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There’s a Thai place in Burien (1st & 148th) that is housed in an old IHOP. It makes for a slightly surreal visual experience. Unfortunately they didn’t name it IHOT. Really good food, though.
June 17th, 1963 (ad from the Times):
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If everyone ran with balloons before and after eating at places like the International House of Pancakes (I refuse to call it by that vulgar acronym) we’d all be much slimmer.
Although I do wonder where they stored their balloons while dining?
Also, that commercial reminds me of the Winter of the Witch short movie, which was also from 1969. (Some probably remember it as the pancake witch movie that they got to watch in school.) Eating pancakes was definitely trippy in that:
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Did they really use that sound? i think the ad is legit, but I doubt the veracity of the soundtrack. Its just too fucking weird, even for the ’60s.
I wish I could un-hear that. 🙂
I didn’t know Ween was around then, or that they did IHOP commercials…
@5, I’m with you. At best it may be a period sound manipulation done by wags at the ad agency.
“International House of Pancakes: Just for the Fun of it.” Because God knows you’re not here for the food.
This makes me want to suck helium out of a balloon before ordering at an IHOP.
I think the song is authentic. On one of the Christmas Cocktail CD’s there’s a promo for Toys for Tots from the same era that uses a similar voice. Plus, it’s not that far off from The Chipmunks, who first appeared in the 60’s
Ooooh I would go there RIGHT NOW if they still served food in that rad turkey bowl that the girl gets in the TV spot.
Those portions were all ~1/2 the size of what you get at IHOP these days.
In high school, a group of friends and I, most of them frying (BTW, was “frying” a NW colloquialism? I don’t think I’ve heard it since “buttrocker.”) had their minds absolutely blown by a giant orange juice standee in the lobby of the University District IHOP. HOW DID THEY KNOOOOOOW?!
Looks like the International House of Pancakes meets the Altered States of Drugachusetts.
You’re either in the House.
Or outside the House.
The dorm for international students here at UChicago, colloquially known as I-House, has a big sign out front declaring it to be the “International House of Chicago”. I really want to go over there with some tape and a piece of paper reading “Pancakes”. Maybe for April Fools’ Day…
I have a fucked up driver so my experience was even weirder than the rest of you. And I had some acid trips in Oak Park, Illinois that were very similar to this but without the IHOP.
I would NOT want to watch that commercial on acid! Especially with that VOICE!!!
@17 FTW!!!
@4, Winter of the Witch…aw. “The want ads don’t want an old witch.” Once again, unemployment hits the most vulnerable first.
the music is indeed authentic, because i remember this ad when it first ran, and it was a very catchy tune. there’s still an IHOP just three blocks south of stranger towers, mr. schmader. or do you have staff meetings there?
the “music” sounds like it was probably done by
Raymond Scott.