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Aldi Foods (Partial Commercial, 1980?)
Views: 2708
Here's an incomplete commercial (missing first 10 seconds I believe) for Aldi Foods (we also called it Aldi's) but I include it here because it has some neat shots of Chicago-suburbs bungelow-style houses. Parts of it almost look like it could have been on my block back about 30 years ago.
Featuring actress Margaret Travolta as the wife, and actor Robert J. ("Bob") Jones as the husband.
Notes: Margaret Travolta is the Sister of Actor John Travolta and has appear...
WGN Channel 9 - Garfield Goose And Friends (Ending & Break, 1975)
Views: 9853
38 years ago today, this aired!
Here's the ending moments and a full commercial break from the long-running series Garfield Goose And Friends on WGN Channel 9, hosted by Frazier Thomas. This is significant as it is the only known color off-air recorded footage from the show yet found!
This was recorded at Ridgewood High School in Norridge (by whom, has been lost to time but we've narrowed it down to about four adults) on 3/4" U-matic videotape usin...
Chicago White Sox - "Na-Na Hey-Hey Goodbye" (Commercial, 1978)
Views: 5308
Here's a memorable commercial for the White Sox - featuring fans singing "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" by Steam, first popularized during White Sox games by team organist, Nancy Faust. Featuring a young Kathy Griffin (in her first acting job, years before making it big as a comedian and TV personality) wearing braids and Sox hat and playing a kazoo, all the way at the far left of the screen in the second row around :15 (among the attendant Sox fans), and Theodore "Ted" Noose as the traffi...
WCIU Channel 26 - The Dennis Green Show (Part 4 - Last, 1982)
Views: 1380
Here is Part 4, the last part, of a (mostly complete) episode of The Dennis Green Show on WCIU Channel 26. Dennis Green was the coach of the Northwestern Wildcats - the college football team of Northwestern University. Co-hosted by Duane Dow - voice of the Wildcats.
Featuring, among others, Coach Francis Peay (at that time an assistant coach) who was head football coach at Northwestern University from 1986 to 1991.
Also includes commercials for Old Style beer a...
WLAK FM 94 - "The Place to Relax" (Commercial, 1980)
Views: 3677
Here's a commercial for the "beautiful" music of WLAK - The Lake FM 94 - "The Place to Relax", which played a lot of instrumental easy-listening songs.
This station is now known as WLIT-FM (93.9 "My FM"). Each November and December, they torture Chicagoans with non-stop holiday music.
Featuring actor Patrick O'Neal (who starred in my favorite Columbo episode in 1978, "Make Me A Perfect Murder") (O'Neal also did this same type of ad (and with the same slog...
CBS/ABC/NBC Networks - "Reagan Assassination Attempt Coverage" (Part 2, 1981)
Views: 2558
Here is some more news coverage from the CBS, ABC and NBC networks, recorded on the day of the President Reagan assassination attempt - 30 years ago today. Includes:
Tape comes in as CBS Anchor Dan Rather talks of a "partial collapse," and then turns to Columbia-Presbyterian's Dr. Keith Reemtsma who gives a brief medical explanation.
Rather then informs of an update from White House Correspondent Lesley Stahl, quoting an unnamed doctor at the George Washington U...
Prospect Federal Savings - "Mining for Check$avers" (Commercial, 1982)
Views: 1021
Here's a commercial for Prospect Federal Savings, with a gold prospector describing the bank's "Check$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...
WCLR 102 FM - "Movin' Easy" (Commercial, 1983)
Views: 2609
Here is a commercial for WCLR 102 FM in Chicago. (Now 101.9 WTMX - The Mix) The Multichron Calculator Watch (Commercial Offer, 1983)
Views: 2793 Here's a commercial offer for The Multichron Calculator Watch - the unbelievable watch with 21 different features! You have the power to Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, Use Memory, and Save a Constant. It's also a Stopwatch, Lap-Timer, shows the HOUR OF THE DAY (!), the Minute, Seconds, AM/PM, has 24 Hour Time, has a Calendar with Month, Date, Day of the Week, and a Night Light! Can you believe it? It also has a Daily Alarm, a Weekly Alarm, and an Hourly Chime. Lastly it has "Feature 21...
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
