• Retro: Halifax 1980′s TV Ads

    Date: 2012.05.28 | Category: Retro | Tags: ,,,

    0:00 Papa Gino’s Restaurant

    • Oh Papa Gino’s, Halifax has come so far though I do miss the building where the Mariott Residence Inn is today.

    0:32 High Liner

    • Not the finest of High Liner commercials, “Ever been to see Billy?” but High Liner still hawking their frozen fish today.

    1:02 Pizza Delight

    • “Nobody Loves You Better” wow that commercial is 80′s overload, and Pizza delight was still unappetizing.

    1:33 Crown Real Estate Ltd. (First Lake Estates Sackville)

    • 30 years later only going for ~$160,000 today.

    1:58 Bud McDonald Pontiac Buick GMC

    • I’d buy a new Firefly for $7700, all 3 cylinders of it’s greatness, Bud McDonald has since made way for Wheatons and the MetroLink station in Sackville.

    2:29 Chebucto Ford

    • still hanging on but soon to move to Portland Street and become MacPhee Ford, will they still be CRUSHING the competition?

    2:59 Miss Murphy’s Business College

    • Wow, just wow!

    3:30 Super Loto

    • Suuuuuuper Loto , Corvette Convertible. (the emphasis is all wrong on that)

    4:02 Gordon Shaw Concrete

    • Still in biz with the flashier name of GS Concrete, and no longer making precast stairs.

    4:33 Nova Scotia Tourism

    • sad thing is except for the adding Theodore in i suspect they would make the same AD today

    5:03 Casino Taxi

    • best jingle ever, I remember trying to dial 429-6666 late one night of drinking when I was in Ontario!

    5:32 Ben’s Bakery

    • Whoa, if I change the U in Buns to and E it spells Bens, Mind Blown!

    5:49 Cindy’s Restaurant

    • tapping in on the perceived fame of Pap Ginos Cindy we get Cindy’s cajun “What dat’s not my bill”.

    6:18 TK’s Carpet

    • This to me is the embodiment of 80′s Halifax and TK’s is till going.

    6:49 Yellow Pages

    • Ha, a lot has changed in the last 30 years.

    7:20 Scotia Square

    • still open but more of a convenience for the towers above than a shopping destination, though they do have an awesome food court.

    7:51 Mad Man McKay’s

    • Crazy Special effects.

    8:23 Reliable TV

    • yikes that Stereo was $1000 before the interest.

    8:53 Creighton’s Food Brokers

    • these ads used to always make me sleepy that were just so boring, or the exciting one about Austral canned peaches. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    9:24 MacPhee Pontiac

    • now MacPhee Chev after the changes at GM but still a huge dealer, used to always bug me as a kid why Mike McPhee would have a dealership and call it MACPhee.