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Aldi Foods - "Goodness Guaranteed" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 2184

Here's another vintage commercial for Aldi Foods. The previous one we saw was similar and incomplete.

Featuring actress Margaret Travolta as the wife, and actor Robert J. ("Bob") Jones as the husband.

Notes: Margaret Travolta is the Sister of Actor John Travolta and has appeared in many television shows. Bob Jones used to be Chicago's Ronald McDonald back in the early 70's. He has appear...

Aldi Foods (Partial Commercial, 1980?)

Views: 2718

Here's an incomplete commercial (missing first 10 seconds I believe) for Aldi Foods (we also called it Aldi's) but I include it here because it has some neat shots of Chicago-suburbs bungelow-style houses. Parts of it almost look like it could have been on my block back about 30 years ago.

Featuring actress Margaret Travolta as the wife, and actor Robert J. ("Bob") Jones as the husband.

Notes: Margaret Travolta is the Sister of Actor John Travolta and has appear...

Chicago White Sox - "Na-Na Hey-Hey Goodbye" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 5318

Here's a memorable commercial for the White Sox - featuring fans singing "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" by Steam, first popularized during White Sox games by team organist, Nancy Faust. Featuring a young Kathy Griffin (in her first acting job, years before making it big as a comedian and TV personality) wearing braids and Sox hat and playing a kazoo, all the way at the far left of the screen in the second row around :15 (among the attendant Sox fans), and Theodore "Ted" Noose as the traffi...

WLS Channel 7 - 13 Queens Blvd. - "For Better or Worse" (Opening, 1979)

Views: 2009

Here's the opening (and first few minutes) of the premiere episode of 13 Queens Blvd., "For Better or Worse," as aired over WLS Channel 7.

This short-lived sitcom - about a diverse group of middle-class residents at a Queens, New York apartment complex, and referred to as 13 Queens Boulevard by both IMDb and Wikipedia

WCIU Channel 26 - The Dennis Green Show (Part 4 - Last, 1982)

Views: 1391

Here is Part 4, the last part, of a (mostly complete) episode of The Dennis Green Show on WCIU Channel 26. Dennis Green was the coach of the Northwestern Wildcats - the college football team of Northwestern University. Co-hosted by Duane Dow - voice of the Wildcats.

Featuring, among others, Coach Francis Peay (at that time an assistant coach) who was head football coach at Northwestern University from 1986 to 1991.

Also includes commercials for Old Style beer a...

WLAK FM 94 - "The Place to Relax" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 3693

Here's a commercial for the "beautiful" music of WLAK - The Lake FM 94 - "The Place to Relax", which played a lot of instrumental easy-listening songs.

This station is now known as WLIT-FM (93.9 "My FM"). Each November and December, they torture Chicagoans with non-stop holiday music.

Featuring actor Patrick O'Neal (who starred in my favorite Columbo episode in 1978, "Make Me A Perfect Murder") (O'Neal also did this same type of ad (and with the same slog...

Prospect Federal Savings - "Mining for Check$avers" (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 1028

Here's a commercial for Prospect Federal Savings, with a gold prospector describing the bank's "Check$aver" N.O.W. account (which pays 5-1/4% interest compounded daily and is insured to $100,000) as he's looking for gold in the lake.

What's the deal with banks and prospectors back then?

Prospect Federal was located at 555 East Butterfield Road (across from Yorktown Mall) in Lombard, and tw...

WCLR 102 FM - "Movin' Easy" (Commercial, 1983)

Views: 2617

Here is a commercial for WCLR 102 FM in Chicago. (Now 101.9 WTMX - The Mix)

Movin' Easy with Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Barry Manilow, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel, Radar Weather (I love their first album!), Johnny Mathis, Dionne Warwick, Concise News, Neil Diamond, The Beatles, Clear Traffic Watch (sell outs), Frank Sinatra, and Chicago.

Voiceover by Dave Martin, who before this had also worked at WCFL and voiced