What product was being advertised on the radio in a commercial
including a song to cll Melrose 5-5300?

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Request for Question Clarification by revbrenda1st-ga on 21 Jan 2003 13:48 PST

Hi teacher6,

You don't, by any chance, know the year(s) this commercial was aired, do you?

revbrenda1st

Hello teacher6-ga,

One of the postings listed by tar_heel_v-ga is basically correct. 
According to this article by Prof. Lloyd Ultan, Bronx County
Historian, the commercial was for Sachs Quality Furniture.

Cache of "The Look-Alike Father - 6/13/96", by Professor Lloyd Ultan,
Bronx County Historian
BronxPress.com: The Bronx in History
http://web.archive.org/web/20011128220247/http://www.bronx.com/6_96historyarch.html

[The original page is not currently on the web; it appears that the
site is currently under construction.  But it appears that the site is
trustworthy.  Moreover, if you search for "Lloyd Ultan" on Google,
you'll find confirmation that he is the Bronx County Historian.]

- justaskscott-ga


I searched for the following phrases on Google, Google Groups, and
Ixquick ( http://ixquick.com ):

"melrose 5 5300"
"merose five five three hundred"

I also used The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine (
http://www.archive.org ) to find the cached version of the page.

I am adding this as a comment as I can't verify the source.  While I
have uncovered references to the number, most are people asking about
it.  I did find one posting from a newsgroup that stated the number
was for Sach's Quality Stores.  Yet another refernced Gimble's
Department store upholstery service.  The one common denominator is
that it is referring to a store in the Bronx.  There may be other
Researcher's out there that can verify this.

Good luck!

-THV


http://groups.google.com/groups?q=melrose+5-5300&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=473-36CB8489-96%40newsd-111.bryant.webtv.net&rnum=1

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&frame=right&th=5689030ae3e887fe&seekm=970312101557_1613635389%40emout14.mail.aol.com#link14