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84 Lumber commercial
Posted by wanswheel on Saturday, February 4, 2017 1:20 PM

Super Bowl viewers may watch a commercial featuring a few seconds of people walking on a railroad track in western Pennsylvania, and boarding a freight train at Eighty-Four.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3tYSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fvsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2518,3962457

The building on the right is visible in the commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Uk6ctu7nI&t=57s

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Saturday, February 4, 2017 8:37 PM

   Thank you.   I've always thought that was an odd name for a lumber company and wondered how it came to be.

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Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Sunday, February 5, 2017 1:14 AM

Does AVRR know about promoting this unsafe actvity on there property?

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Posted by tree68 on Sunday, February 5, 2017 6:40 AM

Interesting origin.  Along the lines of "drop eighty-four" is Novi, Michigan, which was the sixth stage stop out of Detroit (No. VI).

Our local 84 Lumber just closed.  Couldn't compete with two big-box stores.

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Posted by Euclid on Sunday, February 5, 2017 12:02 PM

What is the purpose of this ad, and how does the purpose tie in with the story it tells?

 

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Posted by Firelock76 on Sunday, February 5, 2017 12:10 PM

Scratching my head over that ad as well. 

I certainly don't like the approval, tacit or accidental, of hopping a ride on a freight.

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Posted by tree68 on Sunday, February 5, 2017 12:25 PM

Firelock76

I certainly don't like the approval, tacit or accidental, of hopping a ride on a freight.

I agree - I would suppose that it's a nod to how many get to the border.  Anybody notice the coyote at the end?  

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Posted by Euclid on Sunday, February 5, 2017 12:35 PM

 

It seems to me that the purpose of a commercial ought to be the first and foremost point.  Yet when I google this commercial, I find every conceivable element explained; except for any mention of how creating sympathy for illegal immigration sells lumber. 

 

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Posted by kgbw49 on Sunday, February 5, 2017 12:42 PM

Of course, Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons, is Mr. Home Depot.

Relative sizes of the players in that market:

Home Depot had 2015 revenues of $88.5 billion

Lowe's had 2015 revenues of $56.2 billion

Menard's had 2015 revenues of $8.7 billion

84 Lumber had 2015 revenues of $2.1 billion

Here is a link to the company's history page:

https://www.84lumber.com/about/history/

 

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Posted by BaltACD on Sunday, February 5, 2017 12:48 PM

Euclid
It seems to me that the purpose of a commercial ought to be the first and foremost point.  Yet when I google this commercial, I find every conceivable element explained; except for any mention of how creating sympathy for illegal immigration sells lumber.

Immigrants, legal or illegal require living space, living space requires building, buildings require lumber.  A home of ones own is the American Dream, a dream that is shared by many that long to be American's or long to live in America.

Don't forget 'big business' that thrives on manual labor is the primary beneficiary of illegal immigrants - below legal wage labor that doesn't have legal standing to dispute their wages.

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Posted by samfp1943 on Sunday, February 5, 2017 1:16 PM

Paul of Covington

   Thank you.   I've always thought that was an odd name for a lumber company and wondered how it came to be.

 

Well! Looks like Mike (wanswheel) scores again! 

     I think he should be the nominee for Forum  M.O.W.S. ( Manager of Weird 'Stuff')  Whistling

     When I was operating 'OTR'  The Penna Turnpike was a route I traveled quite a bit to get over to the East Coast deliveries ( Yeah! Yeah! I heard it thousands of times! "....My Rand McNally only goes to Ohio..." )  There was a sign on I-76 over around the Somerset  area that indicated an exit for "Eighty Four". 

       Always wondered about it, but never went that way; knew about Eight-Four Lumber Co. but never tried tio connect those dots. Blindfold 

   Too busy trying to get to Noo Jerzy or Noo Yawk for a delivery...Sad     

                     Anyway, for those with a modicum of curiosity in the subject:    "...Eighty Four is a small unincorporated community mostly within Somerset Township in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. It lies approximately 25 miles southwest of Pittsburgh and is in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
Eighty Four is home to the 84 Lumber company's world headquarters and home of the first 84 Lumber store. It is also a part of the Canon-McMillan, Trinity, Ringgold, and Bentworth school districts.
Eighty Four is accessible via Pennsylvania Route 519 and Route 136 and interstates 79 and 70. The closest international airport is the Pittsburgh International Airport in Findlay Township..."

see link for map of area: https://www.mapquest.com/us/pa/eighty-four-282038359?satellite=true

Ok, boys and girls, geography lesson ended. Back to the Thread! Mischief

 

 


 

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Posted by edblysard on Sunday, February 5, 2017 4:30 PM

By the way...AVR is the railroad the movie Unstoppable was filmed on....

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Posted by wanswheel on Monday, February 6, 2017 2:27 AM

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/598840/

Excerpt from Wall Street Journal, Feb. 6

In a statement, 84 Lumber’s president and owner, Maggie Hardy Magerko, said, "Even President Trump has said there should be a big beautiful door in the wall so that people can come into this country legally. It's not about the wall. It's about the door in the wall. If people are willing to work hard and make this country better, that door should be open to them."

 

Excerpt from Marketing Land, Feb. 6

84 Lumber was rewarded with so many people trying to pull up the full ad online that the brand had to throttle its site. The site was able to serve 150,000 requests per minute, but it received more than 300,000 requests within the first minute of the commercial’s airing, according to a Brunner [ad agency] spokesperson. “It took about 10 minutes to fully resolve,” the spokesperson said. In the meantime, 84 Lumber used social ads to push viewers to watch the video on YouTube. An hour after the ad aired, 84 Lumber’s site received more than six million requests.

At almost 99,000 mentions across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram during the game, 84 Lumber received the most social mentions of any Super Bowl advertiser, according to social analytics firm Brandwatch.

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Monday, February 6, 2017 1:41 PM

tree68
Interesting origin.  Along the lines of "drop eighty-four" . . . " ]newspaper link in Mike/ wanswheel's post]

Wonder if someone who has access to RPO archives can confirm that "Smithville" (town's former name) was [mail] "drop 84" - then which towns were 83 and 85 ?

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Posted by RME on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 11:19 AM

Isn't it from milepost 84 on the B&O Pittsburgh division?

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Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 11:40 AM

RME
Isn't it from milepost 84 on the B&O Pittsburgh division?

It was the B&O's W&P Sub - Wheeling & Pittsburgh.  And 84 was not MP 84 as identified in the 1955 ETT -

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