Back in the late 1980's I was a partner in an advertising company (Cusick & Klender Advertising) that did national radio and print campaigns. As part of our marketing schtick we created these characters called "The Admen."
These quasi-fictional characters were (in our minds) a perfect vehicle to use to demonstrate our advertising prowess by promoting our services via a demo that featured our Admen alter-egos. Long story short - we produced a demo reel with commercials we had written - intermixed with an "interview" with "those wild and crazy Admen...".
Awwwwkward...
On the "B" side we re-wrote the lyrics to popular songs of the day ("Stray Cat Strut", "The Piano Man") and included a couple of songs we wrote just for the promotion. We had them all pressed and mailed them out - on CASSETTE tapes.
Yep. Cassette tapes.
A couple of years ago I came across a few copies (still in the shrink-wrap!) and gave one to my friend. Although I think I still have one of the only "cassette players" still in existence - he managed to find one, hook it up to his Mac with some who-knows-how-he-got-it cable and ripped down the entire cassette to a CD.
It was when he said "... well, I was thinking about it - and if I didn't transfer it to digital it might have been lost forever - because who in the hell still has a cassette player?" - that I had finally realized I was getting old. I also realized that technology had changed faster in reality than in my perception (or my feeble memory).
In fact, it's changed so much, that I wanted to take a look back at some of the cutting edge ads for "bleeding edge" technology at the time. So I hopped on the "new" interweb and found a bunch of older (actual!) advertisements from days gone by.
I hope you enjoy theses as much as I do:
P.S. Thanks, Ed for the CD!
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