One of my favorite finds, from my January trip into Vintage City, trip is this Borden's Starlac box with the powdered milk still inside! (I know, eww, right?) I just love the graphics and the colors on this box!
The box now sits on my shelf of vintage goodies above my desk in the kitchen. I may put it away at some point to prevent fading.
I leave you today with a commercial from You Tube advertising Starlac.
This commercial for Sun Light Dish Soap in 1989 is one I stumbled across the other day. It's quite clever! Through the magic of cause and effect, the cat does the dishes.
For the next few Fridays I'll be posting some fun, nostalgic commercials from my youth. There are so many jingles that I recall in my head as soon as they are heard!
A fun commercial for Borden's Milk starring the cast of the TV series "Fury", which was a western-type of series that ran from 1955 to 1960. The little cowboy cartoons at the end are such a cute end to the commercial. And check out that fridge! Love it!
If I had the money (and the parking space), I would love to own an old fashioned dairy truck. Yes, I would drive it around town, and yes, I'm just that nerdy.
Photo from Pinterest
This next one is even more adorable, with a shorter box!
I'm sad to say that the milk and cream bottles I own are blank. They have no cute cow graphics or any vintage writing on them what-so-ever. Therefore, they do not have nifty names like "Peterson's Creamery" or "Dakota Gold Quality Supreme", which was the dairy in Rugby at one time.
Here is a decent sized Borden's bottle. (2 quarts?)
Photo from Pinterest
Here's something I've NEVER seen but would LOVE to come across at a yard sale. It's a delivery request sign. A person would turn up the little cardboard flags, then drop the sign in an empty bottle to be picked-up by the milkman. I found the photo on Pinterest. This particular delivery sign looks like it had been an Ebay item, and the bidding either started or ended just shy of a Benjamin. Wow!
There are about a thousand and one things you can do to decorate with milk bottles (especially if you can find red and white striped paper straws and some tiny Styrofoam balls).
How cute is this!?
And this is light fixture below is really cool. How neat would this light be above a kitchen sink? It would be a small light, but still neat.
This is one of the few dairy items I own, a Magic City Dairy milk carton (never been used).
Well, that's all for today. Until another time have a happy vintage day!
Here is an advertisement for Kroger Eggs from the 1950's.
I get such a kick out of the chicken when she faints at the sight of a rectangular egg!
Easter at our house went well! A big thank you to all who helped out, especially my parents and Shannan's parents. Unfortunately, I was so busy, I didn't stop to take any pictures. So, it will be the Easter of no pictures. But that's okay, it turned out to be a nice day and one to remember (at least for me).
Have a Happy Day!
I found these on You Tube the other night when Autumn said, "Mom, let's watch old commercials". Okay! Can't argue with that one! As we were searching we came across these vintage commercial sets. There are quite a few of these on You Tube but for today we will start with part 1. It's about 10 minutes long. Please remember to pause the playlist off to the right to get the full, vintage experience (giggle).
Supermarket Commercials Part 1
Bordens to Bumble Bee
Oh my goodness, this is the funniest vintage commercial I have ever seen! Just pause the playlist at the right and have fun watching it.
"Tell her it's only 49 cents...she'll like that." Autumn loves this commercial and so do I. It tells a cute story, and is simple and quiet. Okay, okay, so it does make fun of older people, but there are commercials today that offend more than this one!
In my opinion (oh boy, here we go) some commercials geared towards kids now-a-days are just too loud and obnoxious.
They are quick and flashy, and my eyes have a hard time focusing on the product. "There it is...nope it's gone....there it is with a crazy background...nope it's gone". I recently saw a commercial for a children's party place, with the token machines, that serves pizza, gives tickets and has a giant talking mouse. (you know the one). My brain got tired from watching it! What were the marketing people around that conference table thinking? Were they drinking too much coffee, or do they honestly think these flashy commercials are what children should be watching?
I guess I just don't remember commercials being so loud and flashy when I was a kid. So what has happened? As I have gotten older has the connection between my eyes and my brain gotten slower? Or am I just to darned old fashioned?
Just a thought to ponder.
And seriously, why are there so many nasty children's cartoons?....We work so hard to teach our preschoolers manners and "social and emotional development" with great shows like Max and Ruby and Blue's Clues. Then, when they turn seven, we give them shows like Spongebob and Kick Buttowski that undo everything they learned as preschoolers!!! What is wrong with this picture?! As parents we need to be careful about what our children watch!
Why can't there be more cartoons like Phineas and Ferb? Long live Phineas and Ferb!!
Well, I've certainly let my opinion know again today. I meant for this to be about Mr. Bubble, but I guess I was feeling a bit feisty. Sorry about that, I'm stepping off my soapbox now.
Tomorrow, something happy and crafty!
Have a Happy Day!
My favorite commercial as a kid was the rub-a-dub-doggie commercial. I still know the song by heart (not sure that is something I should be admitting).
My brother and I got a rub-a-dub-doggie for Christmas back in like 1983. He was special (the doggie, not my brother)...just kidding little brother, you are special too.
A Rub-a-Dub-Doggie for Christmas. Please ignore the horrible 80's perm.
Thanks to my parents who kept many of our things from when we were little, I still have my Rub-a-Dub-Doggie and Autumn played with him when she was little. And my Care Bear, and my Rainbow Sprite, and my Cabbage Patch Kid....she's got them all. Why haven't they re-introduced the Rub-a-Dub-Doggie I wonder?
Do you know that some Rub-a-Dub-Doggies on Ebay are going for like eighty dollars?! Are you kidding me?! Well, I'm not selling mine. Not unless I'm having to eat noodles everyday, then maybe I would. "I love you Rub-a-Dub-Doggie"!
Remember Spirographs? Man those were fun....but frustrating as hell when you were just learning how to use one. Just when you'd have the most beautiful creation forming in front of you, your outer wheel would slip just a fraction of an inch and the whole design would be off-kilter. But they were fun. I remember getting mine Christmas evening at my Grandma Henderson's house. I spent the rest of the night on her kitchen floor trying to make the pretty designs they showed on the package. Relatives just stepped over me for leftover turkey sandwiches, I was too busy to move. Spirographs came with 4 colored pens, which was a pretty big deal to a kid like me who had, up until then, thought pens only came in black or blue.
According to Wikipedia, Kenner Inc. introduced Spirograph to the American toy market in 1966. But, drawing toys made with gears have been around since 1908.
These are kinda fuzzy but you get the idea.
Oh, how I wish I still had my Spirograph. Such good times, especially when you'd be on your 5th or 6th design and the smell of the ink from the pens would start to make you see things like purple flamingos flying outside your window. (Just kidding Mom and Dad). Here's a nice, calm and dreamy commercial from the 1970's for Super Spirograph.
What a hoot! I love this vintage Ajax commercial with its snappy tune.
Remember to pause the playlist at the right to hear the commercial.
Enjoy!
If that doesn't make you wanna start scrubbin' the tub I don't know what will.
According to Wikipedia, Mr. Clean's theme song, has been around since the product's introduction, initially sung as a popular-music style duet between a man (Don Cherry) and a woman (Betty Bryan). Thomas Scott Cadden wrote the jingle at his home in the spring of 1957 while working for Tatham-Laird & Kudner Advertising Agency. You can learn more about Mr. Clean here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Clean
Here is one more Mr. Clean commercial, this one from the 1960's.
Now, with these jingles swimming around in our brains, lets go get some housework done!
