Nostalgia Part 1a RADIO AND TV COMMERCIALS ROADSIGNS - BURMA SHAVE, TRAFFIC SIGNS BUMPER STICKERS ------- RADIO AND TV COMMERCIALS ------- Chevrolet: See the USA in your Chevrolet, the Chevrolet for 1954... Western Airlines: The ONLY way to fly... (Buster Keaton et al) Maypo: I want my Maypo!! It gives me extra edge-erny. Bosco: I love Bosco! That's the drink for me! Chocolate Flavored Ovaltine: Be sure to drink your Ovaltine. Peter Paul Mounds - Indescribably delicious! Alka Seltzer: Relief is just a swallow away. Golden Fluffo Shortening Ajax: Use Ajax, the foaming cleanser, Floats the dirt right down the drain. QT - Quick Tan Halo Shampoo: Halo everybody, Halo... Rice Krispies: Snap, crackle, and pop... Doublemint Gum: Double your pleasure, double your fun... Ipana Toothpaste - with Bucky Beaver Crest Toothpaste - Look Ma, No Cavities! (first fluoride) Pepsodent Toothpaste: You'll wonder where the yellow went, When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent. Vel Dishwashing Soap: It's Mar-VEL-ous Brylcreme: Brylcreme - A little dab'll do ya, Brylcreme - You'll look so debonnaire. Brylcreme - The gals will all pursue ya.... They love to run their fingers through your hair. Wildroot Cream Oil - with Wildroot Charlie Philip Morris: Call for Philip Mo------rrrrr-eeeeeeeeeessss... Betty Furness for Westinghouse Bar-B-Dolls (Created in 1958, introduced in 1959) Ken-L Ration: My dog's better than your dog. JELL-O Instant Pudding: Shake-A-Pudding, Shake-A-Pudding... Gillette Blue Blades and baseball: (Ding) Look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp..... To look sharp, and feel sharp too, Get the razor, that is right for you... "We're back, and the score is tied at 5 and 5 in this, the last game of the World Series... It's the bottom of the 7th, and the bases are loaded... Mickey Mantle now stepping up to the plate... The crowd showing its approval which you can hear in the background... Mantle acknowledging the fans... Tipping his hat to the crowd... Back in the batter's box, now... The pitcher looks around, winds up... And there's the pitch... He swings - and it's a fly ball down the 3rd base line... It looks like it's drifting toward the stands... No - it's fair!! The Dodger outfield scrambling to get to it... Pee Wee Reese moving forward - ready for the long throw... Now they're back-stepping to the fence... Back, back, farther... They're pressed against the fence, now... It's headed over the fence... They can't get it! It's a home run!! And the crowd is going wild here at Yankee Stadium..." (Huge roar of the crowd...) Hamm's Beer: From the Land of Sky Blue waters, From the Land of pines, lofty balsams, Comes the beer refreshing. Hamm's - the beer refreshing. Hints of lakes and sunset breezes, Dance and sparkle in each glassful, Hamm's - the beer refreshing, Hamm's - the beer refreshing... The Falstaff Game of the Week - with Dizzy Dean "He sloud into 2nd base." "Oh - he missed it! That was an air..." ------- ROADSIGNS ------- Burma Shave - a few of the 7,000 verses: Spring has sprung It's best for one The grass has riz Who hits the bottle Where last year's To let another Careless driver is. Use the throttle. Burma Shave Burma Shave Although insured, The hero was brave Remember, kiddo: And strong and willin'. They don't pay you - She felt his chin - They pay your widow. Then wed the villain. Burma Shave Burma Shave Don't try passing If huggin' on highways On a slope Is your sport, Unless you have Trade in your car A periscope. For a davenport. Burma Shave Burma Shave Brother speeder, Statistics prove, Let's rehearse. That near and far, Together now: Folks who drive like crazy "Good morning, Nurse!" --Are. Burma Shave Burma Shave On curves ahead, Man passes dog house. Remember, sonny: Dog sees chin. That rabbit's foot Dog gets out. Didn't save the bunny. Man gets in. Burma Shave Burma Shave Trains don't wander The Wolf is shaved All over the map, So neat and trim, 'Cause no one sits Red Riding Hood On the engineer's lap. Is chasing him. Burma Shave Burma Shave A man, a miss, A car, a curve, He kissed the miss, And missed the curve. Burma Shave Speed Limit Signs They were oddly artistic: Instead of saying "SPEED LIMIT 30", they read (top to bottom), "SPEED 30 LIMIT". Perhaps it was meant to be symbolic: Two words (SPEED and LIMIT) are guarding or containing the "30" to prevent its escape. Or maybe it was classical art for the masses - symetrically balanced like a Greek temple. OLD NEW ----- ----- SPEED SPEED 30 LIMIT LIMIT 30 Stop Signs They had a yellow background with black letters. Bumper Stickers Crystal Cave Niagra Cave Wall Drug of South Dakota