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Old Products

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RicoGregg

Just wondering: Are any of these venerable old products that used to be advertised on TV all the time still around?

Ipana toothpaste

Pepsodent toothpaste (You'll wonder where the yellow went)

O'Keefe & Merritt stoves & refridgerators

Gaffers & Sattler stoves & refridgerators

Nifty notebooks & school supplies

Burma Shave

Lindy ball point pens

Wilkinson Sword Blades

Beeman's Pepsum Chewing Gum

Beech Nut chewing gum (Yipes! Stripes!)

Duncan yo-yos

Powerhouse candy bars

Butter Brickle candy bars

Bonomo candy (singing--b-o, n-o, m-o, Bonomo!)

Lakewood Toys

White King D soap & detergent (Washed in the west with White King D)

Old Gold cigarettes

20 Mule Team Borax & Boraxo (main sponsor of Death Valley Days)

Wesclox (alarm clocks)

Bulova watches

Armstrong Tires (They Grrrr-ip the road!)

Noxema Medicated Shaving Cream (Take it off! Take it all off!)

Coppertone sun tan oil (Tan, don't burn)

1-a-Day vitamins

I know, I'm showing some age, but my curiosity got the best of me.

Seen any of these products lately?
 
AYDS diet candy? My mother used to eat that stuff back in the '60s! The name alone would knock it out of contention now!
I think that's what happened...When AIDS became news in the 80s, that spelled (no pun intended) the end of Ayds diet candy, which my mom used to buy too. She used to get mad when we kids ate it, but doggone it, for diet food, it was good!

Some other stuff you never see advertised anymore:

Gleem and Close-Up toothpaste

Personna razor blades

Marx, Kenner, and Ideal toys (I'm assuming...don't see too many kids' shows these days)

Libby's canned foods (if it says Libby's-Libby's-Libby's on the label-label-label...)

Funny Face drink mix

Ban deodorant

Curtis Mathes TV's (The most expensive television in America...and darn well worth it!)

One product from not-so-far back: Little Caesar's Pizza was all over TV for a number of years...The only time I ever see it now is when my kids sell it for school fundraisers.

What about all the old brands of beer that are never advertised anymore...Blatz (I'm from Milwaukee and I oughta know), Drewrys, Carling Black Label, Stroh's, Falstaff, Genesee, Burger, Schoengling...That just covers the midwest, so I bet there are a bunch of brands in other parts of the country that used to advertise heavily on TV before the Anheuser-Busch/Miller/Coors stranglehold. (Rheingold, Schaefer, Lucky Lager, and Burgie come to mind.) I am pretty sure Stroh's is still around, not so sure on the others. And what about Schlitz? They were a solid number 3 for years till the late 70's and then fell off sharply due to a number of factors.

I know for sure One-A-Day vitamins are still around, because we have a couple bottles of them at home. Pretty sure about Coppertone, too, and my wind-up alarm clock is a good old Westclox Big Ben.
 
You never hear about the old Lever Brothers (now Unilever) products from way back when these days, including...

Lifebuoy

Rinso

Lux

Swan

Imperial Margarine

Handy Andy

Pepsodent(and its little sister brand Stripe)
 
Working in a grocery store I can confirm that Libby's canned vegetables are still around..Beeman's Gum has had recent limited release around the country..We have recently started sellinbg Black Label (Carling Canada though, We've sold Genessee Beer for years I think we also sell Blatz,,
 
Burma Shave came back about 5 years ago! Not many men use a brush and soap to lather before shaving these days.

Wilkinson Sword blades were around not too long ago....

What I want to come back is ****-n-Span, Pizza Spins, and Sip-n-Chips.
I really miss Sunoco 260 gasoline......I still remember buying my last tank of it in Attica, IN in 1979....
Premium gasoline back then had a red dye added so you could be sure of what you were getting.
It left beautiful red stains on the outside of your carburetor's bowl vents.
 
RicoGregg said:
Just wondering: Are any of these venerable old products that used to be advertised on TV all the time still around?

Ipana toothpaste
Was gone, but a Chicago co. bought the brand and started making Ipana available again

Pepsodent toothpaste (You'll wonder where the yellow went)
Yes, not promoted much, but it is still around

O'Keefe & Merritt stoves & refridgerators
The company isn't (when?) but many searches come up for antique/vintage ones for sale (my mother used to have one of their stoves)

Gaffers & Sattler stoves & refridgerators
Same as O&M but last listed under Maytag's pre-Whirlpool group of brands

Nifty notebooks & school supplies
didn't find/not sure

Burma Shave
what Tom said

Lindy ball point pens
made by a company in Montana; unsure of availability

Wilkinson Sword Blades
yes

Beeman's Pepsum Chewing Gum
discontinued (per candyfavorites.com)

Beech Nut chewing gum (Yipes! Stripes!)
Looks like Farley's and Sathers has the Fruit Stripe brand; while the only Beech-Nut maybe left is the baby food

Duncan yo-yos
yes

Powerhouse candy bars
discontinued (per candyfavorites.com)

Butter Brickle candy bars
ended up liquidating, then part of Heath, now part of Hershey's, as 'Heath Bits o' Brickle'; otherwise, several ice cream brands make a butter brickle flavor

Bonomo candy (singing--b-o, n-o, m-o, Bonomo!)
discontinued (per candyfavorites.com)

Lakewood Toys
didn't find/not sure

White King D soap & detergent (Washed in the west with White King D)
could be; may be limited availability

Old Gold cigarettes
still made by Lorillard, not sure of availability

20 Mule Team Borax & Boraxo (main sponsor of Death Valley Days)
now a part of Dial Corp. (itself a division of German consumer products co. called Henkel)

Wesclox (alarm clocks)
Yes, a division of Salton since 2001

Bulova watches
still around; Citizen just bought it from Loews Corp. last month (BTW, Bulova was the sponsor in the very first TV ad)

Armstrong Tires (They Grrrr-ip the road!)
bought out by Pirelli in 1989

Noxema Medicated Shaving Cream (Take it off! Take it all off!)
Apparently only available for women now (according to the website); bought by P&G in 1989

Coppertone sun tan oil (Tan, don't burn)
definitely still around

1-a-Day vitamins
These are also, but now in several different kinds
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Lever Brothers (now Unilever) products from way back when these days, including...

Lifebuoy
still can be bought, but they don't make it here or in the UK anymore

Rinso
99-cent Only Stores bought the rights to the name from Unilever; probably the only place you can buy it now

Lux
still being marketed overseas but Unilever points you to 'Caress' soaps when you ask about Lux in the US

Swan
not found in the brand list on Unilever's site; last availability not found either

Imperial Margarine
still made; only found on Unilever's Canadian website (not on main website or brand list)

Handy Andy
not found in the brand list on Unilever's site

Pepsodent(and its little sister brand Stripe)
mentioned above
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Genesee Beer is still around but they don't advertise much anymore. They seem to push Genny Lite if anything. The brewery, in Rochester, mostly sub contracts out nowdays, making Honey Brown, and other non related products. Another popular beer, at one time, on the East Coast was Utica Club. Their Shultz & Dooley commercials (voiced by Jonathan Winters) were the best and are available on DVD. The Matt Brewery is still operating in Utica but their main product is Saranac Beer. They still make Utica Club on a lesser level -and you can still get a couple free beers at their brewery tour.
 
As mentioned above, One-A-Day Vitamins are still very much around, and like most Vitamin manufacturers these days, market special formulas for seniors, etc. Pepsodent was around as recently as 10 years ago, and had positioned themselves as a budget brand - flouride protection for about 25% less than Crest, etc. And perfectly good toothpaste it was, too.

I knew Beer tends to be more local - but in Los Angeles, the most heavily advertised brands of beer in the 60s and 70s were Burgermeister ("Burgie"), which was everywhere; and Olympia, out of Washington state. I believe Burgie was Schlitz's lowest cost beer (cheaper than Schlitz, if you can believe that). I assume both brands are gone because American's taste for beer has moved to more expensive and better tasting brands, both foreign, domestic, and micro-brew.
 
I can't believe that part of a proper name, with hyphens, was stripped out by some sort of a dirty word detector.

I was not denigrating any group. I won't repeat the name, but I am angry at the stupidity of software to not recognize context.


I demand the words "cracker", "hick", and "redneck" be added to the lst of unmentionables. Let's see if these get stripped out.
Cracker especially.
 
My late grandfather would always buy Curtis Mathes TVs. Pricey, but damn good sets! He even owned a camcorder/VCR kit from them once. :)
 
Corky Marlowe said:
What about all the old brands of beer that are never advertised anymore...Blatz (I'm from Milwaukee and I oughta know), Drewrys, Carling Black Label, Stroh's, Falstaff, Genesee, Burger, Schoengling...That just covers the midwest, so I bet there are a bunch of brands in other parts of the country that used to advertise heavily on TV before the Anheuser-Busch/Miller/Coors stranglehold. (Rheingold, Schaefer, Lucky Lager, and Burgie come to mind.) I am pretty sure Stroh's is still around, not so sure on the others. And what about Schlitz? They were a solid number 3 for years till the late 70's and then fell off sharply due to a number of factors.
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Blatz, Falstaff, Strohs, Schlitz, Schaeffer, Old Milwaukee, Old Style, and many other older beer brands are now owned by Pabst. However, Pabst stopped selling Falstaff in 2005.

The Pabst Brewing Company doesn't actually brew beer anymore and hasn't since they closed their last brewery (Schaeffer in Allentown PA) in 2001. Miller actually makes the beer.
 
I remember all of these products that are mentioned, I even remember when all of the medicines were in glass bottles and also when Lux laundry detergent put glasses inside their detergent and Breeze laundry detergent with towels and washclothes

Rinso detergent I believe is still made by Purex and now is considered a budget product just like Pepsodent and Aim toothpaste.

I want to know about some other products that I remember from the past whether they are still available or not.

Coronet bathroom tissue (I remember the commercials with Rosemary Clooney singing "Extra value is what you get when you buy Coronet.")

Buck Wheats cereal (Yule Gibbons commercial, General Mills' answer to Grape-Nuts)

Colgate tooth powder (I never used this, but I was wondering if was still made because it was made in a oblong metal bottle)

Maypo cereal (made by Quaker)
 
Colgate and Pepsodent tooth powder both went away about 15 years ago. Both were in tins, and considered old fashioned.
There was also the increasing disfavor of any product in white powdered form, useful for cutting into heroin and cocaine.

Thank you, war on drugs. I still have one or two tins.
 
Tom Wells said:
I can't believe that part of a proper name, with hyphens, was stripped out by some sort of a dirty word detector.

I demand the words "cracker", "hick", and "redneck" be added to the lst of unmentionables. Let's see if these get stripped out.
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While we're at it, let's ban "Dick", as it's also a widely-used epithet. Heck, let's also ban "van", just for the heck of it. ;D

Tom Wells said:
Colgate and Pepsodent tooth powder both went away about 15 years ago... There was also the increasing disfavor of any product in white powdered form, useful for cutting into heroin and cocaine.
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Yet I imagine druggies used other alternatives, such as baby powder, which is still widely-available.
 
Tom Wells said:
I can't believe that part of a proper name, with hyphens, was stripped out by some sort of a dirty word detector.

I was not denigrating any group. I won't repeat the name, but I am angry at the stupidity of software to not recognize context.


I demand the words "cracker", "hick", and "redneck" be added to the lst of unmentionables. Let's see if these get stripped out.
Cracker especially.
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Unfortunately, software cannot tell the difference in context and intention. I think that it's safe to say that we knew what product you meant.

Tom, anyone who has read your posts knows that you have no ill will towards anybody. That's the upside about being human: We can tell the difference.

Just thought of a few others:

Brylcream (Brilcream?) (a little dab'll do ya)

Quisp and Quake cereals

Eastside Old Tap Lager beer

Bromo Seltzer (I confess: I loved the taste of this stuff!)
 
Tom Wells said:
I can't believe that part of a proper name, with hyphens, was stripped out by some sort of a dirty word detector.

I was not denigrating any group. I won't repeat the name, but I am angry at the stupidity of software to not recognize context.


I demand the words "cracker", "hick", and "redneck" be added to the lst of unmentionables. Let's see if these get stripped out.
Cracker especially.
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I thought for a minute you were trying to say "Cheez-Nips" but then I found your "-n-Span" reference, kind of silly there, ain't it? :eek:

Spick and Span (spelled the right way) is still around. We bought some a few weeks ago. Must have come from Wal-Mart.
 
Braves2005 said:
I remember all of these products that are mentioned, I even remember when all of the medicines were in glass bottles and also when Lux laundry detergent put glasses inside their detergent and Breeze laundry detergent with towels and washclothes

Rinso detergent I believe is still made by Purex and now is considered a budget product just like Pepsodent and Aim toothpaste.

I want to know about some other products that I remember from the past whether they are still available or not.

Coronet bathroom tissue (I remember the commercials with Rosemary Clooney singing "Extra value is what you get when you buy Coronet.")

Buck Wheats cereal (Yule Gibbons commercial, General Mills' answer to Grape-Nuts)

Colgate tooth powder (I never used this, but I was wondering if was still made because it was made in a oblong metal bottle)

Maypo cereal (made by Quaker)
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Euell Gibbons pitched Grape-Nuts. I remember Buc-Wheats a lot. It was like Wheaties with a maple syrup flavor.
 
Gleem and Close-Up were at a store the other day.

And Little Caesar's used to have dozens of stores around here. Then they closed them all up but one in another town about five years back.
And a new one opened last year in our town. But other than that, haven't seen any in NC lately.
 
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