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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ReplyDeleteWOW! I remember that commercial! That store in the commercial was in fishkill NY. I think the structure is still there, but abandoned.
ReplyDeleteMAYS 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?
ReplyDeleteNo, 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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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