Old brands, gone now. - 24hourcampfire

Just listening to Hank Williams sponsored by Mother's Best Flour.

Want to "stroll down memory lane" with more?

Levi's.

BP...

Not so much a brand but I miss 100 watt light bulbs.

Originally Posted by BrotherBart

Not so much a brand but I miss 100 watt light bulbs.

AMEN! The SOB that thought up these 60 watt Enviro-weenie light bulbs ought to be hung.

Kept housewives at home.

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Originally Posted by BrotherBart

Not so much a brand but I miss 100 watt light bulbs.

I bought cases of them for both my places so am set for many years.

American Motors (AMC), Hummer, Mercury, Oldsmobile, Plymouth, Pontiac, Rambler, etc.

High-Standard

Butch wax comes to mind although I miss my hair more than the wax.

Originally Posted by BrotherBart

Not so much a brand but I miss 100 watt light bulbs.

You ought to see the light at -10f when I light up 4 of those neon bulbs in my garage. Takes 15 min to get to full luminosity.

Originally Posted by hillbillybear

Originally Posted by BrotherBart

Not so much a brand but I miss 100 watt light bulbs.

AMEN! The SOB that thought up these 60 watt Enviro-weenie light bulbs ought to be hung.

Probably the same SOB that came up with the 1 cup toilet flush.

Rath Packing

Originally Posted by Steelhead

That brand isn't gone by a long shot

The Dutch Boy Brand is Alive & Well

Wings cigarettes.

Originally Posted by achadwick

Originally Posted by Steelhead

That brand isn't gone by a long shot

The Dutch Boy Brand is Alive & Well

So that link shows LEAD BASED paint for home use? Good to know.

The name might still be here but not the class. Not even close.

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Old Gold Cigs
Chesterfield cigs
Bon Ami
Bardhal

Pacific and Bair reloading equipment.

Originally Posted by byc

+1000

Pontiac, who would have ever thought???

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No photo, but Ohio Blue Tip matches.

I just bought some of those on ebay.

Corn Kicks Cereal

Originally Posted by wabigoon

Wings cigarettes.

I have all the plane cards in an album somewhere.

Originally Posted by EdM

I owned the twin to that one except in Black. Factory 455 and Factory Hearse 4 speed tranny
Speedometer read 160 and I had it buried a few times. One fast SOB.

Originally Posted by Steelhead

Originally Posted by achadwick

Originally Posted by Steelhead

That brand isn't gone by a long shot

The Dutch Boy Brand is Alive & Well

So that link shows LEAD BASED paint for home use? Good to know.

You know that there is a difference between the brand and the product, right? The two are not the same thing.

Marbles and Schrade were a couple of my favorites......

Rexall

Originally Posted by achadwick

Originally Posted by Steelhead

Originally Posted by achadwick

Originally Posted by Steelhead

That brand isn't gone by a long shot

The Dutch Boy Brand is Alive & Well

So that link shows LEAD BASED paint for home use? Good to know.

You know that there is a difference between the brand and the product, right? The two are not the same thing.

Make sure you remind the guys posting Diamond Strike anywhere matches, Trans Am etc etc.

I remember as a kid getting scraped or cut, mom would apply some mercurochrome and a band-aid and all would be good. Haven't seen mercurochrome around in ages.

Keds and Red Ball Jets

Seven Seas salad dressing

penny candy of ANY brand!

Originally Posted by Steelhead

Scott, I can send you some of those if needed!!

Originally Posted by BrotherBart

Not so much a brand but I miss 100 watt light bulbs.

Bart I can send you some of those as well buddy!

Studebaker and Twin Cities tractors

Originally Posted by TBREW401

Old Gold Cigs
Chesterfield cigs
Bon Ami
Bardhal

It is hard to find, but you can still get Bon Ami.

Mission Macaroni and Cheese in those small boxes.....none better!

Hershey's Instant powdered chocolate milk mix.

I pretty much quit drinking chocolate milk when they quit making Hershey's Instant. I will occasionally use Hershey syrup, but it's not the same. Nestl� Quik is garbage.

PDQ Chocolate Flavored Beads - milk flavoring.

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Not so much a brand but I miss 100 watt light bulbs.

Be of good cheer. 60 watt LED bulbs are down to $4.50, and 100 watt bulbs are now available. Every time we get a chance, we replace old CFL and incandescent bulbs with LEDs.

In 20 years, do you think there will be another thread about how much we miss CFLs? Probably not.

Wicked Good competition blend charcoal

Prince Albert. Grandfather smoked a pipe and those red cans made great targets. Dang cans are worth 20 bucks today.

"Have you got Prince Albert in the can?"

Tinsley's Thin Cut Red Tag chewing tobacco.

I buy the blue diamond strike anywhere matches here at many of the local grocery stores.

Originally Posted by kend

Prince Albert. Grandfather smoked a pipe and those red cans made great targets. Dang cans are worth 20 bucks today.

Do you have Prince Albert in cans?

Yes, we do.

Well, let him out!

Originally Posted by specialK

I buy the blue diamond strike anywhere matches here at many of the local grocery stores.

yeah but they are a POS. Different product altogether.

But of course now I'll probably get fussed at by some anal member who points out the brand still exist. Even though it's a POS.

Orange Crush in the original little brown, ribbed bottle.

local hardware still sells 100W bulbs. Not sure how they get them.

Time now for someone to tell the old, "I haven't had a match since Superman died".
Not me!

Perhaps it's already been mentioned, but who remembers Herter's of Waseca, MN? I drooled over the catalog each year and bought a lot of stuff. While ALL Herter's goods were advertised as "The World's Finest", I was constantly disappointed. The quality was probably not too bad, but (as a teenager), it just didn't seem to be the World's Finest.

REDSKINS!!

Well not quite yet.

Napster....does that fall within the rules??

Yes, Herters.

Savage, like in model 99s.

Mrs. Wrights Bluing. Fels Naptha soap.
Nash, Rambler, Hudson. LaSalle. Packard.

Silvertips and Bronzepoints.

Monkey Wards. (not sure I mill them that much). I still have Penncraft machinist tools, and some hand tools. Penny's changed when old JC died.

Originally Posted by wabigoon

Time now for someone to tell the old, "I haven't had a match since Superman died".
Not me!

Mom used to love it when someone would ask, "Do you have a match?" so she could throw out the old, "Yes, your face and my ass," line. The only problem was that, every time, she got it backwards.

Funny John!

Originally Posted by Ringman

Rexall

If you are referring to drug store products, Rexall brands are now sold through Dollar General Stores.

donsm70

Peter's True Blue Shotgun Shells. I used to buy em' at T.G. & Y. in Norman, OK by the case...and back than a 'case' had 20 boxes of 25 in it.

Originally Posted by specialK

I buy the blue diamond strike anywhere matches here at many of the local grocery stores.

Consider yourself extremely lucky!!

Originally Posted by kend

Prince Albert. Grandfather smoked a pipe and those red cans made great targets. Dang cans are worth 20 bucks today.

Gee, no one remembers "Carter's Little Liver pills"?

Packard, StudBarker, Pierce Arrow, Duesenberg, great books by great American authors, American values, freedom, the Constitution.

Bull Of The Woods plug tobacco.

Ohio Blue Tip kitchen matches.

Eagle-Picher Asbestos 66 pipe insulation.

Dollar a pound live lobster off the pier in Newport, RI.

can still buy fels naptha

Originally Posted by Buckskin

Gee, no one remembers "Carter's Little Liver pills"?

Carter's Little Farter Starters

We still got these

Partsman, I have those matches in the kit I take to our moose camp every fall.

Jim

Then there was, Kaiser, & Hudson, autos, along with the Avanti, DeLorean, Henry J (sold by Sears), DeSoto, and Plymouth.

Tried to get some of those redbirds shipped to the US from Canada. Price almost tripled via ebay.

The whole VAT and cross border tax thing is just sick.

Campho-Phenique in the green glass jars. As kids, mom used them on us when we got bit or stung. Although still around as a brand, I miss the blue glass jars of Noxema. My dad used that to shave and then we would fill the jars with coins. To the good old days -tnscouter

Camillus knives

Merthiolate, red medicine like Mercurochrome... for when we would get our hide scratched off.. Friend of mine, David's mom would put that blue dog medicine on him.. Was much cheaper and that was a rough and tumble bunch..

Covered Wagon Bread

Bireley's Orange Drink - uncarbonated

Hires Root Beer

Signal Gasoline

Flying A Gasoline, I always wondered how a letter could fly

Thrifty Drug Stores - with a lunch counter

Ben Franklin Stores - ditto with the lunch counter and popcorn

Hamm's Beer

Alcan Smokeless Powder

Mercury Medical Thermometers - I had to import a dozen from India

Lifebuoy Soap - the phenol based bar that smelled like a chemical toilet

White King Soap, mother used it for the laundry, said that Tide ate up the clothes.

Argyrol that foul silver solution that my mother made me snuff up my nose when coming down with a cold. Never did anything but make me miserable.

Iodex, the iodine slave. Although still available, it was used as a chest rub when suffering through a bronchitis attack. Just as worthless as Vick's Vapo Rub.

Triumph Motorcycles - did anything ever sound so distinctive?

And one other thing with a sound so distinctive you didn't have to look to know what it was - the B-36 Intercontinental Bomber.

White Rose gasoline

Hillbilly bread. Libby's ketchup. Remington Mohawk shotgun shells and .22's.

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David's mom would put that blue dog medicine on him..

There was a local Doctor that mixed his own "Purple medicine" that he was legendary for using. It was good stuff and He used it for lots of things including painting your throat and tonsils. He never told anyone what all of the ingredients were. He is dead now and the formula with him. My wife worked for him in his later years and even though he thought the World of Her, He would not give up that secret. I think he came up with it during WWII, while in the Army. miles

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Hamm's Beer

Ya need to hang with Kaywoodie for a while. He is still drinking that. miles

Originally Posted by WranglerJohn

Hires Root Beer

Thrifty Drug Stores - with a lunch counter

Hires Root Beer is still available in "specialty" soda shops.

Bismarck and Jamestown ND both still have Thrifty White Drug stores with breakfast/lunch counters.

Humble gas stations.

They changed to Enco, then discovered that "enco" in Japanese meant "stalled car", so it was rapidly changed to Exxon after research revealed that the word was not in any vocabulary in existence.

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They changed to Enco, then discovered that "enco" in Japanese meant "stalled car", so it was rapidly changed to Exxon after research revealed that the word was not in any vocabulary in existence.

I think that ESSO was a step in that change too. Did a little more research and am now more confused than ever. Esso was Standard oil although both signs looked alike except for the letters. Somewhere along the line they both became Exxon, and were maybe part of the same company before that, either Humble or Standard. miles

Vitalis

Brylcream "A little dab I'll do ya!"

"Brusha, brusha, brusha, with the new Ipana, with the brand new flavor, it's dandy for your teeth"

Blackjack, & Clove chewing gum.

20 Mule Team Borax, advertised by Ronald Reagan on the TV show "Death Valley Days". I used to look forward to that show every week.

Woolworth Five and Dime stores.

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20 Mule Team Borax,

Still around. My wife uses it all the time. miles

Originally Posted by Blackheart

Hillbilly bread

"It's got wheat flour, cracked wheat, soya meal, molasso, pure honey, and corn flour."

Originally Posted by chlinstructor

Originally Posted by EdM

I owned the twin to that one except in Black. Factory 455 and Factory Hearse 4 speed tranny
Speedometer read 160 and I had it buried a few times. One fast SOB.

best friend has that car, black I think... I'm not a car person so don't recall, but do recall the 455 for sure and the firebird on top.

Originally Posted by milespatton

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They changed to Enco, then discovered that "enco" in Japanese meant "stalled car", so it was rapidly changed to Exxon after research revealed that the word was not in any vocabulary in existence.

I think that ESSO was a step in that change too. Did a little more research and am now more confused than ever. Esso was Standard oil although both signs looked alike except for the letters. Somewhere along the line they both became Exxon, and were maybe part of the same company before that, either Humble or Standard. miles

Yeah, I forgot ESSO. And... if you weren't confused enough, seems like Gulf Oil got into the mix as well.

In Quin Nhon, Vietnam on the ride from the airport to my Company, I saw an Esso station. That was July, 1968. It stuck in my mind as really odd. miles

Originally Posted by milespatton

In Quin Nhon, Vietnam on the ride from the airport to my Company, I saw an Esso station. That was July, 1968. It stuck in my mind as really odd. miles

Off Hwy 1?

Safeway brand stew - meat and potatoes.

Falstaff beer lasted 'til 2005.
Black Dallas Malt Liquor did not.
It was gone before pop-tops.

High standard, Noble, Universal, Iver Johnson, L.C. Smith, Parker, Fox.

Iron City beer
Duquesne beer
Carling Black Label beer
Herter's
Schlitz beer
Stradivarius violins

Originally Posted by kennyd

Mrs. Wrights Bluing. Fels Naptha soap.
Nash, Rambler, Hudson. LaSalle. Packard.

Silvertips and Bronzepoints.

Monkey Wards. (not sure I mill them that much). I still have Penncraft machinist tools, and some hand tools. Penny's changed when old JC died.

Mrs. Wright's Bluing still available out here.

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Off Hwy 1?

I have no idea. I only saw it the one time. I also thought it odd that they had a Coca Cola bottling plant there. miles

Originally Posted by antlers

Originally Posted by Blackheart

Hillbilly bread

"It's got wheat flour, cracked wheat, soya meal, molasso, pure honey, and corn flour."

Dad used to get that crap - might as well have cut up little squares of particle board.

Miles,

Humble Oil & Refining Co. began life in 1911 in Humble, Texas. It was later acquired by Standard of New Jersey. Hope this clears up the Humble /Standard confusion. It then became Esso, then Exxon, which is now Exxon Mobil.

Have a good day, Jim

Mohawk tires?

The Edsel.

Originally Posted by 5sdad

Originally Posted by antlers

Originally Posted by Blackheart

Hillbilly bread

"It's got wheat flour, cracked wheat, soya meal, molasso, pure honey, and corn flour."

Dad used to get that crap - might as well have cut up little squares of particle board.

Grilled cheese sandwiches, or PBJ's, or peanut butter and honey sandwiches were real good made with said 'little squares of particle board'.

Originally Posted by denton

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Not so much a brand but I miss 100 watt light bulbs.

Be of good cheer. 60 watt LED bulbs are down to $4.50, and 100 watt bulbs are now available. Every time we get a chance, we replace old CFL and incandescent bulbs with LEDs.

In 20 years, do you think there will be another thread about how much we miss CFLs? Probably not.

Many used those old style bulbs as much for the heat as for the light, so it won't matter how low LED prices fall, they can't DO what incandescent bulbs could

Incandescent light bulbs made in the USA, far longer lasting than the crap imported from Mexico today.

thats right a 100w bulb kept the water from freezing in the pump house. If the light couldnt be seen through the crack you changed the bulb. Many folks kept one in the bathroom or under the counter for the same reason. Too cheap for the led lamps but the cfl's suck. The ones i bought didnt last long enough to justify the cost and the light was not satisfactory.

S&H Green stamps.

Originally Posted by kennyd

Mrs. Wrights Bluing. Fels Naptha soap.
Nash, Rambler, Hudson. LaSalle. Packard.

Silvertips and Bronzepoints.

Monkey Wards. (not sure I mill them that much). I still have Penncraft machinist tools, and some hand tools. Penny's changed when old JC died.

I just bought a box of .30/06 180-grain Bronze Points last year. There still must be some in the supply chain.

Originally Posted by colodog

S&H Green stamps.

They got bought out but are somewhat still around as S&H Greenpoint rewards, instead of stamps you get a refillable card.

Little Rascals

!!!

Precision Shooting magazine

Originally Posted by byc

Little Rascals

!!!

They're still around. On C SPAN.

Several of the old popular brand names that were well known back in the day but then disappeared are popping up again, especially in entertainment electronics and household appliances, although the original companies are no longer in business and haven't been for years.

We damn near lost Twinkies. What a tragedy that would have been. Suckers were buying them on ebay at a hundred bucks a box.

My wife was a life long Hostess Cupcake addict until the Little Debbie company started making them under the Hostess name. She says they aren't any where as good now as they used to be.

It's real a shame for me too because a box of the original Hostess Cupcakes used to help smooth over some of my occasional minor transgressions.

The International Harvester line of passenger vehicles/trucks, the Scout, Pickup, and Travelall 200. Loved those trucks.

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Marathon candy bar. Used to love those. I think you can import them, but who knows now with the ban on chocolate imports from the UK.

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Originally Posted by NathanL

Marathon candy bar. Used to love those. I think you can import them, but who knows now with the ban on chocolate imports from the UK.

[img]http://www.collectingcandy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CC_Jon-Mankuta-1980-Marathon-wrapper-front-and-back1.jpg][/img]

Marathon were my favorite when I was a kid. What's the import ban from the UK about?

Savage 24V's and Savage Fox Model B SE's
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Originally Posted by 375fan

Originally Posted by NathanL

Marathon candy bar. Used to love those. I think you can import them, but who knows now with the ban on chocolate imports from the UK.

[img]http://www.collectingcandy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CC_Jon-Mankuta-1980-Marathon-wrapper-front-and-back1.jpg][/img]

Marathon were my favorite when I was a kid. What's the import ban from the UK about?

Hershey got the US government to stop the importation of Cadbury chocolate. Just saw it in several places last week.

Schrade USA knives. Used to pass them in Ellenville on Schrade Court right off Route 209 on my way to deer camp for years. That little green handled 50T has been in my pocket every day for over 18 years since my daughter gave it to me. Don't know how many deer it's dressed because I forgot to bring along a real hunting knife.

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Agree with International Harvester. My best friend in high school bought one just like this for $200 and we had a blast in that thing.

Dr. Pepper in the glass bottles made with Pure Cane Sugar. The first and original Dr. Pepper Plant is only about 75 miles east of here. They do a special run of the good stuff once a year, usually around Christmas time.

Also RC Cola.

Several of the Mexican restaurants in town are advertising original coke and other soda products. I guess they are bringing them in from Mexico.

Pretty cool and a huge difference in taste.

Yep. And I noticed Sam's Club here is selling the Mexico Coke. I'll have to give it a try.

Winchester.
General Electric
Westinghouse......
So many "brands" are still here. The companies, and quality, have been gone for years.

Ford tractors
Curtis Mathes televisions
Oldsmobile
Piedmont Airlines

Allis-chalmers, Oliver, Minneapolis Moline, IH, Case, White,

Gambles, Coast to Coast, skogmoes.

Pearl Drops tooth polish, Powdered alum used to use it for canker sores. Stung like crazy, tasted like chit, but it worked.

I went to a pharmacist (younger guy) and asked him about it. He didn't know what I was talking about, had to ask the older guy there.

Brockway, Autocar, Diamond Rio, White, Dodge, Marmon, Ford, GMC

The original Shinola. The new Shinola
is unrecognisable.

On the other hand, "New Coke", we can do without.

Wolf Point Saddlery.

My dad would take us kids in and we'd say hello to the friendly old gal behind the counter.

Willy, the boot repairman, might be drunk(but still working).

Go downstairs through a big wide staircase and the boss would be building a saddle, maybe a pair of chaps or tooling a new belt.

Good old Gene and Loretta Martin. They also raised quarter horses and a some cows.

Gene died along with most of Main Street and the store has been closed for probably 15 years. But we still have two old Martin cow ponies. They don't get rode much anymore.

Cool old place that is missed.

Multiply that by a few thousand Sam.

Twin-draulic

We had a "Fast Hitch" model post auger made in Laurens.

Federal BBs

Originally Posted by colodog

S&H Green stamps.

Good one!! That program had one heck of a following!

Originally Posted by Jocko_Slugshot

Iron City beer
Duquesne beer
Carling Black Label beer
Herter's
Schlitz beer
Stradivarius violins

I have a 6 of Schlitz in the garage fridge. Wonder how long it's been in there??

Herters is still around, in name anyway. You can get decoys and ammo with the Herters name on it at Cabelas.

Originally Posted by byc

Originally Posted by Jocko_Slugshot

Iron City beer
Duquesne beer
Carling Black Label beer
Herter's
Schlitz beer
Stradivarius violins

I have a 6 of Schlitz in the garage fridge. Wonder how long it's been in there??

I'd be more impressed if you had a Stradivarius.

Burma Shave

(never used it, just always thought it was a cool name

)

How 'bout Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reece on the Saturday afternoon baseball game advertising "Falstaff" beer? Still remember Dizzy's unique voice telling everybody "It's Falstaff time".

Ole" Diz was a man, and a half.

Originally Posted by byc

Originally Posted by Jocko_Slugshot

Iron City beer
Duquesne beer
Carling Black Label beer
Herter's
Schlitz beer
Stradivarius violins

I have a 6 of Schlitz in the garage fridge. Wonder how long it's been in there??

They still make Schlitz - to the 60's formula too.

How about Blatz beer?

Originally Posted by WranglerJohn

Covered Wagon Bread

Bireley's Orange Drink - uncarbonated

Hires Root Beer

Signal Gasoline

Flying A Gasoline, I always wondered how a letter could fly

Thrifty Drug Stores - with a lunch counter

Ben Franklin Stores - ditto with the lunch counter and popcorn

Hamm's Beer

Alcan Smokeless Powder

Mercury Medical Thermometers - I had to import a dozen from India

Lifebuoy Soap - the phenol based bar that smelled like a chemical toilet

White King Soap, mother used it for the laundry, said that Tide ate up the clothes.

Argyrol that foul silver solution that my mother made me snuff up my nose when coming down with a cold. Never did anything but make me miserable.

Iodex, the iodine slave. Although still available, it was used as a chest rub when suffering through a bronchitis attack. Just as worthless as Vick's Vapo Rub.

Triumph Motorcycles - did anything ever sound so distinctive?

And one other thing with a sound so distinctive you didn't have to look to know what it was - the B-36 Intercontinental Bomber.

I drank a Hamms a couple hours ago.

Originally Posted by wabigoon

How about Blatz beer?

Yep - you can still get Blatz.

Schlitz
PBR
Hamms

Originally Posted by wabigoon

How about Blatz beer?

Nothing ever better described the sound of a beer fart than "Blatz".

Originally Posted by shootem

How 'bout Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reece on the Saturday afternoon baseball game advertising "Falstaff" beer? Still remember Dizzy's unique voice telling everybody "It's Falstaff time".

About thirty years ago I bought a bag of Dizzy Dean charcoal. The stuff was nearly fireproof.

Originally Posted by mathman

Originally Posted by shootem

How 'bout Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reece on the Saturday afternoon baseball game advertising "Falstaff" beer? Still remember Dizzy's unique voice telling everybody "It's Falstaff time".

About thirty years ago I bought a bag of Dizzy Dean charcoal. The stuff was nearly fireproof.

In the early-mid '60's my brother was on a "minor league" baseball team (7, 8, 9 year olds I believe) that was sponsored by Dizzy dean charcoal. The team got to meet with Ole Diz and he's got a picture with Dizzy handing him a autographed baseball.

My father told us several times of the attempts by the English teachers of America to have him taken off the air because he slaughtered the English language. Anyone remember his rendition of "Wabash Cannonball?"

Never a dull moment when Diz was on the air. Have to say it was more enjoyable than now.

I would love to have a recording of Dean singing The Wabash Cannon Ball!

If I remember correctly, they held up the start of a inning once for Ole Diz to finish the song when they put him on the stadium PA.

"And three ducks left on the pond".

If you ever visit Branson,MO. there's a five and dime downtown that specializes in the more obscure older type of merchandise such as candies and housewares.

Originally Posted by curdog4570

Originally Posted by milespatton

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They changed to Enco, then discovered that "enco" in Japanese meant "stalled car", so it was rapidly changed to Exxon after research revealed that the word was not in any vocabulary in existence.

I think that ESSO was a step in that change too. Did a little more research and am now more confused than ever. Esso was Standard oil although both signs looked alike except for the letters. Somewhere along the line they both became Exxon, and were maybe part of the same company before that, either Humble or Standard. miles

Yeah, I forgot ESSO. And... if you weren't confused enough, seems like Gulf Oil got into the mix as well.

Dont know who owned what, but in the south it was Esso and as you went north, it became Enco. I remember well when they took down the Esso sign and put up the new Exxon sign, at the local station.

Dad traveled all over the US in the '60's working on missle sites and dams. I remember the Esso credit card was accepted at the Enco stations. You could also buy tires, get a motel room, get meals, and get money with the Esso Card.

Shakey's pizza and Schlitz dark on tap was a winning combination. Both left my town. Is Shakey's still out there?

How about Sambos burger joint. Not political correct today but they were great when I was a kid.

Bush Hog by Stan-Hoist

Originally Posted by byc

Shakey's pizza and Schlitz dark on tap was a winning combination. Both let my town. Is Shakey's still out there?

When I was young Shakey's were all over the place. I looked at Wiki and there are only 59 left in the entire US, 50 of them in California.

I don't know if its still around or not,but I used to see a lot of Dominion brand ammo when I was starting out deer hunting,in the mid 70's.
I believe it was made in Canada,but I haven't seen it in a long time.

Originally Posted by wink_man

The International Harvester line of passenger vehicles/trucks, the Scout, Pickup, and Travelall 200. Loved those trucks.

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Just helped a buddy put the hood back on the twin to that Scout II!
How about Newberry's five & dime?
Typewriters as a whole (I used to clean Underwoods, Remingtons, Smith Coronas, Royals, etc)
Garrett Brothers snuff
Brown's Mule
Wasn't Sinclair Oil Co the one with the dinosaur logo?

Mike

Those are still around, Carroll, Iowa has one.

The chili dogs used to be fantastic; then they changed the chili and went to those god-awful all-beef hot dogs.

Originally Posted by byc

http://www.diamondbrands.com/MatchesFireStartersLighters.aspx

Originally Posted by TBREW401

Bon Ami

http://www.bonami.com/

Originally Posted by Oldman03

Originally Posted by curdog4570

Originally Posted by milespatton

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They changed to Enco, then discovered that "enco" in Japanese meant "stalled car", so it was rapidly changed to Exxon after research revealed that the word was not in any vocabulary in existence.

I think that ESSO was a step in that change too. Did a little more research and am now more confused than ever. Esso was Standard oil although both signs looked alike except for the letters. Somewhere along the line they both became Exxon, and were maybe part of the same company before that, either Humble or Standard. miles

Yeah, I forgot ESSO. And... if you weren't confused enough, seems like Gulf Oil got into the mix as well.

Dont know who owned what, but in the south it was Esso and as you went north, it became Enco. I remember well when they took down the Esso sign and put up the new Exxon sign, at the local station.

Dad traveled all over the US in the '60's working on missle sites and dams. I remember the Esso credit card was accepted at the Enco stations. You could also buy tires, get a motel room, get meals, and get money with the Esso Card.

I remember writing car license plate numbers down when using gas cards.

The complaints about the light bulbs are interesting.

Do many of you stick to Krypton bulbed flash lights to drain a set of batteries faster than those new fangled LED lights can do?

Originally Posted by sherp

Originally Posted by byc

http://www.diamondbrands.com/MatchesFireStartersLighters.aspx

Not even close to being the same quality product. Junk. You can thank the meth druggies for this one.

Originally Posted by byc

Originally Posted by sherp

Originally Posted by byc

http://www.diamondbrands.com/MatchesFireStartersLighters.aspx

Not even close to being the same quality product. Junk. You can thank the meth druggies for this one.

Why is that?

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I think that ESSO was a step in that change too. Did a little more research and am now more confused than ever. Esso was Standard oil although both signs looked alike except for the letters. Somewhere along the line they both became Exxon, and were maybe part of the same company before that, either Humble or Standard. miles

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Yeah, I forgot ESSO. And... if you weren't confused enough, seems like Gulf Oil got into the mix as well.

I always confused the secretary at work when going to the Exxon refinery I would say "Going to Esso" or "Going to standard oil". I think it took her several months to realise I was going to Exxon each time and not another refinery.

Originally Posted by wabigoon

I would love to have a recording of Dean singing The Wabash Cannon Ball!

If I remember correctly, they held up the start of a inning once for Ole Diz to finish the song when they put him on the stadium PA.

Originally Posted by wink_man

Savage 24V's and Savage Fox Model B SE's
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I just made a mess of my drawers! I bought a .22LR over a modified 3" 20ga last year.

1. I miss Olt game calls especially the D2 duck calls
2. USA made Schrade knives
3. Woodstream tackle
4. blue fox is still a current company but they quit making 1/32 oz foxxie jigs and 1/16 oz rattle flash jigging spoons. It took an idiot to take those two lures out of the line up.

Originally Posted by sherp

Originally Posted by byc

http://www.diamondbrands.com/MatchesFireStartersLighters.aspx

The link you posted is for the new "green" matches that don't work (just like you).
You've never really started a fire, have you dumb ass?

Originally Posted by FieldGrade

Originally Posted by sherp

Originally Posted by byc

http://www.diamondbrands.com/MatchesFireStartersLighters.aspx

The link you posted is for the new "green" matches that don't work (just like you).
You've never really started a fire, have you dumb ass?

You are wrong, of course.

I have some of the ones pictured, but have not tried the news ones on their site yet.

That being said, this guy doesn't seem to have any problems with them and(based on the self aggrandizing you exhibit)you have to be much more talented than he is. Right?

Holiday ammunition
Pokagon pop
Drewerys beer
bulk candy at Sears

Plain ol' saline solution eye drops. Pharmacist says can't sell it anymore because folks mix it with drugs to shoot up with.

Originally Posted by seal_billy

Originally Posted by wink_man

Savage 24V's and Savage Fox Model B SE's
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I just made a mess of my drawers! I bought a .22LR over a modified 3" 20ga last year.

1. I miss Olt game calls especially the D2 duck calls
2. USA made Schrade knives
3. Woodstream tackle
4. blue fox is still a current company but they quit making 1/32 oz foxxie jigs and 1/16 oz rattle flash jigging spoons. It took an idiot to take those two lures out of the line up.

Agree on all counts with you Seal Billy, I had an Olt crow and duck call as a kid, and they were great calls.

Well if you want to get into fishing, I miss the Helin Flatfish, the Fred Abrogast Jitterbug, and the Hula Popper with the genuine rubber skirt that rotted away after a few years. The Heddon River Runt, the Midget River runt, and the Crazy Crawler.

Fishing Rods that held the reels on with Aluminum rings and metal ferrules you rubbed against your nose to oil them before you put them together:

The Garcia Corporations tackle and their yearly Garcia Fishing Annual magazine:

What about "Circe" predator calls? I have maybe, half a dozen of the old green plastic, and 3 of the even older wood calls, but can't seem to buy any new ones.

The reeds get to sounding wrong when they start rusting out.

In any case if "Circe" calls are still being made, I sure can't find them!

Respects,
Richard

Original "Handyman" jack. Much better than the cheaper Hi-lift jacks made these days.

Originally Posted by Buckskin

Gee, no one remembers "Carter's Little Liver pills"?

I do, and I remember my Grandmother gave me them for every stomach ailment that every hit me. She gave me Dodd's Kidney pills too, when the Carter's Liver pills did not quite take care of the problem

Originally Posted by Steelhead

I just bought two boxes of those...

Big Johns Baked Beans

The original Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., at least not as an independent tire manufacturing corporation.

The last thing I am aware of that the original Firestone continued to own and manufacture after Bridgestone's 'acquisition' (they preferred to call it a "merger") was commercial/industrial roofing products.

Looking around the room right now.

Of what I can actually see and that isn't locked up or in a cabinet:

Western Knives

Western Cartridges

George Lawrence Leather

Redfield Optics---Denver

Marbles--- Gladstone, MI

High Standard

Millers Falls Tool Co.

Schrade USA

Prince Albert

Winchester-- New Haven

Weaver--- El Paso

Remington Cutlery

Winchester Cutlery

Cattaraugus Cutlery

Olsen OK Cutlery

Originally Posted by kend

Prince Albert. Grandfather smoked a pipe and those red cans made great targets. Dang cans are worth 20 bucks today.

Shinola

My grandfather would often say "John Smith does not know schit from shinola". IF you can find it they also go for $20.

Originally Posted by Raeford

Big Johns Baked Beans

Gros Jos!

Back in the day, a boy could get a big piece of bubble gum and 5 baseball cards for a nickle. The gum was big enought you could give half to a friend.

Originally Posted by Hotload

Back in the day, a boy could get a big piece of bubble gum and 5 baseball cards for a nickle. The gum was big enought you could give half to a friend.

And you could actually enjoy the cards: handle them, stick them in your pocket, use them for games, flip them, skim them, and even use them to turn your bike into a motorcycle; all without someone "tsk, tsking" about you ruining your investment.

I miss diazinon for insect control.

We used this salve growing up like we use Neosporin today. Smells nasty but seems to work. My mom gave me this can about 15 years after dad died. He apparently ratholed it for the day they quit making it.

The tobacco smells like heaven in a can.

Originally Posted by 5sdad

Originally Posted by Hotload

Back in the day, a boy could get a big piece of bubble gum and 5 baseball cards for a nickle. The gum was big enought you could give half to a friend.

And you could actually enjoy the cards: handle them, stick them in your pocket, use them for games, flip them, skim them, and even use them to turn your bike into a motorcycle; all without someone "tsk, tsking" about you ruining your investment.

Yes sir .... nice to think back on. Must have been 1001 games we would think up playing with baseball cards.

Got a box of 20 mule in the cupboard right now. Don't know where the wife gets it

I get it off the grocery shelf. I use it for flux when forge welding.

The Home Permanents.

"Which Twin has the Tony?"

In my pre-school years, I was dragged into far too many beauty salons while Mom underwent beautification. The godawful smell still haunts me. It's even worse than the odor of a fabric store.

Originally Posted by wink_man

Originally Posted by seal_billy

Originally Posted by wink_man

Savage 24V's and Savage Fox Model B SE's
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I just made a mess of my drawers! I bought a .22LR over a modified 3" 20ga last year.

1. I miss Olt game calls especially the D2 duck calls
2. USA made Schrade knives
3. Woodstream tackle
4. blue fox is still a current company but they quit making 1/32 oz foxxie jigs and 1/16 oz rattle flash jigging spoons. It took an idiot to take those two lures out of the line up.

Agree on all counts with you Seal Billy, I had an Olt crow and duck call as a kid, and they were great calls.

Well if you want to get into fishing, I miss the Helin Flatfish, the Fred Abrogast Jitterbug, and the Hula Popper with the genuine rubber skirt that rotted away after a few years. The Heddon River Runt, the Midget River runt, and the Crazy Crawler.

Fishing Rods that held the reels on with Aluminum rings and metal ferrules you rubbed against your nose to oil them before you put them together:

The Garcia Corporations tackle and their yearly Garcia Fishing Annual magazine:

Is the crazy crawler the top water plug that had the metal flippers on the sides?

I also liked the metal ring reel seats,, I am building a spin/fly rod and putting a tennessee handle on it. Most guys tape the reel on a tennessee handle but I'm going to use rings so I can mount the reel on the end if I'm fly fishing and mount a spinning reel near the top when spin fishing. I also liked the old rubber skirts now a days the dam band breaks and all the strands end up in the bottom of your box.

You brought back memories man, good ones. Remember metal minnow buckets?

O I forgot, AbuGarcia Cardinal reels. I bought a 4X Cardinal about 2 weeks ago that had never even had line put on it and it didn't have a scratch for 30 bucks! SCORE!!! No box though : (

Originally Posted by seal_billy

O I forgot, AbuGarcia Cardinal reels. I bought a 4X Cardinal about 2 weeks ago that had never even had line put on it and it didn't have a scratch for 30 bucks! SCORE!!! No box though : (

Ah, but if you're old like me, 'abu garcia' is 'new school' after the Garcia Corporation went under. The pics of the reel box(cardboard) is from when I was 12 years old. Garcia Mitchell reels carried a lifetime warranty and they were headquartered in Teaneck NJ, just down the road off of Route 4 from me. If you had a problem with the reel, you got your mother to drive you there, they had a repair shop, and they'd just give you another reel, no questions asked.

And yes, the Heddon Crazy Crawler had the metal arms that extended out on the sides of the body, wish I still had one of those.

Yes, I remember metal minnow buckets, there were galvanized sheet metal, I think the one I had was a woodstream.

I well remember metal minnow buckets. The one that we had was older than I was. Dad's "good" rod (fiberglass, not metal) was a Heddon Pal Spook.

Originally Posted by wabigoon

The Home Permanents.

"Which Twin has the Tony?"

I remember a joke that was, why do Italian women sleep in the nude?

To keep their Tony home permanent.

Anyone remember Frontier Ammunition from the mid 60's, Joyce Hornadys introduction into the ammunition business that is now Hornady ammunition? Milsurp brass and hornady bullets.
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In the mid 60's I was a snot nosed teenager who couldn't afford remington or winchester ammo so I used this. Great stuff that I outshot adults with using Remington & Winchster ammo, and I was using a Remington 700 with iron sites at Camp Rockspar in Pa, located between Moshannon and Renovo.

Mattel Shootin' Shell rifle/pistol set, Hubley Rifleman rifle, Woolworth's cap guns, rubber band gun and a favorite of mine, the spud gun...

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We would buy our Spud Guns at Pooley's, the town drive-in/kid store. If left unattended for lengthy periods of time, the starch would corrode the pot metal. There was a large rock at the corner of our lot and Nordlund's where they met the alley. That was our spud-shootin' spot.

Was in Mal-Wart this afternoon and noticed that they have a plastic version of the spud gun. Naturally, I cannot now remember what it is called.

Also on the gone but not forgotten list is the Forever Yours candy bar.

Bubs Daddy bubble gum.

Schwinn bicycles were King of the Roost, before the English took over.

Recall the adds, "Steer with your hands, stop with your feet'? [Linked Image]

They are still around, but like so many sad cases, broke, and bought up by another company.

Few that aren't around anymore:

L&S Mirrolures
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Heddon Tiny Torpedo
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Heddon Big Chug
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And Cisco Kid lures

Nice.

I remember mirrorlures. They still make tiny torpedos, they can't be beat in the summer when the rivers are low and clear for smallmouth.

Every now and then, I like to feel the tooth marks made on this one by northerns and muskies and remember the times and the people that were a part of them.

I didn't actually know that "Shinola" was a real product and not just a part of the "You don't know schist from Shinola" statement.

Pretty sure they don't make this anymore.

1950 Willys Overland Jeepster.

The Willys company was trying to switch over to civilian vehicles after WWII. The original Jeepster was very underpowered with the little 4-cylinder F-head jeep engine and a top speed of about 50 mph. It was un-streamlined when swoopy curves were becoming the rage in styling, and it didn't have roll-up windows. For all these reasons it failed in the marketplace, only being made from 1948 until 1952. The pick-up trucks and wagons survived several years longer.

In the 1920s Martin Johnson and his wife, Osa, used Willys Overland trucks to conduct the first large-scale motorized safaris in Africa. Mrs. Johnson shot most of the meat for the crew, and protected her husband with her Winchester 1895 as he photographed lions.