Home sweet home
Bob's sister Hannah
Bob's sister Ada
Bob's brother Otto
Bob's sister Eve
Bob's sister Nan
A baby picture of Bob and his siblings (clockwise from upper left: Otto, Eve, Hannah, Ada, Bob, and Nan)
Bob's childhood home
Bob's mom and dad
Bob in his youth
Bob's cousin Alphonse
Bob's Uncle Ralph and Aunt Edna
Bob's cousin Archibald
Bob's stepbrother Herbie (who really needs to quit smoking)
Bob's cousin Chester
Bob's Great Uncle Norbert and Great Aunt Phyllis
Bob's cousin Saffron (who will do anything for a drink)
Bob's cousin Thorndike
Bob's brother-in-law Vinnie
Bob's cousin Orville, who loves the Green Bay Packers
Bob's nieces Lulu and Bitsy, the biker chicks
Bob's stepsister Eloise, with the twins, Rudy and Trudy
Bob's Uncle Henry and Aunt Rowena
Bob's niece Esmerelda (who likes to live dangerously)
Bob's Great Uncle Arthur up in Saskatchewan
Bob's cousin Louie, the grackle of grumpiness
Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher
Bob's nephew Winthrop, who loves sports
Bob's Uncle Seymour and Aunt Bernice
Bob's second cousin Schlomo in Brooklyn
Bob's nephew Baxter
Bob's cousin Darrell
Nigel, Bob's pen pal in New Zealand
Bob's sister-in-law Delphine, who volunteers at the animal shelter
Percy the Pickpocket, Bob's third cousin once removed (the relative no one likes to talk about... every family has one)
The Bluebird of Happiness™ (no relation to Bob)
A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)
A pair of tits (in case the boobies were insufficiently titillating)
Bluebird Bitter™, the beer they named for Bob
bluebird of bitterness 
Jolly good, Bob. Really great ads. I remember Brylcreem, Posner’s and a few others. My mother used Posner’s on our hair and I remember the fit she had when me and my sisters began doing our own hair. She complained that we used so much that we could grease a wheel with all of the grease in our hair, lol.
I don’t remember the Dr. Scott’s Electric Hair Brush but that advertisement is funny. Think I’ll send that to the most politically correct Democrat in my family and watch them bust a gasket.
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Dag, Billy Dee Williams was fine. I remember all of the Black women and girls were upset with him for a while because he married a Japanese woman but then because of his looks, they forgave him.
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What a fabulous collection. I especially remember the Breck ads.
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Those drove me crazy when I was a kid. My hair was kinky and frizzy, and I would gladly have exchanged my birthright for hair that was smooth and sleek like a Breck girl.
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I had thick unmanageable hair. The Breck girls were so beautifully painted to perfection😍
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What does the guy in the last ad use?
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Hypnosis.
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These are fascinating.
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Memories …. light the corners of my mind …. misty watercolor memories …. of the way we were ….
I remember many of these. Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific really did smell good. Didn’t help my frizz, though.
Did you send me an email? I did not get it, if you did.
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Not yet. My son, who has been working in Illinois for the past few months, came home for his sister’s thirtieth birthday, and things got a little wild around here. The thing I want to email you is in response to your ancestry comment from several days ago — it’s amusing but much too large for the tiny comment boxes on this blog. Will try to send it soon. ❤️
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Thank you! I got it!
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Lifebuoy for bobs, eh? And since I should be starting supper, I had to look up rising star Betty Gillette. I almost wish I hadn’t. The shampoo add seems to be the pinnacle of her career.
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Poor dear; her rising star flamed out early. No doubt the fate of most would-be stars of stage and screen…
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i must be ‘of a certain age’, as i actually remember some of these )
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I remember many of these and can still smell Prell and Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific. The Vermont Country Store actually sells a lot of these older products in their current incarnation, usually for a high price–sometimes I secretly think it’s worth it, just to have that smell back again.
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I’ve seen some of these in VCS catalogs and always wondered how they managed to get them, since they don’t seem to be available anywhere else. The Ortons must have some really good connections.
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They do–they started their company decades ago, and have been known as the ye-olde place. It’s a great niche for them. They need to upgrade the union suits though!
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Tha’s a lotta ads, BoB. What a trip down Mad Ave.
♫ Brylllllcreme, a little dab’ll do ya.
Use more, only if you dare! ♪
♫ Brylllllcreme, the girls’ll all pursue ya.
They love to run their fingers through your hair. ♪
There was a time, oh, something over a half a century ago, when my older brother and I had matching “burr with a spur” haircuts. Short on top and sides, but a tuft left up front to which Brylcreme was applied to keep it upswept.
That’s the extent of my familiarity with that stuff, but I always had to laugh at the jingle, thinking of the gal running her hand through the Brylcreme guy’s hair, then wondering how she’ll get the grease off her hand…
(Hmm. According to Mens-Haircuts.net, what we had was something between a burr and a crewcut. Whatever.)
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Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I remember girls ironing their hair in 1967. In the 1950’s and 60’s we used Prell shampoo, whichhad the consistency of hard jello squeezed from a tube. “Gee, your hair smells terrific” wasn’t all that great — the pet rock of shampoos. 🙂
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I tried ironing my hair, I tried chemical straighteners, I tried everything to get my hair straight and smooth. Nothing worked. Finally, after years of fighting with it, I did what I should have done in the first place: learned to be happy with myself the way nature made me.
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I understand. It seemed silly and dangerous to me when I saw people doing it.
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It was dangerous! But so are a lot of the things that some women are willing to do for the sake of fashion. (Some men too, for that matter.)
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Corsets to create 17 inch waistlines, bustles, stiletto’s. Before that the world had 1000 years of footbinding in China. (stopped only when the Communist party took power).
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I don’t think “Go-Gay” will go over as well today…. 😉
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First thought: O Brother Where Art Thou, Clooney wakes up and yells, “Mah hair!”
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I love these old ads. 😀 — Suzanne
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So do I. Can you tell? 🙂
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Gosh, these must be old, Bob. I didn’t regognise any of them.
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“Brylcreem a little dad’ll do yer”, So I used to go and buy the stuff. Guaranteed to cause dandruff 😦
What a pity that lovely word gay has been hijacked to mean anything but 😥 🐻
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Reblogged this on Random Repeat.
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Thank you for reblogging. 🙂
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