thurmas, great thread!
Since Niagara never had a TV station we grew up on commercials from Toronto, Buffalo, and Hamilton. Buffalo ones in particular were gems.
this is a gem
• Video Link
in the period of 1975-1985 when Buffalo was experiencing monthly layoff and plant closure announcements and had completely bottomed out to the rusted out forgotten industrial collapse city (that people
still stereotype it as) they decided to come up with this PSA
There was absolutely nothing to be talkin' proud of in 1980
unlike 2022 with the city and region growing again and Billions of development/redevelopment
• Video Link
McKinley Mall, named after the President that was assassinated at the PanAm Expo of 1901 in Buffalo. sorry Prez, but we named a mediocre mall after ya!
This mall was still current (~3yrs old) at the time before the largest mall Walden Galleria opened up just a year later and ate everyone's retail dollar lunch in Western NY
• Video Link
Albright Knox (now Albright Knox Gundlach art museum) is currently undergoing an almost $200M expansion, but in 1979 they were trying anything to get memberships including hiring Vincent Price
That's 'Yellow Christ' c. 1889 by Paul Gauguin in the background
• Video Link
Was it even the 1980s without the MicroMachines spokesman?
• Video Link