Anyone Else Remember This Product?

[danemodsandy]

Rob:

"LOL ... and that would most definitely be Shalimar!"

That, or Lanvin's My Sin, which was HUGE back then (late '50s/early '60s). My Sin was heavily promoted on TV game shows, which got a lot of women to try it. It was controversial, though, because of the name. There was many a good Southern Baptist lady who would not so much as consider its use, just because the name had "Sin" in it - and who was not afraid to tell more worldly women that they were doomed to perdition if they used it.

 

[whirlcool]

I have several colognes I use.

Farenheit
Gucci for Men
Versace for Men

In the past I have worn
Halston for Men (late 70's)
Polo
Pierre Cardin (very hot for the guys during my college years)
Old Spice / Old Spice Redwood (1960's)
And lastly I forgot who made it, but there was this cologne that was an entire collection, a different fragrance for each country. If I remember, Ireland smelled like limes, England smelled like leather, etc. There must have been 15 or 20 in the set.

 

[beadsobleach]

Muffin tins

We would put Glass Wax in a muffin tin and use food coloring, wish we had taken pictures back then, very colorful.

 

[westyslantfront]

I remember Johnson's glass wax in pink metal container.
At Christmas, they attached stencils to the container which you would scotch tape on a window and apply glass wax to decorate the window. After Christmas, you could just wipe off the glass wax and have a nice, clean window.

Ross

 

[danemodsandy]

Allen:

Your mention of Pierre Cardin sure brings back memories! As you say, it was the smell of the '70s, at least the earlier part of the decade. Haven't bought or worn any in years. I think it's gone downmarket; I see it at Big Lots during the holiday season, when they have all those "canned present" boxed sets of toiletries.

 

[danemodsandy]

Ga-roovy!

Dig that funky bottle, man....

(To all of you who know the '70s only from That '70s Show, Cardin would have been Kelso's favourite, at Jackie's urging. Eric would have had Old Spice that Kitty gave him every Christmas, and Hyde would have had the dregs of a bottle of Hai Karate that he would have put on only when a wedding or something came up. Fez would have worn Brut. Lots of Brut.)

 

[whirlcool]

The stencils for Glass Wax are still regularly available on Ebay.

I was in college from 1970 to 1974. So you hit the time frame for Pierre Cardin absolutely perfectly.

After Christmas, you could just wipe off the glass wax and have a nice, clean window.
Provided it was above freezing outside. Otherwise if it was below zero you'd have to scrape the stuff off the window.


We would put Glass Wax in a muffin tin and use food coloring, wish we had taken pictures back then, very colorful.

I don't understand this. What was the end result. It would seem to me a muffin tin lined with food coloring and a toxic material, please elaborate.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-1950s-Glass-Wax-Christmas-Stencils_W0QQitemZ160278341453QQihZ006QQcategoryZ13838QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[danemodsandy]

Allen:

What you did with the muffin tin was to use it as a mixing palette; you put Glass Wax in each cup, and tinted each cup's contents by mixing food colouring into it. The Glass Wax could then be sponged onto your windows, using the stencil kit. Green for Christmas trees, red for Santas, etc. The tinting did not affect the cleaning ability of the Glass Wax, so after the holidays, you rubbed off the Glass Wax, vacuumed the mullions and sills of your windows free of Glass Wax dust, and voila! - clean windows.

BTW, for anyone who doesn't understand why Glass Wax was popular back then, it did a better job under certain circumstances than Windex. If you were in a heavily polluted city like Pittsburgh was during the '50s, or if you had heavy smokers in the house, Windex didn't quite cut the grime. Glass Wax, with its solvent and its abrasive, did.

 

[whirlcool]

Oh I see now. You colored the stencils on the window. How nice! We just used the stuff as it came out of the can. It came out pink, but dried white.
I imagine in different colors it would look great!

 

[launderess]

Fifty Dollars

For a can of Glass Wax, and the old girl has a case stashed away. Not to shabby. *LOL*

 

[filter-flo_rob]

Laundress:

heh heh heh ... how 'bout forty dollars and I give you candy ... or would you prefer apples and plums ...

OMIGAWD, that Pierre Cardin bottle is sooooo phallic! hmmmm, how very interesting. My, it's getting hot in heah ...

Ah yes, the glass was in the muffin tins with food colouring -- I remember that well.

Speaking of 60s and 70s fragrances, Someone mentioned Hai Karate and Brut ... remember Jade East? I think there were two varieties: one that was green in colour and one that was amber. I remember using Brut. A few weeks ago, I was in Wal-Mart purchasing Old Spice and there was a bottle of Brut there. Of course, I had to open and smell it ... YOWZA ... back to the late 60s I went. I seem to recall that stuff having an unusual amount of "oil" in it. Am I not remembering correctly???

Rob.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Home Trends has its own version of Glass Wax. I think they borrowed their pricing structure from The Vermont Country Store, though...

veg

http://www.shophometrends.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_411006

 

[rayjay]

Stencils

WHen I was young, we used to use Glass Wax for putting stencils on windows during the holidays. lol

It was a lot of fun

Anyone remember doing this?

 

[jbuscemi]

I remember Glass Wax very well. Growing up in the north Bronx and going to Catholic School, windows at home and in school were plastered with GlassWax designs. I also taught in a one room school in Northern Vermont for 11 years in the late 60's and 70's. In those days before all this stupid political correctness crap we had our CHristmas Programs and many times we would join with the 3 other rural schools in town and hold the affairs in the local Methodist Church ..as it was the largest building in town. Every year our 8th grade graduations were held there for the same reason. Ten years ago when the local population was outnumbered buy the young trendis moving in, after a long protracted battle, it was voted to consolidate the 4 schools AND that was the end of Christmas programs, Halloween parties ,St .Patrick's Day celebrations etc. It was even questionable if we could go into any detail about the Pilgrins at Thanksgiving time because some thought those early Puritans were evil Imperialists. So that is the way of the world here in the states and in "The Peoples Republic of Vermont" That said, I am NOT voting for John Mc Cain.

 

[xyz]

Sounds like we have a few huffers on board here. LOL.

 

[whirlcool]

Jade East.. I always saw that at JC Penny stores. Probably in the 1965-67 era.
I had a friend who had bought a brand new 1970 Monte Carlo. Beautiful car, navy blue outside with a navy interior. He always wore Brut. After awhile the interior of his car absolutely reeked of it.

 

[neptunebob]

Actually, it wasn't that bad,

By the 1970's when I grew up Pittsburgh had more of a LA smog, in fact I never saw actual black smoke but lots of smog and bad odors. As for Glass wax, I had seen it at people's houses but never used it, we were a Windex family.