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Prospect Federal Savings - "Mining for Check$avers" (Commercial, 1982)
Views: 1022
Here's a commercial for Prospect Federal Savings, with a gold prospector describing the bank's "Check$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...
WBMX "Progressive" FM 103 (Commercial, 1980)
Views: 4609
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...
WCLR 102 FM - "Movin' Easy" (Commercial, 1983)
Views: 2610
Here is a commercial for WCLR 102 FM in Chicago. (Now 101.9 WTMX - The Mix) NBC Network - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - "The Royal Wedding" (Excerpt, 1981)
Views: 2827 In commemoration of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, here are the opening moments of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson where the 1981 Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana was the main theme. Includes:
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
Excerpt of promo slide for upcoming outdoor "Shakespeare in the Park" presentation of "The Taming of the Shrew" at the Geneva Summer Theatre Festival, Thursday-Sunday through August 2nd (voiceover by Ed Grennan)
Opening of The Tonight...
WTTW Channel 11 - Children's Fair - "Villa Alegre" (Opening, 1981)
Views: 17562
Here is the opening and first minute (before the tape ended) of an episode of the kid's show "Villa Alegre" (Happy Village) on WTTW Channel 11. Villa Alegre was the first national bilingual (Spanish/English) program in the United States. It was similar to another bilingual children's show of the era, Carrascolendas.
Also includes a sponsorship slide for Kraft at the beginning as well as the "Children's Fair" slide with voiceovers by Marty Robinson.
Fea...
McDonald's - "Play and Win" (Commercial, 1982)
Views: 2056
Here's another commercial for McDonald's promoting their Atari "Scratch & Win" cards, with dramatized examples of past winners: the Baldwin family (presumably not including Alec or Billy) with an Atari home computer center (playing video games on the TV screen); Mike Jr. teaching his dad how to use the Atari 800 home computer; and the Murray family playing and winning an Atari home video game. Must be 13 or older to play. Expires October 22nd 1982 - or as long as supplies last. Void where...
WFLD Channel 32 - PM Magazine Promo and Illinois Lottery Drawing (01-25-86)
Views: 3030
Here is an (incomplete) PM Magazine Promo & Illinois Lottery Drawing from January 25th, 1986. This was shown during WFLD Channel 32's Son of Svengoolie presenting the movie "Supersonic Man". This was his last show, #334. :-(
The announcer during the lottery drawing is none other than WGN's own Dean Richards.
There's that background music during the lottery drawing. You can also hear it in a 1984 Lincoln Tech commercial and a 1984 WFLD Lottery Drawing that I poste...
NBC Network - Daffy Duck's Easter Show (Last Break & Ending, 1980)
Views: 2222
Here is the last commercial break and ending credits for Daffy Duck's Easter Show on the NBC Network. Includes:
Daffy Duck's Easter Show bumper.
Tang with Florence Henderson.
Cheetos with comedian Jonathan Winters (ending voiceover by Howard Reig)
Daffy Duck's Easter Show return bumper.
Ending of Daffy Duck's Easter Show.
End Credits of Daffy Duck's Easter Show with voiceover (by Mel Brandt)
WBBM Channel 2 - It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Opening & Break, 1980)
Views: 2280
Here's the opening for that perennial Halloween classic, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" as aired on WBBM Channel 2. Includes:
WBBM bumper promo for Rosemary's Baby - "Saturday Night, at 11" (voiceover by ??)
A CBS Special Presentation spinning graphic
Opening of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" including sponsorship notice from McDonald's (voiceover by ??)
Commercial: McDonald's - "Ronald McDonald in