Duluth Technical College baking classes TV commercial
We’ve had bits of luck on Perfect Duluth Day in the past when we’ve put out requests for someone to step forward with video of old Duluth TV commercials. Well, here’s another attempt.
A query in the PDD inbox reads:
I’m searching for an obscure commercial for baking classes that were held at the vo-tech college, old LSC, from the 1980s. We’ve recently had a family member pass away and he was in the commercial as the baker. If you have any ideas of where to get the footage, that would be fantastic. We believe it was on Channel 10, WDIO, with Jack McKenna.
Lake Superior College was known as Duluth Technical College in the 1980s. It merged with the Duluth Community College Center in 1995 to form LSC.
I really hope someone finds these. At the least so we can compare and contrast with the current gold standard in college cooking shows — Weber Cooks.
Lake Superior College’s retired communications department director, Gary Kruchowski, says that commercial was made before his time and he’s not familiar with it. Janet Blixt, LSC’s director of marketing and public relations says the college doesn’t have archives that old.
So the search continues …