Old Timey Stuff
A stroll down memory lane...
Pictures of old timey stuff like a Ford Model R, an old Studebaker car, Brownie Camera, flash bulbs, reel-to-reel tape recorders, puppet Topo Gigio a regular guest on the Ed Sullivan Show, and more.
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1907 Ford Model R
1928 Post Card mailed by auto repair shop in Bottineau, N. Dak. ...
... advertising repair costs for a Model T Ford
And 5cents was for a 12 oz. bottle!
Then, instead of raising the price, they reduced the size of the bottle.
Mars did the same with Life Savers. To get more revenue, they made the hole bigger.
A baseball card when I was a teen. Banks was born in Dallas TX, in 1931, four years before my birthday. He is a former MLB all-star who played his entire career (1953-1971) with the Chicago Cubs. He signed with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League in 1950 and moved to the Cubs as their first black player. He currently lives in the L.A. area.
Yep! Stamps once cost only a nickel...
...and you could buy a hamburger for 15 cents...
...and a gallon of gas for a quarter.
And, they pumped the gas,
wiped your windshield,
checked your oil,
checked your battery
and checked the tire pressure.
This gadget filled the center hole of your newfangled 45 RPM records
so they could be played on your old fashioned 78 RPM turntable.
Adding psychedelic charm to the Christmas Tree!
Avon calling, c.1960!
A 12 cent Dell comic book, Dec. 1962.
A genuine Kodak Brownie Camera.
Brylcreem: "A little dab'll do ya..."
Until about the 1970s, signs for Burma-Shave cream
were common on roadsides in America. Each banner was a separate sign,
spaced about fifty yards apart. On long trips the children played a game of who would spot the signs first and who could read the next one first.
The story of my youth!
A favorite hang out.
One of the first rages for a Christmas gift
that EVERY girl HAD to have.
The first company to put all our food in a tomato sauce.
They even thought cigarettes were a kewl Christmas gift.
When kids were allowed to have actual toys.
What an idea!
Nifty places to take dates, and
affordable for family night at the movies.
Ah... Those were the days!
A&W Root Beer with a burger! The best.
An Erector Set
EVERY real boy had a set of these.
The company that pioneered beer in a keg for home use.
What's this? Actually it's a schoolhouse, c.1940s, very much like the one I attended for grades 1-6. Look on the right side. That's a fire escape, or I would call it a morale booster. We really looked forward to fire drills.
Old timey flash bulbs.
Remember James Stewart used them to blind bad guy Raymond Burr
in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window ?
Red Skelton as The Fuller Brush Man.
The Fuller Brush Man was more notorious to city house wives
than the traveling salesman was to the farmer's daughter.
The harbinger of super market coupons,
except Green Stamps were handed out at checkout
and redeemable for non-food items at Green Stamp stores.
A chain made from gum wrappers.
See! My generation even invented ready-to-pop popcorn.
Lincoln Logs followed Erector Sets.
Mutual of Omaha's Marlin Perkins:
Original TV host for Mutual's Wild Kingdom.
Really! They once had aluminum ice trays. Yuk!
Old Yeller was more famous than Lassie
Penny candy. Actually 1 to 3 cents each.
A real reel-to-reel tap recorder.
This is a roller skate key,
made famous by Melanie:
"Brand New Key"
Sky King episodes were regualar serials with
Saturday afternoon Double Features.
Meet Speedy, as in Alka-Seltzer
Vintage Post-WWII Studebaker
The first one I ever saw of this vintage was the 1949.
Lassie!
My kids would never miss an episode.
Tinker Toys, I believe came after
Erector Sets and Lincoln Logs.
Topo Gigio
was a regular guest on
Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town
In the old days, TV went off the air around midnight and came back on early A.M. The routine was to run the National Anthem for sign-off and then show a "test pattern" for some time after and again before coming back on in the morning. The image is a typical "test pattern" which broadcast engineers used to fine-tune signals.
Old fashioned wash tub with an electric wringer.
My parents had one with an electric tub (agitator)
and a manual (hand crank) wringer.
And if anyone has doubts about what we paid for a coke and sandwich at Woolworths (how many don't know what Woolworth's was?) in the 1950's, here's proof of the era....
F.W. Woolworth menu, c.1950s. Nice mid-day eateries.
We called them Woolworth lunch counters.
And the menus were in English only!
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