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1st Metropolitan Builders - "Helping Chicagoland Families" with Peter Lawford (Commercial #1, 1979)

Views: 759

Here's a commercial for 1st Metropolitan Builders featuring legendary actor Peter Lawford outside and inside a Chicago area mansion, explaining how 1st Metropolitan helps "thousands of families" in and around the Chicago area remodel their homes to suit their changing needs.

This ad was produced five years before the co-star of such now-classic films as "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "Good News" and "Royal Wedding," and onetime member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack," died, on Dece...

1st Metropolitan Builders - "Easy Maintenance Aluminum Siding" with Peter Lawford (Commercial #2, 1979)

Views: 572

Here's another commercial for 1st Metropolitan Builders, featuring legendary actor (and former Rat Packer) Peter Lawford explaining how aluminum siding on the outside of a home is not only attractive but also saves money on heating in the winter and cooling in the summer, enhances a home's resale value, and is easy to maintain.

Another commercial with Mr. Lawford can be seen here.

Ending voi...

1st City Builders (Commercial #2, 1984)

Views: 328

Another commercial for 1st City Builders.

1st Metropolitan Builders - "Diorama" (Commercial #2, 1984)

Views: 1574

I'll bet a lot of people remember this one - a different version of an earlier diorama commercial.

This aired on local Chicago TV in 1984.

WFLD Metromedia Channel 32 - Comedy Festival (Break #3, 1984)

Views: 669

Here is break #3 from WFLD Metromedia Channel 32's Comedy Festival program. This aired on local Chicago television Saturday, May 26th 1984. Includes:

Empire Carpets

Al Piemonte Car Dealerships (again)

1st Metropolitan Builders

WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - "Frankenstein" (Break #1, 1985)

Views: 2502

Here's Break #1 to another rare episode of Son of Svengoolie. This was number 302 where he was presenting the classic film "Frankenstein". Includes:

Sven bumper

Commercial: John M. Smyth's Homemakers (no Shelley Long)
Commercial: 1st City Builders
Commercial: Brown's Chicken - "Spice Squad"
Commercial: Front Row
WFLD Promo for Samson & Delilah

Sven sketch at the "Exchanges & Refunds" window

Commercial: S...

WFLD Metromedia 32 - Son of Svengoolie (Break 8, Show #249)

Views: 2005

Here is commercial break #8 of WFLD Metromedia Channel 32's Son of Svengoolie presenting the movie "The Eye Creatures". Includes:

Tostitos Tortilla Chips (Check out that vintage bag!)

Kinney Shoes

Breakstone's Sour Cream

Crystal Light

1st Metropolitan Builders

Son of Svengoolie bumper with Jim Barton

This aired on local Chicago television Saturday, April 28th 1984.

WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - "Frankenstein" (Break #5, 1985)

Views: 2361

Here's Break #5 to another rare episode of Son of Svengoolie. This was number 302 where he was presenting the classic film "Frankenstein". Includes:

Sven bumper

Commercial: Empire Carpets
Commercial: Dairy Queen - "Blizzard"
Commercial: First Metropolitan Builders
WFLD Promo for Cousteau: Mississippi (ending voiceover by Jim Barton)

Sven song time - "Just Built A Body" (Parody of "Just a Gigolo" by David Lee Roth)

WFLD Channel 32 - Son of Svengoolie - "Bride of Frankenstein" (Break #6, 1983)

Views: 1118

Here's the sixth commercial break for the Son of Svengoolie presentation of the 1935 film "Bride of Frankenstein" on WFLD Channel 32. Includes:

Commercial: 7-Eleven (7-11) - "Freedom's Waiting for You"

Commercial: Extra Absorbent White Cloud (previously seen in the fourth break)

Commercial: 1st Metropolitan Builders - showing the different kind of kitchens they build - "Building with Chicago for 30 Years"

Son of Svengool...