I found a ton of old ads online and decided to go through them and pick out the most memorable ones to me growing up in Kuwait during the 80s. I think the one that caught my interest the most was the Al Khalejiah Complex ad. So very few people remember that when Al Khalejiah Complex originally opened it was one large department store. The only reason I remember it is because that’s where I used to go get my Legos from so it was pretty cool finding this commercial.
The Samsung and Indesit commercials were also great finds since I used to find their tunes extremely catchy as a kid. Anyway check out the full list below of my favorites:
7up
Al Khalejiah Complex
Americana 1
Americana 2
Coast
Crest
Dalal Oil
Filfila
Fotofast
Hardees
Hungry Bunny
Indesit
Kiri 1
Kiri 2
Kit Kat
KDD 1
KDD 2
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Kitco
Kuwait Dairy Co
Like Cola
National Bank of Kuwait 1
National Bank of Kuwait 2
Pepsi
Pizza Italia 1
Pizza Italia 2
Safeway
Samsung
Shani
Sultan Center 1
Sultan Center 2
Sunkist
Tikka
Toyota
Wazza Tea
Zest
If you want to go through all the commercials and find some other ones, click here.
7 replies on “Commercials I Grew Up With”
As a kid during the 80’s I spent some of my time in KSA. We only had 2 channels at that time and the only time they play commercials was between 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm. I remember when my parents used to wake me up to watch commercials. That sounds crazy I know but I used to love watching commercials. The funny part that they were always the same commercials playing every day 😊
So strange that they only showed commercials in that time specific time slot, i don’t think it was like this hear, I don’t remember but I think they just used to play commercials in between shows.
Hey Mark, I’ve been meaning to ask you this for years now since I know you’re really good at digging stuff up but I guess I was just looking for the right opportunity and here it is!
Back in 1994, my sister and I provided the vocals for a Hungry Bunny ad that ran on KTV. My sister did provided the bulk of the lines since she was older but I had one line – “and Hungry Bunny!” that I did in English and Arabic. We’ve been looking for the ad for years now but we can’t find it anywhere. Nazaer Studios in Hawalli was the recording studio that we went to for laying down the vocals.
Could you help us find it? Thanks!
I used to like the Samsung ad, best of all followed by Tikka. I don’t find the La Vache Qui Rit ad on your list. I am guessing you are not particularly a cheesy person, are you ? 😜
KTV would also run an ad for Tanagra for their Christoffle line which I thought was classy. However, the Joy by Jean Patou parfum ad was rather corny for my taste. Who uses a fragrance simply because it was perceived the costliest perfume in the world ?!
Can’t seem to recollect but didn’t Kids R Us have an ad to call their own too? 🤔
On Safeway- I used to just love the smell of that store. If it isn’t too much bother please can you post the Safeway ad if you come by it.
https://248am.com/mark/interesting/the-i-like-it-spicy-guy/
https://248am.com/?s=kids+r+us
I absolutely love this man. Definitely brought back.some awesome memories of growing up in Kuwait in the 80s.
Oh wow!! Wow!!
This exists on the Internet!
You exist on the internet!
God bless you for bringing back these fabulous memories!!
I remembered All of these ads!