LOCAL NEW YORK CITY COMMERCIALS of the 70's and 80's!
Here’s a compilation for anyone who grew up in the New York City area in the 70’s and 80’s. It’s two hours of NYC area local commercials of that era. It would make a great, utterly unique Christmas gift, if you know anyone from Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, the Bronx, or much of Connecticut or New Jersey.
This DVD (or VHS tape if you're really old-school) features dozens of long-forgotten, low-budget gems, the kind you once enjoyed--or endured--during late-night horror movies or afternoon cartoons. Some of these commercials can be found on my other collections, but most are unique to this one. If you fondly recall how bad some local commercials were, there are some doozies on here! There are also lots of commercials with scenes of the majestic World Trade Center twin towers, including one touting the observation deck. Having grown up on Long Island, I can tell you that watching these can be bittersweet. You may want to take that into consideration if planning to give this as a gift…
Video quality and audio quality vary throughout the tape, but I try to ensure that my collections are highly watchable, not like the many headache-inducing comps I’ve encountered in my years of collecting. If there’s a crummy-looking ad here and there, it’s because I feel the nostalgia value justifies its inclusion. Check it out...
4/19/15 note: I'm currently finishing up another NYC compilation crated from the exclusive tapes I've acquired in the last year or so (with perhaps enough left over for yet another), mainly 80's but with some ads, movie opens and bumps from earlier. I'm also still in the extensive planning stages for a "sign-on to sign-off" compilation, incorporating these local NYC ads and segments plus the many others I have acquired since I created this comp. It will play in order, from a WPIX sign-on to cartoon openings, syndicated show promos, local station movie opens, evening news segments, terrible late night ads and finally sign-offs. (Of course, there's an annoying Emergency Broadcast System break in there too.) I'm just getting started on the actual assembling of the pieces, from the best quality source material I have, so check back in a few months...
WNEW-AM- Ted Brown telling a lame joke.
WOR 4 O’clock Movie bumper - "Strategic Air Command will return."
Commander Oil - Remember the trucks with the German Shepherds on top? This ad's a little garbled, but worth it.
Two Guys
Dial Santa - Peter Billingsley.
Korvette’s
WKTU
Playworld
WABC 4:30 movie bumper
Childworld
Sasson – NY Rangers Phil Esposito, Ron DuGuay (?) and two others, skating around like a bunch of chooches.
Ritz Thrift Shop (partial) - "You don't need a million to look like a million." "Oh, thank you..."
WPLJ - (1978)
WABC-AM - (1978)
Magic Garden LP - Paula and Carole hawking a record, plus the poster and markers.
Cross at the Green PSA
Macy’s Thanksgiving
WNEW NJ Newsbreak card
WNEW Lucy card
WNEW Big Apple Minute – Bill Boggs, City Island (1980)
JFK Express - "Take the train to the plane." (1980)
Drucker’s - "Shop me last!"
Crazy Eddie - (1981)
WKHK
WNEW Merv card
WNEW 10 O’clock News card
Crazy Eddie
Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Most boring commercial ever--they don't even show any gardens!
WOR Bowling For Dollars outro
WNEW Woody Woodpecker card
WPIX Mighty Mouse outro, card
WNEW Little Rascals card
Lotto - (1982)
Ringling Bros., Madison Square Garden
Alexander’s
Great Adventure Roaring Rapids (Joe Namath)
WPIX movie - That’s Entertainment (partial)
Crazy Eddie
WPIX Movie card
WNEW News card
Mays Bankruptcy
WNEW Movie card
Colonial Yankee Franks (George Steinbrenner)
WPIX-FM
WCBS Christmas (Ed Koch, Michele Marsh, Peter Allen, PM Magazine hosts)
WCBS News
WNEW MASH card
WNEW All in the Family card
Robert Fiance School - Rocky rip-off
TSS
Woolworth-Woolco Xmas
Willoughby’s
11 Alive
Mays Xmas
WOR Kiner’s Korner (1980)
US Auto Schools
WPIX card
Nevele
1010 WINS
Shop-Rite 1983
WNEW Woody & Bugs card
WNEW Battle of the Planets (partial)
Sneaker Corner
Korvette’s
WCBS Stanley Siegel card
Jack LaLanne
Bank of Ireland - REALLY bad.
Radio City Music Hall – "Napoleon" movie
WOR Bowling For Dollars
New York Air
Dry Dock Savings Bank
Spinal Cord PSA – Yankee Dave Revering
WNEW Hogan’s Heroes card
WCBS News Brief promo
Two Guys
A&S
Herman’s Warehouse
Korvette’s Xmas
Mays Xmas
Mays Xmas Toys
WNBC Live at 5
Alexander’s Xmas
Mount Airy Lodge - Winter: "Have a fine winter time in the Poconos, with your host with the most in the Poconos, Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge!"
NY State School Bus PSA
WPIX Krofft Superstars card
Globe Shoes - Kotter-looking guy busts a shoe-oriented iambic pentameter.
WPIX Old Timer’s Game card 1983
Impact on Hunger Day - 1983, Met Ed Lynch and Met wife Sandy Swann (who's rather hot, natch).
NY Dairy Council Milk PSA
WYNY
WNEW Flintstones card
Control Data Institute
Robbins Menswear - Nice Jewish boy avers, "My grandfather gave you discounts, my father gave you discounts, someday I'll give you discounts!" (1977)
World Trade Center
Haunted Mansion in Long Branch - The scary original that ran forever.
Astroland - Coney Island
John McKean for Assemblyman
Meadowlands (John Gambling)
St. John’s College
Newmark & Lewis
Annie - Animated ad for the Broadway musical.
Two Guys
WPIX break cards - Including "PIXXX pal Felix Unger." You'd call in and play an Intellivision game on the screen, yelling "Pix! Pix! Pix!" when you wanted the spaceship to fire (or whatever the game was).
WNEW promo
Carabine (WTC)
Sasson (Vince Farragamo)
WNBC Chuck Scarborough
Toy’s R Us (WTC)
WNEW Carol Burnett card
Bob Gigante for Senator
Hudson River Day Line
Lenny’s Clam Bar
WNEW Movie card
Toy’s R Us
Fugazy
Mays
Big Apple Minute – Bill Boggs, Little Italy 1980
Big Apple Minute – Doris McMillon, Lower East Side 1980
WCBS Jim Jensen
News 4 card
Downstairs Up Record Shop
Dial-a-Story
TCI
Daily News Super Zingo
WNBC Live at 5
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Brooklyn Special Olympics
KISS-FM
News 4 promo
Koch for Carter
Fae-Mart
Carvel – Little Miss Half-Pint Beauty Pageant .
WNEW Midday promo
Great Bear
Big Apple Minute – Gil De LaMadrid, Staten Island Ferry 1980 (WTC)
WOR Editorial (partial)
WINS-AM (WTC)
TSS Xmas
Playworld
Martin Paint
Carter NY Primary
Kaufman Carpet
11 Alive
WAPP
WABC-AM (Yogi Berra)
QP’s and Ceaser’s Bay Bazaar
San Michel, Verducci Leather - Early rap and breakdancing. Must be seen to be believed.
11 Alive
Dairy PSA
Avenue I Flea Market
Sam Goody
WABC
Record World TSS
Record World TSS
Sports Cards
WOR - Briefly, a young Sara Lee Kessler.
WABC
WOR-AM John Gambling & Gene Klavan
WPIX Movie promo
WOR
Mount Airy Lodge - Spring: "Have a fling in the spring in the Poconos, at your host with the most in the Poconos. Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge!"
Wild West City - Regrettably, not the one with Uncle Floyd Vivino, but the one with the old-timer asking, "Where's Wild West City at?"
New Jersey’s Got It
WABC 4:30 Movie promo
Rockaway’s Playland
Music Line
WCBS News cards
Two Guys Xmas
WOR Movie
Albert Merrill School - Jimmy Randolph escorts young women new to the big city to the AMS.
WYNY
WNEW Woody card
Prejudice PSA - "Jimmy's my Jewish friend!"
Big Apple Circus
Bike Safety PSA - Opens with kid taken away on stretcher. Officer asks kid's father if he ever taught the kid the rules of the road. "I thought he had a little common sense!" splutters the unconcerned pop. Officer chastises dad slowly for a very long minute.
Integration PSA
New York Daily News - Reagan shot, 1981.
Gloria Marshall
NYC Summer Jobs 1981
KISS-FM
WHT
Steve’s Pier 1 - In Bayville. I'm sure Jackie the Jokeman Martling got thrown out of here many a time.
Little Shop of Horrors
Koch for Governor
Lotto
Clean Up NY PSA (Danny Aiello)
Clam Broth House
Anti-Graffiti PSA - Irene Cara, Gene Anthony Ray, Mike Newlin, Hector Ramos.
Circle Line (WTC)
WHN
WNEW Woody card
WPIX-FM (Peter Allen)
Lotto
WPIX bumper
Dana Lincoln-Mercury
Carvel – Fudgie the Whale!
WCBS News
WNBC promo
Blackstone the Musical
Genovese Xmas (William B. Williams)
WNEW Scott Muni
WPIX News
Potamkin
Crazy Eddie
Brick Church
Western Beef & Farmer’s Market
WAPP
Male Shop
WNEW Popeye card
Keep NY Wet (Don Imus)
WYNY
Keep NY Wet - Noo Yawk kids implore you to "save woughta!"
Gimbel’s - Lori Loughlin.
Teddy’s - Tribeca restaurant.
WDHA
Bronx Zoo - Paul Simon heard singing "At the Zoo."
WNBC Jane Hanson
Foodtown
Haunted Mansion and Amusement Pier
Cadillac Furs
WCBS 101
WNBC News
WNEW Mission: Impossible card
Action Park
WCBS News
Rainbow Shops
WKHK - Deborah Shelton.
Hotel Seville
WOR Movie
Marriott’s Essex House
Coronet - Yes, it's those two tuxedoed, mustachioed brothers of the bad read and stiff walk. And no talking orangutans.
Collingwood Hotel
WNEW-FM Calendar
Dial-a-Joke
WNEW Abbott & Costello card
WOR Xmas
Charles & Lillian Brown’s Hotel - Featuring, I kid you not, the Jerry Lewis disco.
Ernie Anastos
Lenny’s Clam Bar
Castro Convertibles - Bernadette Castro, all growns up.
Golden Nugget Casino
WHTZ Z-100 (WTC)
SAFE Car Dealer - Brooklyn's own, with New York Cosmo Giorgio Chinaglia.
WPIX Star Trek card
Keansburg Amusement Park, NJ
Uncle Floyd WBTB channel 68 promo
Milleridge Inn - This joint's been open since, like, 1648 or something.
MAACO
Dime Saving Bank (partial) - "The road to riches starts with the Dime."
Two Guys
Dreyfus
Queens City Savings
Plaza Olds
Flemington Furs
Record World TSS
Korvette’s
Playworld
Fortunoff
Honda of Mineola
Norwalk Factory Outlet
WRFM - Shields & Yarnell do their Clinkers shtick.
Bally’s - Joey Bishop and the infamous Roy Radin introduce some really lame Vaudeville acts.
WOR All Night bumper
This DVD (or VHS tape if you're really old-school) features dozens of long-forgotten, low-budget gems, the kind you once enjoyed--or endured--during late-night horror movies or afternoon cartoons. Some of these commercials can be found on my other collections, but most are unique to this one. If you fondly recall how bad some local commercials were, there are some doozies on here! There are also lots of commercials with scenes of the majestic World Trade Center twin towers, including one touting the observation deck. Having grown up on Long Island, I can tell you that watching these can be bittersweet. You may want to take that into consideration if planning to give this as a gift…
Video quality and audio quality vary throughout the tape, but I try to ensure that my collections are highly watchable, not like the many headache-inducing comps I’ve encountered in my years of collecting. If there’s a crummy-looking ad here and there, it’s because I feel the nostalgia value justifies its inclusion. Check it out...
4/19/15 note: I'm currently finishing up another NYC compilation crated from the exclusive tapes I've acquired in the last year or so (with perhaps enough left over for yet another), mainly 80's but with some ads, movie opens and bumps from earlier. I'm also still in the extensive planning stages for a "sign-on to sign-off" compilation, incorporating these local NYC ads and segments plus the many others I have acquired since I created this comp. It will play in order, from a WPIX sign-on to cartoon openings, syndicated show promos, local station movie opens, evening news segments, terrible late night ads and finally sign-offs. (Of course, there's an annoying Emergency Broadcast System break in there too.) I'm just getting started on the actual assembling of the pieces, from the best quality source material I have, so check back in a few months...
WNEW-AM- Ted Brown telling a lame joke.
WOR 4 O’clock Movie bumper - "Strategic Air Command will return."
Commander Oil - Remember the trucks with the German Shepherds on top? This ad's a little garbled, but worth it.
Two Guys
Dial Santa - Peter Billingsley.
Korvette’s
WKTU
Playworld
WABC 4:30 movie bumper
Childworld
Sasson – NY Rangers Phil Esposito, Ron DuGuay (?) and two others, skating around like a bunch of chooches.
Ritz Thrift Shop (partial) - "You don't need a million to look like a million." "Oh, thank you..."
WPLJ - (1978)
WABC-AM - (1978)
Magic Garden LP - Paula and Carole hawking a record, plus the poster and markers.
Cross at the Green PSA
Macy’s Thanksgiving
WNEW NJ Newsbreak card
WNEW Lucy card
WNEW Big Apple Minute – Bill Boggs, City Island (1980)
JFK Express - "Take the train to the plane." (1980)
Drucker’s - "Shop me last!"
Crazy Eddie - (1981)
WKHK
WNEW Merv card
WNEW 10 O’clock News card
Crazy Eddie
Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Most boring commercial ever--they don't even show any gardens!
WOR Bowling For Dollars outro
WNEW Woody Woodpecker card
WPIX Mighty Mouse outro, card
WNEW Little Rascals card
Lotto - (1982)
Ringling Bros., Madison Square Garden
Alexander’s
Great Adventure Roaring Rapids (Joe Namath)
WPIX movie - That’s Entertainment (partial)
Crazy Eddie
WPIX Movie card
WNEW News card
Mays Bankruptcy
WNEW Movie card
Colonial Yankee Franks (George Steinbrenner)
WPIX-FM
WCBS Christmas (Ed Koch, Michele Marsh, Peter Allen, PM Magazine hosts)
WCBS News
WNEW MASH card
WNEW All in the Family card
Robert Fiance School - Rocky rip-off
TSS
Woolworth-Woolco Xmas
Willoughby’s
11 Alive
Mays Xmas
WOR Kiner’s Korner (1980)
US Auto Schools
WPIX card
Nevele
1010 WINS
Shop-Rite 1983
WNEW Woody & Bugs card
WNEW Battle of the Planets (partial)
Sneaker Corner
Korvette’s
WCBS Stanley Siegel card
Jack LaLanne
Bank of Ireland - REALLY bad.
Radio City Music Hall – "Napoleon" movie
WOR Bowling For Dollars
New York Air
Dry Dock Savings Bank
Spinal Cord PSA – Yankee Dave Revering
WNEW Hogan’s Heroes card
WCBS News Brief promo
Two Guys
A&S
Herman’s Warehouse
Korvette’s Xmas
Mays Xmas
Mays Xmas Toys
WNBC Live at 5
Alexander’s Xmas
Mount Airy Lodge - Winter: "Have a fine winter time in the Poconos, with your host with the most in the Poconos, Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge!"
NY State School Bus PSA
WPIX Krofft Superstars card
Globe Shoes - Kotter-looking guy busts a shoe-oriented iambic pentameter.
WPIX Old Timer’s Game card 1983
Impact on Hunger Day - 1983, Met Ed Lynch and Met wife Sandy Swann (who's rather hot, natch).
NY Dairy Council Milk PSA
WYNY
WNEW Flintstones card
Control Data Institute
Robbins Menswear - Nice Jewish boy avers, "My grandfather gave you discounts, my father gave you discounts, someday I'll give you discounts!" (1977)
World Trade Center
Haunted Mansion in Long Branch - The scary original that ran forever.
Astroland - Coney Island
John McKean for Assemblyman
Meadowlands (John Gambling)
St. John’s College
Newmark & Lewis
Annie - Animated ad for the Broadway musical.
Two Guys
WPIX break cards - Including "PIXXX pal Felix Unger." You'd call in and play an Intellivision game on the screen, yelling "Pix! Pix! Pix!" when you wanted the spaceship to fire (or whatever the game was).
WNEW promo
Carabine (WTC)
Sasson (Vince Farragamo)
WNBC Chuck Scarborough
Toy’s R Us (WTC)
WNEW Carol Burnett card
Bob Gigante for Senator
Hudson River Day Line
Lenny’s Clam Bar
WNEW Movie card
Toy’s R Us
Fugazy
Mays
Big Apple Minute – Bill Boggs, Little Italy 1980
Big Apple Minute – Doris McMillon, Lower East Side 1980
WCBS Jim Jensen
News 4 card
Downstairs Up Record Shop
Dial-a-Story
TCI
Daily News Super Zingo
WNBC Live at 5
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Brooklyn Special Olympics
KISS-FM
News 4 promo
Koch for Carter
Fae-Mart
Carvel – Little Miss Half-Pint Beauty Pageant .
WNEW Midday promo
Great Bear
Big Apple Minute – Gil De LaMadrid, Staten Island Ferry 1980 (WTC)
WOR Editorial (partial)
WINS-AM (WTC)
TSS Xmas
Playworld
Martin Paint
Carter NY Primary
Kaufman Carpet
11 Alive
WAPP
WABC-AM (Yogi Berra)
QP’s and Ceaser’s Bay Bazaar
San Michel, Verducci Leather - Early rap and breakdancing. Must be seen to be believed.
11 Alive
Dairy PSA
Avenue I Flea Market
Sam Goody
WABC
Record World TSS
Record World TSS
Sports Cards
WOR - Briefly, a young Sara Lee Kessler.
WABC
WOR-AM John Gambling & Gene Klavan
WPIX Movie promo
WOR
Mount Airy Lodge - Spring: "Have a fling in the spring in the Poconos, at your host with the most in the Poconos. Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge!"
Wild West City - Regrettably, not the one with Uncle Floyd Vivino, but the one with the old-timer asking, "Where's Wild West City at?"
New Jersey’s Got It
WABC 4:30 Movie promo
Rockaway’s Playland
Music Line
WCBS News cards
Two Guys Xmas
WOR Movie
Albert Merrill School - Jimmy Randolph escorts young women new to the big city to the AMS.
WYNY
WNEW Woody card
Prejudice PSA - "Jimmy's my Jewish friend!"
Big Apple Circus
Bike Safety PSA - Opens with kid taken away on stretcher. Officer asks kid's father if he ever taught the kid the rules of the road. "I thought he had a little common sense!" splutters the unconcerned pop. Officer chastises dad slowly for a very long minute.
Integration PSA
New York Daily News - Reagan shot, 1981.
Gloria Marshall
NYC Summer Jobs 1981
KISS-FM
WHT
Steve’s Pier 1 - In Bayville. I'm sure Jackie the Jokeman Martling got thrown out of here many a time.
Little Shop of Horrors
Koch for Governor
Lotto
Clean Up NY PSA (Danny Aiello)
Clam Broth House
Anti-Graffiti PSA - Irene Cara, Gene Anthony Ray, Mike Newlin, Hector Ramos.
Circle Line (WTC)
WHN
WNEW Woody card
WPIX-FM (Peter Allen)
Lotto
WPIX bumper
Dana Lincoln-Mercury
Carvel – Fudgie the Whale!
WCBS News
WNBC promo
Blackstone the Musical
Genovese Xmas (William B. Williams)
WNEW Scott Muni
WPIX News
Potamkin
Crazy Eddie
Brick Church
Western Beef & Farmer’s Market
WAPP
Male Shop
WNEW Popeye card
Keep NY Wet (Don Imus)
WYNY
Keep NY Wet - Noo Yawk kids implore you to "save woughta!"
Gimbel’s - Lori Loughlin.
Teddy’s - Tribeca restaurant.
WDHA
Bronx Zoo - Paul Simon heard singing "At the Zoo."
WNBC Jane Hanson
Foodtown
Haunted Mansion and Amusement Pier
Cadillac Furs
WCBS 101
WNBC News
WNEW Mission: Impossible card
Action Park
WCBS News
Rainbow Shops
WKHK - Deborah Shelton.
Hotel Seville
WOR Movie
Marriott’s Essex House
Coronet - Yes, it's those two tuxedoed, mustachioed brothers of the bad read and stiff walk. And no talking orangutans.
Collingwood Hotel
WNEW-FM Calendar
Dial-a-Joke
WNEW Abbott & Costello card
WOR Xmas
Charles & Lillian Brown’s Hotel - Featuring, I kid you not, the Jerry Lewis disco.
Ernie Anastos
Lenny’s Clam Bar
Castro Convertibles - Bernadette Castro, all growns up.
Golden Nugget Casino
WHTZ Z-100 (WTC)
SAFE Car Dealer - Brooklyn's own, with New York Cosmo Giorgio Chinaglia.
WPIX Star Trek card
Keansburg Amusement Park, NJ
Uncle Floyd WBTB channel 68 promo
Milleridge Inn - This joint's been open since, like, 1648 or something.
MAACO
Dime Saving Bank (partial) - "The road to riches starts with the Dime."
Two Guys
Dreyfus
Queens City Savings
Plaza Olds
Flemington Furs
Record World TSS
Korvette’s
Playworld
Fortunoff
Honda of Mineola
Norwalk Factory Outlet
WRFM - Shields & Yarnell do their Clinkers shtick.
Bally’s - Joey Bishop and the infamous Roy Radin introduce some really lame Vaudeville acts.
WOR All Night bumper
posted by psaur @ 10:54 PM
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