Do you remember that VERY irritating Bacardi ad which seemed to play during every single ad break in cinemas from about 1978-1992? The one which showed a group of impossibly fashionable, carefree young things doing ‘ordinary’ things in the setting of..er..the Caribbean? The thinking behind this was obviously that if you take a sip of Bacardi while sitting in somewhere like  Croydon, you will immediately be spiritually transported to the balmy climes of the Antilles. Well, I’ve got news for everyone. I have FOUND the location where this iconic ad, which is as important a souvenir of lost youth as, well, Proust’s madeleine, for anyone born during the years 1960-1970 (since being an ad for booze, it only was allowed to play during X rated flicks). Yes, found it. Take a look at the clip and try to remember the scene in the local Odeon…when the screen was half obliterated with cigarette fog and you were busy trying to fend off the advances of the local Lothario while worrying about your father’s curfew. Doesn’t it take you back?

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