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Center-dial Maytags I remember attending a home show in St. Louis in the winter of 1980-81 and Maytag had just launched the new right-side-dial and pushbutton combos; I got what apparently was a salesman's brochure explaining how the new design was even more dependable than the center-dial "New...

From "the number one name in laundry" to "a d When I replaced a nine-year-old Whirlpool because the dual-action agitator began crapping out in 2002 (among other mechanicals), I knew what kind of washer I wanted to replace it. My mother's first and only clothes dryer was a coppertone center-dial...

all that's missing is Doris Day (LOL)! That backdrop reminds me of the "Happy" Detergent commercial scenes in "The Thrill of it All", although I think you're gonna do a lot better than Doris Day's character! Good luck! bongobro

Snowy Snow Job Got a kick out of the old Phyllis Diller TV spot for Snowy (or should that be "snowy", as Gold Seal used to describe it on the box as in "add 1/2 cup of 'snowy' along with your detergent"?). Trouble was it played back pretty dark, and I couldn't tell the washer was a Norge until...

Tide Up in Knots Yeah...I saw what I thought was a box of Tide Coldwater Powder at a Shop 'n Save in Granite City, Illinois, and it now looks like their TV commercials and websites, with all those funny little circles ("bulls-eyes?") in the background, with the big Tide logo in the...

Brand "Lever"age Hey, aquarius1984, "all" small and mighty is indeed a Unilever brand, as are Wisk detergent and Snuggle and Final Touch fabric softeners. I think Wisk is to the U. S. what Persil is to Great Britain...I have seen Persil magazine ads that carry the tag line "Dirt is Good," which...

Vel rosado y los otros liquidos rosados para lavaplatos... (that's "Rose Lotion Vel and the other pink dishwashing liquids") I haven't seen Rose Lotion Vel--or for that matter, any brand-name pink liquid dishwashing detergent--since Dawn came out in the 1970s. At one time Colgate made Rose...

Vive LaFrance? LaFrance bluing was originally made by General Foods--for a while they also made something called Satina which you mixed into your cooked starch to make ironing easier. Many years ago, I found an ancient packet of Satina at a yard sale. It now has a place of honor with my other...

Fit to be Tide! WTF indeed! I don't like any of the new Simple Pleasures fragrances--in fact, I caught hell from my older daughter after I bought the vanilla and lavender Tide (seems she's allergic to lavender)...in fact, we couldn't use Lavender Sachet fabric softener for the same reason...

"You're a good son, Harold..." One more note about Cheer... If you remember the "you're a good son, Harold" commercials with the nagging mother whose college-age son washed his clothes with All-Temperature Cheer, you might like to know that ad executives called it one of the more clever...

"You'll see the difference for yourself...for a whi (Drift line from a 1950's Cheer singing commercial to the tune of "There'll Be Some Changes Made.") The reason Cheer was "new!" and "blue!" was a marketing gimmick. The original Cheer formula, I have read, was white but actually made better...

actually you can use lint for more than makin' money... I understand dryer lint makes a good fire starter for charcoal fires (I don't have to buy any, believe me!)...considering my dryer has a warning label that says "a clothes dryer produces combustible lint," the appliance makers have missed...

"they're no four-dollar Turkish delights, but...&qu That's why I quoted Allen Ludden in the Bonus commercial in my original post. The towels that came in detergent boxes--even the first Bonus towels--were fairly thin compared to the towels you bought in the store. In fact, the subject drift...

With all the talking we do about old-fashioned laundry detergents, anyone remember the detergents that "packed a lot more cleaning power with a lot more towel," to quote the late Allen Ludden in a 1971 Bonus detergent ad? At various times, my mom got "Golden Wheat" dinnerware from Duz...

More on Bosco and Salvo Petek, this is the version I grew up with... I hate Bosco, Bosco's not for me, Mommy put it in my milk To try and poison me-- I fixed Mommy I put it in her tea Now I have no Mommy To try and poison me! Paulg, you must be one of the few people who ever bought Salvo...

Glass Wax and the Window Wonderland! Hey, whirlcool, you and I must both be the same age (mid-50s), since I also remember not only the Glass Wax, but also the stencils. You dipped a sponge into a dish of Glass Wax, dabbed it into the stencils, let it dry, and (assuming your windows didn't sweat...

Dick Van Dyke appliances...you could be sure... If you watch the credits at the end of the Dick Van Dyke show, you'll notice "Filmed in association with Desilu Productions," so it is entirely possible that some leftover Westys were used in the first season...

"I love Bosco...Bosco is for me..." Just saw Bosco chocolate syrup (not "milk amplifier" as it used to be known) in a Shop 'N Save supermarket (stocked by Supervalu Stores) in Granite City, IL... BTW, Quisp is still available through the Quaker Oats website...I have a nephew who is in his 40's...

The Fabulous Foodarama Used to have a neighbor in my old neighborhood who had a Foodarama that looked something like the one in the TV ad...in fact, I think every appliance in the upstairs kitchen of the neighbor's house was a Kelvinator (and there was an ABC-O-Matic washer in the basement!)...

Northwesty, those Sunbeam toasters are awesome! Brian, those clunky chrome Sunbeam toasters are the best darn toasters ever made (no surprise since Sunbeam used the slogan "the best electric appliances made" during the 1950s... I picked up a 50's vintage Sunbeam T-35 Radiant Control toaster...