In the 1960's the Daily Mirror ran a competition For holiday makers to identify a Mystery man at seaside resorts who would give a cash prize to the first person to spot him and give the days "Challenge Phrase" Think it was 10 Pounds? Then it was a third of an average weeks wages. Now it's about 1/20th of the same!

What was the Name of the Mystery Man?

PS These days they'd never run a promotion like this, going up to a strange man on his own
Looking for trouble!!

It was you wasn't it bedstor? Wandering around Blackpool in you bathing suit.

They had to go up to this guy and say something like, "To my delight, it's Chalky White ! "

I think that's an arrestable offence nowadays...I wouldn't do it for $10 anyway.

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Think it was 10 Pounds? Then it was a third of an average weeks wages.

In the 1960s £10 was $28.00. Was the average British worker that poverty-stricken?

That's the Guy dg
Oh and the only place I have Put my cossie on Is On the Beach in Ireland when We spent a few weeks Holidaying near my Cousins in Co Wexford in "Peak season"(they call it these days)
and It was really hot and we had the Beach almost to ourselves Only just been noted in the Holiday Guides....Have known about it all my life
Totally unspoilt

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Originally posted by juanruiz:

In the 1960s £10 was $28.00. Was the average British worker that poverty-stricken?

JR
My Dad worked on Building sites ,owned a 2 up 2 down house value £500!....£75K for the same Now...If he got £30 in wages we'd have a beef joint for Sunday otherwise it was Pork

2007...£2 Bags of chicken pieces is a treat on sunday ....No one does ready Meat Joints Now

PS and we Rent the house Rent was £15 now approaching £60 ! (36 years)

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Originally posted by bedstor:
JR
My Dad worked on Building sites ,owned a 2 up 2 down house value £500!....£75K for the same Now...If he got £30 in wages we'd have a beef joint for Sunday otherwise it was Pork

2007...£2 Bags of chicken pieces is a treat on sunday ....No one does ready Meat Joints Now

PS and we Rent the house Rent was £15 now approaching £60 ! (36 years)

ok bedsor ..it was actually 5 pounds they won, See the Wikipedia link

So they didn't do as well as we thought.

I know lots of people that still do joints btw

"I know lots of people that still do joints btw"

HA!

This could be music trivia, but let me post it here as a rider to bedstor's question.
When I was a lad, the Rolling Stone's brought out a single called "Get Off Of My Cloud" and no one at school could ever decipher the fourth line until one bright spark found it in London in a sheet-music store. It's the line after

"I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block
And I sit at home looking out the window
Imagining the world has stopped
When in flies a guy who's all dressed up like a Union Jack
He says ..."

So, what did he say (it's relevant to bedstor's question) and to what was Mick Jagger referring back then in the Sixties?

PS Before you look it up on the Internet, give the record a spin. It really is difficult to decipher, unless you know.

I have the track Colin and the line goes

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I've won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack

I'm clueless beyond this.Sorry

Mick's diction was often no better than Elton John's.

Union Jack?This kind of promotion was popular in the '50s and '60s. The company would send out a man to knock on doors. If the householder could produce a box of the product to show him then they won money. Now, the question is which brand of detergent had a man to do the calls who was dressed like a union jack? The only one that I think had multi- coloured stripes on the packet was Omo. The Daz packet had stripes but they were only in red and white, which are two of the colours on the flag , granted,and the brand still has , or recently had, the Daz challenge which also involved house calls to unsuspecting householders, so Daz would be my second guess.

Cheers Fred
You brought some memories Back about TV promos in the early 60's I remember Alan (Fluff)Freeman Doing OMO Ads and Harry Fowler Doing Daz? could have been him?

Well done Fred: that's the answer I was looking for. Back in the Sixties, the local paper would announce a few days in advance that the Omo team or the Daz team would be in a particular town or area, thus inciting everyone to rush out and buy a packet of whatever it was so as to be ready to produce it if the knock came on the door. Sometimes you had to answer a simple question toon such as "Why do you buy Camay soap?" This happened to a friend's mother and her correct answer was "Because it contains moisturising cream." She got her five one-pound notes.
Whether Mick and Keith were thinking of any particular campaign, I don't know. Sometimes the man who knocked at the doors ws dressed in pink or white with a top hat, but I don't particularly remember anyone sporting a Union Jack. It was probably made up so that it would rhyme with "detergent pack" in the song.