Michael Pollack Update

[Poppahop]

Classic '80s Stuff Here

[sevfiv]

ack!

The commerical is great:

[Gary]

I love the part "in beautiful southwest Houston".

[memebag]

I love the hair.

[crunchtastic]

Mmmmm, I remember adult-only apartment complexes.

Lived in one behind 2 strip clubs on Winrock and Westheimer, in a corner unit overlooking the pool and 'clubhouse'. We had the weekend pool action just like in that ad. Ewwwwww. There were half dozen or so strippers, then the really skanky cocktail waitresses, and best of all, the pack of recently-divorced 45-ish guys. Nothing says 'party' like adding a couple of cases of wine coolers to that mix!

[Poppahop]

Mmmmm, I remember adult-only apartment complexes.

Lived in one behind 2 strip clubs on Winrock and Westheimer, in a corner unit overlooking the pool and 'clubhouse'. We had the weekend pool action just like in that ad. Ewwwwww. There were half dozen or so strippers, then the really skanky cocktail waitresses, and best of all, the pack of recently-divorced 45-ish guys. Nothing says 'party' like adding a couple of cases of wine coolers to that mix!

I showed the commercial to a friend of mine, and she said she hoped they had an STD clinic on site, preferably close to the pool for convenience.

[Disastro]

I knew people back in the day that referred to Colonial House as "Venerial House". Also, am I the only one who thinks Pollock looks like a 70's porn star?

Edited December 8, 2007 by Disastro

[Disastro]

I love the part "in beautiful southwest Houston".

Yeah! That's a hoot!!!!

[MaxConcrete]

I remember the Christmas light display at Colonial House - it was quite impressive. It must have been as late as 1983, since that the first year I had a driver's license.

[Firebird65]

I knew people back in the day that referred to Colonial House as "Venerial House". Also, am I the only one who thinks Pollock looks like a 70's porn star?

Nope... I always thought the same thing... and when that commercial came out, I was too young to even watch a porn flick and still thought it. LOL!

[Disastro]

Too funny. He was a colorful character, wasn't he?

[EspersonBuildings]

YIKES!!!

Oh man, how indeed could we forgot that "IN BEAUTIFUL SOUTHWEST HOUSTON" line!

Thanks for the memory, scarey, but thanks!

[Fringe]

Wow. D

[bred]

I sent the owner of the Michael Pollack shrine the link to this thread and he updated his website with the video. Thanks to whoever found this!

http://www.watchingyou.com/pollack.html

I told him to give us a shout out...

[bmil128]

Someone posted another commercial on YouTube.... even better than a free VCR, it's free furniture!

[musicman]

Over the years, a handful of Houston entrepreneurs became famous doing their own TV commercials.

But there has never been a phenomenon quite like Michael Pollack.

With his long and fluffy golden hair, gold chains, smooth voice and swagger, he became a "modern folk hero in Houston," according to a 1984 Houston Post article.

A Web site devoted to Pollack's time in Houston calls him "our own Elvis."

Pollack mania grew out of his TV ads for Colonial House Apartments, a 1,800-unit complex near the corner of Gulfton and Chimney Rock.

The Dream Suite was real, but Pollack says he never lived there. His home was the Four Leaf Towers and later the Houstonian, he said.

His glamorous stud image was just an act, he maintains, designed to rent apartments.

full article

[Fringe]

The Dream Suite was real, but Pollack says he never lived there. His home was the Four Leaf Towers and later the Houstonian, he said.

[cmcgrail]

Sad news for the Pollack family, Daniel Pollack was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Scottsdale, AZ.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/2011/09/11/20110911scottsdale-pedestrian-killed-collision.html