Oksner left St. Louis for New York to write copy for Stern's Department Store and soon moved on to some of New York's most famous advertising agencies to create some of the iconic ads of the 50s, 60s and 70s.
At the Marshalk agency, Oksner won a Gold Pencil Campaign award from One Show, an international advertising award show, for his Chun King print ad featuring an elderly Chinese lady standing before an array of appealing Chinese dishes with the caption, "Just like Grandma Used to Make."[REF]