Trip Down Memory Lane with this Yellow Pages Ad - Anyone remember it?

[Alembicbassman]

Saddle like a razor !

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Yes I remember it.

 

[HLaB]

Showing my age now, yes I remember it.

 

[ColinJ]

Showing my age now, yes I remember it.

Pfft - I was already 27 when that was on the telly!

The roads were quiet like that when I got my first bike in the 1960s. My parents insisted that I pass the Cycling Proficiency Test (aged 9 or 10) but after that they were happy to let me ride unaccompanied on Coventry's streets. You probably wouldn't be happy letting a 9 year old do that now with modern traffic conditions!

 

[Alembicbassman]

...and 12 months later he wanted a BMX

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Aha, I remember it! But I've also cycled up the hill he sets off on up the hill before they got to painting white lines on it. And the very first shot is by my first girlfriend's house. (The same out of the window shot was also used in a BBC ''identity'' for Christmas a couple of years back.)

EDIT: http://deptfordmarmoset.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/little-follow-up-to-i-was-right-about.html

 

[citybabe]

I remember it too

 

[slowmotion]

Was it the same ad agency that did the Hovis adverts, swirling colliery bands and all?

Ah yes..JR Hartley....

 

[kerndog]

...and 12 months later he wanted a BMX

I had one of those, but in yellow. Banana Burner. Loved that bike.

 

[EltonFrog]

I remember it too, I was looking for that ad the other day, but couldn't find it. Nice one.

 

[Archie_tect]

1983, that's the year we got married! Seems like yesterday!
Yellow Pages... eeeh, do you remember when we had to walk to a telephone box outside to ring people up to ask them things.....and if you were lucky there would be a big book with lots of telephone numbers and addresses in... press A to dial and put the money in and B to connect when people said hello... and you could reverse the charges if it was your mum. Them were t' days.

 

[EltonFrog]

Actually that was before 1983, more like 79/80

 

[Archie_tect]

Was it? my memory isn't what it was... I was there as well, maybe the missus will remember it better, she was in a white dress and we had a lovely day.

 

[Durian]

1983, that's the year we got married! Seems like yesterday!
Yellow Pages... eeeh, do you remember when we had to walk to a telephone box outside to ring people up to ask them things.....and if you were lucky there would be a big book with lots of telephone numbers and addresses in... press A to dial and put the money in and B to connect when people said hello... and you could reverse the charges if it was your mum. Them were t' days.

I loved the smell of the old telephone boxes. Apart from when people had pissed in them of course.

 

[Maz]

I love the twist in this Yellow Pages Ad...