Prince spaghetti boy dies at 63

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25 Aug 2020, 4:52 am

Anthony Martignetti known for playing a boy in the classic TV commercial who runs home on wednesday which is Prince Spaghetti night in Boston's north end,Has died at age 63.

In the 1969 commercial,Martignetti races through his Italian-American neighborhood after hearing his mother call;Anthony!Anthony!Mary Fiumara who played the mother died in 2016.

The 63 year old passed away suddenly in West Roxbury saturday,he had worked as a trial court officer in Boston.

Decades have passed since that endearing little boy was first seen on TV,but his heartbroken family says he grew up to be the brother and friend you always wanted.
The Prince Spaghetti brand originated and declared in the long running ad that wednesday was Prince spaghetti day.

"We weren't actors,or part of the screen actors guild,we were just people from the neighborhood" Martignetti said,that's what made the commercial so good!

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25 Aug 2020, 4:57 am

i'll have to google that stuff.

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25 Aug 2020, 5:33 am

^^^
You don't remember those commercials
They were all over the TV from 1969 to maybe 1986.

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25 Aug 2020, 5:42 am

i vaguely remember the adverts when i was stationed on the east coast, i'd never seen them in my neck of the woods before [pacific northwest]

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25 Aug 2020, 5:56 am

Maybe it's an east coast thing?

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25 Aug 2020, 5:16 pm

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25 Aug 2020, 6:51 pm

vermontsavant wrote:

Maybe it's an east coast thing?

Not even.

It must be a Boston area thing.

Never saw the ads, and never heard of the brand name here in D.C..

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25 Aug 2020, 9:35 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:

You got it.I remember that like yesterday.

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25 Aug 2020, 9:36 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

vermontsavant wrote:

Maybe it's an east coast thing?

Not even.

It must be a Boston area thing.

Never saw the ads, and never heard of the brand name here in D.C..

Maybe.

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25 Aug 2020, 10:22 pm

vermontsavant wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

vermontsavant wrote:

Maybe it's an east coast thing?

Not even.

It must be a Boston area thing.

Never saw the ads, and never heard of the brand name here in D.C..

Maybe.

I looked it up and according to Wikipedia only ten states have prince brand spaghetti available for purchase.

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25 Aug 2020, 11:07 pm

Bravo5150 wrote:

vermontsavant wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

vermontsavant wrote:

Maybe it's an east coast thing?

Not even.

It must be a Boston area thing.

Never saw the ads, and never heard of the brand name here in D.C..

Maybe.

I looked it up and according to Wikipedia only ten states have prince brand spaghetti available for purchase.

So the six New England states,New York,New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
I don't know what tenth would be,can't be Maryland because NP never saw them,maybe Ohio

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25 Aug 2020, 11:12 pm

vermontsavant wrote:

Bravo5150 wrote:

vermontsavant wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

vermontsavant wrote:

Maybe it's an east coast thing?

Not even.

It must be a Boston area thing.

Never saw the ads, and never heard of the brand name here in D.C..

Maybe.

I looked it up and according to Wikipedia only ten states have prince brand spaghetti available for purchase.

So the six New England states,New York,New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
I don't know what tenth would be,can't be Maryland because NP never saw them,maybe Ohio

I copied the list Wikipedia had.

Prince - Available in Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Acquired from Borden in 2001.

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25 Aug 2020, 11:37 pm

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Prince - Available in Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Acquired from Borden in 2001.

I never knew everyone else didn't grow up with those commercials.

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26 Aug 2020, 1:55 am

vermontsavant wrote:

Maybe it's an east coast thing?

Never saw them in South Central PA (Mueller, as well as San Giorgio (when that brand was owned by Hershey) And Pennsylvania Dutch brands are the predominant pasta brand around here, unless one makes their own pasta from scratch.

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26 Aug 2020, 2:06 am

vermontsavant wrote:

Bravo5150 wrote:

Prince - Available in Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Acquired from Borden in 2001.

I never knew everyone else didn't grow up with those commercials.

Generally in the 60s and 70s in the analog world there were less multinational conglomerates thus there were more local products, pop songs that were constantly played o the radio in one or several cities, and not played at all in most locals etc.

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26 Aug 2020, 3:06 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:

vermontsavant wrote:

Bravo5150 wrote:

Prince - Available in Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Acquired from Borden in 2001.

I never knew everyone else didn't grow up with those commercials.

Makes sense,all the TV stations I watched as a kid were Boston stations.

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