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

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