Time Warp 33 Years With This Extraordinary Grand Junction Radio Commercial
Here's your chance to be teleported to Grand Junction, Colorado, of 1988. Did you ever hear this amazing radio ad? It ran for a long time on 99.9 KEKB.

Grand Junction Artists and Grand Junction Businesses
Ah, the good ol' days of the locally produced radio spot set to music. There have been a number of creative musical spots produced and recorded out of Grand Junction. The old Guyton's Fun Junction spot was written and produced by my buddy Gary Smith. Here's one I bet you haven't heard in over 30 years.
The Commercial Must Have Worked
This commercial must have done its job since the client, Elam Construction is still in business in Grand Junction to this day. According to their official webpage, "For more than 50 years we at Elam Construction, Inc. have been putting our name on the line and our asphalt on some of the finest federal, state, municipal, commercial and residential paving projects in West Colorado."
Meet the Stars
This awesome throwback to 1988 comes to us courtesy of Jack Huhta. Jack published this on Youtube a little over ten years ago. He says:
I provided the voice for a local commercial that was played daily for a complete year on KEKB 99.9 FM in Grand Jct CO. This is 1 of 3 separate commercials, each one having a different pre-written text that I read with some character enhancement. I was paid a whopping 50 dollars for my work! But it gave me some needed notoriety for my band at the time, THE GOOD, BAD & UGLY which I had just assembled. It was a lot of fun and it was a great experience for me.
He Was Paid How Much?
He was paid $50? Wow, that's awesome. I'm the Production Director for KEKB (and five other radio stations) and don't get paid anything extra to produce a spot.
The Good, Bad & Ugly
I was following bands in and around Grand Junction back in the late 80s and early 90s, but for some reason don't recall this band.
Other Major Events from 1988
What world events took place during the time this radio ad aired? According to UTS, these were some of the major events of 1988:
- Table Tennis became an Olympic sport
- In the United States, CDs outsold vinyl records for the first time
- Die Hard, Crocodile Dundee 2, The Land Before Time, and Beetlejuice were all released
- Stephen Hawking released his bestseller A Brief History of Time
- The average cost of a new house in the United States was $91,600
- Movie tickets were $3.50
- In the first prime-time wrestling match in 30 years, Andre the Giant beats Hulk Hogan.
If you listen to the news report preceding the commercial you'll hear the announcer reporting on the Exxon Valdez incident which took place March 24, 1989. So, with that in mind, at the time this aircheck was recorded the Elam Construction spot must have been running for several months.
Thank you to Jack Huhta for posting this audio on Youtube. It's amazing how much, and how little, has changed in the world of radio ads.
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