This Commerical Not Only Make Me Feel Old................

It makes me hungry.

Here's a late 1960s commerical for Quake cereal from Quaker Oats Company.

This is the one with Quake having himself redesigned to go with the redesigned cereal.

From The Folks Who Brough You Franken Berry And Count Chocula

Here's a 1972 commercial for two General Mills cereals, Sir Grapefellow and Baron von Redberry.

Harry Wendelstedt, Long-Time MLB Umpire, R. I. P.

Longtime Major League Baseball umpire Harry Wendelstedt, who worked in five World Series during a 33-year career, passed away on Friday at Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center at Daytona Beach, near the umpiring school he had run for more than three decades, at age 73.

Mr. Wendelstedt had been diagnosed with a brain tumor a number of years ago.

Harry also called seven National League Championship Series and four All-Star Games and was behind the plate for five no-hitters.

Pac-12 Tournament: Beavers Stun Top-Seeded Huskies; Arizona, Stanford Advance; Colorado Effectively Ends Ducks NCAA Chances

The Pacific-12 Conference's men's basketball tournament's quarterfinal round took place on Thursday in Los Angeles with four games.


In the opener, Devon Collier scored 19 points while Jared Cunningham hit a go-ahead layup with 31.8 seconds remaining as the ninth-seeded Oregon State Beavers (19-13) blew a fifteen-point lead, then bounced back to knock off the top-seeded Washington Huskies (21-10) 86-84.


A 25 point, 12 rebound performance from Solomon Hill helped carry the Arizona Wildcats (22-10) to a 66-58 win over the UCLA Bruins (19-14).


Jorge Gutierrez scored 22 points as the California Golden Bears (24-8) defeated the Stanford Cardinal (21-11) 77-71. 


In the Thursday night finale, Carlton Brown scored 18 points while Andre Roberson added 12 (two of them on a go-ahead layup with 10 seconds remaining) while grabbing 10 rebounds as the sixth-seeded Colorado Buffaloes (21-11) knocked off the third-seeded Oregon Ducks (22-9) 63-62, perhaps knocking the Ducks out of a shot at an NCAA tournament berth.

Remeber, Flavor Is More Important Than Price

Here's another old Australian TV commercial, this one for Bushell's Tea from 1965.  The slogan reminds me of a line spoken by Chips Rafferty in the 1946 motion picute, "The Overlanders:" "Bullucks are more important than bullets."

Is The Guy's First Name Martin Or Charlie?

Here's another old Australian television commercial, this one from late 1960s or maybe early 1970s for Mr. Sheen furniture wax.

Now For Our Friends In Australia

Here's a late 1960s-early 1970s commercial that aired on Australian television for Nestle's Milky Bar.