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Pen Pendleton sent me this lovely rememberance of the ad we ran when the NY office moved to 5th Ave. and 16th St.

Your Ken Segall post reminded me of a seminal moment in my career. I was just out of school looking for jobs in LA and NYC (I had actually moved to LA). I was in New York for some interviews and saw this “Ken Segall” ad in the Times, tore it out and amazingly have kept it ever since. I remember thinking that this had to be the coolest and most clever ad agency in the business. After all, any other agency would have just done an ad saying they had moved – that they had a new address. But then again most agencies wouldn’t have done an ad in the first place! Ironically, all the interviews I had set up were with the big, classic agencies, DDB being the sexiest. I had never even heard of this Chiat/Day place! So while waiting to hear if I was going to get accepted into DDB, Y&R, SSC&B or O&M’s management training program, I got a call from Dailey in Los Angeles telling me I had a job waiting. And started at Ken Segall’s shop five years later (but the one on Grand and Fifth).

Click on the image of the ad to see a larger version.