Vintage Lex Brodie Tire Hawaii Commercial

For all you folks who lived in Hawaii 30 years ago this is a Lex Brodie ad. You can see more at their site. I wonder where that caveman sign is now? it would look spiffy in my living room.

[@kuikelly6646]

Lex was a businessman with integrity & true island style tradition.
Thank you, for the many memories.
A well respected celebrity in my growing up in the islands, & community.
Thank you, very much.

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

When I was first learning how to speak as a toddler I would always say “Hi Yex!” when this commercial came on. Thank you for posting this. I’ve been away from Hawaii for many years now. But will always be my home and I will always be local.

[@HazeyAllDazey]

I grew up seeing this commercial

[@LesZoa]

Thank you! VERY much!

[@erictoniaschwab1009]

as a kid I'd say "hi Yex" because I couldn't say Lex. He opened up the store I remember the most in Waipahu next to the sky slide.

[@ToddBeck]

Thanks for posting this. Classic! My father still (30 years later) jumps into his Lex Brodie imitation: "A fellow came in the other day..."

[@phill0329]

My wife was a "Fast Gas" girl in 1975-1976 at the Waipahu store, and she really enjoyed working there. She moved inside to be a bookkeeper later.

[@dharmabird67]

Now if I could only find the old House of Adler commercial - 'if you aren't buying your diamonds at the House of Adler, you are paying too much' and the old Cutter Ford commercial with Melveen Leed... I feel old..sniff

[@hebneh]

No, it wasn't Melveen Leed, it was Loyal Garner: "At Cutter Ford Aiea, where you make the deals!"

[@TheMidnightCloak]

Thank you. Very much.

[@adrianluis9487]

Good times!

[@flashesofblack4128]

Thank you for posting this add. Lex was such a great and kind man and really knew the Aloha way. I used to do business with his son Sandy with "Sandy's Windward Cycles" in Kailua. I bought a few bikes from him. I road raced representing him on a Jawa 350. He like his dad was a nice guy also.

[@MrBagley55]

Them thar were the days!

[@thelug]

thank you very much.

[@takfam07]

MAHALO for this classic piece of Hawaii nostalgia!! Not sure if Lex Brodie is still alive. But he was a regular at Canoes (Waikiki surf spot) well into old age.

[@jewellgroove]

omg i totally remember this!!!

[@fdperalta]

Da memories!

[@hebneh]

Lex Brody was one of a number of people who became famous locally ("Recently a tire customer said to me, 'Lex...'") by appearing in TV commercials: Carmen Hedlund for Carol & Mary, Josephine for Consumer City, Connie Conrad for Security Diamond and Conrad Jewelers "on the two busiest corners in Ala Moana Center" (replaced by Berj Buchakian), Jiro Matsui for Petland, Al Yim for Island Motors ("We've got to have 75 to 100 good used cars right away"), and the notorious unidentified young women who stiffly recited their lines in a Rinso detergent commercial that barraged us endlessly on all three commercial stations several times every night: "But you sure buy Rinso!" "Doesn't EVERYONE?"

[@jaydubya3698]

Oh man...how can you forget Lippy Espinda? "When you no see me, no moa guarantee..." Shame on you! LOL

[@hebneh]

@@jaydubya3698 I mistakenly thought someone else had already mentioned Lippy in another comment, but in looking again I see I was wrong. He was such a big name that he also hosted a movie on Saturday afternoons on channel 2 for awhile in the early 1970s. He had guests that he interviewed during commercial breaks in the movie.

[@jessicatevnan3137]

Skippy from Aurora, The House of Lighting

[@jessicatevnan3137]

The guy who falls into the pool: No Huhu, it's Magoo's, when your sunny days are through

[@jessicatevnan3137]

I think it was a local kid who said, "heeey! Come and be MY neighbor at Ponderosa Pines. Call now, For Shure!"

[@chisquared100]

Lex was very smart. He was my uncle.

[@ariake7]

RIP Mr. Brodie

[@haroldwetherell8087]

With affection we called him "Poppa Tire""