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I don't need to have it on in the mornings, but afternoons/nights I've just been leaving it at 76. Once in awhile I turn it to 75 at bedtime. Fans are a big help but there's just so much they can do with high humidity. Willis Carrier's great insight was that air needs to be dehumidified as...

That Packard Bell ad is sooo 1968! The Mediterranean cabinet, the brown shag carpeting, the short, punchy sentences. Marvelous...or horrifying, take your pick.

As I understand it, true Castile soap uses only olive oil as the fat. A "bastile" mixes in a small percentage of another fat, like coconut oil, to provide easier lathering. Castile soaps, although good for tender skin, don't lather very freely and that frustrates some people.

I have the same problem in cold weather. This past winter I did an eBay search on "lanolin soap" and got some very good vintage lanolin soap sold by the defunct I. Magnin department store chain. It was great. Soaps with a lot of coconut oil are very, very drying to my skin, sadly. Congrats on...

Hans mentioned he saw a lot of Marquette fridges in his hometown. I don't see anything in the archives about who might have made them, though there is a lot of discussion about Marquette washers. https://automaticwasher.org/threads/ive-never-even-heard-of-this.64249/#post-868387

Hmm. The last patent number was issued January 18, 1949, so it would have been made some time after that. https://patents.google.com/patent/US2459173A/en Yet there are no shelves on the door. Crosley's patent on that expired in 1951, and most other makes immediately added them. So my guess...

The TAED "activator," if you want to call it that, is used in a lot of products, including Clorox 2. P&G did have their own, NOBS, but it seems to have fallen into disuse. It was all discussed in an older thread here. https://automaticwasher.org/threads/is-this-new.94744/

Well, that's not too surprising they had a subcontractor. I bet it wasn't RCA! Did you ever work on a CBS-Columbia stereo? That's another one that I didn't know existed until seeing old ads--they made TVs, too.

I really like that Frigidaire window AC. Not only was it very attractive for the times, it had two rotary compressors operating independently. You could use just one if it wasn't that hot. It probably weighed a ton, though.

I'm sure this chain store doesn't ban P&G reps. Somebody must have goofed. Incidentally P&G removing discontinued products so fast is pretty annoying. I liked the Dawn New Zealand Springs scent, but it was gone in nothing flat. I would have bought some bottles from a closeout shelf but P&G...

Yes, I got a coupon to replace a bottle of unscented Downy Wrinkle Guard or whatever it's called that had almost solidified. The nice lady on the phone said it was three years old based on the serial number, but I'd just bought it, albeit at a smaller supermarket that probably didn't sell much...

You have a 1917 Dodge? Does it have the 12 volt silent starter?

The IC refrigerator must not have been around for long. Has anyone ever heard of it? There is a patent for an ice making machine issued to a Charles C. Spreen in 1929, assigned to Kelvinator, so it must have been the guy mentioned in the ad. https://patents.google.com/patent/US1823806A/en

Wow, I didn't know Capitol Records sold stereos. Trying to identify the "famous Capitol artists" shown in the ad. From left to right, I've got Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Dinah Shore, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Unknown (but maybe Johnny Mercer), Ray Anthony, and three more Unknowns...to me! Can...

Robert is one of a select few who could run a website as a complete professional and not let the membership drive him crazy. ;) I've seen it happen repeatedly! We can be a pretty dramatic bunch at times. If Robert says the site will be in good hands, I believe him. Enjoy your retirement (and...