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

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?

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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

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