Native NYC/Tristate Area Old School TV/Radio Ad Thread

Because I now have the jingle for “Sid’s Pants” in my head and can’t get it out.

Vaguely feel like JBRL may have posted that on social media.

Nope.

Did just find this personal ad in the Sep 20, 1982 issue of New York Magazine:

Barry • I'll Always remember the begin-
ning in "Sid's Pants." I loved you then
and more so now. Lisa

1994 Rangers/Devils game was on the TV last night and there were the large WIZ ads in the corner boards does this count (nb I remember watching these games on ESPN or whatever and having no idea what a Wiz was apart from the musical with Diana Ross et al)

Yes, that’s good.

(Ladies sing)
If you want style and selection
Come see our collection
Get into our pants - Sid’s Pants!

I didn't grow up in the area but I have a semi-fascination with Action Park (as I assume most people do).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwlvkUMsDgI

What about Raceway Park?

( Woody Woodpecker voice)
Ah-ha-ha Raceway Park!
(macho DJ voice)
Funny cars
Drag racing funny cars
Etc.

haha I just watched that one 2 seconds ago

my parents would never let me go to action park because they said it was a deathtrap

my parents were smart

xp oh my god lullaby of broadway forever ingrained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS6ki8D7zQA

I grew up about 20 miles from Action Park, but I never went.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81YRIYnWg-M

^this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6CdviTKMd0

What about the blue on black ( or vice versa) cameraman animation they used to show before movies on WABC?

.

Because at Syms, an educated consumer is our best customer.

i'm just going to assume this one wasn't nationwide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDQHQkuv9l0

i remember first hearing simon and garfunkel's "at the zoo" in ads for the bronx zoo but i couldn't find any of those ads

Don’t forget Eli Wallach talking about stickball for The Dime.

Found it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2es-lfRSDOI

Also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLgXH56bY1k

And this tiny variant of the first one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWxylm5RyVc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCGsqBn9pog

the njn jingle is burned into my brain from all those hours spent watching "doctor who"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL_jRYtOGGI

Don’t forget Eli Wallach talking about stickball for The Dime.

Raceway Park video as discussed upthread, although I mostly remember the radio version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhTrr16dW9k

kinda funny you made this thread since the entertainment at my friend's house the other night was 'we watch weird old regional commercials on youtube'. florida memories:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13s0J1wHhDs

thread is killing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL9psc1t1mY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rp2PNdnoLg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlBpl_T8Xl4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz8p6-LconE

And here’s a free minute from Pippin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo4Tz-4rkvs

Don’t twiddle your thumbs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF5izstBRrk

Have never been able to find video for this:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/studioz7/42461803065

Ah, doesn’t seem to work. Link is https://www.flickr.com/photos/studioz7/42461803065
leading to a print ad for the Kenny Rogers Quick Pickin’ ‘N Fun-Strummin’ Home Guitar Course.

Also assume that one was probably national.

i remember seeing this ad (the first one) constantly as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLY49fHkJQQ

oh, can't forget about this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYghEYb-gjE

i remember seeing this ad (the first one) constantly as well:

AND IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL

IS THE MILFORD PLAZA

this wound up being precisely parodied on SCTV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o98FxOza6-s

^^^When i was working at one bank and reviewing some broker statements, I sae some illiquid shares of Crazy Eddie in someone's account, like 20 years later. OMG that was one of the first scams that I remembered from my childhood.

this wound up being precisely parodied on SCTV

yeah, once it opened in Toronto I imagine they used the same ad.

(I've really never gotten over hating Mandy Patinkin since that ludicrous NOT MUCH TO ASSSSK FOR!)

Ha, forgot that was him.

Sorry if cud was posted as I can’t see but “we’re not candy, even though we look so fine and dandy…we are serious we could make you delirious. You should have a healthy fear of us” etc is my all time fave. Busta Rhymes as well.

Also Milford Plaza, beautiful Mt Airy Lodge…

Cud = it was.

Lots of these on this playlist:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI0pEchVX6bt0uWgXhFszvjOk69SupB98

But not this one, I don’t think, which I thought maybe one of you guys would post. All through, all done, sold!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrXlBcEZaho

There are a lot of these floating around:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT5Z80AD0Z4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVBPCy0hk-I

Have no memory of this commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF34YIKIi7E

The Magic Garden LP!!!

I actually saw thompson twins do a 2 or 3 song lipsync “set” at action park in maybe 83 or 84. They were like 25 feet from us like, on the sidewalk.

i went to action park once and got banged up/minor injury to my hand. it was fun as hell but the ride i got injured on was def unsafe.

also how the fuck did we get this far w/o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tsLBnsY60o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYvdzQY0Wk0

i _still_ sing 'you can do noth-thing people do that too' nonsensically in weird moments, i don't think anyone anywhere will ever know wtf i'm referencing, especially since i just found out i've had the jingle wrong for 35 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vt8BQnFknE

the second of the two above is permanently in my head so that if ever i see a chorus line mentioned, the ONLY response in my head is "gimmetheball gimmetheball gimmetheball...YEAH"! i don't even remember the first on tho.

the aint misbehavin ad was much longer lived and prevalent afaicr tho. didn't find it.

the all time greatest old school ny tv relic for me is the one which SCARED THE LIVING FUCKITY FUCK out of 5 year old me at the dawn of the 70s. it still triggers me a bit, really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok6uzndOmPA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3RtR2JVHEA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jLrx2StioI

Came across that Ritz Thrift Shop ad in the long playlist and decided to leave it for one of you to post.

the aint misbehavin ad was much longer lived and prevalent afaicr tho. didn't find it.

Since the Ain’t Misbehavin’ promo cannot be located, posting the entire show here in its place:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE8_MxJCsqg

Love that dagostino love that dag dag bag

Milford Plaza

Love that dagostino love that dag dag bag

Reflecting on the fact that I went to both Action Park and Raceway Park as a child and realizing...I might be white trash.

Anything is possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJKSm99cE58

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELebSr3rbMk

I spent many a weekend playing video games and riding go-carts here after my parents' divorce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJyuNTkA2qA

There is a page on Friendbook called WPIX Archives with some relevant stuff, such as
https://www.facebook.com/wpixarchives/videos/1701684756742689/

Wanted to mention that the Chiller Theater animated creeped me out too, probably a little more than even Gumby and Pokey or Davey and Goliath.

Had forgotten these last two were animated by the same guy. Also just found this interesting Davey and Goliath takeoff called He Was Once, not to derail my own thread.

Went to this dump, too (almost certainly at my little brother's urging):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu4--K0V0gU

Did you ever come to Queens to Adventurer’s Inn?

No, never heard of it until today. Looks like a real deathtrap.

https://placesnomore.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/adventurersinn/

i did go to wild west city, it was indeed a shithole

One thing about the Million Dollar Movie- thanks for posting that - is that back in the day I believe it was less common for television channels to show movies so the MMM would show all kinds of good stuff that young Marty Scorsese would watch like Powell and Pressburger’s The Red Shoes, but later they seemed to just be showing stuff the other stations didn’t want over and over again, such as Mighty Joe Young.

MDM not MMM

Okay, seems like they used to show the same movie twice a week or maybe even twice a day. Their mainstay studio source was RKO (Radio) Pictures, home of both Citizen Kane and Mighty Joe Young. Not sure now if this is where Young Marty S saw his first P&P pictures, even if Michael Powell called his autobiography Million Dollar Movie.

But he probably did:
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/17/archives/advertising-bounty-for-elusive-viewers.html

Okay, he definitely saw The Tales of Hoffmann there: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/nov/21/martin-scorsese-3d-interview-kermode

Beastie Boys Book mentions at least two of these. Carvel of course, but also the PIX! PIX! PIX! video game.

Also, my weird, non-hyphenated spelling of Tri-state in the thread title keeps making me want to read it as "Triste," although I see some others write it without the hyphen as well.

Those Carvel commercials played in Virginia too (at least).

last night over margs and tacos i looked at my nyc metro hometown buddy (ive been in CO for 28 yrs, him 31 yrs), and my spontaneous service, and his backhand winner, were simply:

me: ONE NEVER KNOWS *austin powers-y eyebrow arch*
him: *character correct* DO ONE?

then we practically came unseated in torchys laffing dapping like the two ancient gaffers we sadly increasingly resemble. aaaand our partners quickly sideeyed eyerolled ignored us.

it was the fucking best.

Ben Vereen is on WBGO right now and it is awesome.

Not NYC specific but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP7T8ZcLess

This thread is entering a singularity over at that WPIX FB page I mentioned where people are meeting Carol and Paula and singing Magic Garden songs to/with/at them at a Chiller Theater convention in NU.

https://www.facebook.com/wpixarchives/videos/1838562916247830/

https://www.facebook.com/204491723616/videos/845065722513141/UzpfSTE2Njg2OTIxMTY3MDg2MjA6MjQ1NzY1NDYzMTE0NTY5NA/

lol both my daughters just asked if we could drive out to meet carol and paula

no

Because they heard about it from you via this thread or through some other means such as the radio? Also how do they know who Carol and Paula are, is the show still being rerun?

Just learned its spelled Carole

from me via this thread!

they grew up with the dvd

Ah, forgot about that part of parenthood. Did the same with mine and Schoolhouse Rock, for example.

Perhaps you can find it in your heart to take them to another event at a later date.
https://www.caroleandpaula.com/

these vests are harshing the sexual stirrings that made me such a fan

OMG

I wonder if I can get anyone to go with me to see Carole and Paula when they come to Woodstock.

Couldn't remember the name of Cap'n Jack McCarthy and for a bit was thinking he covered the Parade on Thanksgiving and not St. Patrick's Day. D'oh!!

Holy shit I just had a Proustian moment when clicking on that Milford Plaza commercial way at the top.

https:/www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=70&boardid=41&threadid=16536

Okay, he definitely saw /The Tales of Hoffmann/ there: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/nov/21/martin-scorsese-3d-interview-kermode🕸

In New York, there was a television show called the Million Dollar Movie, which would show a film twice a night for a week. And so one week it would be Citizen Kane. Edited. With commercials. And with the "News on the March" sequence missing. Ha! That was the first time I'd ever seen it! Then, you know, you'd get The Third Man, with half the film cut out. But one of the films they showed was Powell and Pressburger's The Tales of Hoffmann. And it was cut down to about an hour and 40 minutes or so, black-and-white, with commercials. And it had a quality like The Red Shoes – a darkness, and a humour

Let me see if I can fix post before last.
Attempts to Inspire Regional Pride That Actually Work On You

Looks like the guy who played Bozo on WPIX back in the day just passed.

Nobody Beats the WIZ jingle is a glaring omission.

"(Ain't nobody gonna beat the WIZ)"

Also:

"Leave off the last S for Savings" (dial a mattress)
"All you have to do is whistle at PC Richards"
"Someone made a store just for meeee (Food Emporium, Food Emporium)"

"The magic, the mystery, the memory will live forever"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNZTCQCA-Kc

This just popped in my head, don’t think we mentioned yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhvwUJghNiw

“You’ll love it at Levitz.”

https://nypost.com/2019/01/02/shoprite-kicks-can-can-girls-ad-to-the-curb/

The Wiz was mentioned way upthread, remember looking for a video but couldn’t pick one that seemed canonical.

So it is, as well it should be. Not sure how I missed that.
I couldn't find a video that seemed canonical, either.

Like they all seemed from too late in the game, all the ones I could find anyway.

Don’t remember this place having TV ads but posting this link anyway. Seem to remember it lasting longer than this date.

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/11/27/archives/jimmys-music-world-scratched-high-hopes-of-jimmys-music-world.html

Did find this Korvettes ad though, which I don’t remember, but it does seem to accurately represent the store:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7i5KdtfJM8

And another one for the fashion wing, The Other Korvettes, of which I have no memory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7eueSrwaEQ

There are a couple of early ones on Youtube now but they're not representative samples.
This one has the older jingle, the later jingle I had in mind was more ostentatious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc0LZGOoFSA

Finally, this one features the Korvettes department I spent the most time in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I7l-jntCeQ

Korvette's was before my time. I remember the site of the Douglaston Pkwy location as Toys R Us and its record department as Movie World.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Kc-7CYvTo

Radio ad for JGE, with interesting write-up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIKyB8Ufh7Q

Don’t know what to say about this roundup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2dS9eOzA2Y

Posting without watching the whole thing, twenty minutes of ads on WPIX:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhOjGwgPnq8

Jerry's Disco!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TmZ7EyYWAZg

Yeah, was wondering whether we had that yet.

More ads from WPIX:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s56O-sKEwPs

Not local but all from 1977:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zzRp-jxx0E

There’s a bunch more anthologies of late 70s commercials that I will refrain from posting for now.

Playworld

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e3b00NZ3se8

Randazzo's
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EjoMyrhMgGE

Okay, another bunch of WPIX spots, from November 10th, 1978:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0nAKUTbvLs

Lenny's. Take yer goomah.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kh_oIeOgO1s

B-b-but how come it doesn’t have Rocky Graziano in it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJob1BNjIXQ

Watching those extended blocks of commercials is some serious La jetée-level time travel stuff.

RIP Sy Sperling.

Ok I’m three vids in and just remembered every word to the mt airy lodge song. This is already my fave thread.

Omg the Dagastino commercial. Aww I’m getting crazy nostalgic now.

He’s the Listener DJ, I’m the Listener Rapper (James Redd and the Blecchs)
Posted: February 17, 2020 at 2:58:10 AM


“You’ll love it at Levitz.”

Popped into my head before I even clicked play.

Ok did I miss it or did you all really forget about


https://youtu.be/tDfsr1vvqy4

Omg that Lenny’s commercial is slightly before my time but it is so good. Ahhhh.

Omg
Omg

Apex Tech!!


https://youtu.be/eStm731Emdc

I never actually went there but were Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom commercials aired a lot? I remember those and the Action Park ones.

Jerry and Anne did these for years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTt1uuA2rnI

Ha that was great.

I’m still stuck on the Dagostino one. I remember as a kid on Long Island thinking that it was such a real city supermarket. Years later I transferred to NYU and was housed in a midtown hotel during my first semester. The day I moved in my mom took me to a Dagostino to get groceries and I remember thinking - Wow I really live in the city now! Lol.

Omg
Omg

Apex Tech!!

Jerry and Anne did these for years

There’s still a Lenny’s Clam Bar in Howard Beach!

vicarious enjoyment at ENBB slamming these all at once

Indeed. Hoping she saved some for today.

https://www.facebook.com/wpixarchives/videos/924254468002974/

I can't help but feel this is undermining all of our hard work

then again I could watch Scooter bloopers all night long

Not sure how local this was, but RIP anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTt1uuA2rnI

In case we missed it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0hC0BzuD28

This is interesting:
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/24/archives/advertising-rca-shifts-color-tv-strategy.html

Many spokesmen on radio and TV commercials have become celebrities, particularly when they are the principal owners of the businesses they talk about. If you don't believe it, catch the “Midday Live!” program on Channel 5 today at 11:30 A.M.

For in addition to what may be considered typical talk show guests—such as Rita Moreno and Jerry Stiller of the new film, “The Ritz”—five “stars” of the world of commercials are slated to appear. They are Frank Perdue of Perdue Inc., Tom Carvel of the Carvel Corporation, Sam Goody of the recordstore chain bearing his name, Leo Wiser of the Automobile Club of America and Sy Syms of Syrns clothiers.

What's the story?

HI DERE!

https://www.pix11.com/entertainment/carole-and-paula-announce-new-magic-garden-animated-series-in-the-works

will watch

Figured

:)

Thank heaven for 7-Eleven
And our Labor Day of Love

I guess that’s supposed to start with “Oh” and I can’t find any intranetz reference to the second part but it seemed to bubble up from some deep cranial fold and out through the brainwaves.

WPIX posted this Jordache Look spot with an "available at Gimbel's!" tag.https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=486586959515543