Do You Still Use "Golden Age" Products?

[Brian Sheridan]

I hope people find this an interesting thread.

Do you chose products or items from "the Golden Age" over other items that are for sale on store shelves? It is interesting to see some things are still being made even though the company may have changed hands a few times since the 30's/40's.

What I mean is - Do you chose:
Colgate (over Crest)
Hershey
Planter's Peanuts
Bayer Asprin
Beemer's Gum


What else do you buy that people in vintage times bought when they went to the store?

Have Fun!

BRS

 

[LadyStardust]

All the first four. I also buy Pear's soap, and I've always wanted to use Lux flakes, I've seen them still for sale online, but not in stores, at least not in my area.[huh] Oh, and there's the whole range of Campbell's goods!

 

[K.D. Lightner]

If you were to look at my medicine cabinet, you would discern that I am an old-fashioned gal. You would not find lots of modern prescriptions or products. You would find:

Vics VaporRub
Vasoline
Witch Hazel
Hydrogen Peroxide
Methiolade
Iodine
Calamine lotion
Bayer aspirin
slippery elm throat lozenges
Bengay
rubbing alcohol
cotton balls
Grandpa's Pine Tar Soap


...and you would find the more modernTom's toothpaste because I cannot stand the sweet taste of modern toothpaste. And some antibiotic and first aid cream.

karol

 

[feltfan]

I hope people find this an interesting thread.

Do you chose products or items from "the Golden Age" over other items that are for sale on store shelves? It is interesting to see some things are still being made even though the company may have changed hands a few times since the 30's/40's.

What I mean is - Do you chose:
(...)
Bayer Asprin

Ah, good old Bayer aspirin, a subsidiary of I.G. Farben....

 

[LizzieMaine]

I scrub my sinks and tub with Bon Ami -- hasn't scratched yet! And I make my own liquid laundry soap with Fels Naptha bar soap, Borax, and washing soda -- gets things clean and is extremely inexpensive.

 

[jitterbugdoll]

Like LizzieMaine, I swear by Bon Ami, Fels Naptha, and Borax. All work great and live up to the old marketing claims

I also swear by witch hazel and Pond's Cold Cream, both of which work better for me than any modern product I've ever tried.

 

[CanadaDoll]

I scrub my sinks and tub with Bon Ami -- hasn't scratched yet! And I make my own liquid laundry soap with Fels Naptha bar soap, Borax, and washing soda -- gets things clean and is extremely inexpensive.

Would you be willing to share your combination formula with me Lizzie? It sounds very interesting, right now I use the expensive stuff cause I react to everythine else.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Would you be willing to share your combination formula with me Lizzie? It sounds very interesting, right now I use the expensive stuff cause I react to everythine else.

Sure -- it's very easy to do:

Just grate about a third of a bar of Fels Naptha into a soup pot, add about three pints of water, and cook over low heat till it liquifies. Add half a cup of Borax powder and half a cup of washing soda , and stir till it thickens. Then take a two-gallon pail, add a quart of hot water, mix in the soap solution, and when it's thoroughly blended, fill the rest of the pail with cold water and let it sit overnight.

Use about half a cup of this solution for each load of washing -- it'll last for months!!

 

[CanadaDoll]

Wow that is easy! Thanks so much Lizzie!

 

[Fletch]

Sadly I realize I don't use many old familiar brands anymore. Kellogg's, Nabisco, Ivory, Kraft (excepting its myriad subsidiaries), Chock Full o' Nuts, Oscar Mayer and others have vanished from my shelves.

Some that remain: Heinz, Hellmann's, Planters, Canada Dry, Johnson & Johnson, Dixon Ticonderoga, Campbell's, Clorox, Bayer, Kleenex, Scotch.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Underwood Deviled Ham
Quaker Quick Grits

 

[CharlieH.]

I buy a few:

- Colgate
- Pepsi Cola
- Hershey's
- Wrigley's gum (I re-wrap mine on 30's wrappers)
- Altoids
- Brylcreem

 

[lindylady]

This is in absolutely no order.

Colgate
Coca-Cola
Palmolive Soap
Yardley of London
Olay (used to be called Oil of Olay years ago)
Quaker Grits and Oatmeal
Domino Sugar
Wrigley's Spearmint
Oscar Mayer
Kellogg's cereals
Revlon cosmetics
Dole

There are more, but I can't think of them right now.

 

[RaasAlHayya]

Like K.D. Lightner, we prefer the non-sweetened flavor of Tom's of Maine Toothpaste. I was surprised to discover we can get it at both Kroger and CVS.

LizzieMaine, I also appreciate you posting your laundry soap recipe. I hope I can get around to trying it soon.

Recently, we found huge cans of Old Dutch Cleanser ("Chases Dirt!") at one of the local dollar stores. I don't know how vintage it is, but it cleans well and the smell isn't overpowering.

Witch hazel, rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide are staples in the Lynch household.

ETA: A Google search shows Old Dutch Cleanser to date back at least to 1918!

--Leslie

 

[patrick1987]

Is Prell Golden Age?

 

[DancingSweetie]

I found a few things:
Ponds cold cream
witch hazel
Quaker oats
Clabber Girl baking powder
Maxwell House coffee
Ivory soap
French's mustard
Best Foods mayonnaise

 

[Vladimir Berkov]

Ivory soap
Bayer aspirin
Clabber Girl baking powder
Morton salt
Fleishman's Yeast
Dr. Pepper (from Dublin, glass bottled)
Coca-Coca (from Mexico, glass bottled)

The one Golden Era product I simply refuse to use is Hershey's chocolate. Maybe back in the Golden Era Americans didn't understand what chocolate was supposed to taste like? I always have a supply of Lindt, Ritter Sport, or Milka on hand however.

 

[Spitfire]

Do I use golden age products?
No.

But my wife does.
.... Me!

 

[Dismuke]

There is also Baby Percy Medicine It is made in Waco, Texas. Last summer, I did a Radio Dismuke broadcast down in Waco with some record collector friends of mine and, in honor of the location, we tried some. Vladimir Berkov was one of those friends - and, well, let's just say his reaction to the product was not very positive. These days, however, it is mostly Mexican immigrants who are the largest consumers of Baby Percy Medicine.

We also drank some Dublin Dr Pepper which Vladimir mentions in his posting. Dublin is a small town in central Texas and is home to the world's oldest Dr Pepper bottling plant - and they still make it according to the original recipe with cane sugar and not corn syrup. Waco happens to be where Dr Pepper was born and was headquartered for a number of years. The old 1906 bottling plant is still there and now serves as the Dr. Pepper museum. If you ever find yourself in that part of the world, it is worth a visit. The museum also has an antique soda fountain where you can order a Dr Pepper sundae which is vanilla ice cream with Dublin Dr Pepper syrup on top. Sounds kind of gross - but the stuff actually is quite wonderful.

My all-time favorite soda pop is also among the oldest and, unfortunately, is very difficult find in my part of the world. It is Moxie which is primarily sold in New England these days. I basically have to order the stuff over the Internet - and since liquid is heavy, the shipping costs are pretty high.

 

[VivianRegan]

Moxie! Real Dr Pepper!

We're lucky here in the Phoenix area to have a soda pop connoisseur's store, Pop Soda Shop. I can spend lotsa scratch on the varieties they sell. If it hadn't been for that store, I'd never have tasted Moxie and fell in love with that bossy man on the bottle.

Before I knew about Pop, I ordered a case of Dr Pepper from Dublin, and drank it like champagne... only on special occasions. I christened my first car with a bottle!

You're right about shipping. Maybe Pop will branch out beyond the Valley and internet...

www.popsodashop.com