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Empire Carpets - "What's the Name?" (Commercial, 1980)
Views: 2538
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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Illinois Lottery Daily Game - "You Can Call It Fun" With Bill Saluga (Commercial #1, 1981)
Views: 2400
Here's a commercial for the Illinois Lottery - The Daily Game - featuring a carnival barker type character named Raymond J. Johnson Jr. played by Bill Saluga. (He was the "You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me..." guy.)
(There is also a slightly different version of the same commercial)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, February 1st 1981.
WMAQ Channel 5 - Editorial Outtakes, "Speak Out" and Others (1979-80)
Views: 9884
Here's a set of outtakes from WMAQ Channel 5's editorial director Dillon Smith, plus a few "Speak Out" vox pops thrown in for good measure.
Includes:
Dillon counting down and introducing a "Speak Out" segment
A young woman in the 18-20 age range speaking about the legal drinking age (as a debate was raging about whether to raise the minimum age from 18 to 21)
An older man speaking about "turning it over to Picaxo"
Anot...
WGN Channel 9 - Ray Rayner and His Friends - "A Visit From Buster Crabbe" (1980)
Views: 1863
Here's another cool clip from Ray Rayner salvaged from the dustbin of history! This one features a visit from the original "Flash Gordon," Mr. Buster Crabbe.
As the tape starts, Ray mentions that Buster had also played Buck Rogers at one time, and will be appearing the next day (March 29th) at 8:00pm and also on Sunday, March 30th at 2:00pm at the Northwest Federal Community Center, 4901 West Irving Park Road, and that recognized charities are asking for $3.00 donations, and t...
Jewel - "I Made It All By Myself" (Commercial, 1983)
Views: 4927
Here's a commercial for Jewel Food Stores about a girl who shops with her Mom to make her Dad a meal all by herself.
Features Shannon Grimes (now Shannon Bobillo) as the little girl.
As her husband Patrick recounts, "She and her sister did some modeling for print-ads and a bit of commercial acting just for fun when they were kids. They enjoyed it but both gave it up when they started high school and, apart from roles in school plays, neither pursued acting aft...
WCFL AM 1000 - "Hot Ticket" (Commercial, 1981)
Views: 1077
Here's another commercial for WCFL AM 1000 during its "This Is It" days, this one featuring a promotion in coordination with White Hen Pantry stores for a "Hot Ticket" scratch-off game where you could win $1000, or prizes like a Hawaiian vacation or a new car.
Voiceover by Dave Martin, who was WCFL's program director at the time. He later held the same job at WCLR, and voiced this commercial, too.
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Illinois Lottery Daily Game - "You Can Call It Fun" With Bill Saluga (Commercial #2, 1980)
Views: 2647
Here's another commercial for the Illinois Lottery - The Daily Game - featuring a carnival barker type character named Raymond J. Johnson Jr. played by Bill Saluga. (He was the "You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me..." guy.)
(This is a slight variation from a previously posted version)
This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, November 12th 1980.
WPWR Channel 50 - Nanny And The Professor - "1-900 Hall of Shame" (Opening & Break, 1991)
Views: 5340
Here is the opening to an airing of Nanny and the Professor (presenting the episode "The Astronomers") on WPWR Channel 50 and the commercial break that follows, with a sequence of hilariously bad and over-the-top 1-900 phone line commercials - each one more cheesy than the last.
Includes:
WPWR Star Trek: The Next Generation bumper promo (ending voiceover by ??)
Opening to Nanny and the Professor
Girl's Talk - 1-900-230-1700 ($...
GK Chevrolet Of Downers Grove - "General Motors Raises Prices" (Commercial, 1979)
Views: 2153
Here's another commercial for GK Chevrolet in Downers Grove. The last time we saw one it had a really bad technical difficulty moment in it.
GK Chevrolet is now Bill Kay Chevrolet - part of the Bill Kay Automotive Group - still at the same place, 1601 Ogden Avenue in Downers Grove - even has the same phone number, except the area code is now 630 of course. :-)
Ending voiceover by J...