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WLS Channel 7 - The Day After (Commercial Break #3, 1983)

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Here is Commercial Break #3 during The Day After on WLS Channel 7 - an ABC Theater telemovie about the effects of a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States. Includes:

Commodore Computers

Dancing Madness - from K-Tel records

Arm & Hammer Extra Strength Carpet and Room Deodorizer

Movie Trailer for TV - Never Say Never Again

Dial-A-Lash mascara by Maybelline

Good Morning America promo w...

Prospect Federal Savings - "Mining for Check$avers" (Commercial, 1982)

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Here's a commercial for Prospect Federal Savings, with a gold prospector describing the bank's "Check$aver" N.O.W. account (which pays 5-1/4% interest compounded daily and is insured to $100,000) as he's looking for gold in the lake.

What's the deal with banks and prospectors back then?

Prospect Federal was located at 555 East Butterfield Road (across from Yorktown Mall) in Lombard, and tw...

The Eight Days of Chanukah - "Super Nosh" with Jack Klugman (1979)

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Here's another short piece on one of the aspects of the eight days of Chanukah (or do you say Hanukkah), with actor Jack Klugman (a.k.a. Oscar Madison of the TV series version of The Odd Couple, and also the title character of Quincy, M.E. that was airing on the NBC network at the time of this segment) describing the various foods served during the holidays, including goose stuffed with dumplings; kugel (a pudding containing noodles, cheese and raisins); latkes (potato pancakes)...

WBMX "Progressive" FM 103 (Commercial, 1980)

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Here's a saucy commercial for WBMX - "Progressive" FM 103.

The call letters WBMX (standing for Black Music EXperience), were originally assigned to 102.7 on the FM dial in Oak Park/Chicago Illinois from 1973 to 1988. (That station frequency is now home to R&B station WVAZ - better known as V-103). In 1991, the call letters WBMX were assigned to 98.5 on the FM dial in the Boston area.

Contains some quick clips of the Chicago White Sox.

This aired o...

M&M's Plain & Peanut Chocolate Candies - "Deck the Halls with M&M's" (Commercial, 1981)

Views: 1384

Here's a commercial for M&M's plain and peanut chocolate candies, with a specially made jingle set to the tune of the Christmas carol "Deck the Halls." Features scenes of a couple pulling bags of M&M's from Christmas stockings, a gathering of people at a table and a woman surprised to see the clear bowl empty, a man outside seeing a jar of M&M's inside a mailbox, two people coming out of a department store after Christmas shopping, and a certain man with a beard in a red suit with white trim...

WCLR 102 FM - "Movin' Easy" (Commercial, 1983)

Views: 2605

Here is a commercial for WCLR 102 FM in Chicago. (Now 101.9 WTMX - The Mix)

Movin' Easy with Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, Barry Manilow, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel, Radar Weather (I love their first album!), Johnny Mathis, Dionne Warwick, Concise News, Neil Diamond, The Beatles, Clear Traffic Watch (sell outs), Frank Sinatra, and Chicago.

Voiceover by Dave Martin, who before this had also worked at WCFL and voiced

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