Bamberger's & Pathmark Commercials (March 1981) 

I remember the Pathmark supermarkets in Willingboro and Cherry Hill NJ. James Karen doung those comnercials was gold! Bambergers...I miss thst store!

I remember James karen from these Pathmark commercials when I was a kid. I was surprised when I saw him as one of the main characters in Return of the Living Dead. He was great in it.

I remember seeing James Karen in Poltergeist and thinking "OMG! It's the Pathmark guy!" Also, That comment from Karen actually made me laugh: "Larry's back from Alaska covering the Pope. His story at 11." I had this vision of Larry Kane giving the Pope a blanket in Alaska.

You see, this is why I love youtube, 5/5 stars.

James Karen was the bad guy in "Little House On The Prairie" who bought the town in the made-for-TV movie. He received hate mail from people who couldn't differentiate fiction from reality. But he took the time to respond to everyone, and that happily died down.

0:35 pathmark is allways there

NYC memorys

bambergers was a shoplifters paradise in Newark.

Never heard of Bambergers

I thought the same thing as that 1 person just commented When I saw him on Poltergeist I was like there's the guy from pathmark😂😂

THE MUPPETT SHOW on Channel 10 , WCAU -TV CBS back in the 70s. Used to watch it every Saturday night!

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Most pathmarks are closed down 😕

that video was when Pathmark was still a great company...

@NYKID10014 Bamaberger's was the shizzzznit! They sold out to Macy's. I used to go to Bamberger's on Broad Street in Newark NJ every week with my Gramma. The better end stores like Bamberger's, Orbach's & Alexanders went under in the 80s. Then Stern's crapped out 1999. That Lenox stereo was freakin' awesome & new tech for it's time. Cassette tapes replaced 8 tracks & the world of music never looked back...

0:00 That's the voice of Bob Landers for Bamberger's. He was a disc jockey on New York City's WNEW-AM in the 60s, and then became an all-time great voice-over talent. You might know his voice from spots for Yoplait yogurt and Sears DieHard batteries back in the 70s.

@Windsweptzariel "You son of a bitch. You left the bodies and you only moved the headstones. YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTONES!!!!!!!"

Good Quality on the Video. We had a Pathmark in Norwalk growing up. There is nothing in the Riverview Plaza now.

I was born March 7th, 1981.:-)

Path Mark was done for a long time ago. A&P took them over that was the nail in the coffin. Both are gone now. Most A&Ps are Acme now. A few Path marks became Acmes. There're still dumpy stores/chain.

@kerry5101971 I worked for Bamberger's in the 1980s. It was basically Macy's but in New Jersey. They decided to drop the name in the mid 80s and go straight with Macys.

Wasn't Mr. Karen also the boss on Eight is Enough? I swear he showed up on that TV show and then when I saw him in Pathmark ads I thought "what's a TV actor doing hawking a low-price NJ supermarket chain?" Where I lived outside Philadelphia Pathmark was definitely the big cheap 24-hour store for stuff like toilet paper and other bulk-packaged items people today head to COSTCO for. they were the first place I ever saw "NO FRILLS" plain-label "generic" products. I guess the 1980s were their heyday. Like Pathmark supermarkets, Bambergers dept stores ventured from north Jersey into the Philly market in the 1970s and did very well for a while. Man, did we have a lot of regional chains competing for our dollars back when I was growing up.

I remember those Bamberger's ads. They always had the same guy narrating them. Does anyone know who he was?

@lumpagogo I want him to sign my old Return of the Living Dead VHS!

Dope ass hi-fi!!!

My Aunt worked at Bamberger's and Strawbridge & Clothier on Market. And Wanamaker was my spot. They had the best bakery in a department store

wtf is bambergers? looked shabby