80s Commercial | Westchester County Fair | 1985

[@mydogishungry]

"Rides and Attractions! Non-stop action!" I've been singing that part to myself pretty much every day for most of my life.

[@wkeil1981]

I was singing it today . Had to look it up

[@joeyc6398]

mydogishungry lol! Anytime I hear the words "county fair", I blurt out "Rides and attractions, nonstop action!!"....almost as a reflex. Lol! Love it!

[@Tigerman1138]

Joey C You too huh?

[@Tigerman1138]

KZbin is our time machine.

[@bobbyshaddoe3004]

Me too

[@Jetblacksmash]

this song came to me out of nowhere the other day I googled some of the lyrics and found the commercial .what a flashback. if you remember this and you were there your childhood was awesome

[@Tigerman1138]

Jetblacksmash KZbin is our time machine.

[@micmaliss]

Nothing beats growing up in NYC. Everything from our era is iconic.

[@jaybruno3571]

Everything from the 80,90s.. after the 2000s everything is so dead and fake

[@pasqualinag7077]

This brought tears to my eyes, I went every year as a kid🤦‍♀️😍

[@maxwestdraws3834]

I totally remember this! Never went to it but the song always stuck in my head.

[@ScuberUberFlow]

Woke up this morning and randomly started singing this song to my wife. What a time to be alive. I looked forward to this every year as a kid.

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

I randomly heard someone mention Westchester county on a podcast and this song has been stuck in my head all day.

[@SerialGothQueens]

I was born, raised, and still live in Queens. This commercial, along with the ones for Raceway Park, Action Park, The Ritz Thrift Shop, The Milford Plaza Hotel, and The Haunted Mansion in Long Branch, NJ pretty much defined my childhood, lol.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

totally

[@AnalysisofaCrimewithCD]

Action Park!!! The water park that skinned more elbows and knees in the world…. The 90’s that was the place to be.

[@vinmanoct1279]

There were 3 commercials they showed every day in NYC. I live in the Bronx and I remember all 3. Cats, Mount Airy and Milford Plaza. Those were on every single day more than once a day.

[@jaylong4705]

​@@vinmanoct1279ha, so true

[@TeeW2023]

​​@@vinmanoct1279 they are tattoed in our memories. I think about them all the time. It brings me back to eating a snack after school and watching WPIX channel 11 on the kitchen tv.

[@effyiew7318]

A good friend of mine wrote and recorded this jingle. As local as it was, he managed to live really comfortably off of it for many, many years. I still tease him when I see it and sing it at him.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

that's awesome.

[@Tigerman1138]

It’s a great song!!! Tell him I remembered it all my life.

[@KingChrisMcLean]

As a NYer living in NJ, my SIL mentioned the Meadowlands Fair. Even though I've NEVER been to the WCF, I shouted, "YOU DON'T KNOW NOTHIN ABOUT THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY FAIR" and then started singing this jingle. I pray your friend that wrote the jingle, that his GREAT grand kids live WELL off of his genius!

[@johnlambert3807]

OMG - your friend had a way of creating something that stuck in people's mind for almost half a century. 40 years later, I just sang "rides & attractions ! Non-stop action" to my team at a meeting.

[@jaylong4705]

Song has been in my head, daily, since I was 5 in 85

[@cybersquire]

This unlocked so many memories! They must have played this commercial for years!

[@GuidedLion]

i grew up in the bronx and this is where my dad used to take me when it came around

[@cheowesley860]

I remember this! They used to show it every summer when I was a kid! I always wanted to go there too!

[@LadyDi4476]

Oh wow! Memories! My family used to go there all the time in the '80s. Good times...and I remember every word of that jingle. Thanks!

[@jumpmusic101]

Yo I was singing this to myself all day yesterday randomly lol I had to look it up!

[@chica2020]

I remember singing and dancing when this used to come on our TV in Brooklyn... WOW, listen to the admission price...$4 dollars.

[@tynee2310]

OMG I went there yearly. I really miss this place!!!

[@indirasmiracle]

yup..remember the commercials and going to the fair a few times as a kid :)

[@zsuzsuspetals]

OMG this commercial! I can't believe it's on you tube. Thank you for uploading this! I have this song stuck in my brain. I'm 46 now and I remember this airing when I lived in New Jersey. Don't know why they'd advertise Westchester in central NJ but they did. And funny the commercial announcers sound like they are from the south.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

Haha.... no problem thanks for checking it out. I Had to upload it bringing back things like this are what KZbin does best.

[@zsuzsuspetals]

You're the man for uploading this. Amazing that you still have it. Thanks again!

[@tim_nj_devil176]

I lived in Old Bridge and I remember this commercial when I was a kid. This commercial aired in Central NJ because the local channels (WNYW-5, WWOR-9, WPIX-11) covered most of the state.

[@Tigerman1138]

KZbin is our time machine.

[@Tigerman1138]

STEVE HEROLD Thank you.

[@RouelJones]

I always wanted to go 😭 this commercial always came on during cartoons 👴🏽

[@mariar8319]

We need this back! 💜

[@sscheinfe]

OMG thanks for posting this! Haha I remember this well from my childhood...

[@johnfurlong1676]

I lived in NJ 18 miles outside of NYC for 39 of my 40 years. They used this exact ad up until the fair ended around the early 2000s. They would just change the voice over at the end to reflect the dates that the fair was happening and change the info on the last screen.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

i grew up in NJ down at the beach and yes this ad is engrained in my brain forever!

[@Madcracka]

Headed to the Bloomsburg Fair today and I'm still singing the Westchester county Fair song

[@Frostbite12211983]

It's funny. If you were to go by the jingle, you would've thought it was in Tennessee, Texas or Arkansas.

[@BassGods]

.This theme just popped up in my head for some strange reason, and I just had to come here. 😂

[@moonchild1686]

My father took me here all the time. These are some of the best memories of my life, especially the Bumblebee Ride. The smell of cigars still brings me back here lol

[@dr.spectre9697]

hah, yeah my dad took me there as a kid too. We got stuck upside down on a roller coaster & my dad lost all his money & his wallet & the car keys because they all fell out of his pockets. This was in 1988 I believe. Ahhh...what simple & wonderful days we had in the 80s. I can still remember my granddad smoking a Marlboro & my dad holding me up on his shoulders as 3 generations of the men in our family were at the fair.

[@10.11.9]

Along with the distinct aroma of zeppole and sausage/peppers being served from the point you pulled into the massive parking lot on Yonkers Avenue.

[@10.11.9]

@@dr.spectre9697 I was initially going to comment that I was there when that happened (securely on the ground, thankfully), but then I quickly remembered that the 'Double Loop' (or was it the 'Super Loop'? - unsure) got stuck at the top on several occasions. But '88 or '89 definitely rings true. The people inside the ride were SCREAMING! I remember watching a shoe fall to the ground. Geesh.

[@matthewmiller3322]

So many memories going to that fair seeing that commercial

[@ochosigod5417]

I swere to everything these commercials bring back so many memories wow

[@rcole718]

I remember always wanting to go but my parents never took me. This commercial would have you believe country folk lived right outside of NYC. 🤣🤣🤣

[@funnyface_jc5041]

I’ve lived pretty much next to the raceway for 20 years. There ain’t nothing country about us 😂

[@jaybruno3571]

Nothing country about Yonkers at all 😂

[@Cjga1114]

This fair was awesome, went every year in the 80s

[@erikstone179]

I Love This Video Clip Of The Westchester County Fair Video Commercial For July 14, 1985.

[@susanclayton819]

wow what a throwback! I love it!

[@Tigerman1138]

So earlier in 2019 I called Empire City Casino (Yonkers Raceway) on business. When done I asked when the fair was and he said,”Uhhh you’re about 20 years too late.” I told him I was kidding.

[@Ryan-on5on]

Nothing screams "country" more than the racetrack of ole Yonkers, NY, a literal stones throw away from the concrete jungle of "da Bronx." In all fairness though, I suppose for some city dwellers a trip to southern Westchester is akin to heading up to green acres.

[@KingChrisMcLean]

Yes...100% this. The perfect analogy!

[@mrmrso228]

LMAO there are those who call Yonkers "Upstate". Oh and the concrete jungle...why do you think they got rid of this fair? And I have lived in the Bronx for 30 years but call it as I see it.

[@jaypowell5064]

I remember this. I always wanted to go but i lived in Brooklyn and it was in Westchester.

[@andrewtodaro2874]

Love the country soundtrack on this commercial!

[@SamuelPearlman]

“Shows, animals, fireworks too, about the most fun thing you can do!”

[@Finaldestinationhomes]

Ah Merv Griffith ,Carol Burnett then I lLove Lucy on fox 5 this commercial would come on after take the train to the plane commercial and raceway park monster trucks commercial . What a time to be alive.

[@ManMonkey600]

I think one of the last times I went here was when I took my college girlfriend. Had a carny barker for a game say come on down man and win that lady a prize...you say no now and she'll say no tonight LMAO

[@Tigerman1138]

ManMonkey600 I gotta remember that for sales.

[@KingChrisMcLean]

That's HILARIOUS! I hope you won her a prize...amongst you winning OTHER things. :-)

[@mikvance]

Nostalgia!

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

Southern accents and country music for a fair that was held 10 miles north of New York City.

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

It's actually, less than a mile north of New York city and about 15 miles north of Midtown Manhattan

[@danielrosario3005]

SO MANNY MEMORIES AND WESTCHESTER COUNTY FAIR WAS SO MUCH MUCH I MISS IT SO MUCH

[@CollectingCardboard]

Like most kids, I'd seen (literally!) THOUSANDS of commercials while growing up [in the 70's/80's]. This particular commercial, is one of only a handful that I remember,... _vividly/specifically_. A few, other regional ones; *The Children's Aid Society* ,.... *Reading Is Fundemental* w/ the great Ed Asner.

[@TeeW2023]

"I'm really glad they made the Children's Aide Societyyyyy" I sing that one to myself too lol

[@vinmanoct1279]

Anybody notice though. It used to start in late June and than it kept coming earlier and earlier every year. It used to always start after school ended here in NY.

[@Graceful_Deli_Kat]

As a Long Island kid in the 80s, hearing this made me think that Yonkers was "upstate" NY and must be so country. It took me being 40+ now to realize perhaps it was a spoof?

[@jamesfrancistamburojr8180]

Great memories

[@Finaldestinationhomes]

I remember .

[@wkeil1981]

Should be in library of congreaa

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

My childhood is calling me back on the phone line 2 I'm going to be right back

[@Tristina143]

The nostalgia is real. #Yonkers

[@giannanav]

0:23 I like that little girl and her clap and idk why

[@davemiller7633]

I remember

[@samanthab1923]

I remember that ad & was born in Yonkers & have tons of relatives up there back then but I don't know anyone who went. $4 is a bargain too!

[@juanagarcia6051]

i wish the fair can stay longer

[@mrmrso228]

LMAO I remember that song! Shame they got rid of it.

[@10.11.9]

The fair or the song? 😀

[@jaybruno3571]

@@10.11.9both

[@danielrosario3005]

PLEASE COME BACK I CALLED THE NUMBER AND THE CASINO FROM EMPIRE PICK UP THEY SAID THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY FAIR HAS NOT BEEN YONKERS RACE WAY IN 10 YEARS IT HAS TO COME BACK.

[@gargerjarger2371]

It became ghetto in the 90's, it would be horrible now, it was great in the 8O's. But then everyone got tough and hood because gangsta rap and white men can't jump and all that sheeeeet.

[@tlockh20]

*yawn*

[@dr.spectre9697]

As Garger Jarger said, it was wonderful in the 80s but around the mid 90s it started to become full of hoodlums & if I remember correctly, it stopped in 2002 or 2003. The last time I went to the fair was the year before its final year & that year alone there were 3 stabbings. Low class people from the slums of the bronx came up to Westchester & ruined our simple family friendly good time.

[@10.11.9]

@@dr.spectre9697 It was the '91 WCF that began the decline, as gang violence became a nightly display. I recall Mount Vernon teenagers, in particular, however by that time I believe the WCF was an annual event in Yonkers for a full decade. They nearly killed a kid - stabbed him repeatedly - while he waited for the 20 bus across from the racetrack.

[@10.11.9]

The sound system on the Himalaya. The intoxicating aroma of zeppole. Dunking that arrogant clown in the tank and nearly throwing your arm out in the process. Standing those longneck Coke bottles up with the crooked fishing rod. The pirate ship that typically smelled like vomit at the back. The Gravitron 😐. The Fun House, where people did, in fact, break limbs (I recall a broken leg on the log roll section). The pig races. The pony rides, as short as they were (the rides, that is 😋). And the carneys - some drunk, some not - allowing little Johnny and Sally on the "big boy/girl" rides, despite failing to meet the height requirements. A bygone era to be certain.

[@heyyyyyynow]

Kids under 12 free? Christ almighty it's like a fantasy realm.

[@Graceful_Deli_Kat]

ADMISSION was free but I'm sure you had to buy tickets for the rides and pay for the games

[@10.11.9]

@@Graceful_Deli_Kat Not on McDonald's Night. 😐

[@CEEPMDEE]

Finally went the summer of 1996...😑 First there is nothing "Country" about it, it's Yonkers NY. It was just your average carnival, only it was held at Yonkers Race Way. It was pretty bootleg but I was happy to finally see what all the hype was about. I had a cool time, plus weather was beautiful that day.

[@lapstreet21]

Grew up in the 90s and would go. Does anyone know why they stopped doing it?

[@elliesmom0992]

I heard they stopped it due to gang violence at the fair

[@10.11.9]

@@elliesmom0992 Correct. And the gang violence, as you might've guessed, led to a significant drop in attendance. I think it held on until the early 2000s.

[@rainfire79]

yeeee-haw!

[@alfonsogreen2722]

I remember this commercial as a kid n that woman at 0:06 is beautiful

[@michaelphilbert7288]

0:06 What a pretty girl...!

[@alfonsogreen2722]

yes indeed

[@kevins.butler3402]

Yonkers,(NY)Raceway..which was the site for The Westchester County Fair..no longer exist.

[@Tigerman1138]

Kevin S.Butler Empire Casino Yonkers very much exists. Yonkers Raceway is attached to it.

[@10.11.9]

@@Tigerman1138 Perhaps if they kept the fair and got rid of Yonkers instead... dare to dream. 😃

[@sunshine_and_wind]

flashback

[@starkreactor82]

yeah living in Yonkers NY the WCF was awesome in the 80's and then got too ghetto in the late 90's. These days you can gamble your life savings away there now.

[@MartianTrey]

wow

[@MikeJ2023]

Rides and attractions in nonstop action and live performances by Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga

[@kascnef]

Is the fair cancelled due to covid?

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

Yes, but it's scheduled to comeback in May of 2022..Let's hope omnicron doesn't kill it

[@10.11.9]

@@vicepresidentmikepence889 🤔🤭

[@Trapphausmusic]

We used to be a proper country

[@danielrosario3005]

IS THERE ANY WAY THEY CAN BRING THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY FAIR

[@Horatio.Mantooth]

Yeah,keep the the GANGSTARS away from it and they will come back.

[@danielrosario3005]

is that the reason why they stop coming around

[@danielrosario3005]

it was part if my child hood I use to go there all the time it would e nice for the Westchester county fair to come back.

[@10.11.9]

@@danielrosario3005 Yes.

[@Kai0nTheMoon]

Sad to see how they exploited animals there. I wish I'd realized how horrible that was when I was a little kid.

[@10.11.9]

Then there would've been no rides on the Himalaya with the pretty brunette from homeroom. 😉

[@ohsnapyocheckit]

Non stop battlin, albanians vs italians…

[@10.11.9]

The '91 WCF signaled the beginning of the end. Multiple stabbings, robberies, brawls . . .

[@Romanfeeser]

What's with the country accents? We are yanks! We don't speak like that.