On this date in 1983, history was made. Pity no one was awake to see it.
The most famous single commercial ever shown was Apple’s 1984 ad introducing the new Macintosh. In between the carnage of the Los Angeles Raiders stomping all over the Washington Redskins, many products, including computers, were advertised. Alan Alda, the sensitive new-
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(Why anyone would buy such a high-end stereo to listen to a crappy AM radio signal, I never did figure out....)
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(There's a bar in Orient Heights that we pass every day called the Victory Pub. Every day I blink back the same mental image: the acrid pong of Parson's sweat, the spongy pinkish cubes in the grey stew, and the sharp metallic tang of Victory Gin served in a handleless teacup.)
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