If you lived in the New England area during the ’ 70s and ’ LXXX , chances are you call back those ridiculous commercial message forCrazy Eddieelectronics stores . Even if you do n’t , they are pretty damn comical to watch .
Yeah , that ’s passably harebrained all powerful — and they did this shit twice a twelvemonth :
Notice thatCrazy Eddiespokesman Jerry Carroll was somewhat less mad in the late ’ 70s . He did n’t truly aviate off the handle until the ’ eighty :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw4TVI8H0qg
Crazy Eddie started in Brooklyn in 1971 , but eventually went down in a way that was as dramatic as their commercial message . In 1986 , co - laminitis Eddie Antar abruptly cash in in millions of dollars worth of farm animal and resign from the company . In 1987 he was charged with several criminal offense touch to fallacious business practice , leading him to flee the commonwealth for his native Israel in 1990 . However , his exile only lasted until ’ 93 when he returned to the US to stand trial . Eventually , he spent several years in prison for his crimes . Looking back on it now , these commercials should have been the first polarity that something was n’t ripe .
Gizmodo ’ 79is a hebdomad - recollective solemnization of contraption and geekdom 30 yr ago , as the parallel historic period gave way to the digital , and most of our favorite toy were just being born .
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