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Fencl-Tufo's Chevy City - "Blaaaaaah!" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 2279

Here's a pretty funny commercial for Fencl-Tufo's Chevy City featuring a goofy Dracula puppet that kind of looks and sounds a bit like Mike Toomey's Greg the Vampire character on WGN Morning News.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, May 9th 1979 at around 4:15pm.

Shutan Camera (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 1138

Here's another commercial for Shutan Camera featuring an outside shot of their old location at 153 West Wacker Drive - on Wacker Drive at LaSalle Street.

"Since 1918"

Voiceover by Al Parker.

This commercial aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 4th 1979.

Imagic - Atlantis (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 1239

Here is a commercial for the Imagic video game "Atlantis" for the Atari 2600 and Intellivision. Featuring the Imagic Design Lab.

"Created by experts for experts."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, December 18th 1982.

Osco Drug - "Save the Osco Way" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 1864

Here's a commercial for Osco Drug which shows how customers can now save on generic equivalents of widely-used brand name prescription drugs.

This commercial is in the same campaign as this one.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, October 19th 1978.

Pizza Hut - "Not Jamie Lee Curtis" (Commercial, 1977)

Views: 2916

Here's a vintage Pizza Hut ad, which apparently does not feature a pre-Halloween fame Jamie Lee Curtis, as much as I may have thought. ;-)

I'm referring to the girl in the red turtleneck - I thought it really looks like her.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 11th 1977.

Gonnella Bread - "Marches On!" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 1734

Here's a commercial for Gonnella Bread which starts off having sort of a newsreel feel to it, and then shows little flags of many different countries all sticking out of a loaf of Gonnella bread with toothpicks.

Voiceover sounds a bit like Orson Welles, but likely not him.

"The only bread in the world with diplomacy, benefits, and advantages for all."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, January 18th 1978.

WBKB Channel 7 - Midwest Sports Special - "Inside the World of Hockey with the Chicago Blackhawks" (Part 1, 1964)

Views: 3779

Here's Part 1 of Midwest Sports Special - "Inside the World of Hockey with the Chicago Blackhawks," as aired on WBKB (now WLS) Channel 7. The host of this in-depth look at the team was Frank Sweeney. This was transferred from the original film, and thus has no commercials.

This part begins with the old-style academy leader which counted by feet rather than frames (as opposed to the more common SMPTE Universal film leader). The program itself begins with some shots of ...

Chicago's Landmark Builders (Commercial, 1984)

Views: 391

Commercial for Chicago's Landmark Builders, from 1984.

Tarn-X Silver Cleaner (Commercial Offer, 1984)

Views: 2396

Here is a commercial for Tarn-X Silver Cleaner. This one aired in 1984, but may have been from a few years before.

This commercial aired on local Chicago TV in May of 1984.