Mr_JC rightly asks why we haven’t featured Tony Sadler before. How worst is that guy? That voice that droned like a dying dog in Perth heads for how long? 35 years? “A house is not a home without Tony Sadler.” A phrase that is a mixture of menace and insanity.
Tony used to be teh man, but I always wonder if he suffered too much from competition from The Textile Trader. Or The Toilet Trader as we call him at home. Mr_JC’s pic has the perfect level of oversaturation to suit Sadler. Thanks Mr_JC. On the other hand, Tony is still going long after yer Vox Adeons et al have departed the scene.
Speaking of interiors and furniture, here’s a custom kitchen interior, not from the Sadler Superstore. Burnt orange never went away. Nor should it have. Curtin University.
burnt orange
And here’s custom furniture to the max, ie amateur. Now these guys should have seen Tony.
The Worst of Perth 
OMG how questionable is my taste that I LOOOOVE that orange cabinet and actually want one for my office…….
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I can put you in touch. It’s probably someone like Davro.I think one of those companies does Curtin interiors.
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Aargh, my eyes! The goggles do nothing!
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Tony Sadler. Vox Adeon. Burnt orange. Thanks TLA, my repressed memories just took a hit.
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The Sadler voice…like a brainwasher from The Manchurian Candidate. perhaps some Youtube can be found of him.
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“If i’m the best thing in your living room, you need help”
Sadler’s statement is creepy on a number of levels:
– it implies that even on a metaphysical level, we would ‘have’ him in our homes
– on some sort of sliding scale, he requires us to rank his attractiveness, even against inaminate objects like couches and drapes
– after doing all of this, he has the audacity to then accuse us of needing ‘help’
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I know a guy that used to work at Vox Adeons most of his life…he now is a capable television repair person who lives in South Perth. Life after Vox.
I bet some real hot spicy food would come out of that kitchen,….can just feel it.
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But TV’s aren’t repaired anymore.
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Beno, with phrases like
“on some sort of sliding scale, he requires us to rank his attractiveness, even against inaminate objects like couches and drapes…”
I hope you will be a regular commenter.
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Ouch. Pretty sure that last one would have been created by a Better Homes & Gardens fan. Quite possibly a drunk and/or colour blind BH&G fan.
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You’re reading too much into amateur advertising Beno. Sadler’s not a bad bloke , but with a memory like a sieve. Sources his cane stuff out of central Java and deserves a medal for that.
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Bill,
Imaging Tony Sadler in your living room obviously sits better with you than it does with me. And while importing wicker home wares out of Indo is truly a noble cause, may I remind you that his so-called ‘amateur advertising’ was savvy enough to introduce us all to the concept of the 3-foot wide neck tie.
Wicker footstool or gargantuan Windsor knot…? Where does the genius truly lie I ask.
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[quote] concept of the 3-foot wide neck tie [/quote]
how about the 13 coil slip knot tie?
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Amateur like a fox.
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Is that orange kitchen a psychology department experiment to encourage shorter coffee breaks?
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Re Tony Sadler’s ads, you can blame Ch 7 who back in the early days introduced the concept of selling advertising space direct to clients by offering to film the ads themselves and bypassing the advertising agencies.
That’s why our screens were blessed with Tony, Benny Ruben and Warren Martin from Archie Martin & Sons.
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What was Benny’s surname – he spruiked his own carpets or something.
He, Tony and Rick Hart might all have been separated at birth.
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DFOC – I think it was quints. You’re forgetting Brian Gardiner and John Hughes.
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I forgot to add a few other self advertisers.
the late Naughty Don Rogers, John Hughes, Brian Gardiner (but now his son, ex radio DJ John does the ads) and several others.
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Who were those dreadful tile guys who always did their own ads.
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Who were those dreadful tile guys who always did their own ads?
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Sorry didn’t mean to ask that twice! Once was probably enough!
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You meant Undie and Major Rort from Craft Decor?
Personally, I thought their ‘Great Savings on Tiles’ protest ad, aired during the 1993 election, was close to genius.
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Here!, here! I’ll second that.
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I believe the public face of said store spent some time in one of Her Majesty’s Correctional Facilities over some criminal matter.
But check out the online video on the website.
http://www.craftdecor.com.au/
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Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx tiles.
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Would have liked to have put that comment up, but have to be careful.
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People are so litigious.
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ok this is a random one –
does anyone remember the Rose Porteous-esque figure who used to front the ‘Happy Hockers” ads?
big pink building, lots of jewels, gawdy fake nails…
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@25 – Hell yeah. And her name will come to me any minute now…
I seem to recall that company was also embroiled in some sort of nefarious dealings. I ask you, if you can’t trust pawnbrokers, who can you trust??
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Happy Hockers – almost universally referred to as Happy Hookers.
Well it was in a pink building in Victoria Park.
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lol just saw this after I was talking to my partner about how I was in the ad hahahaha
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really does sum up Tony Sadler, Benny Reuben and
Happy Esterlita Steinberg Hocker
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Esterlita! Thank you, Orbea. I’ve been googling flouncy names all afternoon, without success.
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Peter Farrel and son are are flogging beds on the telly as we type.
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OMG I had forgotten about Peter Farrel the “good Christian”… lol
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And from an Italian Persepective.
the Late Peter Borrello and Buccaneer Pools, and from WA Salvage,”Luigi Savadamoni”, played by Opera Singer Claudio Versaico .
And we have to mention Max Kay & the Civic Theatre, and of course his son Gary, who went on to write several jingles with Paul Redman.
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My mother complained to TV stations about the “Where’s your bucaneers?” ad in the early 80’s.
(Because the answer is “On the side of your Bucken head.”)
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Not only did ooer Max do ads for Civic Theatre, but he then went on to do his own ads for the mercifully short-lived ‘Pack It, Post It, Free’ empire.
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Luigi. Thanks, Frank. Another repressed memory unearthed. This blog’ll be the death of me. Bugger. Now I’ve gone and recalled Hans Merks.
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It went completely over my young head at the time, but the concept of a middle-aged man calling himself ‘Naughty’ strikes me as exceedingly pervy, for an car sales gambit.
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I have had a safari down to Big Rock Toyota planned for a while. I have been informed that the rock not that fucken big.
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Wave Rock is the only WA rock more guaranteed to disappoint, LA.
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Was Don the one “Going mad with money” ? I know he championed the “no such thing as bad publicity” maxim because whenever anyone complained about him whipping skirts off buxom bimbos he claimed that he sold more bombs, and it was probably true.
Bugger. Now I’ve recalled Luigi … “We no fancy, bud we cheap !”
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Yep, one and the same, he must have inspired Troy Buswell with his on screen antics :-)
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Thanks, Frank. Just on rocks, TLA. This was a favourite of mine from school holidays. I still can’t believe that Albany built the first skate park in Australia, although I should; I broke my arm on it.
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I also seem to recall that Naughty Don’s ads were judged the worst local TV ad on ABC for several years running in the 80’s as well.
Speaking of Mr Rogers, his boat the “Nordon” that he once owned is now being hired out for
And it’s history:
http://www.boat-hire-wa.com/
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This classy bit of webspace is the Happy Hocker’s new gig
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“This classy bit of webspace is the Happy Hocker’s new gig”
Best skill ever –
KNOWS WHEN TO CALL AN AMBULANCE
i hope a skill not acquiried by trial and error…
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You dump ’em we pimp em.
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hmmmm Esterlita’s Aged Care Agency seems like a choice way to get yourself some dodgy jewellery. They are, after all, the “dementia specialists”.
And ahhhhh the Happy Hockers building in Vic Park. Is it still there?
And thank you, WOP Bastards, for reminding of bad 80’s/90s commercials. I am going to spend my day saying “Big Rock Toyota, are CHEAPER”. Pricks.
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Spare a thought for Nick, the Devilish Dealer from Phoenix Holden Wanneroo. He was run out of town – on horseback, for some reason, via St Georges Terrace – by a posse consisting of Naughty Don, Brian Gardner and the Chief from Big Rock. Not sure what he’d done to piss ’em off. Must’ve been serious to warrant exile to Wanneroo, though.
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Or Wanneroot as we all used to say as kids… Was a sh!thole then and still is to this day.
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Balcatta actually.
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Oh, in that case it can’t have been at all serious. Balcatta, Wanneroo – chalk and cheese.
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Definitely Wanneroo.
“They ran me out of town! I’m Nick, the devlish dealer from Phoenix Holden Wanneroo…”
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I stand corrected (in an annoyingly nasal Hans Merks voice)
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Perhaps he’d asked Naughty Don for that little bit extra once too often…
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Back when Wanneroo was ‘out of town’. It’s now virtually an inner-suburb (although I will still deny Wanneroonians the vote, come the revolution).
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Devlish Nick used to be a guy in a suit. They went animated, and it all went down hill. Downhill to hell.
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@ 50 Orbea
“I stand corrected”
Better be seated if you have a rosebud on your arse and the LA is about.
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Funnily enough, when the animated Nick said “If my deals don’t tempt you, nothing will,” it just sounded like an observation; but when the bearded guy in the suit said the same thing in a whining, high-pitched voice, it definitely sounded like a threat.
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“Goin’ down to City Subaru, that’s City Subaru…”
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@ 56 Cookster
“Goin’ down to City Subaru, that’s City Subaru…”
That has to be the most painful of all ads.
Definitely one for the lyrically and melodically challenged.
Nice couple of chicks tho’.
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Speaking of nice chicks, Rolly, whilst perusing this list it occurred to me that I’ve never heard of a female car dealer. Surely there must be, or have been, one somewhere. Anybody ?
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THere was a Ford Dealership run by a woman which had ads featuring Denise Drysdale, whose name escapes me at present.
Also Brian Gardner’s Daughter was in the ads for one of the offshoots flogging some brand other than the main brand.
Though I see they only now have the one dealership in Cannington, I think the daughter was involved in the Morley dealership.
http://www.briangardnermotors.com.au/company.htm
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Thanks, Frank. You are indeed the searchmeister. I guess daughters and Ding Dong are a start. This site also provided the following information …
“Traditionally, this is a male dominated industry, with approximately 87% of the workforce being male. But women are certainly a valuable asset to any sales team. Mr Coman says female car sales representatives tend to work in the new, rather than used, car industry.
”Women are influential in making the decisions to buy a car, so their involvement in the industry has been great.”
I’m not sure what he means by “great”. Perhaps more tellingly …
“There are no educational requirements needed to become a car sales representative, however … It is compulsory to complete the two-day Salesperson Licensing course through the Motor Trade Association to work as a car sales representative in Western Australia.”
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Didn’t Megan Hevron help out her father Gerry with his home-made ads for Motorways in Morley?
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That’s two days longer than anything journalists must complete :-)
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Yep, that’s correct and got mixed up with the Gardiner Family, son john helped Brian and his sister wasn’t in the family business after all.
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I seem to recall she had rather prominent … ears.
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Anyone know the ikea shelfs you have 4 men and a engineering degree to put one up.
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How low can Joe go? Remember that ad where he’s wandering around Hay St Mall[?] wearing a sandwich board?
Was Joe Sarich bought out by Vox Adeon? Or was that farking Archie Martin and his dodgy brother? Or did all three devour each other? Or did Doug & Barry devour them all they looked hungry in their ads. ps: Peter Treen for GG!
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