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Santa's Village - "Ticket To Fun" (Commercial, 1979)

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Here's another classic commercial for The Three Worlds of Santa's Village in Dundee, IL.

This aired on local Chicago TV early Wednesday, August 1st 1979.

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WYCC Channel 20 - "First Broadcast" (Part 2, 1983)

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Here's Part 2 of the first broadcast from WYCC Channel 20, which arose from the ashes of the previous occupant of that dial position, WXXW, which had left the air in 1974. Featured in this clip are Program Director Elynne Chaplik and Oscar Shabat, Chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago. Includes:

WYCC Program Director Elynne Chaplik (later Elynne Chaplik-Aleskow, the station's guiding light through the 1990's), welcomes people to the "new" Channel 20 with a profile on the Cit...

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Berens Lincoln-Mercury (Commercial, 1986)

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Here is a commercial for Berens Lincoln-Mercury from 1986. They were located at 6221 North Western Avenue in Chicago.

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Zayre (Commercial, 1981)

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Here's a commercial for Venture's red-headed stepchild - Zayre.

Or, as my mom used to call it - "Zayres".

This commercial aired on local Chicago television on Friday, August 28nd 1981.

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Coleco - Adam - "Is This Legal?" (Commercial, 1984)

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Here's another commercial for the Adam Computer by Coleco.

Features actress Lori Loughlin of "Full House" fame.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, January 16th 1984.

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WBBM Channel 2 - New Year's Eve: Chicago Style (Part 1, 1979/1980)

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Here's Part 1 of "New Year's Eve: Chicago Style" - a special on WBBM Channel 2. Unfortunately, the recording starts during a commercial break and we miss the first 10 minutes or so of the broadcast - still, lots of local fun in this one. :-)

Gary Deeb (the Tribune's TV-radio critic at the time) wrote in his column for Monday, December 31st 1979 - "The Local Line: Speaking of New Year's Eve, if you want to laugh yourself into convulsions, tune to WBBM-Ch. 2 about 11:40pm fo...

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Emergency Broadcast System Test (1983)

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Here's a test of the Emergency Broadcast System (or as they were referred to here, "Emergency Broadcasting System") that aired on WLS Channel 7. The text was modified somewhat from this 1981 EBS test on WMAQ Channel 5:

"This is a test. This station is conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcasting [sic] System. This is only a test . . .

"This is a test of the Emergency Broadcasting [...

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Screaming Yellow Theater (Svengoolie) - "Larry Lujack" - Bedtime Quotation (Closing, 1973)

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Here's another segment from Screaming Yellow Theater - the original Svengoolie, which aired on WFLD Channel 32 from 1970-1973. Svengoolie was played by Jerry G. Bishop. By this point, if the clapboard is of any indication, the SYT title had been eschewed in favor of Svengoolie.

This closing segment is from Show #61 (according to the clapboard), with guest Larry "Superjock" Lujack. The recording date was April 11th 1973.

In this segm...

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Wisconsin Dells (Commercial, 1981)

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Here's a commercial for Wisconsin Dells.

This aired on local Chicago TV in mid-August 1981.