rpms
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I was helping my cousin renovate her upstairs. When we pulled up the old flooring, we found old newspapers from Kitchener and Toronto from 1971. Every store sold hot pants.
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1971.
I don't think you could get a shirt laundered for twenty five cents now. I don't think you would want to really go to down town Kitchener, period
1971.
I don't think you could get a shirt laundered for twenty five cents now. I don't think you would want to really go to down town Kitchener, period
rpms
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1971. Eaton's is long gone.
1971. Eaton's is long gone.
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1971.
Grabber Green?
1971.
Grabber Green?
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1971.
Woolco is gone too.
1971.
Woolco is gone too.
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Simpsons is gone too.
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Simpsons is gone too.
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washernoob
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WOW!
Fantastic! Thanks for posting!
Grabber green with a ? Mark indeed! Never heard of that color. But now googling it, I see that I have definitely seen it before. Im familiar with grabber orange though.
Love the movie ads too! Sean Connery! A GOD!
Fantastic! Thanks for posting!
Grabber green with a ? Mark indeed! Never heard of that color. But now googling it, I see that I have definitely seen it before. Im familiar with grabber orange though.
Love the movie ads too! Sean Connery! A GOD!
turquoisedude
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I love the old ads! What memories... I remember shopping at Kresge's, Eaton's, Simpson's and Woolco!! Thanks for sharing them with us!!
On the Eaton's ad, I didn't know they had leisure suits that far back. I thought that was more mid 70s. I can't tell if that one is 100% polyester. It must be to be a Real leisure suit.
polkanut
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My grandma still uses a GE bonnet hair dryer like the one in the Eaton's ad, hers is beige. Still going strong after all these years. I don't think any of the China crap sold today will still be in use 40yrs later!
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Maverick Grabber in Grabber Green attire
Sort of grabs you?
http://mmb.maverick.to/gallery/showimage.php?i=737&catid=popimages
Sort of grabs you?
http://mmb.maverick.to/gallery/showimage.php?i=737&catid=popimages
cornutt
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That 12" B&W television would be about $550 in today's money. (Assuming that inflation for Canadian and U.S. dollars has been about the same.) Last I checked you can get a basic 48" LCD for that now.
Thanks for the timetrip
I wonder if that jacket in the Eaton's ad was one of those briefly popular "Safari Jackets" that made a splash and sank.
Can anyone tell me what GLYZE RONA in the bridal ad was or is?
About Simpsons: I remember from the big CU report on washers in 1958 that Kenmore was sold by Simpson Sears in Canada. When did it just become Simpsons, please?
I remember that rather weak movie, Lovers and Other Strangers with the Carpenters singing, "We've only just begun." It would be 5 or 6 years before we found out, after Karen's death from anorexia, how their parents abused them.
I wonder if that jacket in the Eaton's ad was one of those briefly popular "Safari Jackets" that made a splash and sank.
Can anyone tell me what GLYZE RONA in the bridal ad was or is?
About Simpsons: I remember from the big CU report on washers in 1958 that Kenmore was sold by Simpson Sears in Canada. When did it just become Simpsons, please?
I remember that rather weak movie, Lovers and Other Strangers with the Carpenters singing, "We've only just begun." It would be 5 or 6 years before we found out, after Karen's death from anorexia, how their parents abused them.
The Carpenters' We've Only Just Begun was actually written for an advertising campaign for Crocker Bank in California in about the 1971 timeframe. The campaign is terrific---evocative, and some early work for Hal Riney who did Saturn, Bartles and Jaymes, ... Youtube "Crocker Carpenters" or some such and get ready to be transported back.
Thank you. I sort of had enough of it 40 years ago.
polkanut
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Tomturbomatic,
I Googled "GLYZE RONA" and came up with a Dutch ad that shows it was and maybe still is, a hand & face lotion.
I Googled "GLYZE RONA" and came up with a Dutch ad that shows it was and maybe still is, a hand & face lotion.
pushtorelease
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When did it just become Simpsons, please?
Simpsons was an eastern Canadian chain - I don't know how far west they came but I remember the Montreal and Toronto stores and I think they closed in the late '80's or early '90's. When I was growing up on the west coast in Victoria, Simpson-Sears was just a catalogue sales office - some washers and lawnmowers in the front and the order desk at the back. The Simpson-Sears department store there opened around 1969, built a couple of blocks from our house. It was a BIG deal. The logo had Simpsons in big letters, Sears in small, then over the years it reversed with the Simpsons getting smaller, until finally it just became Sears.
Simpsons was an eastern Canadian chain - I don't know how far west they came but I remember the Montreal and Toronto stores and I think they closed in the late '80's or early '90's. When I was growing up on the west coast in Victoria, Simpson-Sears was just a catalogue sales office - some washers and lawnmowers in the front and the order desk at the back. The Simpson-Sears department store there opened around 1969, built a couple of blocks from our house. It was a BIG deal. The logo had Simpsons in big letters, Sears in small, then over the years it reversed with the Simpsons getting smaller, until finally it just became Sears.
ptcruiser51
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The year I got married!
"Lovers And Other Strangers" is still one of my favorite movies. So many talented stars were in it. Richard Castellano's line "What's the story" from it became a popular catch-phrase for awhile. Diane Keaton's debut movie, also won the Academy Award for best song, "For All We Know". Played at a LOT of early 70's weddings until 1974's "Always and Forever" by Heat Wave.
I think my ex and I are the only people on Earth who will admit to seeing "Joe". A quite disturbing movie starring the late Peter Boyle of all people.
My sister still calls any kind of women's shorts "hot pants".
Thanks for the memories!
"Lovers And Other Strangers" is still one of my favorite movies. So many talented stars were in it. Richard Castellano's line "What's the story" from it became a popular catch-phrase for awhile. Diane Keaton's debut movie, also won the Academy Award for best song, "For All We Know". Played at a LOT of early 70's weddings until 1974's "Always and Forever" by Heat Wave.
I think my ex and I are the only people on Earth who will admit to seeing "Joe". A quite disturbing movie starring the late Peter Boyle of all people.
My sister still calls any kind of women's shorts "hot pants".
Thanks for the memories!
launderess
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"For All We Know"
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
If I die without ever hearing that song again!!!!!!!!!! *LOL*
Even though a wee slip of a thing, remember all to well how every single wedding no matter what race or creed played that Carpenter song.
How well do I know it?
"Love, look at the two of us.. strangers in so many ways, we have a life time to......
Ick!
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
If I die without ever hearing that song again!!!!!!!!!! *LOL*
Even though a wee slip of a thing, remember all to well how every single wedding no matter what race or creed played that Carpenter song.
How well do I know it?
"Love, look at the two of us.. strangers in so many ways, we have a life time to......
Ick!
launderess
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WashnDry
Was a staple in every woman's handbag it to seemed to me as I was growing up. No matter where, when or the situation, either mother or some other female could be counted on to reach deep into her purse and pull out one or more packets of those wipes.
One Hour Martinizing:
Now that is a blast from the past. We had one in our area with a drive thru window (seems like everything from banks to dry cleaners had "drive up" service back then. Great for moms with children in tow as they didn't have to park, much less deal with the choice of leaving them in the car whilst she ran errands, or taking them along.
Planet of The Apes (and it's sequals).
Remember seeing them both at the movies, and later on television. Never got the ending with the Statue of Liberty in a desert someplace. Growing up in NYC, and quite familiar with TSOL even as a young child, didn't get it.
Hot Pants:
And people speak today of mutton dressed as lamb when it comes to women and fashions. There were women who clearly did not take clear look in the mirror before leaving the house in those hot pants (along with the required boots).
Chicken Crisp:
Guess that was Canada's answer to "Shake and Bake".
Was a staple in every woman's handbag it to seemed to me as I was growing up. No matter where, when or the situation, either mother or some other female could be counted on to reach deep into her purse and pull out one or more packets of those wipes.
One Hour Martinizing:
Now that is a blast from the past. We had one in our area with a drive thru window (seems like everything from banks to dry cleaners had "drive up" service back then. Great for moms with children in tow as they didn't have to park, much less deal with the choice of leaving them in the car whilst she ran errands, or taking them along.
Planet of The Apes (and it's sequals).
Remember seeing them both at the movies, and later on television. Never got the ending with the Statue of Liberty in a desert someplace. Growing up in NYC, and quite familiar with TSOL even as a young child, didn't get it.
Hot Pants:
And people speak today of mutton dressed as lamb when it comes to women and fashions. There were women who clearly did not take clear look in the mirror before leaving the house in those hot pants (along with the required boots).
Chicken Crisp:
Guess that was Canada's answer to "Shake and Bake".
jasonl
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The year I was born
That was cool to actually see the original commercial that sparked the hit song by The Carpenters.
That was cool to actually see the original commercial that sparked the hit song by The Carpenters.
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Correction
The thread's title says 1971.
I wasn't 1 year old yet.
The thread's title says 1971.
I wasn't 1 year old yet.
I'm confused. Why was Mrs. J unhappy? And what was the interim hairdo?
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