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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.

Time-Out Games by Mego (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 940

Here's a commercial for Time-Out hand held electronic games by Mego.

Titles were Toss-Up, The Exterminator, Flag Man, and Fireman Fireman.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, October 29th 1980.

Jewel - "Steak & Ice Cream" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 3319

Here's another commercial for Jewel featuring sales on steaks and Yummy Ice Cream.

"Come to Jewel for the quality, you'll come back for the - price."

Voiceover by Joe Slattery.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, April 18th 1980.

McDonald's - "Atari Game Promotion" (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 3186

Here is a commercial for McDonalds featuring their Atari Game promotion.

This commercial aired on local Chicago TV early Saturday, between 12 and 1am, on September 18th, 1982.

Lincoln Carpeting (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 3837

Here's another commercial for Lincoln Carpeting - featuring legendary voice over announcer Al Parker (the voice of WLS-TV for most of the 1980's) - but who's the lady?

This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 1st 1981.

Hooray for Reading - "The Accident" (#5, 1979)

Views: 885

Here is the fifth in a series of ten, 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 Accident" ...

WLUP - The Loop FM 98 - "Rock On Chicago" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 4198

Here's another cool commercial for WLUP - The Loop - FM 98 (97.9).

Features that original hot siren Loop chick - Lorelei.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, April 21st 1981 at a little before 11:00pm.

Screamin' Wheels Roller Rink (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 5267

Here's a commercial for Screamin' Wheels Roller Rink located at 6119 Melton Road in Gary, Indiana featuring their "All Night Ramble".

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, July 4th 1981.

WLS Channel 7 - AM Chicago - "Mike Royko" (Part 1, 1982)

Views: 2073

Here's Part 1 of an episode of AM Chicago on WLS Channel 7 featuring famed sports reporter and anchor Tim Weigel as host (were they going through a different host each week at this point?). This was at the point when the show had been reduced to only a half-hour in length. The guest on this episode was legendary Chicago newspaper columnist and author, Mike Royko, who was 49 years old at the time. Includes:

No opening credits or theme song, although the show is complet...