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Dominick's Finer Foods - "Pepsi" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 3084

Here is another commercial for Dominicks offering some Pepsi products in glass bottles!

Voiceover by Lloyd Hanson.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, February 29th 1980.

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

Views: 1561

Here is an Empire Carpets commercial circa 1984.

Did they just kill that old lady?

Meystel's Warehouse (Commercial #1, 1985?)

Views: 1083

Here's a commercial in Spanish for Meystel's Warehouse on WCIU Channel 26. Located at 1222 South Wabash Avenue.

"Since 1923"

Not sure when this aired but probably around 1985.

Meystel's Warehouse (Commercial #2, 1985?)

Views: 1033

Here's another commercial in Spanish for Meystel's Warehouse on WCIU Channel 26. Located at 1222 South Wabash Avenue.

"Since 1923"

Not sure when this aired but probably around 1985.

Meystel's Warehouse (Commercial #3, 1985?)

Views: 1211

Here's one more commercial in Spanish for Meystel's Warehouse on WCIU Channel 26. Located at 1222 South Wabash Avenue.

"Since 1923"

Not sure when this aired but probably around 1985.

Hooray for Reading - "The Glad Man" (#1, 1979)

Views: 578

Here is the first in a series of 10, minute-long shorts (or interstitials as they are sometimes known) created by Field Communications for children called Hooray for Reading. These would air during the commercial breaks on kid's shows and cartoons.

These featured kids briefly doing some other activity besides reading (the "hook") and then describing a book they like using a brief dramatization of a part in the story.

This one is based on the book "The Glad Man" ...

WFLD Channel 32 - Son Of Svengoolie - "Dracula" (Song & Break #1, 1981)

Views: 4511

Just unearthed some more vintage Sven - Here's the song and commercial break from Son of Svengoolie episode #122 showing the original "Dracula" on WFLD Channel 32. This is actually the earliest off-air recording yet found of a Son of Svengoolie episode. (There are earlier bits, but those are from studio masters, or are just promos - not from an off-air episode.) It's too bad more of this stuff hasn't turned up yet.

Unfortunately, the person who recorded the show did it in ...

Empire Carpets - "Us And Them" (Commercial, 1983)

Views: 2788

Here's another commercial for Empire Carpets.

"And who knows which is which and who is who..."

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

WBMX "Progressive" FM 103 (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 4615

Here's a saucy commercial for WBMX - "Progressive" FM 103.

The call letters WBMX (standing for Black Music EXperience), were originally assigned to 102.7 on the FM dial in Oak Park/Chicago Illinois from 1973 to 1988. (That station frequency is now home to R&B station WVAZ - better known as V-103). In 1991, the call letters WBMX were assigned to 98.5 on the FM dial in the Boston area.

Contains some quick clips of the Chicago White Sox.

This aired o...