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Now you're (dryin') with gas! rocketeer, you reminded me...in the 1950s when my sister was a teenager, she really did light the gas oven (probably no more than 200 degrees) and stuck her head inside to dry her hair. (She turned it off when it was warm enough, but now the thought of someone...

Frigidaire Horizon 2000 Don't know if this is too late to help you, but the Horizon 2000 debuted in the U. S. circa 1987-88. As our American mates noted, it was a MOL WCI product...to me it seemed to be a transitional model from the last GM-design 1-18 models to the first Electrolux...

Good on ya, mate! Matt--awesome job on that bike! You and your mates really did do a good thing! Charlie bongobro

Crock Watcher... Yeah, Rival's trademark "Crock Pot" was so successful it's become the generic term for what such items are, "slow cookers." Like ya said, maytagbear, a lot of distinctive names have become generic, as "Kleenex," "Walkman," "Cellophane" (yeah, that was a trade name, too), even...

(8-{>) to exploder3211: m/ Hey, Chad, sounds like you've had a lot happen to ya lately...but it's nice to know you've got a lot of friends around here... we're with ya, bro'! Hugs and big fives from the bongobro Charlie

The thought of some 1960's housewife getting her hair "flocked" with that Norge gas hair-dryer attachment makes me think of that new Sunsilk commercial where the tissues keep coming out of the blonde's limp hairdo...LMFAO, man!

"The Cleanest Clean Under the Sun" Wow! That's the Tide commercial I remembered...the lady on the beach and the clothes flapping in the breeze! BTW, in the 2-for-1 swap commercial, that's Jack Clark (host of "The Cross-Wits") offering the lady two boxes of something else for her one box of Tide...

RCA...His Master's CHOICE Never knew David Oreck was into the RCA Whirlpool vacuums! I remember first seeing "RCA" Whirlpool appliances sometime around 1957, and they deleted the "RCA" about 1967, so that's the time frame drewz suggested...but I remember seeing "Estate" appliances at Sam's...

"Make the greatest cooking discovery since fire...&quot Definitely Barbara Hale...because she appeared in the first Amana Radarange commercials in 1967 (the year after "Perry Mason" went off the air)...and she did some Amana fridge commercials as well, but after Amana went into other...

Duz does everything! Dishes, glassware, stainless... I don't remember the smell of the old Duz detergent, but I do remember the stuff that was packed inside the boxes... My mother, like most women in the late '50s and early '60s, liked the idea of getting free stuff in their soap boxes. I...

Snuggle, or as my wife calls him, "that barf-o bear...& I remember the early Snuggle commercials--and I love irritating my wife by imitating the squeaky voice of Snuggle Bear (you will notice in the most recent ads, the bear seems to be mercifully mute!). The only thing worse was the...

"Enzyme-active AXION...it's da BEST!" (Arthur I don't recall which came first, but I think Axion and Biz came out within a few weeks of each other in 1967 or 1968. The story of Axion is particularly interesting since Arthur Godfrey never endorsed anything that he personally didn't believe in...

Wisk powder "wisked" away? I seem to recall a few years ago that Unilever was winnowing out marginal products to focus on national (or international) brands (Dove, for example) which could use the same campaign in Glasgow as in Granite City. That's why Sunlight dishwashing detergents were spun...

Stronger than dirt...but not as "strong" as it use I posted this on another thread, but as many of us have already noted, CP sold all their laundry detergents (including Ajax) to Phoenix Brands. While Ajax is still a big brand in the commercial and industrial markets, the only Ajax consumer...

"Going, going, going clean...going, going, going soft.. The merger of Bold and Solo was another salvo (pun intended) in reducing the number of distinct detergent products so they could expand the Tide line... Liquid Bold-3 was culled from the line around 1999, about the time the "new" Lemon...

Britcoms, or "The Boo-KAY Residence, the lady of the ho Sorry to hear about John Inman's passing...I ran into "AYBS?", "Keeping Up Appearances," "As Time Goes By," and "The Vicar of Bailey" on the St. Louis PBS affiliate... I loved Mrs. Slocombe...it was fun to see her hair change color every...

Ace "does" everything? Some years ago I found a copy of IT FLOATS: The Story of Procter and Gamble by Albert Lief in a local library. The book was published in 1958, and in the chapter on P & G's international expansion, he wrote that Tide was one of the first P & G detergents exported to Latin...

conventional washers are all but wrung out! Like Maytagbear pointed out, Lehman's sells a machine that's a reworked Speed Queen...and I think was originally intended for Latin American markets... but Maytag officially stopped making wringer washers in 1983. In fact, I believe Maytag and Speed...

Look for the Hotpoint Difference Judging from what I just saw when I went to the U. S. Hotpoint website (which is as always a product of GE), Hotpoint is alive and well and very much in business; to me Hotpoint was always the second-tier line of GE (sorta like the differences between Chevies...

Change "Bendix" to "Maytag" and "Ph and you'd have a financial news item from 50 years later. Interesting how some things never change: "Increasingly severe competition" ... "large over-capacities" ... "rampant price-cutting" (that probably did change) ... "rising costs of labor and material."