start a bean’s journey from bush to cup. This is […]
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