Comments on: Duluth TV ads from 1970

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:29:19 +0000

Just thought I'd share this one since it made me laugh:

By: Paul Lundgren

Paul Lundgren — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:40:08 +0000

Regarding the M&K clothing store and Mr. S. Morterud, from the 1892 book Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Duluth, Superior and Ashland:

By: barry

barry — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:38:38 +0000

Enjoyed the M & K commercial. Brought back a few memories when I’d visit Duluth in the 1960s and 70s.

By: Nowell Mckenna

Nowell Mckenna — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:27:04 +0000

I’m Jack’s granddaughter! It’s so nice too know that videos are available but I can’t get them! Can someone e-mail them too me? The Kentucky Fried Chicken one is

By: zman

zman — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:56:56 +0000

The guy in the Northwestern bank commercial reminds me of Seth Bullock from the Deadwood series.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:07:06 +0000

It really is a shame that M&K is gone. Just try and find a decent pair of slacks and a car coat these days.

By: Eeek

Eeek — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:29:23 +0000

Wow. Incredible. Where are these videos coming from? Goldfine’s By The Bridge Of Course. I’d forgotten that tag line.

By: Mark Ryan

Mark Ryan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:15:35 +0000

That’s my buddy in the carpet ad. He’s a semi-retired tax attorney now. We both worked at WDIO in the early 1970s. Those were the days. Once, when a new drug-testing facility opened up at UMD, the news director at the time asked me (why me?) how much an ounce of pot cost and I told him about $15. He gave me that amount and told me to go out and buy some so we could have it tested at the UMD lab for a news story. Another employee and I went out and bought an ounce from a friend for $13. We each pocketed a buck, split the pot up into thirds, kept a third each, and gave the news director the remaining 1/3 ounce for the testing. He was none the wiser. It was win-win all around. Later, as part of the news story, I was filmed buying “pot” (ditch-weed, actually) from a pusher in downtown Duluth. The guy in the carpet ad portrayed the pusher. Good times.

By: Barrett Chase

Barrett Chase — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:53:59 +0000

That Shake-a-Leg toy looks like a testicular rupture waiting to happen.

By: Paul Lundgren

Paul Lundgren — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:38:11 +0000

Akjuneau’s original post noted the “rhacism” in the first commercial, so I opted not to mention it, but yeah, it’s kind of “rhude” indeed. But that’s the way whitey rolled in 1970.