Thinking about things: Do You Remember??

missileman2000, your reposnse brought back both good and sad memories for me.  I had a 1930ish Crosley standing cabinet radio/world band refurnished many years ago and spent many nights in my Man Cave building models and listening to various programs on the radio.  Unfortunately, about 15 years ago my community had massive flooding from a "100 year"storm and we got over 10 inches of floodwater in our basement.  The radio's cabinet was staturated and it was put to the curb along with so many of my model kits.  In my opinion, music and sports broadcasts just sounded so much better on a vintage piece.

tjs

Tanker-Builder

Hello, America! Paul Harvey Here!

         Does anyone remember him? How about Arthur Godfrey? or How about, this, an old word trick at school. Antidisestablishmentairinism? That was a Mouthful. Remember Carvel Soft Serve? Or gas Stations like Gulf, Esso, Sinclair, Texaco. Remember their slogans?"Trust Your Car to the man who wears the Star"was Texaco's, and Esso-Exxon was 'Put a Tiger in Your Tank". I had to be careful about that last! I swear my brand New 57 Chevy Bel-Air With Fuel Injection was touchier on the throttle with Esso-Exxon!

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          Ah! Those were the days of "Life of Riley" and "Dragnet" on the radio, Remember those? The Large boxes on the Cabinet behind the Sofa? Or the larger cabinets that sat in a corner of the parlor with a round dial with a switch that allowed you to listen to Radio Free Europe and the B.B.C. from the comfort of your American, Levitown house (If you lived there) or the Sears-Built Bungalows, Different sizes for Different sized families. Own your own Craftsman designed home. Delivery assured. Yup! Kit Homes back then. Weren't we lucky?? I thought life was grand, No fears of strangers on the "Sidewalks" in our hometown and None came to our schools with harm in mind! Beat Cops, Safe neighborhoods, Parks with Merry Go rounds that you made spin fast enough you forgot about centrifugal force when you tried to get on. Monkeybars, With only sand to fall on. Swings with wooden Boards with Splinters and Rusty chains. Wasn't it wonderful to catch a jar of fireflies? 

         End! Really No, but you might be getting bored now, God Bless and I'll check in with you Tomorrow, Mr.Blue Collar, signing off. Good Night America!

 

Ah, yes, I listened to life of riley, dragnet, Aurther Godfry, FBI in peace and war, Green Hornet, Crash Corrogan, the Shadow,and Lone Ranger on our big floor standing Philco that also covered short wave bands.

My first model kit was a Guillows Aeronca, but the same Kresges store also had Comet kits, which were cheaper, so I built more of them.  It wasn't till I was going to hobby shops and subscribing to Air Trails and Model Airplane News that I discovered Scientific which flew much better than Guillows or Comets.

I remember that show, barely.  Wenever had the plastic to cover the screen.

When I was  kid in the 1950's, I remember buying a green plastic film that I would place over the TV screen and then draw on the film with  special types of crayons.  The green film was used during a TV show called Winky Dink..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5TdRhNLOPk

Hi Lurch!

     Yeah, I was surprised too! Turns out if you want to find the oldies that are still around, talk to a Model railroader! They still use a Lot of the older stuff. They are very reluctant to change. An apt slogan for them is " If it ain't Broke,Don't fix it!"

There are online hobby shops that cater to small rubber models.  Google rubber  free flight models.  You can even get the small cross section indoor rubber.

You can get a lot of rubber scale stuff online.  Especially look at Easy Bilt models.  Laser cutting is the new high tech thing.  No more hours with a hobby knife cutting out ribs and formers!

They are still around. WOW I havent seen those for years.I bet its been 20 years since I have seen them

Missileman2000!

      Hey, you can Still get Lepage's Mucilage glue .You just have to really look for it in printing specialty stores!Mainly printing equipment stores that work with museums. I used Dope to krinkle the surface of model shipwrecks when i saw what it did. Every Monogram Speedy Bilt I put together always flew nicely. Shrinking Tissue is still available in Bamboo and light crafts stores.

S&H. Yep. I think I still have a couple books of them in a drayer somewhere.

How about Lepage and Testors tubes of celulouse glue?  Testors dope?  Shriking tissue?  First learning dope did not work well on styrene?  Momogram speedy-builts, a transitional kit from balsa to plastic?

Hey Lurch!

 They still make those? I haven't had one since about eight years ago in a Service Station in Arizona!

Thanks TB. I remember those stamps. I dont remember the catalogs tho. I recall puting those stamps in the books for my parents and grandparents tho.  Also can I get a slimjim because I dont chew bubblegum. 

Hi Lurch!

 You just earned a Bubble Gum Cigar! For sure-Good old sperry and Hutchinson! Their catalogue was definitely something to call a Wish Book!

If I remember correctly S & H stood for Sperry and Hutchinson Co. 

I remember the Green Stamps from when my Father managed some Grand Union stores.  I had to spend time at the kitchen table just wetting and pasting those sheets of stamps.  

Alan Sherman did a song about green stamps and Timex watches.  He did much more that Hello Muddah, Hello Father.  He did several albums where he had original songs or changed the words of other songs.

I remember those coin changing things you would hook on your belt for some jobs like pumping gas in N.J.

Then there was when aircraft on their way to Newark air port that would make the picture on the TV go wavy until they got out of range.  I was on the roof holding the antenna in the right direction while my brothers sat in the living room watching a show and saw a formation of fighters following a larger aircraft that I thought might be a KC-97 tanker.

Getting the mumps, measels, or chicken pox and laying in a bed in the walkway near the front porch waiting for a house call from the doctor.

Speaking of medical things, when it came time for tonsils to be removed, having that rubber gas mask being put on your face as they knocked you out.

Dentistry was different back then.  Having the dentist telling you to hold your breath while he stuck the needle in your gums and moved it around to different points.  No advanced seditive before the needle.  Don't forget those water bowels you would have to spit into.

Driver's license permits were just a printed card or very small form.  Ours were about 4x3 card and would be folded in your wallet.

Shows like Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, Man From U.N.C.L.E., Land of the Giants, The Invaders and 12 O'Clock High as well as many others, all in B/W.  When Star Trek commercials started to announce a new show, I remember saying that at least these guys got to go to other planets instead of being stuck all the time.

Not allowing Lawyers to run commercials on TV or the radio.

Sorry!

     I should've mentioned those ubitiqous things! My Gosh, I don't know how many times I would be told," Don't forget the "Green Stamps" when I would go to the market for the ladies in our household. Two Great Grand Mas and two Grand Mas made sure Christmas was special. How? They used all their full stamp books for our gifts! So I got Erector sets and Lionel stuff because of those darned green things. Yay!!

   There were also Stamps from the Sinclair station where we bought Auto fuel. They could be returned full in exchange for car related stuff and toys. Grilles, Camping stuff and any Toy related to the Gasoline and Oil Business. Except the "Texaco Tanker" Off course. Speaking of that! Did you know that Wen-Mac(Model Airplane mfg's. ( The Flying Kind) did the Tanke for a while.The Wen-Mac one was equipped with a better motor and power distribution system. Turns out to Collectors that one now has precedence over the regular one. Gee, wouldn't you know, Mine says " Wen-Mac" on both the box and inside the ship. Kool ! That means I have both! My other has an indistinct Mfgr's name!

     Here in the State of TEXAS, Hess Oil co. toys are everywhere and even the new stuff is hotly contested. collector stuff. I have actually seen grown men almost come to blows over that stuff even. Now, I do collect EXXON cars. I have at least two of every one put out. Even the Special Edition  BreastCancer Awareness ones. Every time i check then out, I think of my Late Second Wifey and our fun travels all over these United States,Pulling our R.V. and listening to music from the C.D. Player in the dash on our Pick-Um-Up truck-With Dogs and Parrots, a Crew Cab of course. The parrots talking constantly during the trip! The Dogs? One Weenie and one Jack Russel, The Parrots? Two Cockatoos, One Cockatiel and one Very Large Rainbow Macaw! The Macaw was the only rider Ever in my vehicles, that like the kids from earlier in my life  That said" Are we there yet?"

      Travels? We found that a few STUCKEYS and HO-JO's still exist-along the (" Mother Road")(U.S.66, What's left!), and going through Georgia and Florida! Stuckeys Pecan Rolls-The Best! Can't forget The Orange Julius stands either! I do believe that is the first time I ever met a Slushie! There were Gasoline stations that still had, in a corner, the old gravity fed , Hand pumped, Yes, pumps with the Glass tank on the top. Re-Filtered Oil in glass bottles for use in older cars(Beaters).

        How about this, Motel 6, when the rooms were really clean and Six bucks a nite! Or the "Red Roof" inns with the first "Free Continental Breakfast"( whatever that was). Recently,(Over the last twenty years) I have seen the Demise of "Flying J" Truck and R.V. Stops(Laid back and quiet) replaced with Pilot and other co's that are noisy and where the parents don't control their offspring At All! Many brands have gone by the wayside.When is the last time you saw a WestingHouse Stove or Refrigerator?  I better stop while I am ahead! Back to the top. What does S&H stand for? Does anyone Remember?

plasticjunkie

I don’t believe anybody mentioned S&H Green Stamps. My mom got them at either Quick Check or Grand Union.  These would allow one to redeem them at the S&H store for merchandise.

That one started a memory my mum used to collect GreenShield stamps and exchange them in I think it was Whiteleys in Bayswater London. Going to school on the underground and having a couple pennies to put in a sweet dispenser for a small box of little round toffies. Then I got to recalling all the old sweets you could get for sixpence; 2.5 pence todays money

- And those Timex commercials played all the time on the Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. 

- Speaking of gas stations, how many remember the hip / belt coin change machines? And when most every gas station had one or more garages to actually fix your car if needed? They had countless models of radiator hoses and fan belts hung on the walls, new tires in several racks, and a full selection of wiper blades too. Can't forget the quarts of oil in a rack beside the fuel pump along with the stacked window washer fluid near the door. The only refreshments at a gas station was the one or two pop machines outside the door.

Tanker-Builder

Yes!

 And the spokesman was former Newscaster -John Cameron Swayze! "Timex, the watch that takes a Licking, And Keeps on Ticking!"

 

Yes!

 And the spokesman was former Newscaster -John Cameron Swayze! "Timex, the watch that takes a Licking, And Keeps on Ticking!"

Anybody remember the old Timex watch commercials? The watch took a licking but it kept on ticking!

While in the A.F. I submitted a picture to the A.F. for consideration for the lithographic poster program.  It was a shot of a F-4 taking off froma base in South East Asia during the Vietnam war.  The shot shows it  coming up from a dip in the runway and had the sun brightly above it.  One day I was walking down a hall in a building for a theft report when I saw my picture hanging on the wall.  It had the  high flight poem on the side and underneath that was the emblem for the bi-centennal.  I wrote them about this and they sent me a copy.  I have the only poster in their series that has no credit posted on it.

To go back a bit, I remember my Father taking us for the usual Sunday drive. Sometimes when we had to stop for a train we would get out and look for the glass insulating pieces from the telephon poles. Those were sometimes left on the ground after being worked on.

Additional info About Magee:

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196844/pilot-officer-john-gillespie-magee-high-flight/

missileman2000

I remember the poem High Flight.   Is that what you meant.  Great literature. I tried to memorize it, but my memory was never good enough.

Yes the poem written by the American volunteer John Gillespie Magee flying  for the RCAF in WWII. I remember this beautiful poem being played at sign off on tv stations.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL-KCFbIpA

plasticjunkie

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I remember Gulf gas stations giving a plastic magnetic horseshoe for their “no knock” slogan. Sinclair gave out a green dinosaur . How about High Flight just before the TV stations signed off. We had three in Miami in the mid 60s, channels 4,7,and 10. Remember the gas station attendant come up to your car, fill up, wash your windshield, check your tire pressure and under the hood? 

 

I remember the poem High Flight.   Is that what you meant.  Great literature. I tried to memorize it, but my memory was never good enough.

So many memmories that have come back from reading these posts. I don’t believe anybody mentioned S&H Green Stamps. My mom got them at either Quick Check or Grand Union.  These would allow one to redeem them at the S&H store for merchandise. I still had a couple of plastic thermo cups my mom bought from the Bordens milkman in the mid 60s. My wife threw them away not long ago when they eventually cracked. Any Florida old timers remember Burdines, Masters later became Zayre, Jordan Marsh, Jeffersons, Gold Triangle, the Omni Mall grand opening, when the Metro Zoo was in Key Biscayne?

I remember Gulf gas stations giving a plastic magnetic horseshoe for their “no knock” slogan. Sinclair gave out a green dinosaur . How about High Flight just before the TV stations signed off. We had three in Miami in the mid 60s, channels 4,7,and 10. Remember the gas station attendant come up to your car, fill up, wash your windshield, check your tire pressure and under the hood? 

Hi,

Growing up, sometimes my dad would like to just go drive around for a bit and take some of us kids with him.  I think he may have been trying to give my mom some free time away from us .  Anyway, alot of times Paul Harvey would be on the radio as we drove 

Try this, my Father managed a few Grand Union stores and one of them happened to be in Union.  I used to go through there when I would travel betwen Dover A.F.B. Del. to home in Randolph.  He had bought a very old place on Reservoir Ave. on a hill above Dover.  I do need to call the town records office, I would like ot get the history of that house.  It was built in about 1759.  My first 19 years were spent in that house.

Picatinny Arsennal was on the other side of town and every year we would g oto the Armed Forces Day open house.  That is until they screwed up part of it by doing the wargames in a different area.  No shows after that.

Cool my best friend lived in Quaker Village Apartments up on Route 10

Small world,I lived in Union 20 yrs before moving to NC