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Originally Posted by edison64
the car dealer your thinking of was Bert Wineman as he would say "come down and see these beauties at 3535 North Ashland Ave" the spots were like 5 min long and featured several new and used cars. you can see some of his commercials on youtube the spots usally were run on sunday afternoon douring the lone ranger, the cisco kid and the noon movie. 1 week charlie chan the next sherlock holmes, and right into familey classics time frame was from the early 60s th the early 80s
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I do remember Bert Weinman, who was the longest-term TV auto sales spokesman in Chicago, but that is not what I was mentioning. Jim Moran "The Courtesy Man" had a large part of the repair shop kept clean and painted. WGN installed banks of fluorescent light pans and did remotes from there on weekend nights (Saturday or Friday?). Moran sponsored the Saturday(?) night movie - they would show 10 minutes of the movie, enough to get you hooked, then he would do a 20-minute long commercial, and then finish the movie without interruption.
More about him here:
http://www.jimmoranfoundation.org/Bu...ABusiness.aspx