Englander 1947
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Dixie Cup 1954
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Johnsons Pride 1952
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Kohler 1950
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Gold Seal 1953
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Brillo 1950
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Fry's 1922
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Re: #61
I remember my Mom used Pride furniture polish. To me it smelled like gasoline. I also recall the TV commercials for it, stressing how it dried to a haze that you just wiped off to reveal a brilliant shine. I think it did a bette job than its Johnson&Johnson successor, Pledge.
Eddie
I remember my Mom used Pride furniture polish. To me it smelled like gasoline. I also recall the TV commercials for it, stressing how it dried to a haze that you just wiped off to reveal a brilliant shine. I think it did a bette job than its Johnson&Johnson successor, Pledge.
Eddie
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Oh how I coveted Dixie Cups when I was a kid. If we’d have had a Dixie Cup dispenser I would have thought I’d died and gone to heaven. To me they were the height of luxury! I thought this because both my parents thought they were only for rich people that could afford to throw money away. They never got over being raised during the Great Depression.
Thanks Louie! I always enjoy your Modern Living threads, ditto to the Vintage Food and Appliance threads too.
Eddie
Oh how I coveted Dixie Cups when I was a kid. If we’d have had a Dixie Cup dispenser I would have thought I’d died and gone to heaven. To me they were the height of luxury! I thought this because both my parents thought they were only for rich people that could afford to throw money away. They never got over being raised during the Great Depression.
Thanks Louie! I always enjoy your Modern Living threads, ditto to the Vintage Food and Appliance threads too.
Eddie
Eddie, don't feel bad. We never had disposable paper cups or anything similar. Even our picnic basket was packed with plasticware plates. All to my partner's chagrin. I dn't have any paper plates or cups in the house. I cringe when he uses paper towels to put a smmich or cookies on. I have tons of dishes for those purposes. I've kept extra saucers from when my mom had to replace broken cofffee cups. I've got salad plates, bread plates, and saucers all to chose from. I haven't even used a whole roll of paper towels since I've been home since mid march.
Oh Bob, don’t get me wrong. I truly appreciated the way I was raised to be thrifty. It’s served me well. I hate anything disposable, except cheap paper napkins for breakfast and lunch or snacks, always cloth napkins for dinner, and never plastic cutlery of cups.
But kids in the 50’s wanted everything we saw on TV. These are great old ads that Louie posts make me realize I gotta a lotta miles on the odometer when I can recall Dixie Cups from 1954.
Eddie
But kids in the 50’s wanted everything we saw on TV. These are great old ads that Louie posts make me realize I gotta a lotta miles on the odometer when I can recall Dixie Cups from 1954.
Eddie
Eddie!
I too wished and wished we had a Dixie cup dispenser! How I thought they were cool! But no...
We even had to drink saccarin (sp) sweetened KoolAid! II was embarrassed at the cheapness of my parents! I still love real KoolAide and real Jello! Don't get me started! Greg
I too wished and wished we had a Dixie cup dispenser! How I thought they were cool! But no...
We even had to drink saccarin (sp) sweetened KoolAid! II was embarrassed at the cheapness of my parents! I still love real KoolAide and real Jello! Don't get me started! Greg
Interesting how people reacted to growing up during the depression. My folks, well my mother, took the opposite tack. She decided to live well and spared no expense getting what she wanted. So I'd guess you'd surmise I did grow up with a dixie dispenser in the bathroom. Recall arguing with my brother in the store as to which pattern on the cup to get.
Always a pleasure Eddie!
On the subject of Dixie cup dispensers, we never had one at home, but at my dad's appliance store there was one by the fountain. I got in trouble a few times for using cups from the commercial refill boxes as building blocks. Good times.
On the subject of Dixie cup dispensers, we never had one at home, but at my dad's appliance store there was one by the fountain. I got in trouble a few times for using cups from the commercial refill boxes as building blocks. Good times.
We had a Dixie dispenser in the bathroom and kitchen, used mostly the waxed-paper cups. The novelty wore off before long and then we had to fix the wall where the double stick tape tore away the wallboard paper.
My grandmother had the plastic cup dispenser and only ever bought one box of cups. She washed those cups and reused them in the dispenser for years. "Be careful when you wash them as they will crack easily, don't want to have to throw them away.."
My grandmother had the plastic cup dispenser and only ever bought one box of cups. She washed those cups and reused them in the dispenser for years. "Be careful when you wash them as they will crack easily, don't want to have to throw them away.."
My mom had the Mirro-Matic pressure cooker; I may still have it somewhere.
As for Dixie Cups, we had them occasionally. They were only used for when we were outside, when my sister or I were ill, or one of the too frequent times the sink drain was clogged. Last year I came across a partial box from the early 70's, which I've kept.
Pride was the furniture wax of choice at our house. It always made the mahogany furniture look so nice, without the oily smearing that Pledge and some other polishes left. I always knew as soon as I opened the door if Pride had been used. Like Eddie said, it smelled a lot like gasoline. I think it basically was a liquid version of Johnson's Paste Wax. I have two glass Pride bottles, but neither are as old as the one in the ad.
I like the Congoleum "Bermuda Hues" tile. The colors are relaxing.
The Fry oven glass ad reminded me of my former neighbor Ann Coleman. She would bring us custard and other food in one of the casserole dishes. She said it had been her grandmother's. It had an unusual color as mentioned in the ad.
As for Dixie Cups, we had them occasionally. They were only used for when we were outside, when my sister or I were ill, or one of the too frequent times the sink drain was clogged. Last year I came across a partial box from the early 70's, which I've kept.
Pride was the furniture wax of choice at our house. It always made the mahogany furniture look so nice, without the oily smearing that Pledge and some other polishes left. I always knew as soon as I opened the door if Pride had been used. Like Eddie said, it smelled a lot like gasoline. I think it basically was a liquid version of Johnson's Paste Wax. I have two glass Pride bottles, but neither are as old as the one in the ad.
I like the Congoleum "Bermuda Hues" tile. The colors are relaxing.
The Fry oven glass ad reminded me of my former neighbor Ann Coleman. She would bring us custard and other food in one of the casserole dishes. She said it had been her grandmother's. It had an unusual color as mentioned in the ad.
Remember these?
I sure do Louie! Every lunch counter and soda fountain used them for the water they placed before you when you sat down at the counter. And they usually had crushed ice in them. The ice cream trucks used them for snow cones.
Eddie
Eddie
I do too Louie!!!
Those look to be the original Solo Cups holder and cone shaped cup. Hathaway's, a restaurant in downtown Cincinnati that I used to eat at often, used these. They still had them when I last went three or four years ago. They opened in 1956.
