1980s commercials from Nova Scotia

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14 жыл бұрын

A reel of commercials aired in Halifax Nova Scotia during the late 1980s on CBC, ATV and MITV (now Global) for various companies. Highlights include TK's Carpet Warehouse, Casino Taxi and other familiar ads and jingles.
0:00 Papa Gino's Restaurant
0:32 High Liner
1:02 Pizza Delight (Nobody Loves You Better)
1:33 Crown Real Estate Ltd. (First Lake Estates Sackville)
1:58 Bud McDonald Pontiac Buick GMC
2:29 Chebucto Ford
2:59 Miss Murphy's Business College
3:30 Super Loto (Corvette Convertible)
4:02 Gordon Shaw Concrete
4:33 Nova Scotia Tourism (Step into fun today, step in a world of play)
5:03 Casino Taxi
5:32 Ben's Bakery (Buns Happytime Ben's)
5:49 Cindy's Restaurant
6:18 TK's Carpet
6:49 Yellow Pages
7:20 Scotia Square
7:51 Mad Man McKay's
8:23 Reliable TV
8:53 Creighton's Food Brokers (Degelis Charcoal)
9:24 McPhee Pontiac (Mike McPhee, Montreal Canadiens)

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@exexalien 10 жыл бұрын

Never thought I'd sit down and voluntarily watch a ten-minute block of commercials, yet here we are.

@airaero5473 6 жыл бұрын

This was back when you can watch commercials without wanting to end yourself

@butler-macdonald8351 2 жыл бұрын

It's 2022, and this is the first time I've seen these commercials... because we always got up to get a snack or go pee when they originally came on back in the day 😂

@ScotianLady80 Жыл бұрын

Nov 2022 here. Haha crazy old beforetimes

@ScotianLady80 Жыл бұрын

Times before the area code was needed

@Snittyguy 2 жыл бұрын

And then of course none of us can forget Sobey's "Star of Christmas.........."

@masaharumorimoto4761 2 жыл бұрын

The TK's jingle almost teleported me back in time, fookin 30 years since I heard that 1, thanks for the blast!!!

@RedLink27 12 жыл бұрын

Most energetic pizza commercial I have ever seen... Way to go, Pizza Delight!

@DavidFraserable 3 жыл бұрын

It's 2020, I've been living in Atlanta for over 20 years... and I still know all the words to Casino Taxi's jingle (and I don't even know my own phone number.)

@NessaK1981 12 жыл бұрын

I work for Casino Taxi in the office there! Funny after all these years they have not felt the need to re-vamp or modernize the jingle...yup it still remains unchanged after all these decades! Guess they don't need to, as it's still pretty darn catchy though! Hilarious when people call for their cab (especially if they are drunk at a party) and I answer the phone and they are drunkenly yodeling the jingle!!!

@aronspidle138 2 жыл бұрын

It's funny, because that is how I remember the number, I hum the jingle. And, it is the only taxi company number that I do remember, lol.

@BeckBeckGo 2 жыл бұрын

Hell, when you're drunk it's the only taxi number you remember. That campaign was genius. Probably saved a lot of lives too.

@despicablemonster 2 жыл бұрын

They did actually add one thing to the Jingle at the end when they say now accepting Debit

@PhilMante 2 жыл бұрын

Trailer park boys gave them life in S7 & the '06 movie.

@sillykitten84 8 жыл бұрын

TK's Carpets! I have no idea why, but that jingle popped into my head the other day and I'm so glad I finally found the commercial. Now I can subject everyone else to it! :D

@Nekrocold 9 жыл бұрын

I came here for 05:03,the song Bubbles sings when he's baked in the car.hahaha

@B00BCUBE420 9 жыл бұрын

Nekrocold You Know It.

@outsiderzzzz 7 жыл бұрын

IM FUCKIN HIGH

@shanehiggins4983 6 жыл бұрын

this is still the jingle casino taxi runs on the radio. lol

@tristanstandingready523 4 жыл бұрын

It still plays

@luketracey3269 4 жыл бұрын

Nekrocold Check out " Sandbox - Curious" Bubbles was on guitar;) Also look up " Hip Club Groove" to see familiar faces. Or " Johnovision" lol...you're prob a local and know these things? 🍀

@M-7412 2 жыл бұрын

All these years later, and I still remember the lyrics to the Casino Taxi commercial. lol

@warobert 2 ай бұрын

This is my teenage years!!! Amazing!!!! Thanks for posting!!!!!

@jameshaviland6183 4 жыл бұрын

Okay... tell the truth... how many of you sang along with the Casino Taxi jingle? I still remember their number using that tune.

@snippetsofvictoria 11 жыл бұрын

I lived in Calgary for a while and even then the only taxi number I could remember was Casino! Didn't do me much good while I was 5000 km away!

@rightsideofhistory 10 жыл бұрын

$3.95 for lunch ??? Damn times have changed. haha

@AceSimGaming 6 жыл бұрын

that 3.95 back then is worth $11 now

@canadianmike711 5 жыл бұрын

rightsideofhistory yes it has

@jameshaviland6183 4 жыл бұрын

And a pickup truck for less than $10,000!

@donairsauce2496 2 жыл бұрын

casino taxi has to be one the best marketing jingle in history, a halifax staple as much as the dome

@pc902 11 жыл бұрын

I had no idea it would get this many views :)

@thatwhat17 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you and best of luck to you 🍻

@ratednom 11 жыл бұрын

im really amazed for 1980 commercials they are very good

@AndreNDP 11 жыл бұрын

Bubbles also sang the old Green Gables jingle while stoned...and there was the bit where he wakes up singing the Vogue Optical jingle in the first movie.

@murderc27 8 жыл бұрын

Oh Im fucking hiiiiiiigh!!!

@LardoiseGirl1976 12 жыл бұрын

This is awesome!! Takes me back to my childhood... Makes me homesick... Nova Scotia's commercials haven't changed much... HeHe!!

@joebull241 6 жыл бұрын

Shannon Labelle once a blue noser... Always a blue noser. I've been gone 22 years and still miss it.

@butler-macdonald8351 2 жыл бұрын

It's 2022 and Casino Taxi is still using that same jingle lol

@CLNSA 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting that Patrick! Loved every nostalgic second! Long live the boys from the Inglis St. hood and the pellet gun fights in Marlborough woods. - David Ross.

@p.l.h.9661 3 жыл бұрын

Happy nobody loves me better than Pizza Delight

@TheCoffeechat 8 жыл бұрын

I ate crocodile at Cindy's, circa 1984...fine Cajun Qua-zine. The lost years in Halifax....what a party!

@thebunker1618 6 жыл бұрын

These are great! I remember 75% of them.

@JayJayPee123 12 жыл бұрын

That jingle for Casino Taxi is etched in my brain - I never forgot their number. Whoever wrote that jingle deserves a reward.

@shinyplasticbag 14 жыл бұрын

This is utterly fantastic. Thanks for sharing it.

@Ripplin 11 жыл бұрын

I really, really hope that someday, someone uploads a Green Gables commercial. I've been checking from time to time for many years now...

@Zloticzko 2 жыл бұрын

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@ACS402010 6 жыл бұрын

I had a mad crush on Ron Zema as a teenage girl....loved his voice...lol

@petrov32 13 жыл бұрын

SO VERY AWESOME! Thanks for posting.

@weebsurfer 14 жыл бұрын

Holy Hell this is truly outrageous... truly truly outrageous !!!! ;) Thanks so much for posting!

@alexfesler7006 7 жыл бұрын

80's Nova Scotia must've been L I T 🔥

@24jrjr 4 жыл бұрын

It was

@TheBasedCanadian 3 жыл бұрын

Tons of hookers 😉

@davidgouthro3518 Жыл бұрын

still is

@rhether Жыл бұрын

I worked there as a waiter in the 80's/90's it was a good time, great people.

@Netbug Ай бұрын

Casino Taxi cracks me up... what a great ad campain. Did it ever change? Not that it needed to.

@YYZ2 13 жыл бұрын

If I had to guess, I'd say the building at the beginning of the Casino taxi commerical is the then-named "Maritime Mall", now known as the Maritime Center.

@mistaflava 12 жыл бұрын

***ROUND OF APPLAUSE*** Great job! Being completely greedy, I would have LOVED to have seen the Green Gables store commercial in there!!..."At Green Gables we stay open just for you..."!

@Zloticzko 2 жыл бұрын

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@landmass17 Жыл бұрын

Funny while watching the prices on some of the things I was thinking the prices for still like that I could afford to buy a house within a year or two off my current paycheck. I could also go out to lunch after only working for about an hour. :)

@MrWolfSnack 10 жыл бұрын

3:07 Holy fuck. They typewriter that ate Nova Scotia.

@Allura41 2 жыл бұрын

Cool blast from the past! I am trying to find Jeans Experts commercials early ‘90’s

@nightmathzombieethan 14 жыл бұрын

P.S. Thanks for posting these

@ewanfresco3498 3 жыл бұрын

the water bong is so smooth at 5:03

@MophinLew 4 жыл бұрын

I don't know how many times I've watched this f***ing video hahaha

@michaelcooperwoti 3 жыл бұрын

Its 2020 ..im homesick & its come to this

@saraparks222 5 жыл бұрын

I was really hoping for the original Richies Carpet Warehouse jingle, but nonetheless this did not disappoint! Thanks for compiling these!

@pc902 5 жыл бұрын

Don't have a commercial but here's the jingle: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbGjqNp32M2bcZc.html

@sonyaleebutler 11 жыл бұрын

These are great!

@perrytheshit 10 жыл бұрын

5:03 - Fuckin' Bubbles! lol. TPB!!!

@jacnel 6 жыл бұрын

2 level free parking?! Sign me the fuck up!

@fanotv 12 жыл бұрын

Bubbles sang the Casino Taxi jingle on an episode of Trailer Park Boys...while stoned.

@TheCoffeechat 8 жыл бұрын

Casino taxi or Sackville 80...gettin' down town to the Lower Deck!

@dunascott 14 жыл бұрын

Cindy from the first commercial is my cousin! Thanks for putting it up :)

@VanceJoudrey 12 жыл бұрын

You could do better commercials on a entry level Mac today. But ahhh the memories

@cdjxman 2 жыл бұрын

very nice

@EQOAnostalgia 6 жыл бұрын

Bubbles sent me... i'm high as fuck right now. HIGH. AS. FUCK. HIGH. AS. FUCK. HIGH. AS. FUCK.

@danmetallica2973 7 жыл бұрын

That fucking casino taxi commercial drives me nuts!

@nightmathzombieethan 14 жыл бұрын

Casino taxi! I still remember this tune...years later! and is that the maritime museum at the beginning of the ad? "Blackened Steak!!!! That's not my bill!!" LOL Holy Crap this brings me back.... it makes me homesick too, I grew up in the Valley and now I live in California!

@d3kadE905 8 жыл бұрын

this is great, #TRAILERPARKBOYS brought me here

@NatalieWestlakenattomdi4 10 жыл бұрын

i remember this 1 as well, Montreal showed it for Vacation in Nova Scotia

@matthewbennett4429 7 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@missmew5240 10 күн бұрын

And the Pizza Delight servers double as nannies 😂

@p.e.i.man-canada-1372 8 жыл бұрын

awesome

@yellowbrickroadott 9 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure where you found these but I'd be extremely interested in finding a White Point Beach Lodge commerical from circa 1985. Thanks!

@kidstwomany 5 жыл бұрын

That taxi one brings back memories

@1silvervespa 2 жыл бұрын

Papa Ginos Egyptian head move !

@67spellcaster 3 жыл бұрын

That was actually a pretty cool walk down memory lane. But I pose a query.... how many Among Us viewers when hearing the casino Taxi theme, was picturing bubbles in the backseat of Ricky's car freaking out? 😀

@geoffbanks7073 2 жыл бұрын

Geoff Banks (C100fm) voicing the Degelis charcoal ad.

@HankWhite 9 жыл бұрын

I did the casting for some of these.

@kingbee1500 7 жыл бұрын

Oh, you're to blame! (LOL) Really, the spots look as good as any comparable US market in the period of time noted.

@Johnnyvaughan2129 Жыл бұрын

I must be old … I know almost everyone in these commercials

@c_hal1624 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the share! I don't suppose you know what auto dealership had the commercial the kept saying "crush it!" And "we crush the competition", random, I know but we are hunting for it, from 2008 2009 or so

@dcome34 10 жыл бұрын

Its too bad highliner is not even fished in our waters, but then thats before we knew better.

@japanesehighlander 10 жыл бұрын

When you think Bens think Buns!, I can sing along to Casino Taxis jingle

@cynthiarobertson9148 Жыл бұрын

❤

@BB-kg5mk Жыл бұрын

I remember everyone 😂

@TheLouisXXI 10 жыл бұрын

With Casino Taxi, I was once in Israel and really drunk and called that number,

@laurenshaw4107 3 жыл бұрын

TKs carpet is STILL there

@PatMcMaster 11 жыл бұрын

Charlie Doucet wrote the Casino Taxi AND the Green Gables one! Remember that one? You forgot to buy some food and now it's late. You'd like a tasty snack, but it's late!

@josephpenguin5499 9 жыл бұрын

Wow those tk's chicks look like grandmas even in their prime lol. Gotta love halifax.

@gravijiga 14 жыл бұрын

Thanks for uploading! So did Scotia Square go through its first major internal renovation in the 80's??

@heavenlycrystalsandcandles3609 6 жыл бұрын

Ben's buns mmmm

@victorandrews753 2 жыл бұрын

I remember some of those, a lot I'd never seen. But I must admit watching ads for car sales has never been my favorite activity. We might have had some political ones, like the one where the little jingle 'It's John for Nova Scotia' - pretty much the only programme - got John Buchanan elected.

@maxcohen13 11 жыл бұрын

Who knew commercials were in such demand...

@NinjaBurger101 12 жыл бұрын

hhahahaha Pizza Delight takes the cake for me. "No body loves you better!"...? Who ok'd that?!

@dmelvinable 10 ай бұрын

I started watching this video 11 years ago, then I stopped, and just started watching it again. I had forgotten all about Mad Man McKay's (so many things to say about that particular commercial. My take, cheap production values.) Was Creighton's based in Australia? (note the background music). Nice to hear Ron Zima's voice, listened to him frequently during my teenage years.

@emmarichards3139 4 жыл бұрын

is the Greco "cluck like a chicken" commercial kicking around ? It was filmed on Inglis St in Truro in mid 90s..Yours truly stared in it ,Greco acutely paid me to cluck,lol

@1silvervespa 2 жыл бұрын

$72,ooo now close to $500,000

@calvinbaII 11 жыл бұрын

this comment made my year. so true, hahah

@alexkron 12 жыл бұрын

@YYZ2 You are correct!

@aaura8805 6 жыл бұрын

ohhhhh Pizza Delight !!!! I worked at PD during the 80's and actually wore the same uniform. I have lived in BC for 20 years now....I do anything for a slice of PD pizza right now!!! West coast does not do pizza well.

@flipflop3937 8 жыл бұрын

Cindy from Papa Gino's reminded me of a bobblehead doll.

@Innerdepths 13 жыл бұрын

I remember most of these ads and every once once in a while i find myself singing the casino taxi song all these years later. Does anyone have that ad from Green Gables about late night shopping? "If you forgot to buy some food, now it's late!"

@Zloticzko 2 жыл бұрын

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@VinceSchier 5 жыл бұрын

I think I nailed Cindy on St. Pete Beach in the mid 80s

@theshawnmurphyjournal2946 7 жыл бұрын

TK carpets remember that song catchy back then, Ron Zuma sounds familiar

@Kaalec 10 жыл бұрын

Oh crap, there's one I wrote in these ...

@YYZ2 13 жыл бұрын

@YYZ2 And judging from the Google Streetview (corner of Barrington and Salter streets), they haven't repaved Barrington street since that commercial was shot.

@1nterwebs 13 жыл бұрын

CRUSHING HIGH PRICES

@Lukus2009 11 жыл бұрын

LOL TK's CARPET LOLOLOL

@favrerules04 10 жыл бұрын

Where is the commercial for Green Gables?

@Zloticzko 2 жыл бұрын

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@NatalieWestlakenattomdi4 10 жыл бұрын

i remember HighLiner ads

@GratefulOutlook 2 ай бұрын

I'd give up everything to go back to those days. People had a moral compass, no climate change, no social media, Simpler time, less greed, less harsh political climate, cleaner water, family values held to a higher standard.

@TheCoffeechat 8 жыл бұрын

Geordie Morgan (C100 fame) doing the voice over for the Scotia Square ad.

@RaginRonic 5 жыл бұрын

And here's a funny thing....that Scotia Square ad ended up using Christmas music in a July summer sale ad. It's the same song used for a pure Xmas ad for Market Square in Saint John, N.B. back in 1986. XD