Retro Mall Video: Mays Department Store Commercial
Mays store TV commercial (1979)
Retro 1979 TV commercial for the popular New York-area Mays department store chain. From everything I've read, Mays sounds like it was a pretty cool department store with lots of colorful character. And I really dig their commercials and catchy jingle! "Every day's a sale day at Mays!"
Best of all, this ad features the ubiquitous Proctor-Silex coffee makers, which were so common in the kitchen back when I was growing up in the 1970s (along with the very groovy Poly*Perks, of course)!
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posted by Keith @ 8/01/2007
5 Comments:
Bring on the retro!
WOW! I remember that commercial! That store in the commercial was in fishkill NY. I think the structure is still there, but abandoned.
MAYS had a few other stores, bu the one in the spot is definitely the one at Fishkill.
It was an anchor there, and they went out of business in 81-86 time-zone.
Yep it was a cool store too, unexplainable, but somehow cool. It had 2 floors, set up inside like a raised concourse, and you could see all around the place.
Ohhh for the years long gone! Thanks for the memorbielia!
Is this the same Mays that merged to be Robinsons-May and is now Macy's?
No, I think Mays was a completely different chain in New York only than the May Co. which I believe is what you are referring to.
I think that retro commercial are way cooler the most of the commercials right now. They could lie and it would have impact later on.
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