Straw Hat Pizza commercial 1977

Commercial for Straw Hat Pizza featuring "Hot Hats", before they adopted the more modern logo with the triangle. These were all over California then suddenly disappeared; doing some research I found out Pizza Hut ended up buying most of their restaurants out and changing them, except for a few franchise owners who stuck with it and are still in business today.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Straw
• Hat
• Pizza
• Hot
• Hats
• 1977
• California
• 1970s
• commercial

[bruno70]

Are you going to publish this on your Stage6 Channel?

[eyeh8cbs]

I thought it was already on there, but I checked and it wasn't so I just put it up. Don't know why the sound drops out in the middle.

All the commercials I put up here are also on Divx Stage 6, which has the best on-line playback quality and are easiest for the layperson to save to DVD (you need a compatible player though), and on Google Video which gets the best-quality downloads for DVD though you need to know the secret for doing that.

[heine71]

I think even in the 1970's and 1980's even when the Chuck E. Cheese's chain was being launched some Straw Hat Pizza locations showed old time movies and cartoons on a projector screen like the Ground Round chain used to do in the 1970's-early 1990's.

[eyeh8cbs]

Yeah, I used to love those. They used those film loop cartridge projectors, one near me had 3 of them that were set to play sequentially over and over, they later replaced them with a projection TV.

[heine71]

Do you have the circa early 1980's Straw Hat Pizza TV commercial with Tim Conway in it that you can post on YouTube?

[eyeh8cbs]

I've got at least one of those, I'll try to get that up soon.

[zuutlmna]

I used to work at the Redding, Calif, store fr '73 to '76. while attending the community college there.. Was so much fun! I even have a photo album of my Straw Hat pizza days.. We used to have a free salad bar we'd put out on weekdays from opening till about 2 PM.. I think Thursdays was all you could eat spaghetti deal.. We made our own meatballs (excellent!). The Redding Straw Hat had a stunning selection of import beer at the time..-about 90 different foreign beers. Plus the domestic and tap!

[sserpent21]

Damn I remember Straw Hat. Last time I had it was in the late 80s.

I think Frank Bonner did commercials for them.

[UnrealVirusInfection]

I just had some after 3 years when I was in monterey .. It was alot better back then I recently had it from one in walnut creek so shitty , couldve gotten round table about the same price

[Strife18]

Sanji's Future Resturant XD

[animegirl804]

I've actually never heard of this place until now... Now I just imagine Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates going in and raiding the place. lol

[Zrock0076]

I remember 30 years ago having a StrawHat (too bad it's gone). Eating their damn good pizza while watching Laurel and Hardy classics on a projector screen. Loved it!

[angryniggah]

jim gaffigan, eat your heart out!

[ohmah70]

the pizza tasted so much better back then....i had it recently and they are really bad and overpriced now....very sad

[eyeh8nbc]

Don't bother- there's nothing on worth sponsoring!

[bittersweet67152]

I work at a Straw Hat in Rodeo, CA! And I still like the food and eat it all the time! That's saying something! And no... the pizzas are not made out of straw hats... and we don't wear straw hats... !! and it's not HARD hats.. its HOT hats.. and they are hellaaaa good! =] We need to get a new commercial.. hasn't been one for years.