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You do not have to have had a psychotic episode to work here, it just saves time!
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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..
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
GeoW, The "Unwoke" ...Let's go Brandon!
"A Well Regulated Militia" Life Member
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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.
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Keep your gun-hand ready and your eyes peeled.
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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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Ya need to hang with Kaywoodie for a while. He is still drinking that. miles
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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.
I can walk on water.......................but I do stagger a bit on alcohol.
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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.
Never holler whoa or look back in a tight place
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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
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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"
'Tis far better to walk alone than to follow a crowd going the wrong way.
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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.
Cat, the other white meat!
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Woolworth Five and Dime stores.
Quando Omni Moritati
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Still around. My wife uses it all the time. miles
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"It's got wheat flour, cracked wheat, soya meal, molasso, pure honey, and corn flour."
Every day on this side of the ground is a win.
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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.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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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.
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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
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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?
Cat, the other white meat!
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Safeway brand stew - meat and potatoes.
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