Kevinpreston3
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I think this is the 2nd Tide featured picture on this site recently, and it caused me to reflect on a very bizarre item I remembered from my childhood.
I always accompanied my mom for grocery shopping when I was a kid. When I was about 5 or 6 (this would be in Denver I think, but possibly Anaheim, CA) they had this thing I would see once in a while at the store.
It was a HUGE, oversized box of Tide. It was mounted on some sort of four wheeled car about the size in diameter of an extra large Pizza. The little pancake shaped car was about five inches thick, and atop this was the box of Tide.
This ran on some sort of battery, and ran around the store, up and down isles. It had the same "bump and go" technology that some toys had at the same time. These were the toys that would have four free spinning wheels, and a center drive wheel on a rotating disk. When the toy bumped into something, it would change direction and keep going. Obviously, this large thing had the same technology.
I only saw this thing two or three times. One time it had an oversized box of Tide on it, another time it had an oversized box of Cheerios on it. I can imagine that the potential for lawsuits of someone tripping on this thing would be massive, so it was short lived. I have yet to have anyone else remember this amazing piece of advertising. The time would have been around 1966. Whenever I see a big box of Tide, I think of this machine shooting down the aisles, bouncing and continuing on.
I always accompanied my mom for grocery shopping when I was a kid. When I was about 5 or 6 (this would be in Denver I think, but possibly Anaheim, CA) they had this thing I would see once in a while at the store.
It was a HUGE, oversized box of Tide. It was mounted on some sort of four wheeled car about the size in diameter of an extra large Pizza. The little pancake shaped car was about five inches thick, and atop this was the box of Tide.
This ran on some sort of battery, and ran around the store, up and down isles. It had the same "bump and go" technology that some toys had at the same time. These were the toys that would have four free spinning wheels, and a center drive wheel on a rotating disk. When the toy bumped into something, it would change direction and keep going. Obviously, this large thing had the same technology.
I only saw this thing two or three times. One time it had an oversized box of Tide on it, another time it had an oversized box of Cheerios on it. I can imagine that the potential for lawsuits of someone tripping on this thing would be massive, so it was short lived. I have yet to have anyone else remember this amazing piece of advertising. The time would have been around 1966. Whenever I see a big box of Tide, I think of this machine shooting down the aisles, bouncing and continuing on.
