Buffalo within the '70s: Dan Creed says 'Disgrace on you'
JUALDOMAIN
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Dan Creed Chevrolet, Primary at Fillmore, 1972.
Up to we hate to confess it, the ones TV ads that we adore to hate get caught in our heads.
A good way to inform the age of a Buffalonian is ask them on whose label you’ll in finding the jolly little baker (Kaufman’s Rye Bread), which amusement park gives “just right, blank a laugh” with a “Amusing? Wow!” (Delusion Island), or which of the Cellino & Barnes telephone numbers is the primary to come back to thoughts (854-2020 or “Dial 8”).
That wisdom got here from tv commercials which drove us loopy, however at the moment are endlessly etched in our brains.
He wasn’t in Buffalo so long as a few of the ones different companies, however when you have been observing TV in Buffalo within the mid-Nineteen Seventies, the point out of Dan Creed’s identify is sure to earn a “Disgrace on you!” out of your repressed reminiscence.
Dan Creed’s tv commercials crammed Western new York displays within the mid-Nineteen Seventies.
When Creed took over used to be the longtime Don Allen Chevrolet at Primary Side road and Fillmore Road in 1973, he become virtually in an instant infamous for his TV ads which he punctuated with the tagline, when you don’t purchase a automotive from Dan Creed, “Disgrace on you!”
After a few 12 months of the ones ads, even the criminals had observed sufficient to go away insult along damage on the Creed dealership.
As thieves swiped $1,000 from a protected and some other $200 in auto portions right through a 1973 in a single day heist, the burglars scrawled a snappy message at the aspect of a panel truck ahead of they made their escape.
