Forgotten Advertising Characters of the Era

[Zombie_61]

^^ Not directly related, but this reminded me of the Union 76 antenna balls. There was another promotion that involved getting a banana on your antenna when you bought gas but I can't think of what oil company ran that one.

Chiquita.

 

[Absinthe_1900]

When Esso had the slogan "Put a tiger in your tank," There was a novelty fad for fake tiger tails to hang from your slightly ajar gas pipe cover.

I remember many years ago here Houston, there was a Esso (some were called Enco in Houston) and Sinclair Station across from one another that had a longtime rivalry. The Sinclair station had the fiberglass Dino with a Tiger tail hanging out of it's mouth. This prompted the Esso station owner to supposedly shoot an arrow into the side of the Sinclair Dino.

I saw the goings on for quite awhile, they were always supposedly pranking each other, but I always had the feeling they had cooked this up as a publicity scheme to promote themselves.
They both quietly faded away as Exxon and Arco took over.

 

[2jakes]

Month of August meant "back to school" and a trip to the Robin Hood store.

My all time favorite were a pair of
all brown leather combat boots.

Give-away comics.

 

[2jakes]

A trip to the shoe cobbler ...

Enjoyed the aroma of leather and the
chemicals or wax that permeated throughout the shop.

Scary yet fascinating to watch was the window display "cobbler".

 

[2jakes]

Another "Back to School"....

Big Chief tablets.

They were cheaper than the white page
note-book paper which was available in
two or three ring holes depending on which note-book mom bought.

But the off-white yellowish paper did not
hold up when you had to use the eraser to make a correction which I tended to do
many times with my #2 lead pencil.
I hated math and to this day I can't figure
out "algebra" and what was the purpose of using letters instead of numbers.

 

[Zombie_61]

...But the off-white yellowish paper did not hold up when you had to use the eraser to make a correction which I tended to do many times with my #2 lead pencil...

This reminds me of the cheap "pulp" paper they used in elementary school. They were trying to teach us how to write properly, but the large chunks of wood present in the paper almost always got in the way. And God help you if you needed to correct something 'cause those erasers made the paper disappear like a fart in a windstorm.

...I hated math and to this day I can't figure out "algebra" and what was the purpose of using letters instead of numbers.

I struggled with algebra throughout my scholastic career. It was only many years later when someone made the comment that they were trying to teach us the formulas that it finally clicked. I've still rarely had to use algebra in my personal/professional life though, so those classes seem like a waste of time.

 

[GHT]

Advertising characters tend to be unique to their own country but one international character that stands out is the booming voice of Thurl Ravenscroft, better known probably, as Tony the Tiger in the Kellogs Frosties adverts, although I always associate him with Rosemary Clooney and her hit: "This Ole House," with Thurl's rich bass/baritone voice singing the chorus.

 

[Frunobulax]

Advertising characters tend to be unique to their own country but one international character that stands out is the booming voice of Thurl Ravenscroft, better known probably, as Tony the Tiger in the Kellogs Frosties adverts, although I always associate him with Rosemary Clooney and her hit: "This Ole House," with Thurl's rich bass/baritone voice singing the chorus.

Not to mention...

[MEDIA]

Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[2jakes]

Advertising characters tend to be unique to their own country but one international character that stands out is the booming voice of Thurl Ravenscroft, better known probably, as Tony the Tiger in the Kellogs Frosties adverts, although I always associate him with Rosemary Clooney and her hit: "This Ole House," with Thurl's rich bass/baritone voice singing the chorus.

I remember my mom in the kitchen singin’ along to this tune which was playing on a small Motorola radio atop the icebox.

 

[GHT]

I remember my mom in the kitchen singin’ along to this tune which was playing on a small Motorola radio atop the icebox.

When I first heard that song I was completely ignorant of roof shingles. The only shingles that I had heard of was the chicken pox related virus. mind you, I didn't let my ignorance be known. Wonderful places are reference libraries.

 

[MisterCairo]

Old Dutch, along with Comet and Bon Ami, was one of the big brands of pumice-based kitchen cleaners; its railcars were even featured on Tyco and Lionel trains in
the 1970s.
The product is nowhere to be found on the web.

Immediately recognizing the Old Dutch girl/woman, I was surprised to read that OD is nowhere to be found on the web.

Canada is oft forgotten/ignored (we actually kinda like it that way, not complainin'), however, I am surprised this website was not located:

http://www.olddutch.ca/en/cleaners.php

And we have OD bleach at a minimum in our house as we speak, and have gone through many containers of the powder:

 

[MisterCairo]

Back to school for my sister and I in the seventies meant a trip to the Burlington Mall to visit Buster Brown Shoes and "Young Canada", both now sadly gone for some time up here.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Advertising characters tend to be unique to their own country but one international character that stands out is the booming voice of Thurl Ravenscroft, better known probably, as Tony the Tiger in the Kellogs Frosties adverts, although I always associate him with Rosemary Clooney and her hit: "This Ole House," with Thurl's rich bass/baritone voice singing the chorus.

Ravenscroft was also a member of the Sportsmen, a very popular vocal group best known for its role on Jack Benny's radio program. The quartet would attempt to perform singing commercials for Lucky Strike cigarettes, despite Benny's constant interruptions. "LSMFT!" And he's also the voice that sings the immortal "You're A Mean One, Mister Grinch!" in the popular 1960s Dr. Seuss Christmas cartoon.

There's quite a bit of debate over whether Ravenscroft was the first actor to do the voice of Tony the Tiger -- the character's earliest commercial appearances of the 1950s sound quite a bit like Roy Glenn, a busy African-American radio actor of the period with a voice like the Grand Canyon, but Kellogg's denies that Glenn ever played the part.

 

[Fading Fast]

Don't know anything about it, just happened to stumble upon it.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And then there's Popsicle Pete, first seen in 1939 in a strip appearing in "All American Comics."

There was nothing in the strip to suggest that it was paid advertising, and it was drawn by none other than the great Sheldon Mayer -- whose "Scribbly" strip, done in exactly the same visual style, appeared just a few pages away in the same magazine. There was also nothing in the strip of any particular entertainment value -- oh, if Popsicle Pete could have fallen in, like Scribbly, with the bizarre Hunkel family -- and it disappeared after a short and unmemorable run.

But Popsicle Pete returned -- no longer drawn by Sheldon Mayer, and no longer appearing in any way typical of the American Boy, unless said boy suffered from a chronic thryoid deficiency.

But he began eating iodized salt, and finally emerged yet again fully cured and even less entertaining than before, seeming to be exactly the kind of joyless little suburban prig who spent his lonely afternoons making models of the Chrysler Building out of spent popsicle sticks, and propagandizing for The Man.

 

[2jakes]

Don't know anything about it, just happened to stumble upon it.
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Basically long ice cubes which
were available in different fruit flavors
on wooden sticks.

Another choice!
Frozen chocolate ice cream.

Mostly recall ice box pushed by bicycle
with bell ringers which sold these goodies
on the streets!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Griffy is here among us, reading our thoughts.

 

[Fading Fast]

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Griffy is here among us, reading our thoughts.

Sounds like exactly what happens in many corporate mergers.

 

[2jakes]

And then there's Popsicle Pete, first seen in 1939 in a strip appearing in "All American Comics."



There was nothing in the strip to suggest that it was paid advertising, and it was drawn by none other than the great Sheldon Mayer -- whose "Scribbly" strip, done in exactly the same visual style, appeared just a few pages away in the same magazine. There was also nothing in the strip of any particular entertainment value -- oh, if Popsicle Pete could have fallen in, like Scribbly, with the bizarre Hunkel family -- and it disappeared after a short and unmemorable run.

But Popsicle Pete returned -- no longer drawn by Sheldon Mayer, and no longer appearing in any way typical of the American Boy, unless said boy suffered from a chronic thryoid deficiency.

But he began eating iodized salt, and finally emerged yet again fully cured and even less entertaining than before, seeming to be exactly the kind of joyless little suburban prig who spent his lonely afternoons making models of the Chrysler Building out of spent popsicle sticks, and propagandizing for The Man.

Found the early Buck newspaper serials interesting in the detailed images

The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
by Robert C. Dille (Editor)

 

[2jakes]

And then there's Popsicle Pete, first seen in 1939 in a strip appearing in "All American Comics."



There was nothing in the strip to suggest that it was paid advertising, and it was drawn by none other than the great Sheldon Mayer -- whose "Scribbly" strip, done in exactly the same visual style, appeared just a few pages away in the same magazine. There was also nothing in the strip of any particular entertainment value -- oh, if Popsicle Pete could have fallen in, like Scribbly, with the bizarre Hunkel family -- and it disappeared after a short and unmemorable run.

But Popsicle Pete returned -- no longer drawn by Sheldon Mayer, and no longer appearing in any way typical of the American Boy, unless said boy suffered from a chronic thryoid deficiency.

But he began eating iodized salt, and finally emerged yet again fully cured and even less entertaining than before, seeming to be exactly the kind of joyless little suburban prig who spent his lonely afternoons making models of the Chrysler Building out of spent popsicle sticks, and propagandizing for The Man.

Pistol Buck is holding has $kyrocketed to 25th Century