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Memorable Local Or Regional Television Commericals

Sleep Country...Sunny retired from being the pitchwoman somewhere in the mid 2000s I believe. Until they became Sleep Train a year or so ago, there was a younger dark-haired woman doing the ads. Still w/ the "why buy a mattress anywhere else" and that ding. All but a memory now with Sleep Train taking over the Sleep Country USA locations now. I've got some old ads on tape somewhere.
And those Bon Marche ads...I remember when Macy's turned them into "Bon-Macy's," then Macy's in 2005. That was one of THE places to shop in the Seattle area back in the day. Frederick & Nelson was the other.
Oh, and how about Money Tree and Bob the Caterpillar? Those ads stopped running around 2003 or 04, but then came back for a short time around 2010. But you could expect them on any local station in the Seattle area.
 
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Here in the Jackson, Miss. market, two adds ran for a short while for a popular country radio station (Q 102 maybe). The ads featured Deborah Shelton and Kelly Harmon (Mark's gorgeous sister) promoting the station. They have been done regionally or nationally as I have seen Shelton doing basically the same promo for a different station in another market. Those two women were gorgeous back then.
 
Being a Northeast Ohio native, I would certainly be remiss if I didn't mention the classic ads for Norton Furniture with owner Marc Brown. They were most commonly shown in the late night hours and were best known for the rather bizarre characters that would appear in the commercials. One of these ads also included an appearance by local horror movie host The Ghoul.
 
San Antonio,Texas in the house. I remember the commercials for Splashtown and Schltiterbahn water parks, they had similar commercials with similar jingles. Splashtown is a small local water park that's jingle went "Come have fun and ride the wave at Splashtown" with kids having fun and riding the water slides and advertising to get a discount on tickets if you brought in a coke or big red can/bottle. Schlitterbahn was the much bigger water park there jingle was "The hottest coolest time in Texas, Schlittebahn", their commercial was a commercial within a commercial, there were these kids watching the TV while playing outside with a water house and a kiddie pool, wishing they could be at the water park, that is something I always remember when I think of Schlitterbahn. Some years ago when they advertised the park on TV, they said remember the good old days and showed a clip of that old commercial. So even they haven't forgot about it.

I also remember the Discount Tire Commercial with the lady throwing the old tire into the window, and remember all the local PSA's from agencies like the Texas Suicide Hotline and Texas Runaway Hotline, and PSA's from my local electric company and water company telling kids about not wasting electricity or water, or tips on how to converse those utilities. They were badly drawn from what I remember, but they aired so much there embedded in me. My favorite PSA was about algebra, a kid in a lunchroom starts banging his tray on the table and yells algebra, and soon the entire lunchroom joins in, can't find some of these anywhere and I've looked all over.
 
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4) Red Holland. That by itself is a goldmine of "memorable" .... he was (maybe still is?) a TV hunting/fishing show personality based in the Florida panhandle. Over the years, he's done shows on Panama City's WJHG 7, and especially on WTVY 4 in Dothan, Ala. (close to the Fla. line). Hosted a weekend show called "Outdoors With Red", but his early morning show "Good Morning Tri-States" was its own kind of memorable. His theme song - Ray Stevens' Henhouse Five version of "In the Mood" with the clucking chickens - couldn't have been more appropriate.

Anyway, Red did most of the commercials for the show himself. Remember the old "Crazy Eddie" character? Imagine Crazy Eddie with a fishing cap, flannel shirt and a deep Southern accent. Red didn't read copy, he screamed it. From all I've gathered, it wasn't a parody -- it was real. And people in that part of Alabama, Georgia and Florida practically worshiped the guy. It was insane.

--Russell
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Watching WTVY in my youth, Red was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread. I recall his high decibel ads, for Ed Sherling Ford (he even did one in drag) and Wapa Auto Parts (sort of a regional version of Napa), among other sponsors. WTVY also had ads for King Furniture in Dothan, with the owner's son Howard up in the loft of the store and his dad yelling "Hey Howard, whatcha doin' up there?" and he'd go into his spiel. The end of the spot would feature a $20 bill with a Clutch Cargo mouth, saying "A $20 bill free if you can find anyone who beats our prices!"
 
FAYGO....

Herkimer Bottleneck, the bottle blower.... "too pooped to participate." (Faygo Uptown)
The Faygo Kid .... "which way did he go, which way did he go." (Faygo Old Fashioned Root Beer)
Gildy on the Bob-Lo Boat ... "Remember when you were a kid. Well, part of you still is. And that's why we make Faygo." (Faygo Red Pop)

ALSO

Mr. Belvedere (Belvedere Home Improvement)
 
Yes, Harvey Moon. He finally came back this year for Standard Paint & Flooring's Halloween sale. But for a VERY long time, Harvey Moon (a salesman with a pumpkin face) did the ads for Schultz Furniture (now closed) in Yakima. I have some on tape.
 
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