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A Clio Award-winning (1974) television advertising campaign advertising Old Home Bread. It featured a truck driver named C.W. McCall, who was played by Dallas, Texas, actor Jim Finlayson. The waitress named Mavis Davis was played by Dallas actress Jean McBride Capps. A truck running on I-80. The truck runs out of gas and stops by a local cafe called Old Home cafe. The driver asks for a gallon of gas to the blonde waitress. The two start having conversations. The waitress winks at the driver and hands him a meal of a burger, the driver gives her a bag of Old Home Bread in exchange. The truck is back on I-80.