Vintage Skiing Commercials

[snowmonster]

Looks like Boston.com is having a field day with skiing. Aside from a feature on the now ubiquitous Go Pro cameras, they posted up all these nuggets from when we were young. Enjoy!

http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/specials/ski/gallery/vintage_skiing_commercials/

 

[SIKSKIER]

Great stuff SM.Thanks for that.I trying to figure out why you would sell anti persperant by showing people in deep snow freezing there ass off.

 

[legalskier]

#15- How in the world did Nancy Greene survive that downhill crash into a wall of ice?! Must have been juiced on Mars bars.

#20- Redd Foxx driving off a ski jump with a six of Colt 45- hilarious!

 

[Smellytele]

Love the fashion in the skiing magazine on the commercial playing late at night.
The Suzy Chapstick ones I remember well
Riunite on ice so nice
Frosted Rice?
The guy in the orange suit is in a few of them
Was Redd Foxx drinking the colt .45's as well?

 

[jrmagic]

#20- Redd Foxx driving off a ski jump with a six of Colt 45- hilarious!

LMAO MY how times have changed:razz:

 

[SIKSKIER]

Ya,I remember it well but since when did people drink wine on ice?

 

[MadPatSki]

Looks like Boston.com is having a field day with skiing.]

Almost wondering if they have been following my Friday Video posts on Ski Mad World?

I have a few gems (posted or in Draft mode), they caught the classic from my memory bank.

The three that are or will be in Ski Mad World:

- Pepsi featuring Wayne Wong
- Juicy Fruit possibly at least one known skier, looks like one of the Laroche brother at the end (Canadian Aerial).

Ski Commercials - Wayne Wong and Pepsi

Ski Commercials 2 - Juicy Fruit

Ski Commercial 3 - Jean-Claude Killy That is an important one that is definitely missing from the Boston.com list.

Ski Commercial 4 - Crazy Canucks

Ski Commercial 5 - Maria Walliser

- Mars Bar and Nancy Greene hasn't been posted yet as I'm not posting Videos everyweek this Winter and there is more to videos than commercials. The Commercial 6 is about the debate on commercialization and athletes selling stuff which tagged Nancy Greene at one point. That crash was at the 1966 World Championships at Portillo.

 

[Glenn]

"Riunite" LOL! Seriously!

The Redd Foxx one is priceless.

 

[snowmonster]

Riunite on Ice. That's nice - Even as a child, I knew that putting ice into wine was a bad thing.

MadPatSki, maybe the guy who blogs on boston.com as Ski Guru is one of your fanboys.=)

 

[jaja111]

This is a gem of a find. So was it generally the fault of equipment that most people skiing in these commercials looked moderately to insanely out of control? WTF is Wayne Wong in the pepsi vid? Wasn't he a tennis player from Hong Kong?

 

[Nick]

great find!

 

[MadPatSki]

WTF is Wayne Wong in the pepsi vid? Wasn't he a tennis player from Hong Kong?

:roll:

Wayne Wong. You think Wayne Wong is a tennis player? He's a skiing icon.

Wayne Wong, named one of the most influential people in Skiing according to Skiing and Powder Magazines, and Member of the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame. Wong is one of the pioneers in Freestyle skiing.

Taken from my piece from my Friday Video on Wayne Wong.
http://madpatski.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/friday-night-video-wayne-wong/

 

[snowmonster]

WTF is Wayne Wong in the pepsi vid? Wasn't he a tennis player from Hong Kong?

Wayne Wong = Wong Banger + Slow Dog Noodle + one of the godfathers of freestyle skiing

I can't, for the life of me, think of a famous tennis player from Hong Kong. The only Asian or person of Asian descent that I can think of who ranked high on the ATP tour was Michael Chang. And he's from California.

 

[Glenn]

Wait...is Wayne Wong related to Dan Egan?

 

[Black Phantom]

Wait...is Wayne Wong related to Dan Egan?

2nd cousins on his mother's side.

Wayne Wong washes Egan's thongs.

 

[SkiDork]

Iceman marveled at how he could ski bumps in the back seat like that... Said he must have been crazy strong

 

[crank]

I am old and there is a commercial for TImex watches I remember well. I was looking for it but they didn't have it. A guy skied right at a stationary camera making several turns then stopped and there was a timex strapped to his ski. Announcer: "Timex, takes a licking and keeps on ticking."

 

[MadPatSki]

Wayne Wong = Wong Banger + Slow Dog Noodle + one of the godfathers of freestyle skiing.

Bang on Snowmonster.

MadPatSki, maybe the guy who blogs on boston.com as Ski Guru is one of your fanboys.=)

Maybe? Who knows?:beer:

 

[SkiDork]

I had Wayne Wong sunglasses in the 70's... Wore them in any kind of weather.

 

[Glenn]

I actually remember the Juicy Fruit and Subie commercials.