Only an old dude from the East remembers Crazy Eddie.
Last time I was at the Cherry Creek studio, the sales associate there told me they do fairly well, as far as delivering cars. No idea what that means. One a week? Two a month?
They had a very dusty stealth in the Lucid garage parking spaces last week when I was there, to be delivered.
I am an old eastern dude.
His prices are.....INSANE !
Remember Lafayette Radio?
Nope. I grew up in New Haven and lived and worked in NYC in the seventies but I don't remember Layfayette Radio (I just googled it and still don't remember it). I do see that it sold out to Circuit City...probably not a very wise decision.
Hey, I’m 51 and from the east coast and Crazy Eddie is embedded in my psyche. Never mind, I’m probably old.
New Haven is the pizza capital of the world!
My too,. 55 and from CT.
I remember mailing in orders for parts to them in Syosset Long Island. Many many decades later, a real estate matter is on my desk. Seems that Lafayette Radio, in its prime, entered into these amazing multi option and 50 year leases for its stores. So, LONG after there were no more Layette stores, there was still this massive amount of prime retail real estate options and leases under very low favorable options. Lafayette lived on.
I'm from New York originally, moved to CA in 1976. I remember his ads too, although I hadn't though about them for decades until I read this. I'm older than you, and Bobby as well. The other goofy ad that I ended up talked about with friends on 4th of July was Cal, and his dog Spot. That's probably just a west coast thing.
Let’s go a little deeper. Do you remember “Nobody beats the whiz” and Fudgy the whale from Carvel?
This is stretching my memory. Definitely not the whiz. I vaguely remember going to Carvel, but not commercials for it.
I'm from West Haven and there is still a Carvel store there. I also remember the crazy Eddie commercials as well as the nobody beats the Whiz ones.
Neat story. I handled a lot of commercial real estate transactions over the past several decades & am very familiar with that concept of really long term leases. Another retailer who had similar longevity, was Woolworths. They used to lease some valuable real estate on Broadway in lower NYC & lived on thru subleases entered into decades earlier. As I recall, the deal I worked awhile ago had Woolworths on the hook at about $8 a rsf when market for that space was about $100rsf. That's a whole lot of "vig" on a store that exceeds 5,000rsf
Yes it is but full of debate as to whether it is Pepe"s or Sally's that has the best pizza. Coal fired ovens. Wooster Square!
No but I did love Carvel. I do remember Korvette's and Caldor and, of course, Woolco (nee Woolworth) and K-Mart (nee Kresge) and Polaroid, and DeSoto cars, etc. Further, of course, Prince Spaghetti's grandmother commercial and Mickey Mantle almost hitting it out of Yankee Stadium.
