eclark1894
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Remember her???? I have a question. Did women really pay to soak their hands in diswashing liquid???
Yep and so does my grandson. During a visit we built a blanket fort. (I just called it a tent.) Over the next several visits, the subject never came up. At some point my son dropped him off for a weekend stay. As soon as my grandson walked in he asked if we could built the tent again. (I mean he didn't even get his jacket off.Remember blanket forts????
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We had Carvel in my area, too. Now, it's only in supermarkets in the frozen section. I don't know where the closest one is...perhaps in your neighborhood!I used to hate Dairy Queen for cruelly tormenting small children… they would have commercials for it in NYC, but there were no Dairy Queens anywhere in the area… “Try this tasty ice cream treat!… HA-HA sucker! There ain’t none where you live! Haaahaaahaaahaaa!”
I don’t even think I’d have believed they were real if I didn’t go to one in Connecticut once.
In NYC and Long Island we had/have a chain called Carvel… it’s is mostly soft serve and ice cream cake based… when I was a kid they used to have TV commercials featuring the owner of the company touting their novelty ice cream cakes “Cookie Puss“ (which a local store once misspelled as “Cookie Pus”) and “Fudgie The Whale”… Tom Carvel was like 915 years old at the time and was more scary a spokesman than if they’d have chosen an actual brain eating zombie… to make matters worse, for two years after he died they kept airing the commercials with him.
When I was a kid, there was a Mr. Peanut store in a neighboring town!As long as we're doing commercial characters... Remember him?????
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The only place I consistently found a 'full service' gas station was in New Jersey. As of 2021, the 1949 law prohibiting the public from pumping their own gas is still on the books. Periodically, the state governing bodies in place introduce legislature to repeal the law. I am not sure why such never gets past. An article I found did indicates in some rural and tribal areas, the 1949 law is not enforced at all. And even in places enforcing the law, a state inspector has to see the violation and they tend to charge the owner over the offender.I learned to drive in a US State that even today has what they call "full service". It means you can't pump your own; some kid has to do it for you. Which, when you're headed out to eat is preferable. I think this is a "make job" regulation posing as a safety thing.
It's been long since I lived there. But I remember going off to uni and NOT knowing how to pump my own gasoline. I felt pretty stupid having to ask how.
I'm looking forward to having an electric car and leaving internal combustion engines in the same past as illnesses caused by evil spirits and a flat earth.
Hey, remember when the earth was flat?
Hi, Mr. Bill! Oh Noooooooooo!I finally remembered something worth a 'Remember These' post. In this case it's a 'Remember him'
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Ours was on the highway, into town. As far as I know, the building is still there.When I was a kid, there was a Mr. Peanut store in a neighboring town!
For some reason, Mr Peanut always struck me as one of the weirdest things.As long as we're doing commercial characters... Remember him?????
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Took me a while to find a pic online of the one on 401 South, Raleigh, NC. As far as I know, the church in the background is still there.When I was a kid, there was a Mr. Peanut store in a neighboring town!
Remember this????? Every March. We never had enough string so we'd buy like two or three rolls at a time.
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so what happens in March that you need to have string?
Probably… if all that dang water wasn’t in the way… actually there is supposed to be one in Wrentham (not to be confused with Waltham or Cannedham), in Norfolk… that might be closer to you and a drier trip.We had Carvel in my area, too. Now, it's only in supermarkets in the frozen section. I don't know where the closest one is...perhaps in your neighborhood!
Dana
Oooooooh nooooooooooo!I finally remembered something worth a 'Remember These' post. In this case it's a 'Remember him'
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