The A/V Geeks, Duke Hartman Center for Advertising and Internet Archive are proud to announce the archive of over 8700 TV commercials from the 1950s-80s available for free at archive.org. This is the largest single archive of TV commercials available anywhere.

Over a six month period, the A/V Geeks digitized over 10,000 TV commercials that had been donated to the Hartman Center. Now the best 8700 are available for your viewing at the Internet Archive.

http://www.archive.org/details/adviews

So good it hurts!