Posted on 11/06/2023 5:24:19 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
If you've spent any amount of time watching television in Chicago, one iconic commercial lives rent free in your head.
ABC7 has learned it is closing by the end of the month after nearly 80 years in business.
That means the commercial, which has been running nearly unchanged since the 1980s, is also joining the scrap heap of Chicago television history.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...
Beater heaven.
I lived in Chicago for three years in the 80s, watching a moderate amount of television. Never saw that ad.
Yep. Of you needed it, they had it.
The end of an era, for sure.
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I drove past it daily for a couple of years. The parking lot was a layer of oily dirt over gravel.
If you watched any really crappy programs in the Chicagoland area back in the day, you couldn’t help but see the commercial with some poor wretch losing the door on his beater as he tried to get into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH95UTtbmr8&t=7s - a local classic along with the ads for Empire Carpet and Boushelle Rug Cleaning, among others.
—” you needed it, they had it.”
Well, at least they claimed to have had it.
Once upon a time...
Other bone yards computerized, I don’t know if they ever did.
“That old car is worth some money...”
I loved going through wrecking yards as a kid, fun stuff for car guys!
Junk yards and napa auto stores kept me on the road as a young adult. The yards seem to be making way for auto recyclers that have all of their inventory tagged and identified in a computer database that is networked with other recyclers. More efficient, but not as fun as going out with basic tools and getting it yourself. There still are the “pick-’n-pull places, but those seem more common on the west coast than on the east.
CC
Ditto...in my 30 years
Chicago was one of the last to get cable, since none of the cable distributers were willing to buy all the aldermen, the mayor, the city council and the Cook County democratic organization.
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