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

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.