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Original 1950's BUTCH WAX
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Bugsy
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flat-top said:
I haven't seen that stuff since I was in high school. All the guys used it all the time to keep our flattops up. I grew up in LA and vividly remember when the weather got warm, how the Butch Wax would start to melt and ooze down our heads. Boy, does this take me back!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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My dad and I used to wear that stuff to stiffen our "bangs" back in the early '60's! Let me tell you, in the hot, humid Florida weather that icky stuff got sticky and gooey! Thank God for the Beatles when a boy could finally grow his hair out!
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Many, many bad childhood memories from from the early 60's from that exact bottle of gunk. There was also a yellow lemon-scented one (which I guess was even too gunky to be used as a Pledge replacement). Great for nobody wanting to get you in a headlock or head-butted, but trip on the beach or the sandbox at the playground and you've got sand in congealing waxy crud that does NOT want to come out when exposed to water.
Bugsy
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I shiver at the memory. UGH!!
Smuterella
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I have to have this for my butch girlfriend!
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Methinks she'll dig it!Smuterella said:
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flat-top said:
Wow.. I've always heard of it but never seen it. I used to sport a flattop back in the 90's off and on and one barber would use a product on me called Lucky Tiger Cru-Butch by Sandahls... I think it's similar stuff, very waxy and very goo-hey when it got humid!!
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It's similar, but the Lucky Tiger was/is more waxy. The LB (unless the consistancy changed due to age), is more greasy. And the scent of the LB is (still!) extremely strong.brylcreem boy said:
I have a few jars of this stuff, and I'm ashamed to admit that I used 50 year old Butch Wax on my hair a couple of times. There, I said it!
