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Fencl-Tufo's Chevy City - "Blaaaaaah!" (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 2270

Here's a pretty funny commercial for Fencl-Tufo's Chevy City featuring a goofy Dracula puppet that kind of looks and sounds a bit like Mike Toomey's Greg the Vampire character on WGN Morning News.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, May 9th 1979 at around 4:15pm.

Shutan Camera (Commercial, 1979)

Views: 1123

Here's another commercial for Shutan Camera featuring an outside shot of their old location at 153 West Wacker Drive - on Wacker Drive at LaSalle Street.

"Since 1918"

Voiceover by Al Parker.

This commercial aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, November 4th 1979.

Imagic - Atlantis (Commercial, 1982)

Views: 1231

Here is a commercial for the Imagic video game "Atlantis" for the Atari 2600 and Intellivision. Featuring the Imagic Design Lab.

"Created by experts for experts."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Saturday, December 18th 1982.

House Party (Partial Record Offer, 1978?)

Views: 1237

Here's an incomplete record offer for House Party from Candlelite Music.

Main voiceover by ??. Ending voiceover by Jack Reynolds.

This likely aired on local Rockford, IL TV around 1978. (not Chicago, but close enough)

Osco Drug - "Save the Osco Way" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 1857

Here's a commercial for Osco Drug which shows how customers can now save on generic equivalents of widely-used brand name prescription drugs.

This commercial is in the same campaign as this one.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, October 19th 1978.

Pizza Hut - "Not Jamie Lee Curtis" (Commercial, 1977)

Views: 2908

Here's a vintage Pizza Hut ad, which apparently does not feature a pre-Halloween fame Jamie Lee Curtis, as much as I may have thought. ;-)

I'm referring to the girl in the red turtleneck - I thought it really looks like her.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, October 11th 1977.

Gonnella Bread - "Marches On!" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 1716

Here's a commercial for Gonnella Bread which starts off having sort of a newsreel feel to it, and then shows little flags of many different countries all sticking out of a loaf of Gonnella bread with toothpicks.

Voiceover sounds a bit like Orson Welles, but likely not him.

"The only bread in the world with diplomacy, benefits, and advantages for all."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Wednesday, January 18th 1978.

WCIU Channel 26 - "Spanish Blue Squares" (Station ID, 1985?)

Views: 1412

Here's another station ID for WCIU Channel 26 given in Spanish.

Not sure when this aired but probably around 1985.

WBKB Channel 7 - Midwest Sports Special - "Inside the World of Hockey with the Chicago Blackhawks" (Part 1, 1964)

Views: 3772

Here's Part 1 of Midwest Sports Special - "Inside the World of Hockey with the Chicago Blackhawks," as aired on WBKB (now WLS) Channel 7. The host of this in-depth look at the team was Frank Sweeney. This was transferred from the original film, and thus has no commercials.

This part begins with the old-style academy leader which counted by feet rather than frames (as opposed to the more common SMPTE Universal film leader). The program itself begins with some shots of ...