Remember when?

[Allanon]

Originally Posted by gatornana

Yes!

Don't know if it's been mentioned, Green Stamps.

I used to do those with my Grandmother.

[phatGator]

Originally Posted by gatornana

Yes!

Don't know if it's been mentioned, Green Stamps.

And Top Value and Plaid stamps.

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Fuller Brush Man.

Lighthouse for the Blind salesmen going door to door selling brushes and combs and things like that they had made.

How about door-to-door salesmen in general, who actually carried products with them?

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Ice Delivery Men Grove City 1930


Who Killed the Encyclopedia Salesman?

[grayg8rstevo]

Originally Posted by phatGator

Fuller Brush Man.

Lighthouse for the Blind salesmen going door to door selling brushes and combs and things like that they had made.

How about door-to-door salesmen in general, who actually carried products with them?

Many years ago, on the old Jonathan Winters tv show, he did DEATH OF A SALESMAN, and he portrayed Willie Lohman, the central character.
In the skit, they asked him if he was a salesman. He said he was and it was terrible. He went on to explain it was really hard being a DOOR TO DOOR BRICK SALESMAN.
lmfao

[grayg8rstevo]

Originally Posted by G8rNkoko

Remember when you could go to Royal Castle and get 4 burgers, order of frys and a birch beer, pay for it with a dollar and get change back.

Birch beer...yum.
First time I had eggs with grits was a Royal Castle. Right next to the LITTLE FARM STORES drive through. Milk was a gallon for a buck, with big glass bottles with a metal handle and VANILLA ice cream gallon was 99 cents or something close.

Helped my 13 year old buddy fold papers , MIAMI HERALD, on a Saturday at 5 am.
My reward was breakfast at Royal Castle.
Good trade.
Once, I was one of two customers at 6 am on another day. The guy took my order and twenty minutes later , I had not received my order. As I got up to leave, the paramedics rushed in and said WHERE IS THE GUY HAVING AN EPILEPTIC SEIZURE??, then jumped over the counter and into the back room.
Because I am very smart, I decided I better go someplace else .

On 119th st and seventh ave. in Miami was a Latta's restaurant. There was another further south. I went to high school with the son of the owner.
They had a huge slanted mirror over the grill with these immortal words in big white letters..COOKED IN SIGHT MUST BE RIGHT.
You know, I think I sat in almost every seat, walked all around the counter area...and NOT ONCE COULD I EVER SEE ANYTHING BUT THE TOP OF SOMEBODY'S HEAD.

hhmm

While we are eating, I hope somebody remembered LUM'S , hot dogs steamed in beer, and BIG SCHOONERS of beer.
Lord have mercy.

Superior thread

I also remember tv signoff with the STAR SPANGLED BANNER

[grayg8rstevo]

Originally Posted by sleeze

Speaking of rainbows.

Remember when the rainbow vacuum came out?
That door to door salesman got us to buy one.

My ex wife bought one for a gazillion dollars..
I think it was mentioned in the divorce papers...

[toon66]

Originally Posted by grayg8rstevo

Birch beer...yum.
First time I had eggs with grits was a Royal Castle. Right next to the LITTLE FARM STORES drive through. Milk was a gallon for a buck, with big glass bottles with a metal handle and VANILLA ice cream gallon was 99 cents or something close.

Helped my 13 year old buddy fold papers , MIAMI HERALD, on a Saturday at 5 am.
My reward was breakfast at Royal Castle.
Good trade.
Once, I was one of two customers at 6 am on another day. The guy took my order and twenty minutes later , I had not received my order. As I got up to leave, the paramedics rushed in and said WHERE IS THE GUY HAVING AN EPILEPTIC SEIZURE??, then jumped over the counter and into the back room.
Because I am very smart, I decided I better go someplace else .

On 119th st and seventh ave. in Miami was a Latta's restaurant. There was another further south. I went to high school with the son of the owner.
They had a huge slanted mirror over the grill with these immortal words in big white letters..COOKED IN SIGHT MUST BE RIGHT.
You know, I think I sat in almost every seat, walked all around the counter area...and NOT ONCE COULD I EVER SEE ANYTHING BUT THE TOP OF SOMEBODY'S HEAD.

hhmm

While we are eating, I hope somebody remembered LUM'S , hot dogs steamed in beer, and BIG SCHOONERS of beer.
Lord have mercy.

Superior thread

I also remember tv signoff with the STAR SPANGLED BANNER

Yes, I remember Lum's. They used to serve Frosty root beer I believe. Shakey's Pizza, too. How about this? "It's ten o'clock. Do you know where your children are?" That public service announcement used send chills down my spine when I was a little kid. It sounded so ominous.

[grayg8rstevo]

Originally Posted by go82uf

The more civil tone, before Fox News.

hahahaha good one...
Yeah, when we thought WALTER CRONKITE hadn't lost his marbles.

[grayg8rstevo]

Originally Posted by phatGator

Zaxxon and Tanks were two of my favorites.

I remember when Ruce Jenner looked like a man.

I remember Andy Devine and Plunk your magic twanger , groggy.

hahahahahahahaha

HIYA KIDS, HIYA, HIYA.

FROGGY THE GREMLIN...incredible.
A rubber frog could make us laugh hysterically confusing the guests..

and now I am going to bake a cake. Flour, water and....

Groggy would chime in..AND PUT IT UNDER YOUR ARMS..

yes, yes, put it under my arms..
One of the all-time best.

[phatGator]

Originally Posted by grayg8rstevo

Many years ago, on the old Jonathan Winters tv show, he did DEATH OF A SALESMAN, and he portrayed Willie Lohman, the central character.
In the skit, they asked him if he was a salesman. He said he was and it was terrible. He went on to explain it was really hard being a DOOR TO DOOR BRICK SALESMAN.
lmfao

Jonathan Winters was great. When he teamed with Robin Williams on Mork and Mindy, the ad libbing was classic.

[alphaOmegator]

My older brother left home when he was 17 and joined a door to door encyclopedia sales crew. This was in the 1940's. He said they would go to some of the larger cities in the South: Atlanta, Birmingham, Tampa, Savannah. They would canvas a neighborhood and literally go door to door. later his crew was sent up to Flint, Michigan. This was a big thing back in the 40's, and he was able to make a decent living at this through commisions. Of course it was hard work with long hours and living out of hotel rooms. He told me if he ever talked his way into a home he usually was able to make a sale. Encyclopedias were a big hit back in the 40's and probably into the 50's.

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Froggy the Gremlin! I bought one of these toys at a garage sale for $1.00, I had no idea what it was except the box said it was from NBC radio.

It fetched $500 on eBay.

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[Spurffelbow833]

Is that Don Corleone's sprayer?

[mamag8ter]

Kid killed him with the sprayer, lol.

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"Regular or ethyl?"

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