Vintage neon signs

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"Dancing on the Moon!"

"Starry starry night!"

 

[LizzieMaine]

And here I was, wondering if there was a Knights of Columbus Cleaners across town.

For many years, "Duke's Rotary Barber Shop" was directly across from Rotary Cleaners. Images of old men getting haircuts while riding on a Tilt-A-Whirl always came to mind.

 

[LizzieMaine]

It's more a matter of people from away wanting to enforce their own preference over the local dialect. Same way as they insist on calling that little room off the kitchen a "mudroom" instead of a "shed."

 

[Woodtroll]

And the "people from away" where they have rotary roundabouts have drug them down our way, where we would happily not call them anything in exchange for them not existing.

 

[3fingers]

It sounds like an agenda is afoot with the pressure to change the name, but what is the agenda as it's not obvious to me why anyone would care?

It seems to be ingrained in the nature of some people to move into a new area, be completely "charmed" with it and immediately set about turning it into a carbon copy of where they left, leaving not the smallest detail to escape their attention. I have watched it over and over with the university faculty here.

 

[Woodtroll]

It seems to be ingrained in the nature of some people to move into a new area, be completely "charmed" with it and immediately set about turning it into a carbon copy of where they left, leaving not the smallest detail to escape their attention. I have watched it over and over with the university faculty here.

Yes indeed, that happens here too!

 

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[EngProf]

It seems to be ingrained in the nature of some people to move into a new area, be completely "charmed" with it and immediately set about turning it into a carbon copy of where they left, leaving not the smallest detail to escape their attention. I have watched it over and over with the university faculty here.

We have had so many outsiders and carpetbaggers move here to Nashville - and doing their best to turn it into where they came from - that I have a one-person "truth in labeling" campaign going on:
I am advocating that we change the name of this place to "Partly-Portland", "Pseudo-Seattle", "Semi-San Francisco", or "Almost-Austin".

The sad part is that it USED to be a really nice place to live.

 

[EngProf]

Lizzie: "….. bourgie snots who wouldn't be caught dead drinking Maxwell House. "

Hey, even a bourgie snot couldn't say no to a cuppa joe proffered by Cora. Unless she suddenly flipped out and said that she was willing to kill you over your ruby slippers...


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Product trivia:
Why does Cora/Wicked-Witch have a picture of Teddy Roosevelt on her table?

 

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Product trivia:
Why does Cora/Wicked-Witch have a picture of Teddy Roosevelt on her table?

Both shared a passion for a good cup of Joe!

So far, there is no way to tell the veracity of Teddy having
said..." It's good to the last drop."

 

[LizzieMaine]

My response to the grabby gentrifiers is usually something along the lines of "well, if you were such a g-d hot shot in Connecticut, why are you *here*?" I once had a boss in radio whose claim to fame, which he never got tired of reiterating, was that he was the guy who fired Bill Cullen from the staff at WNBC. My response to that was "Look where he is now, and look where you are."

 

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[Fading Fast]

We see a lot of Coke privilege* signs, but Pepsi obviously did its share as well:

*If you use a word you just learned in a sentence, you'll remember it forever. Now, maybe, I'll remember that they are called "privilege" signs.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Pepsi spent a *lot* of money in the late 1930s and 1940s trying to catch up with Coke, and their advertising budget was enormous. But they didn't manage to catch up to Coke's lead in the privilege-sign market until the 1970s. Either that's a very old, well maintained sign -- or a very convincing retro-replica.

 

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Royal Crown Cola neon over porcelain sign.

I enjoy more the look of this color combination product than the flavor itself.

60s

Bottles and signs are still available in the surrounding Texas towns that I visit.

 

[3fingers]

Pepsi does outsell Coke here. I doubt all Pepsi products outsell all Coke products though. I still drink RC occasionally. It's not readily available in vendors any longer and we don't usually keep soda at home any more, but I'll buy a bottle from a gas station from time to time.

 

[LizzieMaine]

New England seems to be pretty solidly Coke country, at least so far as fountain outlets go -- it seems like there's half a dozen locations offering Coke on tap for every one that offers Pepsi. If it wasn't for a few major chains that have pouring deals with Pepsi -- KFC/Taco Bell, Applebees, a few theatre chains -- the gap would be even wider. The Pepsi fountain guy is always coming by our place trying to get me to switch, but we're a Coke house and a Coke house we shall remain as long as I'm making that decision.

I haven't seen a can or bottle of RC in at least ten years. It had a pretty good visibility here up thru the late 70s, but the local RC-Nehi distributor went out of business not long after that, and whoever picked up the rights for our area after that didn't do much to promote it so it just kind of faded away. I liked RC better than Pepsi, and it was my alternative choice for those rare occasions when I couldn't find Coke.

Now, RICHardson's Root Beer -- *that* was a drink.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Now, RICHardson's Root Beer -- *that* was a drink.

Still served@ Hamburger Heaven, York Street at North Avenue, Elmhurst, Illinois.

 

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