some vintage commercials, a Bill Kennedy wraparound segment and a WKBD 50 news update featuring Amyre Makupson are all to be found in this great 1979 clip.
When you were sick and stayed home from school, Detroit -Windsor area, your day started with cartoons in the morning , Popeye, Underdog,Bill Kennedy movie, then The Munsters, Addams Family and the Brady Bunch.
I was bill Kennedy's paperboy.Met him many times at his Grosse Pointe Shores home.He had so many autographed photos of Hollywood stars.Nice guy from the classic days of Hollywood .
We had the BEST newscasters on all 3 channels back in the day!! All the ladies were so classy (Carmen Harlan, Doris Biscoe, Diana Lewis, and certainly Amyre Makipson) and crazy ass Bill Bonds!! Loved them all, they felt like family, you could rely on them to be professional always. Women to look up to and admire. That generation of women were so strong and had so many more difficulties to overcome with regard to breaking the glass ceiling. They paved the way.
I grew up watching this lady newscaster as a child in Michigan. She must have really made an impact on my young mind because from time to time when I think about what I watched on TV back in the 80s, she is the only newscasters name I can remember. I'm feeling nostalgic thinking about how 2,4,7,20, and 50 were the top channels back in the day (Detroit metro area).😍 Fun fact: I grew up across the street from the Silverdome. I could see the dome roof from the end of my driveway (7:31). 🏀 Knickerbockers ...😂. I'm sure they appreciate their modern name now.
@@dragonsbreath1984 Amen! Good ol CBC....they also carried Wok with Yan! A cooking show featuring Yan showing us how to make Chinese dishes...loved that show and always wanted Chinese food afterwards...
These were my glory days, I remember staying with my grandparents in flint. We’d watch GMA, then Alice, the price is right, the Beverly hillbillies, the munsters and Bill Kennedy maybe, but usually I’d play during the movie, come back for marvel superheroes on Chanel 20!
We used to pick up WKBD on cable here in Upper Michigan (north of the bridge!) It was awesome - Bill Kennedy, Red Wings, watching the Munsters and the Brady Bunch after school. The Creature Feature on Saturday afternoons and The Ghoul on Saturday nights. The 3 Stooges and Benny Hill. I miss those days!
I remember when I first watched TV50 Detroit. It was around this time when I was in 1st grade! Amyre Makupson was the only newscaster that I liked to watch. Bill Kennedy was very interesting [he was voice over in Superman circa 1940/50] and having the last name Kennedy I was convinced he was a relative of mine! LOL So this was broadcast on Friday, March 16th, 1979 and was probably around 2:45 pm because cartoons started at 3pm on TV50! Love this clip....wish I could find more. Just watching these old TV commercials you can see the affluent people [aka "middle class"]. Growing up in the Flint area I knew stuff started to change [and not for the better] in 1980/81 when GM Roger Smith announced the destruction of the UAW and hence American middle class. Although my Dad was GM managment he always told me that he was paid well because the UAW was paid well too. I miss these days....especially here in Summer 2020....
I was 15 years old when this was on. We couldn't wait to get home to watch the cartoons. Rita bell and the 4:00 movie. Channel 50 and 20 were cool in those days. Beverly payne was the super hot newscaster on channel 2. Bill kennedy had some cool gangster movies. I went to edmondson and Pelham schools. I grew up at Hancock and Forest. We had an A&P and a Cunningham's drug store on the corner of forest and Trumbull. The original Marbel bar, stein's clothes, lamar's restaurant, the ice cream parlor, Tiger cleaners, and Kresge's on Trumbull. Soft ball was very big back then. The rivalry was the Hole v the Lexington Trotters. They played at the corner of Trumbull and Warren. One guy Larry of the trotters could hit a ton. When he came up to bat, the crowd would tell " Taxi " because you were going to need it to go get the ball. He even got a try out with the tigers because scouts heard about him and came to see him hit. Man his shots were tape wires. Before fretters you had highland appliance. If he couldn't beat your best deal , you got 5 pounds of coffee. Belvedere construction, Red barn chicken, jack in the box, and top hat hamburgers. Milky the clown and twin pines dairy. Mr.softee would come down the street after dark and you'd bum a buck from your dad to get a treat. Mr.Tony selling fruit and vegetables from the back of his old truck. My mom would hear him coming down the street and frantically go thru her purse to give me some money and tell me to hurry because she needed some potatoes and onions or tomatoes she forgot to pick up at the store. The loud alarm in the morning at 7:00am that signaled the little store in the middle of the block around the corner was opening up. An awesome place that even had a full meat counter.the candy store on forest and lincoln where you really could buy penny candy. Sadly as the 1970's ended so did most of these places. Some had left before due to the riots of 67. Even though our area was about 70/30 whites to blacks, and in the shadows of wayne state University, it still spilled over to trumbull.a lot of stores were burned. Stein's and the ice cream parlor were toast. The Cunningham's and Tiger cleaners were damaged and the A&P was completely destroyed. Parton tanks rolling down Trumbull and the national guard on the corners. But in a year it was all pretty much rebuilt. Stein's however chose to leave as did the owners of the ice cream parlor. He just cried when he saw what they did to his place. He had about 2 hundred of these very expensive porcelain models of just about every ice cream dish or cone you could think of and I think he was able to find about 7 or 8 that were not broken or smashed. He had been in business for over 40 years. We moved a short time later over to commonwealth and Canfield. I'll never forget how beautiful our neighborhood was. It's all gone now. Only the old A&P building is still there. But it's in sad shape from when I was a kid. Detroit in the sixty's and seventies was still nice. After that it went straight to hell. Thank you Coleman young. But that's another story.
This brings back memories. I'm in N. Ontario Canada, and I think I watched WKBD more than CBC. Olly Fretter, LOL. I can remember all those shows like The Ghoul, Tom Snyder, Barry Farber, Lou Gordon, and I think Kimba as well Speed Racer was aired on that station. I also watched WNEM Ch 12 Flint, MI. I think PM Magazine was aired on that channel. This tape you found is like finding buried treasure. Awesome. Cheers.
You got the WKBD in northern Ontario? I'm very familiar with it as I've mainly lived in Windsor for most of my 48 years but as it came out of Detroit, I'm really surprised that it broadcast that far up Ontario!
@@wangson It was on cable. That's why we were receiving it from so far. And that goes back to having just the rotary dial before we got the cable box that sits on top of the TV.
Thx for posting. This is great super nostalgia. I remember watching television in my dorm room at the University of Detroit and watching the station. Detroit in the 70s was really something else. When the American auto industry and factories were kings and Detroit hosted automotive royalty: Ford, GM and Chrysler. Downtown, Woodward Ave, nightclubs, Palmer Park, Greggs Pizza, Livernois Avenue of Fashion.
Remember the Midnight Madness sale for Highland Appliance? Only at Midnight! I was 12 when this clip in the 7th grade, and was a true die hard TV kid. Loved Bill Kennedy at the Movies. Channel 50 ruled! Love watching the stooges, never got tired of it. Bugs was great after school (better than the 3 hour Saturday ones). Iran still had our guys hostage then.. Dearborn had arabs then too, but now...it went from little Lebanon, to just Lebanon. It sux here..unless your middle eastern. *sigh*
Thanks for posting this! For some reason i had a flashback and wanted to see a clip of bill Kennedy. I was going to search for Amyre Makupson next but i got a 2 for 1 sweet!
Ahhh...local Detroit TV! Grew up watching this, loved every minute. If you're really into it, check out the book "TV Land Detroit"...it has most of the shows, like "Sir Graves Ghastly", "Jingles in Boofland", and "Soupy Sales". Highly recommended!
You're right - I thought because Tigers and Pistons both played and because weather was in the 50's as a high it was October, but Isreal/Egypt peace was in March. Nice Job.
I was 11 when this aired and I am from Bay City so this wasn't a local channel for me. I remember watching it on Gerity Cable channel 6 way back then. I completely forgot about Ollie Fretter probably because only Highland Appliance made it this far North. Highland had the best low budget commercials, didn't they?! Thanks for posting this and bringing back happy things from waaaaaay back!
I remember that Kaufman Furniture ad!! Haven't seen it in over 40 years, forgot all about it until I saw it. Has it been that long? Also remember the Fretter ad...this was towards the end, his earlier ads were much simpler (no blue screen). I also remember that newscaster and last but not least - Bill Kennedy, who I used to think looked older than God, looks almost youthful to me now. Amazing!
I remember the Kaufman furniture commercials. I used to watch Bill Kennedy all the time. I liked it when he talked about Hollywood starts that "he knew". I also used to watch hard to find movies on channel 62.
Man, those news stories...I'd forgotten how much the world changed since my pre-teens, 30 long years ago. Thank God the Israelis and Palestinians finally worked out all their problems, and that pot was finally legalized!
My old neighborhood. Salem Square Foods which later became Perry and then Riteaide, and now Walgreens. Someone commented here that this came from an old Betamax tape? It just so happens that my late uncle had the very first TV and VCR Combo known as the LV-1901. For all I know, this could have been one of his tapes that was unloaded at some garage sale as he went to VHS in 1983. Also, it’s impressive that there are all local ads, and no ads for injury lawyers or anything like that.
took me back to staying up too late when I was 5. This was October - weather high in the 50's, both Tigers and Pistons played. Amyre was one of the local staples of my yough and hearing her voice took me right there all over again. Bill Kennedy was WASTED. Those commercials were great too! I know this has been up almost a decade but thanks! EDIT: Poster below showed this was March.
I'm sure the Tigers were playing in Lakeland during Spring Training. For one thing, they kept mentioned St. Patrick's Day (which happens in March). For another, the Tigers beat the Phillies. They did not do inter-league play back in 1979 except in Spring Training. And the Pistons would still have been playing basketball in March.
captian lightfoot, hey that's my last name for real lol. and i remember this all to well. i was a preteen during the time. channel 50 was my afternoon line-up
Amazing to hear white male voices on TV again...truly a thing of the past. Ollie Fretter and the other local business owner's doing their own commercials...haven't seen them in decades! What a great clip. Really takes me back to some of my happiest days!!!!
WKBD Channel 50 Detroit was the home of Red Wings Hockey back in the day! I had moved away from Detroit prior to 1979, but in the 60s and early 70s at least the Red Wings were on channel 50. So were reruns of "Lost In Space" at 5 pm every weekday. Also Lou Gordon. On other channels I can remember watching Milky The Clown as a child! Does anyone else remember Milky? How about Captain Jolly and the Popeye Cartoons?
Ah yes, Windsor stations. I never put any thought into that. Being right across from you would be all sorts of stations, including FM radio. Thanks for the reply.
Watching this video, seeing this; I saw the newslady....'what was her name.......??🤨....Amyre Makeupson!....' Had to think back, but I got it. She was very good at that.
I'm from Cleveland, but could pick up the Detroit stations whenever there was a lake inversion. Used to love listening to Bill Kennedy (a third rate character actor) drunkenly blather on about all of the big shot actors that he "knew personally". That chick in the furniture ad was rocking a Tammy Faye Bakker hairdo. Yuck.
@ChevyManSS350 I was in college then (in Ann Arbor) and remember those Channel 50 programs very well. By the way I was driving a sharp '72 Skylark in '79. But don't feel bad--today is also "the good old days", we just don't know it yet ;)
Kimba and Speed Racer were on channel 56, not 50 (in Detroit area). But I do remember those shows so well from when I was a kid. Loved Kimba. (Funny that you watched our channels. We watched CBET sometimes and we'd get so excited when the antenna picked up t.v. channel 13 from Toledo, Ohio. lol)
We got 11 from Toledo. I don't know if we ever watched 13. I know it was a Toledo station, though. TV Guide used to list them al. I watched 9, every day, for Mr. Dressup, The Friendly Giant, and a second dose of Sesame Street, with French, instead of Spanish, lol.
Gosh.. The Kaufman commercial and that hideous furniture. That stuff belongs in a goodwill. Bill Kennedy looks like a guy that you would see at the Country Club sipping Martinis.
When you were sick and stayed home from school, Detroit -Windsor area, your day started with cartoons in the morning , Popeye, Underdog,Bill Kennedy movie, then The Munsters, Addams Family and the Brady Bunch.
Kimba the White Lion and Felix the Cat
And if you were lucky, planet of the apes week, Ultra man, and Johnny Sockos Robot.
LOKISlog7 I seem to remember the Three Stooges in that line up. Channel 20 had Ultraman & Johnny Socko so it was always a tough call, after 3:30.
DDiskin69 Both of those were on Channel 62/WGPR.
David Lane Channel 20/WXON
Love this I was ten when this aired I remember her and him God I wish we could go back to this era
Same here. On every account. I miss those good old days.
How about now ? Sigh
Before you had cable satellite or the net you had local tv shows to entertain you. Miss those days.
We watched a lot of boring shows.
I was bill Kennedy's paperboy.Met him many times at his Grosse Pointe Shores home.He had so many autographed photos of Hollywood stars.Nice guy from the classic days of Hollywood .
Bill was a B movie/ bit part actor. He met lots of actors when he was in Hollywood. I loved his stories.
That is awesome!
Those were the days of my childhood, great days!!! How far we as a nation have fallen!!!! Sad.
Omg, that woman's hairdo in the opening commercial, cracked me up! It reminded me of The Grand Ole Opry in the 60's!
Roberto Abrams yes she looks like Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette
Tobie Kaufman of Kaufman Furniture. Those poorly done commercials were a staple of Detroit TV back in the 70s and 80s.
We had the BEST newscasters on all 3 channels back in the day!! All the ladies were so classy (Carmen Harlan, Doris Biscoe, Diana Lewis, and certainly Amyre Makipson) and crazy ass Bill Bonds!!
Loved them all, they felt like family, you could rely on them to be professional always. Women to look up to and admire. That generation of women were so strong and had so many more difficulties to overcome with regard to breaking the glass ceiling. They paved the way.
WOW! this whole tape gave me flashbacks! Awesome thanks for posting, from a grateful Detroiter
I grew up watching this lady newscaster as a child in Michigan. She must have really made an impact on my young mind because from time to time when I think about what I watched on TV back in the 80s, she is the only newscasters name I can remember.
I'm feeling nostalgic thinking about how 2,4,7,20, and 50 were the top channels back in the day (Detroit metro area).😍
Fun fact: I grew up across the street from the Silverdome. I could see the dome roof from the end of my driveway (7:31).
🏀 Knickerbockers ...😂. I'm sure they appreciate their modern name now.
You forgot channel 9 out of Windsor! That’s how I got to tune in to the Dr. Who episodes.
Same here.
@@dragonsbreath1984 Amen! Good ol CBC....they also carried Wok with Yan! A cooking show featuring Yan showing us how to make Chinese dishes...loved that show and always wanted Chinese food afterwards...
Wow. This takes me back. I use to skip school to watch "Bill Kennedy at the Movies"!
These were my glory days, I remember staying with my grandparents in flint. We’d watch GMA, then Alice, the price is right, the Beverly hillbillies, the munsters and Bill Kennedy maybe, but usually I’d play during the movie, come back for marvel superheroes on Chanel 20!
you view ch 45
We used to pick up WKBD on cable here in Upper Michigan (north of the bridge!) It was awesome - Bill Kennedy, Red Wings, watching the Munsters and the Brady Bunch after school. The Creature Feature on Saturday afternoons and The Ghoul on Saturday nights. The 3 Stooges and Benny Hill. I miss those days!
Playboy infomercial at midnight lol
I remember when I first watched TV50 Detroit. It was around this time when I was in 1st grade! Amyre Makupson was the only newscaster that I liked to watch. Bill Kennedy was very interesting [he was voice over in Superman circa 1940/50] and having the last name Kennedy I was convinced he was a relative of mine! LOL
So this was broadcast on Friday, March 16th, 1979 and was probably around 2:45 pm because cartoons started at 3pm on TV50!
Love this clip....wish I could find more. Just watching these old TV commercials you can see the affluent people [aka "middle class"]. Growing up in the Flint area I knew stuff started to change [and not for the better] in 1980/81 when GM Roger Smith announced the destruction of the UAW and hence American middle class. Although my Dad was GM managment he always told me that he was paid well because the UAW was paid well too.
I miss these days....especially here in Summer 2020....
I was 15 years old when this was on. We couldn't wait to get home to watch the cartoons. Rita bell and the 4:00 movie. Channel 50 and 20 were cool in those days. Beverly payne was the super hot newscaster on channel 2. Bill kennedy had some cool gangster movies. I went to edmondson and Pelham schools. I grew up at Hancock and Forest. We had an A&P and a Cunningham's drug store on the corner of forest and Trumbull. The original Marbel bar, stein's clothes, lamar's restaurant, the ice cream parlor, Tiger cleaners, and Kresge's on Trumbull. Soft ball was very big back then. The rivalry was the Hole v the Lexington Trotters. They played at the corner of Trumbull and Warren. One guy Larry of the trotters could hit a ton. When he came up to bat, the crowd would tell " Taxi " because you were going to need it to go get the ball. He even got a try out with the tigers because scouts heard about him and came to see him hit. Man his shots were tape wires. Before fretters you had highland appliance. If he couldn't beat your best deal , you got 5 pounds of coffee. Belvedere construction, Red barn chicken, jack in the box, and top hat hamburgers. Milky the clown and twin pines dairy. Mr.softee would come down the street after dark and you'd bum a buck from your dad to get a treat. Mr.Tony selling fruit and vegetables from the back of his old truck. My mom would hear him coming down the street and frantically go thru her purse to give me some money and tell me to hurry because she needed some potatoes and onions or tomatoes she forgot to pick up at the store. The loud alarm in the morning at 7:00am that signaled the little store in the middle of the block around the corner was opening up. An awesome place that even had a full meat counter.the candy store on forest and lincoln where you really could buy penny candy. Sadly as the 1970's ended so did most of these places. Some had left before due to the riots of 67. Even though our area was about 70/30 whites to blacks, and in the shadows of wayne state University, it still spilled over to trumbull.a lot of stores were burned. Stein's and the ice cream parlor were toast. The Cunningham's and Tiger cleaners were damaged and the A&P was completely destroyed. Parton tanks rolling down Trumbull and the national guard on the corners. But in a year it was all pretty much rebuilt. Stein's however chose to leave as did the owners of the ice cream parlor. He just cried when he saw what they did to his place. He had about 2 hundred of these very expensive porcelain models of just about every ice cream dish or cone you could think of and I think he was able to find about 7 or 8 that were not broken or smashed. He had been in business for over 40 years. We moved a short time later over to commonwealth and Canfield. I'll never forget how beautiful our neighborhood was. It's all gone now. Only the old A&P building is still there. But it's in sad shape from when I was a kid. Detroit in the sixty's and seventies was still nice. After that it went straight to hell. Thank you Coleman young. But that's another story.
as of year 61
Remember Mel Farr Super Star ?
"..........for a Farr better deal!" ---- that song is now going through my head!
My favorite was me and dog going to go down to telegraph road and buy a new car
For a Far better deal!
Mel Farr superstar for a far better deal
@@hugoflores6866 I want you to go to telegraph rd. right now, get a good deal.
This brings back memories. I'm in N. Ontario Canada, and I think I watched WKBD more than CBC. Olly Fretter, LOL. I can remember all those shows like The Ghoul, Tom Snyder, Barry Farber, Lou Gordon, and I think Kimba as well Speed Racer was aired on that station. I also watched WNEM Ch 12 Flint, MI. I think PM Magazine was aired on that channel. This tape you found is like finding buried treasure. Awesome.
Cheers.
You got the WKBD in northern Ontario? I'm very familiar with it as I've mainly lived in Windsor for most of my 48 years but as it came out of Detroit, I'm really surprised that it broadcast that far up Ontario!
@@wangson It was on cable. That's why we were receiving it from so far. And that goes back to having just the rotary dial before we got the cable box that sits on top of the TV.
Ollie Fretter was a legendary OG
Daryl Mcalister didn't he offer free coffee if he couldn't beat the deal ?
@@Imintune... “I’ll give you five pounds of coffee if I can’t beat your best deal!”
And don’t forget Mickey Schorr and Father & Son Construction.
Thx for posting. This is great super nostalgia. I remember watching television in my dorm room at the University of Detroit and watching the station. Detroit in the 70s was really something else. When the American auto industry and factories were kings and Detroit hosted automotive royalty: Ford, GM and Chrysler. Downtown, Woodward Ave, nightclubs, Palmer Park, Greggs Pizza, Livernois Avenue of Fashion.
Long Live Bill Kennedy! A tv legend!
Amen!!! Those were the good days!!! Unlike the world we're living in now!!
@@anjeanetteharris6097truth...
REmember when you were sick and stayed home. Channel 50 kids programs until 1:00 then Bill Kennedy movie and cartoons again from 3-5
The good old days
Remember the Midnight Madness sale for Highland Appliance? Only at Midnight!
I was 12 when this clip in the 7th grade, and was a true die hard TV kid. Loved Bill Kennedy at the Movies. Channel 50 ruled! Love watching the stooges, never got tired of it. Bugs was great after school (better than the 3 hour Saturday ones).
Iran still had our guys hostage then.. Dearborn had arabs then too, but now...it went from little Lebanon, to just Lebanon. It sux here..unless your middle eastern. *sigh*
What a blast from the past. Thanks for uploading!
Wow! I haven't seen this stuff since I was a kid! I bought my first Beta VCR at Fretter!
Amir Makupson!! She was very good! They don't have Newscasters like her anymore.
I live in Chatham Ontario and i grew up watching 50 on the tv. Great American tv.
Thanks for posting this! For some reason i had a flashback and wanted to see a clip of bill Kennedy. I was going to search for Amyre Makupson next but i got a 2 for 1 sweet!
Ahhh...local Detroit TV! Grew up watching this, loved every minute. If you're really into it, check out the book "TV Land Detroit"...it has most of the shows, like "Sir Graves Ghastly", "Jingles in Boofland", and "Soupy Sales". Highly recommended!
Who was the guy who introduced Channel 50’s cartoons? It seems like it was Don something.
@@dmrr7739 It might have been, will find out what his last name is.
Those were much better times!!!
She was a guest on Fox 2's "Let It Rip" segment last night (July 20, 2017)! She looked and sounded almost exactly the same!
I haven’t seen that news lady in decades! I remember her!
If my deductions are correct, this is from March 16, 1979. 6 months before I was born. Wow, man.
Jason S. Smith , I was 8 years and 3 months old in the 2nd grade at Edison Elementary.
You're right - I thought because Tigers and Pistons both played and because weather was in the 50's as a high it was October, but Isreal/Egypt peace was in March. Nice Job.
He knew many actors. Bill was after all an actor in many movies also.
I was 11 when this aired and I am from Bay City so this wasn't a local channel for me. I remember watching it on Gerity Cable channel 6 way back then. I completely forgot about Ollie Fretter probably because only Highland Appliance made it this far North. Highland had the best low budget commercials, didn't they?! Thanks for posting this and bringing back happy things from waaaaaay back!
as of age 13
Lived up in Bay City as a kid and remember Bill Kennedy at the movies on channel 50
During the summer, us kids would stay up late to watch Benny Hill & The 3 Stooges.
Just prior to cable TV. A better time.
Yes a wonderful time loved this time I was 10 yrs old good memories
Really? I remember watching a lot of boring TV because there was nothing on 5 channels.
I remember that Kaufman Furniture ad!! Haven't seen it in over 40 years, forgot all about it until I saw it. Has it been that long? Also remember the Fretter ad...this was towards the end, his earlier ads were much simpler (no blue screen). I also remember that newscaster and last but not least - Bill Kennedy, who I used to think looked older than God, looks almost youthful to me now. Amazing!
Fretter Appliance, Ollie Fretter! Ah, the memories. I bought my first TV from them too many years ago! lol
Man I remember Amyre Makupson, even as a kid I thought she was a very pretty woman.
I remember the Kaufman furniture commercials. I used to watch Bill Kennedy all the time. I liked it when he talked about Hollywood starts that "he knew". I also used to watch hard to find movies on channel 62.
Hey, it's Amyre Makeupson and old Bill Kennedy! That dude, along with Rita Bell, is responsible for my encyclopedic knowledge of movie history.
OMG! Kaufman Furniture and that queen bee hairstyle! LOL I hope they found her body.
Did she go missing?
Thank thank thank you for posting this video.
Kennedy at the movies your question please!
Great show, host & actor, and movie selection.
I think he drove a white 1957 Ford Thunderbird classic.
I still live in Michigan I remember bill Kennedy at the movies 💙
Me to I grew up in upper Michigan we watched this my grandparents use to watch this channel when they would babysit my two cousins and I good memories
Recession on the horizon. Here come Reaganomics.....
Excellent quality! Takes me back
Awesome thanks for sharing. I was 10 years old and I remember it well.
I hail from Escanaba,Michigan.We had Cable TV then,also including W.K.B.D.I used to turn it on after I arrived from School all the time.
Me too. From Escanaba & remember this time well.
Man, those news stories...I'd forgotten how much the world changed since my pre-teens, 30 long years ago. Thank God the Israelis and Palestinians finally worked out all their problems, and that pot was finally legalized!
the news clip on this 1979 video sounds very similar to the news we here in 2015 we need to WAKE up
Thanks for posting...I love stuff like this.
My old neighborhood. Salem Square Foods which later became Perry and then Riteaide, and now Walgreens. Someone commented here that this came from an old Betamax tape? It just so happens that my late uncle had the very first TV and VCR Combo known as the LV-1901. For all I know, this could have been one of his tapes that was unloaded at some garage sale as he went to VHS in 1983. Also, it’s impressive that there are all local ads, and no ads for injury lawyers or anything like that.
took me back to staying up too late when I was 5. This was October - weather high in the 50's, both Tigers and Pistons played. Amyre was one of the local staples of my yough and hearing her voice took me right there all over again. Bill Kennedy was WASTED. Those commercials were great too! I know this has been up almost a decade but thanks! EDIT: Poster below showed this was March.
I'm sure the Tigers were playing in Lakeland during Spring Training. For one thing, they kept mentioned St. Patrick's Day (which happens in March). For another, the Tigers beat the Phillies. They did not do inter-league play back in 1979 except in Spring Training. And the Pistons would still have been playing basketball in March.
Amyre Makeupson was HOT!
A classic Casper the Ghost next those were the days
I lived in Flint for most of my childhood. I remember the Ollie Fretter commercials. They were bad.
They've been trying to legalize pot forever! Good god!
James Hollister And in 2019, it’s finally happening in MI! Too bad I live in TN, but miss MI even more now 🥴
I remember Fretter Appliance!
30 news stories per minute lol. I see you Amyre!
@briandonald I found it on a Betamax tape that thankfully the original taper did not erase or throw away
captian lightfoot, hey that's my last name for real lol. and i remember this all to well. i was a preteen during the time. channel 50 was my afternoon line-up
When news was just news
Amazing to hear white male voices on TV again...truly a thing of the past. Ollie Fretter and the other local business owner's doing their own commercials...haven't seen them in decades! What a great clip. Really takes me back to some of my happiest days!!!!
W.K.B.D stands for "Were Kaiser Broadcasting of Detroit".In reference to its owner it had for years.
The Kaiser Broadcasting System--seems almost as long ago as the Kaiser of Germany one one hand, and on the other hand like yesterday.
WKBD Channel 50 Detroit was the home of Red Wings Hockey back in the day! I had moved away from Detroit prior to 1979, but in the 60s and early 70s at least the Red Wings were on channel 50. So were reruns of "Lost In Space" at 5 pm every weekday. Also Lou Gordon. On other channels I can remember watching Milky The Clown as a child! Does anyone else remember Milky? How about Captain Jolly and the Popeye Cartoons?
Love it good memories!
Society today could use more men like Mr. Kennedy.
Memories
OMG.. I miss those days, I really really do 😂 I had to skip thru to see if Dittrick Furs was gonna show up
What a great post. What memories. WOW! Now I feel old(er).
LOL. The Kaufman Furniture girl. Blondzilla.
Ah yes, Windsor stations. I never put any thought into that. Being right across from you would be all sorts of stations, including FM radio. Thanks for the reply.
Great era of 📺
Lightfoot is my last name 😂😂😂 i forgot about that movie @8:48 captain Lightfoot 😅😂
I like the Pontiac commercial. I bet that lil car worth a lot now
Earl Shibbe (?) "I'd paint any car any colour for 29.95"
Back when television was clean ..
Marie Ford it still is
Watching this video, seeing this; I saw the newslady....'what was her name.......??🤨....Amyre Makeupson!....' Had to think back, but I got it. She was very good at that.
Oh oh, when Bill Kennedy’s over, time for cartoons!!!
3:00 PM.
I'm from Cleveland, but could pick up the Detroit stations whenever there was a lake inversion. Used to love listening to Bill Kennedy (a third rate character actor) drunkenly blather on about all of the big shot actors that he "knew personally". That chick in the furniture ad was rocking a Tammy Faye Bakker hairdo. Yuck.
@ChevyManSS350 I was in college then (in Ann Arbor) and remember those Channel 50 programs very well. By the way I was driving a sharp '72 Skylark in '79. But don't feel bad--today is also "the good old days", we just don't know it yet ;)
I was 14 at the time it appeared.No School that day also.
I wonder how many of those home furnishings are burned up in abandoned homes right now.
It might be an odd subreference, but Olly Fretter's uniform and schtick remind me of Howard Stern's Fartman.
OMG. Toby from Kauffman furniture!!!
Boy, she looks familiar! I think she worked here in L.A. for a time in the late '70s.
She still looks the same
Kimba and Speed Racer were on channel 56, not 50 (in Detroit area). But I do remember those shows so well from when I was a kid. Loved Kimba. (Funny that you watched our channels. We watched CBET sometimes and we'd get so excited when the antenna picked up t.v. channel 13 from Toledo, Ohio. lol)
Lisa67 Kimba, SpeedRacer, Felix the Cat and the Adventures of Popeye were on channel 62
56? PBS? Those aren't what I'd expect on public TV.
@@tbb033 no the independents were wjbk wxon & wkbd
We got 11 from Toledo. I don't know if we ever watched 13. I know it was a Toledo station, though. TV Guide used to list them al. I watched 9, every day, for Mr. Dressup, The Friendly Giant, and a second dose of Sesame Street, with French, instead of Spanish, lol.
Gosh.. The Kaufman commercial and that hideous furniture. That stuff belongs in a goodwill. Bill Kennedy looks like a guy that you would see at the Country Club sipping Martinis.
Furniture only an arab could love.
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Makes me think of pbs and sesame Street and all the shows on that channel
“A mirror makeup, son!”
She didn't have a real son. She had A mere make up son.
that's hilarious
db Music Productions awesome
Where did you get this? This is great. Good quality video. Takes me back.
WOW! Look at the Wig on the Kaufmans Commercial lady!
Hard to believe...$217 for a small portable color TV at Fretter. Can get a nice sized flat screen for that price now
Not to mention what $217 was actually worth back then!!!
That coffee is $13.00 in 2020 terms. Yes about $13 for a container of instant coffee. Must have been hard to make back then
i do....he used to wear a red cape....
@greenbeld WOW that just took me way back!!!
the lady in the Kaufman furniture commercial looks like Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette I hope y’all will reply to this
I agree, she is good lookin'!
And she is doing commericals today!