'80s New Orleans TV Ads - Pt. 1

Here's the first part of a collection of local New Orleans TV commercials from the 1980's. Many of the businesses featured are now defunct. The spots appear in this order:
Mattress Mart
Westbank Optical
Record and Video Connection
Readeau’s Body Shop
Beauty Mart
Honest Abe’s Insurance #2
1988 French Quarter Festival
Sound Chek Music
Time and Temperature
Cox Cable
Southern Quality Ford Dealers
Jean City
Superior Waterbeds
Holiday Fashions
McIlwain Cadillac #1
Tony’s Auto Parts
Honest Abe’s Insurance #2
Sights and Sounds TV Rental
S & J Heating and Air Conditioning
Tastee Donuts
Record Ron’s #1
Record Ron’s #2
New Orleans Chamber of Commerce
New Orleans Fair Grounds
Global Homes of Louisiana
Clarkmart
Meadows Draughon College
New Orleans/Slidell/Houma Chevy Dealers
BNO (Bank of New Orleans)
Rosenberg’s Furniture
Mobile Greyhound Park
YWCA Parent Aide Program (w/Mary Landrieu)
Barry Manufacturing
Dave Brennan Insurance
Behrman Chiropractic
Popeye’s Famous Fried Chicken and Biscuits #1
Bernard Siding
Blue Bayou Waterbeds
Audubon Zoo
Popeye’s Famous Fried Chicken and Biscuits #2
Southern Regional Van Lines
WRNO-FM
Compass Furniture
Self-Pak
Eastern Onion
Winn-Dixie
McIlwain Cadillac #2
Vegas Vince Hotline
Gold’s Gym Fitness Center
Time and Temperature…With A Twist!
Soul Train Fashions
Woody’s Car Stereo
Pro Engine Sales
All copyrights acknowledged.

[@baronedipiemonte3990]

Who remembers when Popeye's was NEW, and they threw Popeye's doubloons at Mardi Gras ... Free two piece mix with fries & biscuit

[@somberrose85]

Rosenberg’s…ah the memories from childhood. 1825 Tulane! Lol I used to sing 1825 too late !
🥹😊

[@chas218]

Only in New Orleans does a record store put adult videos on their TV commercial. :)

[@ChrisHadleyWriter]

LOL. Indeed.

[@valmarsiglia]

Thank you SO much for posting these! Really makes me nostalgic for 70s/80s New Orleans.

[@ChrisHadleyWriter]

You're very welcome and thanks for watching! My pleasure!

[@devintaylor8702]

The good old days 😇

[@MT-mi4zz]

Haven't heard the Compass Furniture jingle in decades, but I remembered it the moment it started!

[@lisaswint6630]

Thank you for these! I was a child in the 80's♥️ Lived in Metairie until 1994🏠🌇

[@mwillblade]

A Metairie Princess?

[@lisaswint6630]

@@mwillblade nope....... proud beach bum living on the Gulf Coast 🌅🦪🐠🦈

[@dgontar]

12:40 Exactly what my little sister sounded like as a small child.

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Chris Hadley Uploaded: WVUE New Orleans 10PM News - Dec 7th , 1995

[@hollingsworth_hound]

Hey, know which one I can't find that I'd love to see again? Remember the Lynn Gansar ad where she's walking to work and people from different walks of life stop her? A construction worker goes "Lynn Gansa? Yer aw-riiight!" then a rich dude in a chauffeured car rolls up, rolls down his window, and says in a rich-guy accent "Lynn Gansar, your diction is superb!" I can't find any mention of it online, driving me kind of crazy tbh.

[@michaelnguyen9439]

Still a Cadillac dealership at 3100 Lime in Metairie. Only it's called now Cadillac of New Orleans.

[@venom5610]

Michael Nguyen man new orleans us cray

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Chris Hadley Uploaded: WDSU New Orleans 10PM News - 2/6/1996

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Chris Hadley Uploaded: WDSU New Orleans 10PM News - Sept 10th , 1996

[@PelicanGuy]

Most, if not all of these ads aired on WGNO back when it was an independent station.

[@brentaudi9354]

I loved Record Ron's. I still have some of the shopping Bags! After I moved from New Orleans when I returned for a visit Record Ron's was always on the list!

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Doerr Furniture 914 Elysian Fleds 5 Blocks the River 1st Aired : Friday July 1st , 1994

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Chris Hadley Uploaded: WWL New Orleans 10PM News - Feb 13 , 1996

[@NOLA.licioussss]

Thanks

[@AldenRDavis]

22:21 - Soul Train Fashions

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Chris Hadley Uploaded: WWL New Orleans 10PM News - July 21 , 2000

[@chrisamon80]

That must be Mary Landrieu.

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Chris Hadley Uploaded: WWL New Orleans 10PM News - 5/10/2001

[@soundunitz]

This is great. Gonna sample the shit out of this.

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Chris Hadley Uploaded: WNOL New Orleans Ads and Promos - 4/29/2000

[@WILLIAMCHANEL]

Cool commercial for the Fairgrounds at 9:00 and I forgot that Dr. John did a Popeye’s commercial :) 17:55

[@gre4231]

POV: You're Lestat watching TV.

[@redeagle5813]

New Orleans has great sales men.

[@dgontar]

The Superior Waterbeds store building is now a FedEx I believe.

[@ChrisHadleyWriter]

I've passed by that building a few times (the domed one).

[@venom5610]

Yoooo mary Landrieu? Politician? Yo that's wild

[@edwardmiessner6502]

15:20 The first time I had Popeye's chicken it was in Lynn "Lynn Lynn city o' sin!" Mass.

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Thanks For Jacky9br Video

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Do You Any More Chris Hadley Video?

[@SamMan-by2jj]

19:19

[@mikalugg5641]

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[@SamMan-by2jj]

12:37

[@UnknownAGENT007]

Did you see how HOT Mary Landrieu was at 13:30?

[@DiegoSanchez-yn5kb]

UnknownAGENT007, she and her family are still crooks though.

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Chris Hadley Uploaded: WNOL New Orleans Ads and Promos - 4/28/2000

[@SamMan-by2jj]

12:36

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19:18

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Chris Hadley Uploaded: WWL New Orleans 10PM News - Oct 15th , 1993