WKBD 50 News update & Bill Kennedy 1979

some vintage commercials, a Bill Kennedy wraparound segment and a WKBD 50 news update featuring Amyre Makupson are all to be found in this great 1979 clip.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• TV
• television
• Detroit
• Michigan
• news
• brief
• update
• Amyre
• Makupson
• Bill
• Kennedy
• WKBD
• 50
• 1970s
• 1979
• Kaufman
• furniture
• Fretter
• appliance
• bumper
• commercial
• promo

[briandonald]

Where did you get this? This is great. Good quality video. Takes me back.

[robatsea2009]

@briandonald I found it on a Betamax tape that thankfully the original taper did not erase or throw away

[dznutz1971]

Amyre Makupson was sexy as hell back in the day.

[SuperBronx11]

WOW! Look at the Wig on the Kaufmans Commercial lady!

[tehpando]

dat hair

[TomYpsilanti]

@hunkyturkey Yeah, the hair kind of distracts you from the crazy furniture!

[TomYpsilanti]

@ChevyManSS350 I was in college then (in Ann Arbor) and remember those Channel 50 programs very well. By the way I was driving a sharp '72 Skylark in '79. But don't feel bad--today is also "the good old days", we just don't know it yet ;)

[Bonehead175]

And basically the same topics that ms amyre was talking about on the news, like

decriminalizing pot, striking auto workers, middle east drama!

The same thangs is going on today!

[Bonehead175]

Thank you so very much for posting this!

You brought back very good memories back

in a time when Detroit was a great city with

soul to live in!

Modern day man made it miserable TODAY!

[Anastrodamus]

love seeing old commercials. It shows how we havent changed over the decaids.

[ptcrescent12]

Ollie Fretter! No way! Back in high school, 16 years old we use to clean his yard and pool that backed up to lake forgot the name in Bloomfield Hills.

He had a really choice mansion on going to say Pine Lake? This is before hiring large landscape companies, just find some local kids to do the work.

Thanks for this amazing clip.

[slybocat]

Wow! I haven't seen this stuff since I was a kid! I bought my first Beta VCR at Fretter!

[sabre1976]

What a blast from the past. Thanks for uploading!

[nicka727]

I thought Bugs Bunny came on at 3 on WKBD after the movie. Why did they put Casper according to the opening bumper at the end?