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Empire Carpets - "That's Not All" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 8262

Here's a commercial for Empire Carpets - the oldest one we have so far.

Features the original Empire jingle as well as the one and only Empire Carpet Man Lynn Hauldren doing the voiceover and seen tacking down the carpet at one point.

Empire Home Service, Inc. - "The Carpet King".

This aired on local Chicago TV in the Summer of 1980.

Empire Carpet - "Impostors" (Commercial, 1983)

Views: 3920

Here's another Empire Carpet commercial featuring various impostors of the real deal - Lynn Hauldren, the Empire Carpet Man.

"588-2300 - Empire!"

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 20th 1983.

Empire Carpets - "What's the Name?" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 2549

Here's another early commercial for Empire Carpets, featuring Lynn Hauldren as the Empire Carpet Man, installing a carpet for a Mr. Kimstead who'd just gotten the idea to have carpets installed for $6.95 a yard just three days before, doesn't have to make an installment payment for 60 days, and got a free Bissell rug shampooer after buying two rooms of carpeting - but has constant trouble remembering the name and phone number. With the now-famous "588-2300" jingle at the end.

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Empire Carpets - "Kiddie Look-Alike" (Commercial, 1983)

Views: 2450

Here's another Empire Carpets commercial - featuring a pint-sized version of Lynn Hauldren (Empire Carpet Man). The child in this commercial was Jason Kane, who grew up to be a Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Physician at Children's Memorial Hospital. (Just goes to show you where doing an Empire commercial can take you.)

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, March 13th 1983.

Empire Carpet - "Warehouse Tour" (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 4953

Here's a commercial for Empire Carpet featuring some scenes of their warehouse and carpet cutting machine.

Featuring Lynn Hauldren as the Empire Carpet Man.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday March 17th 1982.

Empire Carpets - Carpet Myth #1 (Commercial, 1984)

Views: 1562

Here is an Empire Carpets commercial circa 1984.

Did they just kill that old lady?

Empire Carpet - "Proud Of My Home" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 3526

Here's another Empire Carpet commercial featuring Lynn Hauldren, the Empire Carpet Man.

What, no "Empiiiiiiirrre"?

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, October 24th 1981.

Empire Carpets - Carpet Myth #3 (Commercial, 1984)

Views: 1524

Here is an Empire Carpets commercial circa 1984.

Empire Carpets (Commercial, 1995)

Views: 4062

Here is a later commercial for Empire Carpets. Not too much longer and he would morph into an animated CGI character to remain ageless for all eternity. :-)

This aired on local Chicago TV Saturday, January 21st 1995.