From 1954, note particularly the opening advertisement detailing Crosley appliances.
TV from a simpler age ....
TV from a simpler age ....
Your Hit Parade Sponsored By Crosley
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rinso
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I'm old enough to remember that program. We only had one channel, but "Your Hit Parade" was watched by our family every week.
I remember “Your Hit Parade” too Eugene. But I recall the shows sponsor being Lucky Strike cigarettes. I also remember Giselle McKenzie on that show too. Interesting how they had the commercial at the beginning of the program and no other commercials in between, something that I don’t recall from very many early TV programs.
Back in the 50’s we used to watch just about anything that was on the air. In the San Francisco Bay Area we only had 3 stations that came in channel 4 KRON for NBC, 5 KPIX for CBS and 7 KGO for ABC, which always had the worst reception.
The very first TV program that I ever remember watching was “The Colgate Comedy Hour” when I was about 2 1/2. My parents always watched this show because my Mom worked as a secretary at Colgate Palmolive in Emeryville, Calif. I believe that Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis got their start on TV on this show.
Eddie
Back in the 50’s we used to watch just about anything that was on the air. In the San Francisco Bay Area we only had 3 stations that came in channel 4 KRON for NBC, 5 KPIX for CBS and 7 KGO for ABC, which always had the worst reception.
The very first TV program that I ever remember watching was “The Colgate Comedy Hour” when I was about 2 1/2. My parents always watched this show because my Mom worked as a secretary at Colgate Palmolive in Emeryville, Calif. I believe that Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis got their start on TV on this show.
Eddie
Whenever I hear "Ricochet Romance" I think of the episode of "I Love Lucy" where Teensy & Weensy performed it.
The barber shop we went to in the Candler Hotel in Decatur, GA had two Crosley air conditioners just like these, one on each side of the door in the upper sash of the window. AVCO was tangled up with D&M; note the roto rack top rack in the dishwasher. No detergent dispenser in the machine and those kitchen cabinets with the drawers that curved out to meet the counter. 1954 was a year of bitter disappoint among Crosley dealers. AVCO was supposed to merge Bendix and Crosley to give Crosley a laundry line, but then they sold the laundry line to Philco. It probably had something to do with Philco's predominance in the radio field which fit with AVCO's aviation interests. My parents had an early 50s Delmonico AM-FM radio in the kitchen and when we took it to have it serviced once (lotsa tubes), the service man told us that it was made by Philco.
Lucky Strike
Lucky Strike were an alternative sponsor, there is an advertisement around 23.50.
Who manufactured the washers shown in the initial advertisement?
Lucky Strike were an alternative sponsor, there is an advertisement around 23.50.
Who manufactured the washers shown in the initial advertisement?
Bendix, with a heap of restyling; washer on the left, dryer on the right.
<span style="font-family: helvetica;">Although Lucky Strike was an 'alternate sponsor' for this episode of Your Hit Parade, Lucky Strike (American Tobacco) was the exclusive sponsor for this show as heard on radio from 1935 to 1953, and the main sponsor as seen on television from 1950 to 1959. The 'real' alternate sponsors were Avco Manufacturing's Crosley division (1951–54), Richard Hudnut hair care products (1954–57), and The Toni Company (1957–58). During the 1957-58 season, sponsor American Tobacco pitched Hit Parade filter cigarettes instead of Lucky Strikes. What a time it was. </span>[COLOR=#202122; font-family: sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> [/COLOR]</span></span>
Has anyone here bought the advertising plates sold on eBay years ago that were dealer gifts promoting Crosley dishwashers?
More than anything else, that clip made me realize how bad some of the shows in TV's early years were. No doubt the experience of having different forms of entertainment available in your own living room was so novel that it didn't really matter what you were watching.
vacerator
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Succeded by
the Frigidaire Follies of 1958.
the Frigidaire Follies of 1958.
Actually, The big Frigidaire show was for the Sheer Look in 1957. I think it is here somewhere.
