WANTED: VHS Tapes recorded from television, Eastern Iowa (Cedar Rapids)
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Hello all in Craigslistland. I am looking if anyone has a stash of old VHS tapes they want to unload. Specifically, I am looking for tapes that would have been purchased as blank tapes, and then you would have recorded TV shows or movies onto them. And even more specifically, I am looking for content preferably from the 1980's and 1990's. Mainly, I am looking for commercials. My main interest is watching locally-produced commercials from the television market of Cedar Rapids / Iowa City / Waterloo / Dubuque, so if you have any VHS tapes that would have content recorded off of Channel 2 (KGAN) Channel 7 (KWWL) Channel 9 (KCRG) or Channel 28 (KOCR / KFXA) I would love to take them off your hands. If you have any, contact me, tell me what you think you have and we can talk about making you an offer.
One last thing: one thing I am VERY interested in finding is if anyone has a recording of a commercial for a chain of stores that used to be in this area called Jacks (or Jack's). Jacks was a chain of discount stores that was absorbed into the ShopKo chain around 1998, and then most of the ShopKo's in eastern Iowa closed in 2001. They used to show commercials for Jacks on TV all the time (slogan: "Only Jacks Will Do"), but as far as I can tell, there are no examples of Jacks commercials on YouTube or anywhere else I've looked. If anyone is able to scrounge up a video of a Jacks commercial from the 1980's or 1990's, I would gladly pay $100 for that recording alone. I am neither joking or exaggerating. Thank you very much.