WPIX TV Commercials & Promos (January 31, 1988)

[@kuanged]

Nostalgic like rabbit ears, and tuning knobs with the VHF/UHF toggle. The TVs were all silver and had faux wooden paneling, and cable was still too expensive for most folks. What a time to be alive.

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

We thought we were big shots when my dad bought an illegal cable box from some random guy parked on Queens Boulevard. It had mostly unscrambled HBO and some pre-MTV music video channel. Nothing like watching The Goonies and Ah-Ha’s “Take On Me” video in blurry sepia tone.

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

This brings back memories. I haven’t permitted Mario Perillo to tell me about his best selling vacation in decades.

[@QueensNativeNYC]

It makes me sad to see old nostalgia from the past.. Remembering when I was so young and it seemed like the future was so bright with so much to look forward to.. Those days are gone forever..

[@scottcassulis6062]

I remember these commercials Growing up in Astoria Queens Nyc back in the 80s

[@charlesjnbjbnbngb8518]

I love the 80's!

[@brooklynbabe7896]

Me too Hun

[@drummingdanny84]

Especially '80s programming from New York City.

[@DavidSamuelBl10]

Agreed with you on that, 1 way or another, ​@@drummingdanny84.😊

[@DavidSamuelBl10]

I'd truly always been watching #WPIX 🗽 as a kid in Jamaicantown.

[@lambjack1]

I'm in Jamaica, Queens right now. Burger King right around the corner. Why do you call it Jamaicatown?

[@samuelgriffin4167]

Those days of television in New York are long gone

[@annabelkitten07]

Sadly, yes. I hardly watch Channel 11, aside from Mets games and Honeymooners repeats. Hardly any good reruns; they air mostly infomercials and crappy ads for attorney offices.

[@DavidSamuelBl10]

That breaks my own autism heart,​@@annabelkitten07.😣

[@cliffbooth1029]

Loved watching Don Mattingly and my Yankees with the great Phil Rizzouto commenting “holy cow that was a moonshot!”.

[@DavidSamuelBl10]

Me 2 personally, as a kid.

[@brooklynbabe7896]

My childhood is calling me back on the phone I'll be right back

[@jessquinn6106]

What I would give to go back to the 80's

[@cliffbooth1029]

Omg the money store ... I remember as a kid wondering what the hell it was

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

Lol the childhood confusion. “So you go there and buy money? Why?”

[@mst3kanita]

So a New York City channel was trying to advertise New York City colleges, basically telling kids to stay at home, lol.

[@w.a.powell8461]

> - 8:40 - 9:40 - "New York City. It's A Great College Town" -- 1988 Local Public Service TV Commercial > > > > - 33:02 - 34:02 - 1987 United Negro College Fund Public Service TV Commercial ("Little Brother") With Actor Courtney B. Vance -- From The People of the Ad Council > > > > - 43:38 - 44:38 - (same commercial as the one at the "8:40" mark)

[@DavidSamuelBl10]

0:14 -I'd truly used to go to Burger King with my mom when I'd truly was a kid back in the 1980's at Jamaicantown (Queens), 🗽.

[@lambjack1]

Why you call it Jamaicantown tho?

[@brentmann2988]

21:39 who is doing this A&P voice-over? I heard this VO talent on a lot of commercials in the 80s and 90s. 36:31 the iconic voice of Karl Weber for Boar's Head.

[@Nick_Nightingale]

Why do 95% of commercials suck today and reverse is true for the 80s?

[@annabelkitten07]

"Starlight Express" had to be the stupidest concept for a Broadway musical.

[@AckzaTV]

12:50 wow, 1988 and they had star trek thenext generation, man that show is fucking old, but simspons also came out in like 1989, really crazy to think about how many decades they bridged

[@MrCookingperfec]

chi ajaa they certainly don’t know friends hands chi hands too they know family

[@songerkids690]

*damaged tape*