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 Happinessā¢ (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 Bitterā¢, the beer they named for Bob
bluebird of bitterness 
Gahhh š
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Man, the Wayback Machine sure brings back memories – fond or otherwise…
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I love, love these retro ads
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So do I. I collect them compulsively. š
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I am always on the lookout for them)
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I love old ads of all kinds!
Brady’s was in Lorain, Ohio, within sight of the southwestern shore of Lake Erie. Looks like a vacant lot now. (I have a michigas about looking up stuff like that.)
“Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”
“Yes.”
“Well, you’d better let him out!”
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I remember some of these ads, and Lil’ Abner. It’s hard for people under 40 to understand that at one time doctor’s advised women to smoke “for their health.”
And Spam — never did like it. š
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Sure do wish I had that nineteen-inch waist!
I have yet to even try SPAM; keep thinkin’ “One of these days. . . “
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I describe the looks of it as fatty bologna meets meatloaf. š The only thing I remember about it was the greasy taste.
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Well, based on that, I’m gonna have to get dressed and run out RIGHT NOW to get some!
LOLOL!
(EWWWW!)
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I once heard a comedian tell a story about Spam, which used to be (maybe still is) given to soldiers in their field rations, and how some soldiers failed to appreciate its (alleged) virtues… Anyway, the story went on and on, until it culminated in one soldier saying he could hardly wait for the end of his enlistment because “I do not like grenades and Spam.”
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Funny, though, how, in spite of all the bad jokes about it throughout the decades, it’s still around! SOMEbody likes it!
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That’s the most inexplicable thing of all.
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Reblogged this on Two on a Rant and commented:
I’m reblogging this excellent reminder of yester-year father’s day ads. There was a time when women were advised to smoke “for good health.” Doctor’s smoked in their offices, too. Makes you wonder what we’re taking now “for good health” that we’ll regret in the future.
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Thank you for reblogging. ā¤ļø
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Brings back memories. š
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Fathers Day is approximately 9 months before Mothers Day here in Australia,for some reason or other, not sure what. Just thought I’d keep you in the loop šæ
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Interesting how different it is from here.
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Well we are up here in the Southern Hemisphere, where things are usually the opposite to what they are down there in the Northern Hemisphere
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LOVE how you are up and we are down! š
I have tried unsuccessfully for decades to wrap my head around the fact that there is no “up” or “down” in space.
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Well the way I look at it, heavy stuff falls down, gravity. Australia is gradually falling towards the Equator, to me that neans that we are up and you are down. š Pretty logical when you think about it ; isn’t it?
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To you, maybe š
To us, y’all are falling UP!
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Ignorance is bliss ’tis folly to be wise, forget who said that now, wasn’t donald trump that’s for sure
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So when are they?
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First Sunday in September
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Thank you! š
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Vintage advertising is a good way to learn about societal values during different eras. Blatant sexism, racist stereotypes, ballplayers hawking cigarettes…we sure have come a long way. š
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Dear Ole’Dad…
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Reblogged this on blogging807.
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Thanks Rae. š
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These really bring back memories. š — Suzanne
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Thanks for the memories! š
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