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A&P / S&H Green Stamp Stores - "How Do Tough Customers Get More?" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 1211

Here's a commercial for A&P / S&H Green Stamp Stores, featuring interviews with housewives Joannie Rex and Paula Sepanski who offer testimonials about the advantages of shopping at such stores.

Voiceover by ??

"You get much more at a Green Stamp Store."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 28th 1980.

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CTA Monthly Pass - "Don't Pass It Up" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 1868

Here's a commercial for the CTA Monthly Pass, with a cowboy on the bus (a GM "New Look") "headin' 'em off at the pass" and Chicago Bears players on the "L" who "drop back and throw a pass"; followed by a pretty lady clerk inside one of the over 100 sales locations where CTA monthly passes are sold for just $30.

Featuring local actress Paula Elser as the CTA Booth babe, Stan Adams as the guy in the green hardhat, Karl Schueneman as the tall construction worker with moustache, Pa...

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Diet Delight (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 507

Here's a commercial for Diet Delight, with a jogger out on a morning run advising how Diet Delight is part of a daily diet and exercise routine, with 40% fewer calories than regular canned fruit. A can of Diet Delight Cling Peaches is shown in the course of this ad.

I remember this product primarily based on its Wacky Packages sticker. :-)

"When you get seriou...

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Empire Carpets - "What's the Name?" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 2549

Here's another early commercial for Empire Carpets, featuring Lynn Hauldren as the Empire Carpet Man, installing a carpet for a Mr. Kimstead who'd just gotten the idea to have carpets installed for $6.95 a yard just three days before, doesn't have to make an installment payment for 60 days, and got a free Bissell rug shampooer after buying two rooms of carpeting - but has constant trouble remembering the name and phone number. With the now-famous "588-2300" jingle at the end.

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FlaXoap - Original & New Liquid - "Cleans Wood Safely" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 423

Here's a brief commercial for FlaXoap, in original form and new liquid bottle. Cleans wood safely (and, in the case of the new liquid, "it pours").

Available at: Dominick's, Centrella, A&P.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 28th 1980.

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Grover's Oyster Bar - "Soon to Be Famous" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 2167

Here's a commercial for Grover's (Soon to Be Famous) Oyster Bar, advertised as "the only restaurant in Chicago that nobody ever steals anything from." With illustration slides. At 2256 West Irving Park Road in Chicago and 5646 St. Charles Road in Berkeley, IL.

Voiceover by ??

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 28th 1980.

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Count Chocula & Franken Berry Cereals - "Super Bubble Offer" (Commercial, 1980)

Views: 949

Here's a commercial for Count Chocula and Franken Berry cereals from General Mills which starts off with the Count and the monster shooting baskets in a game of basketball, and featuring an offer for four pieces of Super Bubble bubble gum in specially marked boxes of Count Chocula, Franken Berry and Boo Berry.

(c) 1980 General Mills, Inc.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 28th 1980.

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WGN Channel 9 - Donahue - "Adult Kids Living at Home" (Opening, 1980)

Views: 2069

Here's the opening moments of an installment of Donahue on WGN Channel 9 which examined adult kids living at home (this was some twelve years before Jerry Springer's look at "adult babies"). Includes:

Station ID bumper slide with drawing of sun and moon sitting down watching TV and message "Open for Business 24 Hours a Day" (set in Lubalin Graph Bold - a serif version of ITC's famed Avant Garde fon...

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WGN Channel 9 - "Energy Conservation" (Editorial, 1980)

Views: 1153

Here's an Editorial on WGN Channel 9, given by Corporate Vice President Alexander Field.

The topic is about energy conservation, in which he cites a recent report by the Highway Users Federation that asserts driving is down over the last eight months, and explains the various factors involved.

Voiceover by Len Johnson.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 28th 1980.