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Old Irish tat that claimed to be American but wasn't

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  • #62
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,236 ✭✭✭George White


    Very clearly trying to ride those Levi's ads, which recreated 50s America in Britain.



  • #63
    Bogey Lowenstein
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    That must be Nigel with the brie...


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123744259#Comment_123744259

    You reminded me of the one with the Horslips. I think they were aiming for a Summer of Love, Woodstock vibe.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ-PHpoRmU4


  • #64
    George White
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    All shot at Ardmore.



  • #65
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,236 ✭✭✭George White


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123745333#Comment_123745333

    I've become slightly obsessed. Clearly shot on Parnell St in Limerick too.



  • #66
    Hotblack Desiato
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    Wonder where they got the American bus from. Shouldn't have been too hard to round up a few American cars though and you could get away with sticking a few generic big Mercs or BMWs in the background.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
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  • #67
    Hotblack Desiato
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    Imagine if glass bottles were allowed at concerts today! 😮

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #68
    George White
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    I'm now wondering why that ad was even shot in Limerick. Was the ad company based there? Was Limerick considered most passable as 'America'? Surely, a location closer to Dublin would have been easier.

    Around that time, the 1990 NBC TVM A Green Journey/The Love She Sought turned Quinsborough Road, Bray into smalltown Minnesota.



  • #69
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,236 ✭✭✭George White


    Get Rich or Die Tryin' - features scenes shot in Dublin for New York.



  • #70
    Hangdogroad
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    The Galtee "my name is Rashers" ad from circa 1987. Despite Rashers strong Dublin accent, I always thought he looked like some kind of wannabe Marty McFly with that hideous jacket that you'd never see any Irish person wearing at the time.

    My brother hated this ad and yer man with a passion, I remember him stating that he'd love to beat the s***t of that guy anytime it came on.

    https://youtu.be/-LuxcEbfY3Q?si=haRRG_RZxpZUU2v1


  • #71
    George White
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    AAlso that he is dubbed by an adult man



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  • #72
    Hangdogroad
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123960157#Comment_123960157

    Yeah, a twelve, thirteen year old voiced by what sounds like Martin "the General" Cahill.



  • #73
    sydthebeat
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123959976#Comment_123959976

    Ah those letterman jackets were fairly ubiquitous at that time, I would have been turning 11 that year and I've photos in some and they would have been worn in my primary school. That 'fashion' lasted a couple of years, and was usurpted by the "Christmas tree duffle jacket" phase, before the grunge scene took over.

    I remember that ad well.



  • #74
    Hotblack Desiato
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123729770#Comment_123729770

    Looks like it's only fitted with one, foglight on the other side. Legal then.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #75
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,236 ✭✭✭George White


    Rocket to the Moon (1967) features Ardmore as 19th century NYC.

    This Centra ad - https://youtu.be/LaFVL-ZP7Vg?t=184



  • #76
    Hotblack Desiato
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    A better slogan would be "Centra - Just Walk Away"

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #77
    Hangdogroad
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    Steve Silvermint, the Dick Tracey-esque character who advertised Silvermints in the 70s and 80s, maybe into the 90s.

    https://youtu.be/C4J3LThd0NE?is=9gfLyr2sY7Fj9-YE

    Sam Spudz had a similar noir detective mascot, whose face was always hidden in shadow on the front of the packet, though in the mini comic on the back there his face is visible.

    https://youtu.be/s7iSzU6YQhg?is=lpvMhCpy6kbtgM4a


  • #78
    Hotblack Desiato
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    Used to love Sam Spudz, did they go bust or taken over or what?

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • #79
    Seth Brundle
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    Sam Spudz were the first Irish crinkly crisps IIRC.
    Largo foods shut it, presumably because they weren't making enough from it

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  • #80
    Hangdogroad
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    Late 60's ad for Clover sasuages. The popularity of "cowboy pictures" or Westerns in Ireland probably led directly to a lot of Wild West imagery.

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  • #81
    George White
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,236 ✭✭✭George White


    Recently Read an oblique reference that the Sean Connery scampi western Shalako had ten days of post production or resorts done at Ardmore, in an article about Zardoz in the Evening Herald, referred to having previously been here for 10 days of work at Ardmore for a film he did in Spain in 1968.



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  • #82
    adaminho
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124309808#Comment_124309808

    My mother was a sausage linker for Clover Meats back in the 60's.



  • #83
    Hangdogroad
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    The Irish obsession with the Wild West reached its apex with the Indians Showband, a bunch of palefaces cosplaying as Native Americans. I think they're still going in some form.

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