Eric Baines

Does anybody remember Eric Baines?  We covered this topic in our Saturday dinner at Gwammy's place.  Well he was the dentist who appeared in the Colgate televisions ads in the late seventies to the early eighties.  He used to demonstrate the benefits of brushing your teeth with fluoride-laced Colgate toothpaste.  That was the time when Colgate dominated the market (toothpaste was sometimes referred to as "Colgate" in Philippine households in the seventies, much like refrigerators were referred to as "Frigidaire" in the sixites).  Pepsodent, Crest and Aquafresh were far-away competitors and Close-Up was just launching.  Today, only Close-Up remains active, and other local brands like Hapee and Beam have taken the slack.  Nice to reminisce...