At The Edge

England cricket selector Graham Gooch has his moustache shaved off by Australian Test cricketer Greg Matthews in London  when both donned a new image in time for the summer Ashes series after they chose a hair replacement procedure. Year 1998.

Man cannot live for ever on walks however charming and however fascinating his companion may be.His soul yearns for a ball of some kind whether it be a polo ball, a cricket ball, a tennis ball, a golf ball, or even a croquet ball. Until he has a ball of some description to play with he is never really happy. Sir Francis Younghusband came up with this revelation in his book Kashmir (1911). He was describing the beautiful meadows of Gulmarg and explaining how, since his previous visit about nineteen years ago, the Golf courses and the Polo grounds had sprung up in place of woods and swamps. According to Younghusband, all this because the soul of a man forever yearns for the ball. Is balloon a ball? According to Bollywood, and countless movie song sequences bear witness, a man's soul also deeply yearns for balloons, particularly helium filled ones. In Bollywood, balloons were not just a prop. Hrikesh Mukherjee directing the song zindagi kaisi hai paheli for his film Anand (1971) ...

Introducing a golden era in coffee... Savour the exclusive taste of premium 100% pure instant coffee. Rich with the real flavour and satisfying aroma of the choicest coffee beans. Try it and you will agree, it's the ultimate in coffee luxury! Gold Cafe Premium 100% Pure coffee Instant Coffee The ultimate in coffee luxury (Agency: Clarion) Sharmila Tagore and Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi in Gold Cafe Coffee Ad from 1980s. Together they helped create this coffee brand that successfully tried to compete against Nescafe.

UNBEATEN PARTNERSHIP The refreshing cola  - The famous Thums Up advertisement  from early 1980s featuring the legendary Pakistani fast bowler Imran Khan and legendary Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar. This is from an era when Imran Khan didn't have to plead the case of good Talib s , he was just busy chasing movie starlets and selling cold drinks. -0- previous posts on vintage cold drink ads here and here Gavaskar in Cherry blosson ad here

Bata Shoe Company Limited was incorporated in India on December 23, 1931. On April 6, 1956, it became a private company and changed name to "Bata Shoe Company Private Limited". Then on becoming a public company it became "Bata Shoe Company Limited" on April 18, 1973, but then only days later on April 23, it was renamed "Bata India Limited", the name by which we know it today. Three ads from the 80s for the famous athletic shoe brand 'Power' from Bata. These shoes were first launched in the year 1972. Birth of the fitness cult Power Jogger   However strenuous workouts your feet never had it so good. Body by Workout Power The future of tennis rests on this pair Power Ultimo (Agency: Clarion) If shoes be the criteria (and it's a good criteria) to denote periods in personal or non- personal history, then this history can be traversed easily by dividing it into two eras: BATA era...

For those who remember their white fleet shoes that were meant for school. "After over a 100 tests, how could a white shoe cleaner possibly matter to me? You'd be surprised!' Cherry Blossom White cleaner ad featuring Sunil Gavaskar Most folks remember Sunil Gavaskar's baseball ad from the late 80s and the early 90s for Dinesh Suiting. Sunil Gavaskar was one of the two greatest cricketing star of the time. The other star at that time was Kapil Dev and he was busy singing Palmolive da jawaab nahi . This was a time when the theories on concept of cricketers as brand ambassadors were still in infancy. Now, this concept has been done to death. Anyway, found this old ad in 1988 Annual Issue of the (great) Target magazine . I was surprised to find that the magazine had almost no other advertisements except this one. -0- You may also like to read the previous post on cherry blosson vintage ad -0- Check out rest of the posts from the series on vintage ads