In light of the recent news of Toys "R" Us going out of business after some 60 years, here's a just discovered rare vintage ad from their glory days - with the mascots in costume doing a little square dance to some hoedown music inside the store aisles led by Geoffrey the giraffe, with Gigi and Baby Gee joining in.
Featuring Thurl Ravenscroft as the voice of Geoffrey Giraffe and Russi Taylor as the voice of Baby Gee.
"Do-si-do and away we go / Toys 'R' Us is putting on a show!"
This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, October 27th 1977 at a little before 1:30pm.
This was from a tape donated to The Museum of Classic Chicago Television as part of The Mike and Britta Fayette Collection.
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television's primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s and early 80s, primarily) recorded off of any and all Chicago TV channels; footage which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical purposes. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to DVD, and to view more of the 4,700+ (and counting) video clips available for viewing in our online archive, please visit us at:
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19 мар 2018
