Have you lived?

MossRoad · Nov 16, 2001

Here's a picture of the indian(see attached).

Also was an urban legend to some extent. Rumors about free candy and such. However, some candy stores did give you a free sucker.

Go to any search engine and search for 'tootsie pop indian' and you'll get lots of hits about the legend. Fun reading.

 MossRoad

Bird · Nov 16, 2001

Scruffy, we made our own butter, too. But I saw (and used) some of that margarine when we visited my maternal grandparents in Oklahoma City. Best I can remember it was in a plastic "bag" and there was a little red pellet in there that you squeezed to break it and release the color, then kneaded the package until it was thoroughly mixed.

And I think my mother went straight from the rub board to an electric wringer washer - must have skipped the gas models. I never got my hand and arm caught in the wringer, but I've seen one of my younger sisters and one of my younger brothers get caught in it. There was an awful lot of screaming going on./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

GlueGuy · Nov 16, 2001

Besides butch wax, I remember using brylcream (not sure on the spelling /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif). I can still smell the stuff.

In fact, there was a time when I was in high school that all the kids used large gobbs of some stuff called "dippity doo", that would hold your hair in place, but not have "that greasy look"....

The GlueGuy

Bird · Nov 16, 2001

GlueGuy, I'm not sure of the spelling either, but maybe Brylcreem, and didn't they have a slogan of A little dab'll do you? Came in a tube like toothpaste instead of a bottle. And I think the dippity doo came along after I got out of high school.

MikePA · Nov 16, 2001

I think Dippity-Doo was an aqua color and came in a short, clear jar. I also think it was meant just for females. /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif

Bird - 10-4 on "A little dab'll do ya" slogan.

Attached is an audio file of a Brylcreem and Dippity-Doo commercials.

TWINKLE_TOES · Nov 16, 2001

Bird,

The margerine I recall had a red/orange dot in the middle of the plastic bag. To turn it yellow you started squeezing the bag until it all looked about the same. I used to fight with my older sisters so I could be the one to squeeze it. I still have the engine from our "kick start" washing machine. It was a second generation washer with a Briggs engine, the first ones were Maytag. The engine still runs great to this day.
Used to listen to Don McNeal and the breakfast club, eating toast with that yellow stuff on it, don't recall if I even liked it(the margerine).
Al

ERNIEB · Nov 16, 2001

Wasn't it Vitalis who countered the Brylcream ad by warning men about using the "greasy kids stuff"?
Since I'm asking about old commercials. Does anybody remember who the knockout blonde was that did the White Owl cigar ads? From somewhere back in the cobwebs I get the name Eve or maybe Evie.

Ernie

gator · Nov 16, 2001

Heck,
I musta really lived cause I remember gas at 19 cents a gallon, 10 cent McDonald hamburgers, and baseball cards 2 packs for a nickle.

Wally
JD 750 "GATOR"

TerryinMD · Nov 16, 2001

Mike,

Where did you get those sound bites? The quality was excellent. Brought back memories of B&W tv and watching all of the old shows.

Terry

frank_f15 · Nov 16, 2001

yep! drive into work in the morning and gas would be way up to 21 or 22 cents a gallon, then during the day one guy would lower his price by a penny, then the next guy not to be out done by another penny, so on the way home it was down to 17 or 18 cents. i could'nt fit $3.00 worth of gas in my 55 Desoto sportsman.

MikePA · Nov 16, 2001

Terry, here's the link to the classic commercials

http://members.tripod.com/~wavethemes/index.html#pg

Ernieb - I think that was Edie Adams

Buck · Nov 16, 2001

Nice post Mike,

I remember,

1) Walking 1.5 miles to and from school by myself in 3rd grade. My parents would have been imprisoned today for neglect.

2) How about the Sinclair gas stations- the dinosaur?

3) Swats from the teacher using an oak board with holes in it.

4) WWI vets cutting their lawns.

5) My 80 year old neighbor, born in 1880, tell me about crossing the Ohio river where the weren't any bridges.

6) Hunting for crawdads, fish, salamanders, exploring woods, hiking hills, building trails, kissing girls, "reading" lingerie sections of the Sears-Robuck catalogue in areas that were vast woods that are now populated only with Volvos and PTA moms.

Buck

Buck · Nov 16, 2001

I still do all that today. But it don' cost no' nickle.

Buck · Nov 16, 2001

You brought it back for me!

I had forgotten. Thank you. I watched "Farm Front", on at 6:30 A.M., sponsored by Allis Chalmers. My Dad was chief engineer of their motor division. I was sooo proud.

Buck

Anonymous Poster · Nov 17, 2001

That stuff was OLEO MARGERIN. Came in a "plastic" bag pure white, with a yellow gelitin capsuel of coloring in it. Had to be sold that way because of government regulations from WW II food rationing, ro prevent unscrupulous merchants from selling it as butter. Evidently there were 3 people in the country who couldn't tell the difference, cause that crap tasted more like Crisco than it did butter.
The grey beard must be a tipoff I remember all this stuff, as well as sawing ice off ponds to store thru summer, the pea vinery, waterglass eggs, apple dry house and canning factory in town.

Bird · Nov 17, 2001

Wally, I was one of the guys selling gas at those prices, and I've sure eaten 10 cent hamburgers, but I don't recall there being a McDonald's in my area that early.

Jeff396 · Nov 17, 2001

One of my memories, being a "boomer", was McDonalds where the huge arches were attached to the building and ran from the front to the rear corner on each side. This was also before they had anyplace to sit down inside and eat. I also remember pub type restaurants that would keep a bucket of pickels at each table.

Jeff

Bird · Nov 17, 2001

How about the Sinclair gas stations- the dinosaur

Buck, my maternal grandfather used to work for Sinclair and I thought they sold out or merged or something and disappeared years ago . . . until I saw some Sinclair stations last June. Try http://www.sinclairoil.com and you'll find they are apparently still very much alive.

DFB · Nov 17, 2001

Yes, the green dino still survives.

DFB

rlk · Nov 17, 2001

How about the Burma Shave road signs? The only one I can remember right now is:

Old farmer Brown
Who was bald on top
Wished that he
Could rotate his crop

Anyone remember others?