Old Local Commercials

[Dan in Pasadena]

I posted a thread yesterday about an old local to L.A. cartoon show (Shrimpenstein) which pretty much no one remembered...I guess I'm too old!

But it got me thinking about the cheesy commericals that used to run when I was a kid and there were only the three networks, CBS, NBC and ABC and then the local channels in L.A. Channels 5 - KTTV, 9 - KHJ, 11 - ? and 13 - KCOP that filled the air with reruns and lame local stuff...that I loved.

Thing is? To this day I remember some of the jingles from these commercials. Some were local to L.A. and some were (I suppose) national.

Anyone remember:

Feed him Dr. Ross dog food, do him a favor
It's got more meat and its got more flavor

It's got more meat to make him feel the may he shouuuuld

Dr. Ross dog food is doggone good...Woof!

No THERE's some wasted brain cells I'm never getting back.

What do you remember?

[legion]

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Go see Cal, Go see Cal, Go see Cal...

(From different parts of the country...)

[Dan in Pasadena]

Lol, I rmeember the "Go See Cal, Go See Cal, Go See Cal..."

I also remember, ""1-1-9-8-0 East Firestone, Stanley Chevrolet...bum...bum..."

[craigster59]

Adee do...

[TerryH]

Originally posted by Dan in Pasadena
Lol, I rmeember the "Go See Cal, Go See Cal, Go See Cal..."

I also remember, ""1-1-9-8-0 East Firestone, Stanley Chevrolet...bum...bum..."

1-1-9-8-0 East Firestone , 2 blocks north of the Santa Ana freeway, Dial Chevrolet.. ba-da-bum.

I'll paint any car for $39.95 no ups, no extras. Earl Schieb.

I have met the man that is, Cal Worthington. If you want to save a buck, go see Cal. He stand on his head (or eat a bug) to make you a better deal. I still do subcontract work for them, but haven't seen Cal in a decade.

[onlycafe]

crazy eddie....his prices are INSANE!!!!!

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally posted by TerryH
1-1-9-8-0 East Firestone , 2 blocks north of the Santa Ana freeway, Dial Chevrolet.. ba-da-bum.

I'll paint any car for $39.95 no ups, no extras. Earl Schieb.

I have met the man that is, Cal Worthington. If you want to save a buck, go see Cal. He stand on his head (or eat a bug) to make you a better deal. I still do subcontract work for them, but haven't seen Cal in a decade.

You know, you're right about the Dial Chevrolet but i think that was a name change. I know it was Stanley Chevrolet in the old days and I think the line was, "2 blocks OFF the Santa Ana Freeway, 1-1-9-8-0 East Firestone...." Maybe Dial bought out Stanley?

I'm so old I swear I remember the Earl Scheib paint job when it was $29.95!! Egad, can you imagine the quality on one of those jobs?! They would advertise on the old wrestling show from the Olympic Auditorium emcee'd by Dick Lane ("Whooooa Nelllie!!).

I was a little kid but my Dad would watch it religiously. Freddy Blassy (sic?) was already older and walked with a cane but he was there calling everyone a "pencil-necked geek". I remember "Mil Mascaras" - because he was from Mexico and of course my Dad liked him. Haystack Calhoun - big ole overall wearing 'neck with a corncob pipe and a straw hat. Crap, I'm getting (gotten?) old

[Nostril Cheese]

Crazy Gideons on Traction ave. downtown. Used to get good deals on speakers there

He's CRAAAAAAAAZZZY!

Cal Worthington, man, that guy was a dick in person.

[fingpilot]

I remember watching the races at Ascot Park. The announcer was named Dick somebody, and his eyeglasses were coke bottle thick.

Demolition Derby and dirt track bikes. Was a staple friday and saturday night thing here in SoCal.

I actually got one of those $29.95 paint jobs on a '62 Chev Impala. Gunmetal Grey. I did all the prep, so it wasn't too bad.

Still wish I had that car.

[dd74]

Originally posted by Dan in Pasadena
What do you remember?

Don't remember the commercials as much, but I remember KTTV used to go off the air for minutes at a time during the afternoon. They'd put up a splash screen which was a grainy black and white photo of an LA red car, accompanied with Burt Bacharach's "The Look of Love."

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally posted by fingpilot
I remember watching the races at Ascot Park. The announcer was named Dick somebody, and his eyeglasses were coke bottle thick.

Demolition Derby and dirt track bikes. Was a staple friday and saturday night thing here in SoCal.....

Yup, that was Dick Lane, the same guy that did the wrestling from the Olympic auditorium I mention above.

I'm not very far from Crazy Gideon's on traction Ave right now. Still a hoot to go in there. Cheap stuff. I bought a decent VHS/DVD player for I think $39!

[Howard Agency]

OLD??

El Monte Legion Stadium, This Saturday Night!

[legion]

Come on Chicago-area Pelicans:

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[Dan in Pasadena]

Legion, What was that phone number to? Was it a car dealership or what?

Here's a blast from the past....even for me. When I went to kindergarten (eeeekkk! Just figured out it was the Fall of .........you're gonna tease the crap outta me.....1959!) Holy Crap! Anyway, my house phone number was 941-3497, I still remember it. I was taught to say it, "WHitney, 13497." I don't remember my kindergarten teacher but I remember learning it that way. No pre-school in those days. Heck, a lot of kids didn't even go to kindergarten in those days...too newfangled I guess?

[Paul_Heery]

Originally posted by legion
Come on Chicago-area Pelicans:

588-2300

It's not just Chicago. That crappy jingle has followed me my entire life. From Philadelphia to Atlantic City to Central Maryland to DC to Virginia and now to Connecticut.

Empire (pause)(pause)(pause)(pause) today.

[tabs]

HE HE HE HE....It wasn't KTTV..it was KTLA...Channel 5...

It used to be Felix Chevolet in Downtown LA that was advertised...Hi I'm So & So Chavez General Manager of Felix Chevolet and here is a 1957 Convertible Chevy Belair fully loaded for $1295.

KTLA used to air all kinds of *****...Destruction Derby, Wrestling, Boxing from thr Olympic and Roller Derby...the LA T-Birds...funny how they would always come back and win in the last seconds...I only saw them lose once...My fav was the NY Bombers with Psycho Ronnie Rains...rolling around with a Bust of Caesar, finally someone threw it on the floor and broke it. And it was all Mceed by WHOA NELLIE Dick Lane.

Also on Friday nights they had the even then old (late 40s) Repblic Studios B Westerns starring John Payne, John Wayne etc..and later a talk show with Steve Allen after he left the Tonight Show. Louie Nye as the man on the street.

In the afternoon Channel 5 aired Popeye Cartoons hosted by Tom Hatton..and Bozo Cartoons...Also I remember Sheriff John, I think he was on Channel 11. Queen for a Day rings a bell to...but I don't remember much about that. That goes back to the mid to late 50s.

Channel 2..KNXT...had Jerry Dunphy and the Big News..that was before he became famous on channel 7 ABC in the 70s...

Every afternoon KNXT had Amos & Andy and then the Life of Riley with William Bendix and the the Early Show (oldies movie) then the News at 6. followed by Walter Cronkite with the National News.

In the morinings they would play I Love Lucy Reruns...

NBC was Channel 4 and their local news guy was Jack Latham followed by Huntley Brinkley. Channel 4 had Monty Hall Lets Make a Deal at noon and Jeapordy in the morinings...

We never got channel 7 ABC, Channel 9 KHJ channel 11 KTTV or Channel 13 cause our house was too close to the mountain and our antenna wouldn't pull those stations. Yep antennas there was no such thing as Cable...who would pay for such a thing.

How bout Irwindale Drag Strip..I used to hear the them run, even though we lived about 10 miles away.

[tabs]

Our phone number was Edgewood 50868....ED50868....how bout Party Lines...no area codes...no zip codes...

[tabs]

Then there was the guy who did the news for KTLA 5 starting in the late 60s or early 70s who was an arch conservative...his name is on the tip of my tongue..he had a small horse ranch out in Chino. He was also the news director for them...Later Gene Autry bought out KTLA 5...

[tabs]

BREW 102..Brewery right on the East Side of LA where the 5 merges with the San Bernardino Freeway and becomes the 101..

I remember when the LA City Hall was the tallest building in LA.

Dragnet Jack Webb... Dum ta dum...this is the city, this is where I work, We were on a Burglary detail working outa the valley. Just the facts mam...

Harry Morgan (Mash) was the second sidekick to Jack Webb starting in 67... the first was Ben Alexander back in 54...

[Dan in Pasadena]

tabs,
You nailed it. I think it was Ralph Chavez..but I could easily be mistaking him for, "Hi Friends, Ralph William at Ralph Williams Ford". In that nasily tone of his. Fat bald guy in the days before being bald was cool. I THINK Ralph's dog (to compete with Cal Worthington's menagerie) was his white German Shepherd, "Storm".

So you remember the great local news guys we used to have. I loved Ralph Story, in his later days he had Stephanie Edwards with him on some non-news feature show, Ralph Story's Los Angeles I think it was. She was a babe. She fit the very definition of a big nasty redhead. Stephanie's getting along in years now, good thing I'm not! And Gil Stratton the Sportscaster?

Yeah, I remember going to Irwindale Raceway, Lions and Orange County International..you could watch the end of runs from the southbound 5 Fwy if your timing was right.

Doesn't seem so long ago but it really, really is.