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Gosh, given the membership here, you'd think Crisco would have been mentioned a lot more often ;)

Oh, and cleanfresh, I hope you agree that Pillsbury Slice & Bake cookie dough--chocolate chip, the only kind worth buying--is best eaten raw. Just peel that sucker like a banana and go to town!

veg, the gourmet
 
I'm not that brave veg

I admire your bravery about Pillsbury ready-to-bake cookies. I really do. But I have to bake those babies first!! Shame on me for missing Crisco! As much as I like french fries. I like Wesson too, yet another iconic brand.
 
Favorite: 20th Century FOX// CinemaScope logo and fanfare
Others:
Old Dutch Cleanser
Nehi Strawberry Soda
Betty Furness for Westinghouse
The Magnificent Magnavox
Round tube RCA color TV's
The Cleopatra Eye
Brill Building Music
Lime Oak Furniture
P N ^DRIVE^ L R Suicide shift sequence of HydraMatic GM cars.
Push Button Drive
Wham-o
 
Push Button Transmission

The push buttons are great! Here's one from a 1964 Plymouth Savoy. (Last year they were installed on Chryslers).
Edsel's had a push button transmission with the buttons in the center of the steering wheel.
Some of the latest school buses use an Allison automatic with electronic push buttons.

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was your home invaded by .........

Stanley home products and hostess gifts, Amway, Tupperware, Saladmaster, Miracle Maid cookware, ooohhh and lets not forget Home Interior. Guess all of these are still around. Any other lets have a party and buy this stuff brands? alr2903
 
My Grandma Baumann was big into Stanley products. For many years she used a mixture of Ivory Snow, and Stanley Degreaser for washing her dishes. I found a hostess premium gift last year when we were cleaning out her home in mint condition. What is it you ask? A set of Tupperware-type nesting bowls called "Stanley Flex", in pink, yellow, and turquoise. Very 50's, wouldn't you say?
 
You're right kenwashesmonday

The real deal is best. I only mentioned Log Cabin as a brand name. I've been meaning to purchase a bottle of genuine Vermont maple syrup. But, I do like Mrs. Buttersworth. And, you can't beat the taste of sweet cream butter especially on certain foods like, pancakes, baked potatoes, etc. Hey, ken do you iron on Tuesday? Joke.
 
Only In America could we ever come up with the.....

1958 Edsel, Horsecollar Grille, 475 Engine, pushbutton drive in the steering wheel (Tele-Touch Drive), and more gadgetry than had ever been seen before....

Of all iconic brands...this one has to be one of the top ten that will forever be remembered in the good ol'e USA!!!!

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jasonl

thought about Pyrex the other day and Corningware, too. I remember the Gremlin. And Life Cereal. Hey, let Mikey eat it!!
 
I'm honestly surprised no one thought of Packard yet! When I have the $$$ to own a vintage automobile, the VERY FIRST one I purchase will be a Packard. A '55 Clipper will do just fine!
 
The best of both worlds, syrup-wise...

I'm old enough to remember Log Cabin Syrup when it came in a little metal "log cabin" - but I also appreciate REAL maple syrup (once you try it, you never go back)

There's a company called "Vermont Gold" that makes genuine maple syrup, and packages it in a great old metal log cabin. It's on our breakfast table every Sunday morning.

It's pricey, but you don't need to use as much as you do with the high fructose, faux maple syrup. Look for it on your grocer's shelves! ;-)
 
Hell yeah. I love all those things on those cars. PUshbutton transmissions, sequential turn signals.

How about the Ford Skyliner hardtop convertible? The trunk opens, the top goes down into it and the trunk closes. The Pontiac G6 now comes in a hardtop 'vert. Same action but the top folds itself before going in the trunk.
 
The NEW Packard for 1956.......

Austin,

It's not a 55 Clipper as you asked for, but the TOL the "Caribbean Convertible".

Pronounced so I have been told Caribbean = "care-a-beee-ann"; not "ka-ribb-bee-ann", like the island...Collectors of the car hate it when it's mispronounced- I still say Caribbean like the island...that's me tho...

Like their four door was called the Patrician, some collectors say "Pa-tree-shan", some say "Pa-trich-ann"..

Thier four door wasnt hard tho....it was simply called "The Four Hundred"

Here's the pic I have.....

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And how about HUDSON......some of the greates racing cars ev

One of Jefferson Avenue's finest from 1954- These cars were solid as the rock of gibraltar, heavy but fast and quick due to one of the most powerful straight six's ever built. The "Twin-H Power" gave them like 180 horsepower...not bad for an engine dwarfed by massive v-8's of the same period-

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And one more....how about DeSoto.......It's DeLovely, It

Desoto, another iconic automaobile brand who's fate by Chrysler Corporation in 1961 still stirs the imagination of car collectors everywhere.....

here's a 1956 Adventurer convertible to remind us of a carefree time from long long ago...it's still insires one to to look at it and still oooh and ahhh over it's towereing three lighted tailfins and sunny yellow and white paint scheme...

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Okay I can't help it...one more for the road...the torpe

By far a car that is very publicly held as the postwar failure that could have changed the future. Preston Tucker and his INDY car crew designed and developed this dreamboat over about 10 blocks from me in 1946-1947. He shipped the works to the HUGE Dodge plant on Cicero in Chicago, where he produced 50 replcations during a few breif months in 1948. This car being number #48 of 50, was owned by an old freind who used to live in Auburn Indiana-

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Oh yeah someone mentioned the old P N D L R sequence shifter

Heres a pic of one from a Studebaker Lark from 1963. This would NEVER pass muster today....but nonetheless an icon from days gone by....

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And I PROMISE the last one I'll do.......

The 1954 Kaiser Manhattan. Kaiser was ANOTHER postwar wonder company who's motto was "Built to better the best on the road". This car was also during 1946-to late 1953 manufactured a few miles from my house. It's now the huge former "Hydra Matic Drive " facility in Willow Run.

This car however...was built at Willy's Overland Motors in Toledo Ohio after Kaiser and willy's merged in late 1953. GM bought the huge, yet fairly desolate plant from the hurting Kaiser enterprise during 1953 after their Livonia factory burned to the ground.

This is anothe rone of my faves and another icon that the good ol'e USof A built and sold....

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Note to dalangdon...

I have a cousin who cooks, bottles, and distributes the maple syrup that he makes himself. He owns 250 acres of sugar maples. He is the 3rd generation on that side of the family to do this. You're so right about not wanting to use anything else. Try some real maple syrup, and peanut butter as a sandwich, I grew up on this concoction!
 
I did say Winnebago

How about a 72 Winnie?

You couldn't go down the road in the 70s and early 80s without seeing one of these monsters.

Note to Helen: I want one.

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