BAM! TIMES SQUARE Teaser Ad

23 November, 2025 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Teaser ad for TIMES SQUARE (1980) from p. 10 of the October 10, 1980 BAM (Bay Area Music) magazine

A week before Times Square opened, this teaser ad ran in the October 10, 1980 issue of BAM (Bay Area Music) magazine, taking up all of page 10. There isn’t really much else to say about it, other than that it’s more proof of the confidence the studio had in the movie’s success.

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