I want to come back as a 70's advertising exec.

[El Presidente]

Long lunches, mid morning Manhattans,  lines on the desk, no HR departments.................pump out any drivel, no one cares 

 

 

[jazzboypro]

If you have not, have a look at the "Mad Men" series.

[Li Bai]

2 hours ago, jazzboypro said:

If you have not, have a look at the "Mad Men" series.

 

[NeoGeo]

9 hours ago, jazzboypro said:

If you have not, have a look at the "Mad Men" series.

It's a must to watch...never gets old! 

[BoliDan]

You are a 70s advertisement, and if anyone tells you different just tell them how old you are. Old man.  

[Lamboinee]

Ahhh yes, the 1970's...I remember it like I wasn't born yet.  Those were the days when you could really kick back and queue up the desk dust without fear of anthrax or fentanyl contaminants.  Those were the days when bad-habits came with side effects that cured your deviated septum and prevented obesity related diseases at a price much much lower than a week's worth of Wygovy. 

The 1970's was a time that came and went before the 1980's. A land before later time.  The 1970's was sooo good, that it only took half of the decade to finish the Vietnam War...a war that the 1960's couldn't finish despite having a full 10 years to kill everyone AND the benefit derived from the military service of Forest Gump's first class privates.  The 1970's finally proved that Senator McArthur was right about what he said back in 1945 about the hippie war protesters in 1965.....  "Cigarette smoking acrobat commis, the whole lot of 'em. Send them to the Pacific Southwest where they can die like those guys in Tropic Thunder." 

The workplace must have been bliss, just sittin' around the office using a Diner's Club Card to write your full legal name on your desktop, in cursive, with size 30 font, waiting to see what came first, the runs, or creative genius.  Let's take a look at what the 1970's advertising world brought us:

Yes, uh huh, I like it. Words to live by. Helen Keller actually taught her dog to smoke so she could follow it easier.

These were tough times in the Ad world....they had to figure out how to type the surgeon general warnings that became law back in the 1960's.

Porsche owners set the standard for all of us.  The microphone was a $9,000.00 option on the Targa.

Lefties and righties? Five seconds after the photo was taken, the guy on the left snapped the neck of that poor model...but it was ok....he was a man and she was a woman...there was a presumption in the 1970's that "she was probably asking for it."

If you take the guy on top and add a dash of the legendary Cherokee Indian, Sequoyah, you get....the most important age demographic for pipe smokers in the 1970s....under 30, and really dirty baby.  Oddly enough, the current most important age demographic for pipe smokers consists almost entirely of men that were once under 30 in the 1970's . The more they change, the more they stay the same.

Remember when you could make statutory rape jokes abut your clothing. Advertising agency were pedophilicly hilarious.

Did you hear the one about the cowboy that speaks Yiddish?  NO! Of course you didn't! The only Jewish cowboys that I think have ever existed are the ones from City Slickers.

Dam, I miss cigarette ads.  They were always so provocative.

How did the eye patch never catch on? Probably cause you could get a full set of dual eye patches for the same price. The 70's had a keen eye for debilitating style.

Before Lu Lu Lemon completely cornered the synthetic microplastic legging market, there was DACRON lined Asbestos SPANXX for men! In the 1970's  it was considered bad-form for a man to insult his fat wife in public if the man was not 2 sizes smaller than the woman.  Men have come a long way since the spanx opression era of the 1970's. 

F' YEAH! Anti-Establishment Post Grad Slacks!!!!! OMG! slacks are truly anti-establishment and inclusive....look around your office right now, I bet there's an ANTIFA protester wearing slacks and no shirt sitting in the cubicle next to yours. 

Based on the first ad above....All he should do is blow some smoke in her face and she would follow him around the Wal-Mart while she plays the violin,  Should you offer a woman a Tiparillo?  Maybe, do you have enough for youself? Ads in the 1970's were very astute about stereotypes of men being the more generous and compassionate gender, especially compared to women violin players.

This ad is silly...it's marketing tag line addresses the smallest demographic group in America....the chauvinist pig.  They don't even wear shoes. Horrible Ad.

 

AND THAT'S WHY 1970's ADS SUCK! But, they are still better than any google ad or banner ad we have today.

[TBird55]

The 70's what a wonderful time to come of age. So thankful I got to experience it.

[Bill Hayes]

Some highly memorable jingles from the 70's and 80's in Australia. When I started in the industry in the 90's it was off the back of an economic recession, so not quite the excesses but long Friday lunches and open bar after 5pm were still the norm. As a young creative writer, it was my job and god given right to be an absolute obnoxious uber-competitive narcissist prone to hissy fits. Ha ha! Then someone said media shouldn't only be allowed to be purchased by advertising agencies. Media buying agencies were born and staff budgets were cut in half. Then someone invented the internet, websites, search engines, digital photography, digital editing, HD film cameras, social media and smart phones and AI, resulting in accountability. DOH!

[SigmundChurchill]

I used to be friendly with the guy who became very wealthy from creating the character Joe Isuzu in the 80s. He grew up a poor Italian kid in Brooklyn, but he had this incredible sense of humor that paid off for him in the end. He was just this laid back, regular guy. He owned a restaurant that my wife and I were regulars at, and me being (what seemed like) the only other politically conservative person in the Hamptons, he used to buy me drinks when I came to the restaurant. I haven't seen him in like 10 years, but I miss his sense of humor. He was hilarious.

[KCCubano]

7 hours ago, SigmundChurchill said:

I used to be friendly with the guy who became very wealthy from creating the character Joe Isuzu in the 80s. He grew up a poor Italian kid in Brooklyn, but he had this incredible sense of humor that paid off for him in the end. He was just this laid back, regular guy. He owned a restaurant that my wife and I were regulars at, and me being (what seemed like) the only other politically conservative person in the Hamptons, he used to buy me drinks when I came to the restaurant. I haven't seen him in like 10 years, but I miss his sense of humor. He was hilarious.

My buddies and I would always get a kick out of the commercials. We had a friend who had a late 80s Isuzu Trooper. 

[Bill Hayes]

My longest stint at one Advertising agency was 9 years. It was independently owned by 3 partners so we weren't answerable to large global umbrella companies and we had some big clients too. I think I can owe my longevity there to Cgar Czars - the original FOH by @El Presidente. Christmas parties were crazy. We'd hire out the Stokehouse restaurant in Melbourne and entertain all our clients. Unfortunately, I was always seated with my Salvation Army clients who didn't drink. Think they did it to keep me under control at least until lunch had ended. Ha ha! I had a running tradition with one of the partners - I supply the cigars and he buys the cognac. Ha ha! Spent more time out the front talking rubbish and drinking the agency credit card dry than being in the restaurant. Great memories. Then they sold out and we merged. I held out for a redundancy and went spearfishing in the Coral Sea then diving and fishing on the other side of the country at Ningaloo Reef. At the time, I didn't realise how good we had it.