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Lincoln Carpeting - "Huckster" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 1644

Here's another commercial for Lincoln Carpeting, this one featuring a "huckster" salesman type character.

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

Howard Pontiac - "Advice From Smother" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 2662

Here's a commercial for Howard Pontiac featuring Howard's smother - er, I mean mother. I guess she wasn't baking cookies for him yet.

Howard Pontiac - Elmhurst - on Grand Avenue.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, September 6th 1980.

Hooray for Reading - "Life on a Plastic Planet?" (#7, 1979)

Views: 1345

Here is the seventh 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 "Is There Lif...

Victory Auto Wreckers (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 4686

Here's another Victory Auto Wreckers commercial variation.

Featuring Jim Ostrander and Jose "Louie" Arroyo.

Voiceover by Carl Greyson.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, October 21st 1981.

Q 101 FM Radio (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 1713

Here is a commercial for Q-101 FM radio in Chicago.

"They don't play The Dead Boys, The Flesh Eaters, The Germs, or Let's Lynch the Landlord."

This commercial aired on local Chicago TV in April of 1982.

Lincoln Carpeting - "Elementary..." (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 1655

Here's another Lincoln Carpeting commercial featuring a Sherlock Holmes theme and which has the full jingle.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, July 24th 1982.

Old MacDonald's Farm (Commercial, 1977)

Views: 3779

Here's a commercial for Old MacDonald's Farm - part of the 3 Worlds of Fun in Dundee, Illinois. (The others being Coney Island and Santa's Village)

Featuring Tommy Lasorda as Old MacDonald. (kidding)

With Merri Dee doing the voiceover.

This aired on local Chicago TV in September of 1977.

Venture - "One Stop Toy Stop" (Commercial, 1984)

Views: 1272

Here's another Christmas commercial for Venture featuring more offerings from their toy department.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, December 10th 1984.

WFYR 103 1/2 FM - "Blah Blah" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 2563

(NOTE - this clip was originally broadcast in color but was recorded in Black & White)

Here's a commercial for WFYR 103 and a Half FM.

"Incredible Music. Credible Information."

This aired on local Chicago TV in January 1979.