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Sambo's Restaurants - "Tiger Club" (Commercial, 1976)

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Here's another commercial for Sambo's restaurant featuring "Sambo's Tiger Club" and mascot, with a jingle sung to (approximately) the tune of "Bingo Was His Name-O".

As the ad notes, there was a Sambo's at 1500 Butterfield Road in Downers Grove.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, July 23rd 1976.

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1500 Butterfield is now a Portillo's.
Comment posted by APM on Saturday, June 4th 2011 at 1:49pm.

Slight airdate correction. FuzzyMemories.TV regrets the error. :-)
Comment posted by FuzzyMemories on Saturday, June 4th 2011 at 5:39pm.

Wow, $1.00 worth of food? Even back then, that was kinda lame.
Comment posted by AMNewsboy on Saturday, June 4th 2011 at 5:52pm.

Wow, I think I originally watched this ad back when the MBC was in the Cultural Center and you could watch stuff in the Archieves.
Comment posted by Smctopia on Sunday, June 5th 2011 at 4:40pm.

$1 in 1976 would be $3.87 today.

So, unless they were basically really cheap fast food kids meals, that might not have even paid for the whole kids meal, although maybe they had specials for the kids (bunch of places around here do free kids meals with 2 adult entrees even now).
Comment posted by afdave on Tuesday, July 26th 2011 at 9:19pm.

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Comment posted in National Clothing Fashions - "Be a Disco Star Tonight" (Commercial, 1979) by Loyal32Fan on Saturday, May 25th, 2013 at 1:19pm CT

Didn't Steve Dahl already killed disco with his 'Disco Demolition Night' at Comiskey Park months earlier?


Comment posted in ON TV - "Premiere Night" (Opening, 1980) by AnnArborMI90 on Saturday, May 25th, 2013 at 7:49am CT

"Snowbird Fantasy," "The Walkman," and "Touchdown"? The programmer at 44 really liked Bob James, I guess!


Comment posted in ON TV - "Premiere Night" (Opening, 1980) by FuzzyMemories on Friday, May 24th, 2013 at 11:53pm CT

Boomer933 - Sorry, what you see is 100% of what there was - just this excerpt was saved for posterity by a former WSNS employee.


Comment posted in ON TV - "Premiere Night" (Opening, 1980) by Boomer933 on Friday, May 24th, 2013 at 11:10pm CT

fuzzy.. is there anyway to get more out of this video? Did they have the transition from the commercial mode to the scrambled mode thing? it would be great to get that too from the premiere night..


Comment posted in Playback Stores - "Pioneer Month" (Commercial, 1979) by Joey G on Friday, May 24th, 2013 at 10:21pm CT

I was just listening to an old WLS aircheck from 1980 with a Playback commercial that also was advertising 10 TDK tapes for $30. Yikes, amazing how much cheaper cassettes got after the Walkman was introduced and after 8-tracks died.

The jingle here does seem weird.


Comment posted in Playback Stores - "Pioneer Month" (Commercial, 1979) by Szake on Friday, May 24th, 2013 at 9:21pm CT

Detroit4Chicago: From my research, I believe Playback went out of business in 1981.


Comment posted in WSNS Channel 44 - The 1 O'Clock Movie - "Gulliver's Travels" (Break #1, 1979) by FuzzyMemories on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 9:05pm CT

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Comment posted in Playback Stores - "Pioneer Month" (Commercial, 1979) by Detroit4Chicago on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 6:36pm CT

@T.K.: "While I don't think it's exactly the same, the typeface of the Playback logo looks an awful lot like Playboy magazine, doesn't it?"

I was thinking the same thing.

@Szake: "The eye line of the man in this commercial bothers me."

@FuzzyMemories: "He's not looking at me. I feel disrespected as a customer. ;-)"

@ArmitageNLowell: "I think the cue card holder was a topless dancer."

@MotownPhilly: "what the hell is he looking at?!?"

My guess.... at a cue card, but the camera was probably positioned wrong, making him look off-kilter. Who was the technical director or stage manager who planned this out? WRITE 'EM UP!

I'm wondering if this store still in business.... ????


Comment posted in WSNS Channel 44 - The 1 O'Clock Movie - "Gulliver's Travels" (Break #1, 1979) by Pushbutton on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 5:16pm CT

If you tuned in to Channel 32 at any given time in 1971-75 you stood a 75% chance of seeing the Hydro-Jet commercial.


Comment posted in Playback Stores - "Pioneer Month" (Commercial, 1979) by MotownPhilly on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 11:50am CT

what the hell is he looking at?!?


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