Food Lion Advertisement, Early 1990’s

Back in 2002 mom gave me these magazines from the early 90’s, I ripped out all the advertisements and put them in a folder for future use.

This is the way Food Lion looked when mom and I started to shop there because everybody in Hampton was shopping there.

I don’t particularly like Food Lion. Most of the stores are junky and overpriced.

1994 McDelivery Commercial (not mine)

Wow I remember this. We had a magnet with the phone number on it for years. I remember I wanted McDonalds delivered to our house for my 11th birthday party in 1994, it didn’t happen.

I can’t imagine how pricey this got for McDonalds. Delivering a $6 meal?

1997 Scottie Pippen Montgomery Ward Commercial

(from my friend Kristin)

Commercial break includes:

-Montgomery Ward (with Scottie Pippen, notice how Scottie isn’t wearing an offical Bulls jersey). I think this was just a local spot for Illinois?

-Ford Escort (lol, I had the 2000 Ford Escort which looked similar to this one, thing died after six years, but yet Escorts that are 20 years are still on the road)

-Illinois lottery (I swear they repeat people’s names)

-Miller Lite (reminds me of the time I went bezerk when the power went out during the 1992 Olympics when I was 9, but without the beer)

Flea Market Montgomery

From the funniest of the parodies

A playlist I made based on the best YouTube about a flea market ever.

If you don’t feel like watching the whole thing, these are my favorite of the parodies:

///edit April 10, 2009///

Ryan on The Office was watching Flea Market Montgomery in the episode entitled The Michael Scott Paper Company.

“1989 Sears Re-Opening Commercial” (not mine)

I have to know what the whole new way to shop was! Any body know?

1992 or 1993 Central Fidelity Commercial

This is from when mom taped Troop Beverly Hills for me one night in January of 1992, I think.

Check out all the old Farm Freshes in the Central Fidelity Commercial! Now no Farm Freshes have banks…right? I know the bank in the Smithfield location closed down a few years back.

Also notice the other local ads. Is elephantsgalore still open? The only results I found were vague city search pages. However, it looks like The Paneling Factory is still open.

Yeah, I’ve also been thinking about Ames

Ames Department Store Final Voicemail video {not mine, from bigmikey128}

I think the clips of the silly girl in Ames comes from the Ames Department Store Training video {from user biffbulkie}

//edit, March 13//

I watched this video today (and its a parody)

Ames Department stores closing commercial {not mine, from vibe88}

I’ve Been Thinking A Lot About Bradlees Lately…

Bradlees Final Days Commercial (2001) {Not mine, from user moldymac}

NBA 1974 Boston Celtics Bradlees Commercials {not mine, from user TRJ22487}

Bradlees After-Thanksgiving Commercial (1995) {not mine, from user MBZ321}

The Caldor Rainbow: Bradlees Store Locator PLUS 

Flickr tags for Bradlees 

{the previous times we’ve mentioned Bradlees}

Some 1995 Local Commercials

Not much has been going on retail wise, so here are some commercials from local channels in the Hampton Roads area from 1995. I found a TON of these tapes at the old Salvation Army on Mercury Blvd in 2004. I only bought four, I wish I had bought the whole box now . Honestly, the only local stuff on here are the car dealership commercials, events at the Hampton Coliseum, theme parks, and news promos.

1995 Commercials {Multiply.com mirror}

This is from channel 27 in the Hampton Roads, VA area.

-The ending of a Platypus Man promo
-A man buys a purple ford ranger. For some reason, I can’t imagine in 2008 having an ad where a guy buys a purple truck.
-Starburst
-Anacin
-AT&T with Jane Leeves (there was like this trend in 1995 with NBC celbs in AT&T ads or something, I also have one with David Schwimmer in it)
-Grape Nuts
-Platypus man on “NPU!” — when I found out that Richard Jeni died–THIS was the first thing I thought of.

-Marker promo
-Kings Dominion theme park
-Pennzoil
-Bob Crumpler Nissan
-Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Show at the Hampton Coliseum

1995 Commercials Part II {Multiply.com mirror

-Midas
-NFL on TNT (that only lasted a couple of football seasons, right?)
-Father Goose promo
-RK Chevy Geo Subraru (local Hampton Roads spot)
-Susan Powder show promo
-TNT Monster Vision
-The River Wild
-Caress Body Wash
-Simmons Beautyrest
-CNN Presents
-National Geographic Explorer promo
-The story of the NFL promo
-Lifetime Designing Women Contest
-WTKR promo (aka, the worst news station in Hampton Roads)

///edit///

Oh, apparently I did not get comments emailed to me this week, I had to read each one by one in wordpress’ dashboard. Sorry for the delay.

The Worst Holiday {retail} Commercials of 2007

I actually woke up at 4 a.m. Christmas morning, and remembered I wanted to make this post for quite a while now.
This year was not a good year for the holiday commercials it seems. Every retail one seemed half-rear-ended or had very annoying music. Like, for example J.C. Penney and Old Navy holiday spots, both using a very whiney and breathless singer. Don’t get me started on the Old Navy one with the chick who is just walking around in bootlike slippers, a tanktop and underwear. God, I hate Old Navy so much….especially since I heard they only stock plus size clothes online now. Why don’t they just put a sign up at the door that said, “No Fatties”. Target needs to put the same sign up, because their plus size section is not even the size of my bedroom….

ok. I veered off topic.

But, speaking of Target, boy was their ad disappointing this year. It started out promising with the after Thanksgiving day sale commercials (although that game on the website related to that ad was a pain to navigate), but went downhill with this jarbled up advent commercial spots. At first I thought I was watching a credit card commercial the um….first 50 times I saw it. TruFax.

(these commercials are not mine, I found them off of YouTube)

2007 Target Christmas Spot {1}, {2}, {3}

At the moment I can’t find a video of the J.C. Penney spots with the whiney warbely singer. I did however, find one that aired around the last minute of the holidays. The “Kelly is a Boy’s Name Too” spot. J.C. Penney saved themselves with that one.

A commercial that riled up a lot of people over at the Television Without Pity Commercial boards was the Burlington Coat Factory spot where a girl tells an adult party guest, “I believe in cashmere.” Unfortunately I can’t find that one at the moment.

The WORST WORST WORST!! ones were for Kohls (another store I don’t like due to their crappy plus size selection, and the whole Keeping Up with the Jonses suburbanite feel of the store), and their take on the most annoying song in the universe, DeLovely. Commercial. This is from the same guy who uploaded the Target commercials, AnthonyL001.

I wish I had been able to upload some more of my commercials * this holiday season, but due to moving, I couldn’t.

Ok, back to feigning sleep for a few hours.