Barbara Gould, Model in a Famously Long-Lived TV Spot, Dies at 81
Most television commercials have relatively short shelf lives. The conventional wisdom says that repeated viewings bring advertisers diminishing returns. One particular ad in the New York market of the 1970s and ’80s defied that rule so spectacularly that its very longevity became the subject of news stories. It was for the Ritz Thrift Shop, a…