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I remember the episodes in the early 60s, maybe when Kodak was sponsoring the show and Rick was the last one out of the front door in a white sweater and he had a Kodak camera around his neck. I envied that camera.

OMG!! That is an early 50s Admiral with the surface unit controls with the little meter-like strips that moved up and down with the heat settings.

They termed the process, "being Renovated."

She also played one of the town gossips in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte a fabulous film of revenge on many levels.

It did have that bol Tappan electric range. I have often wondered how they kept the plumbing on that back porch with the laundry from freezing in Midwestern winters.

I remember Pa Kettle turning on the sun lamp in the bathroom and emerging from shaving with a sunburn.

Hotpoint was an early sponsor of the show. Magazine ads for Hotpoint appliances featured Harriet and, sometimes, Ozzie.

Speaking of things running in the family, I have always wondered whether Ozwald's or Harriet's genes contributed to the boys extreme hairiness.

Those "ice pellets" did not look like they were floating in the soft drink. We they made with "heavy water?" The other famous, at least to me, picture was the two leaders debating over the GE undercounter combo.

I used two quarters with a 5 cent coin in between them and the whole thing wrapped with tape. It fit perfectly between the lid and the back of the opening. It could be easily removed to allow the tub light to work and it did not mar the porcelain.

Yeah, that's why they have so many ads for products to combat the stench in "laundered" textiles. If people smelled as bad as their textiles, there would be violence, or more violence. If it stinks, it's not clean.

Boy, I sure am glad I am running the 50 cycle pulley and belt kit on my Maytags.

I remember the original fabric softeners like Staley's Sta-Puf that were very thin and did not seem to require shaking to mix the ingredients back into solution. Then came the thick softeners like NuSoft and my favorite Final Touch. I don't know if shaking them did any good. I have a 170 oz...

Thank you for that report from the field. All best wishes.

Wow, Robert! Thank you. This takes me back to reading these in bound volumes in the stacks. I noticed in the report on the Wolksvagen that the 1952 Dodge had a Gyromatic transmission. That has echoes of Gyrafoam washing action powered by the Gyrator. Gyroscopes were hot toys for boys in the...