What is this 1980's memory?

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Anonymous wrote:Sesame Street intro titles.

I lived in a dull Midwestern suburb and subconsciously longed for the city. When I had my first job in NYC and moved into a shared apartment in a poorly-maintained brownstone, it felt like coming home. I eventually realized that it was because I was living out my childhood dream of living on Sesame Street!

Peoria, by any chance?

Peoria isn't a suburb.

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Anonymous wrote:Fat Albert?

That’s what I was thinking, too.

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Reading is Fundamental?

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Great tv commercials and PSAs. Many I still remember today.
Toyota- oh what a feeling… toyota
Kawasaki- let’s the good times roll
McDonald’s- Big Mac, filet o fish, quarter pounder, French fries… and you deserve a break today
Give a hoot. Don’t pollute.
Wendy’s- where’s the beef
Toys r us commercials around holiday time

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Anonymous wrote:In elementary school, I remember either commercials or ads or perhaps even something in school that revolved around inner city imagery, for lack of a better way to explain it. Graffiti, basketball courts, public housing. Usually in black and white. Does anyone have similar memories? What was this? I grew up in a regular old middle class Midwest town, so this is baffling to me.

It was the TV show Welcome Back Cotter.

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Sesame Street did show such things. I remember one episode about people sleeping. It showed people sleeping on benches, a pile of tires, under bridges...

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Anonymous wrote:Fat Albert?

That’s what I was thinking, too.

No, where fat Albert lived was colorful and fun! I loved that cartoon when I was a kid.

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21 Jump Street intro

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Was it an army recruitment commercial?

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Anonymous wrote:Was it an army recruitment commercial?

WE DO MORE BEFORE 9 AM THAN MOST PEOPLE DO ALL DAY

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Honda commercials

“Honda… we make it simple”

To this day I only drive a honda vehicles

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In elementary school, I remember either commercials or ads or perhaps even something in school that revolved around inner city imagery, for lack of a better way to explain it. Graffiti, basketball courts, public housing. Usually in black and white. Does anyone have similar memories? What was this? I grew up in a regular old middle class Midwest town, so this is baffling to me.

It was the TV show Welcome Back Cotter.

Welcome back Kotter (with a K). Great show and where John Travolta got his start.

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Anonymous wrote:Great tv commercials and PSAs. Many I still remember today.
Toyota- oh what a feeling… toyota
Kawasaki- let’s the good times roll
McDonald’s- Big Mac, filet o fish, quarter pounder, French fries… and you deserve a break today
Give a hoot. Don’t pollute.
Wendy’s- where’s the beef
Toys r us commercials around holiday time

Dunkin Donuts - Time to make the Donuts and the Dunkin Donuts theme song
McDonald's - Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun (and those who saw it can only sing it)
Coke - It's the real thing (to the tune of the Carpenter's I'd like to teach the world to sing)
Burger King - Have it your way
Maxwell House - Good to the last drop

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Anonymous wrote:I'm thinking now it might have been posters. Could it have been Just Say No campaigns?

Agree it was probably anti drug related. Like the fried egg: ‘this is your brain on drugs’ or the ‘when I grow up’ ad.

Do a video search for ‘partnership for a drug free America’

Thanks - I think this had to be it. Some of those are BLEAK.

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Early 80s? Late 80s?