As popular as the old cartoon was, I'm pretty sure that there were promotion commercials for it. I have no idea what they looked like, however, and I don't know if they are even available for downloading on the Internet.
And about where you're from . . . I kid you not, I just got done reading a book for one of my college English classes called "Song of Solomon." It's by Toni Morrison, and it was a National Best Seller. The main characters in the story come from Michigan and the town Flint is also mentioned several times.
You'll have to excuse me. I just get the biggest kick out of the simplest things.
"You're a technical kind of guy. Push a button or something!" - Burne Thompson, from "The Foot Soldiers Are Revolting"