Yet one ponders how tomorrow’s seniors in 2075 will react in a museum to seeing an ancient 2018 Toyota, Ford, iPhone or Apple computer. Will they experience the warm fuzzies some of us dinosaurs feel today viewing a classic ‘57 Chevy, Datsun, or black and white Magnovox, twenty one inch TV? With the following brand of lyrics, feel free to drag out that old guitar or select any other instrument sing, rap, croon, and, if tone deaf, recite: BRANDING.
As seniors we’ve become somewhat accustomed to the face of today’s technological society, yet can feel emotional seeing a ‘59 Ford, Meteor, Lincoln or Mercury. Like sponsors of the Ed Sullivan show, we still have that memory. We become emotional seeing a display of TV sets like Motorola, Admiral, Sylvania and G.E. Think perhaps of an actor saying, “Progress is our most important product,” and later, as president, Ronald Regan’s response to many a reporter’s question with that famous, “Well...” Not sure where the next connection popped out of but what about Yahoo, Mountain Dew that lemon lime soda pop, oh my oh me.
You might remember Canada’s Rich Little doing many a presidential voice impersonation so authentic sounding, ‘the real thing’ hard to tell. Do you recall all those fancy film cameras they used to use at a press conference and does that idea bring back Kodak film product’s distinctive yellow box? Perhaps putting on a record on a real Hi-Fi machine and seeing that dog listening to his masters voice on RCA, eh?
Do you remember what some still refer to as the old airport in Richmond. It was so much fun standing outside at that terminal building; passengers boarding a TCA flight on a Vanguard to Toronto. A CP Air domestic two-propeller ‘job’ from somewhere from the interior landing and a United Airlines plane heading to Seattle. It was such a thrill to watch.