Super Bowl ad about immigration draws attention to tiny Eighty Four, Pa.
EIGHTY FOUR, Pa. — All it took was a few minutes of lush, expensive, emotional advertising during the Super Bowl to pull this little town in the far southwestern corner of Pennsylvania into the center of the national debate on immigration.
Despite the rancor surrounding the issue and the sudden attention to their home town, many people here said Monday that they did not see the now-famous 84 Lumber ad as particularly political.
“It was sad,” said Jennie Ryan, 28, a nurse from nearby Washington, Pa., who stopped for lunch at the SpringHouse restaurant, a wood-paneled cafe that sits on a working dairy farm. “It showed the struggles that other people experience who are not from here.”
“It was a bit of a tear-jerker,” said George Gavlik, 50, a field technician in the oil and gas industry from Pittsburgh, eating a roast beef platter a couple of tables away. Asked if it seemed too political, Gavlik shrugged. “It’s their right,” he said.
Many people around the country viewed the Super Bowl ad — the tale of a mother and daughter traveling through Mexico on their way to the U.S. border — as unambiguously pro-immigration amid many far more traditional ads selling wares and brand names. And it came as something of a surprise, in part because it was promoting a little-known company that apparently was wading into the raging debate on television’s largest stage: 84 Lumber.
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