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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 
Brought back memories. My grandmother had a set of cups like the Colorama advertisement. They were tall though, and without feet. I sure wish I had them today.
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My mother had a set of those too. I wonder what ever became of them…
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YES!! Those tumblers … They were the best!!
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I remember being cooled off by them during many a hot Virginia summer when we spent a few weeks with her.
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I remember my mother filling them with ice tea and bringing them out to garden visitors (of which we always had many).
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I need to go back in time and get a layered electric skillet and all the towels.
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LOL!!
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The prices on those towels were mind-boggling.
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Love these vintage ads
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So do I. 🙂
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These are great, and those towels are a steal 😀
I’m kind of horrified by the cigarette ads; the truth was an elusive thing when those ad-writers got busy.
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Some things never change.
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We shopped at the local A&P when I was a kid. Great vintage posters
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Ahh, when advertisement were enjoyable and not offensive or rank. You enjoyed reading them and wishing. Can we go back?
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If only.
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LOL! Oh, I simply must have bathroom tissue that matches all my taffeta ensembles.. 😂 (And I love the Betty White one — what a doll she was!)
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I remember almost all of these! The one that clearly stands out in my memory bank is the one for the roll-out freezer. My father used to crack jokes about it being so big he could probably hide a body in it! It’s a Sicilian thing! 😂
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😀 😀 😀
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One of our wedding gifts was a Sunbeam Crocker Frypan. We used it for years!
Love,
Janie
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Things were made to last in those days.
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Damn straight, Blue. Planned obsolescence. We have my mother’s upright Frigidaire freezer in our basement. It runs like a charm and has never needed service. My mother bought that freezer in 1962! 🤯
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Commenter “The Sicilian Storyteller says “I remember almost all of these!” Heh — I was about to comment that BoB has really selected some old ads this time, as I hardly remember any of them. 😉
Mom’s house had that NuTone house-wide system when she moved in, in ’67. Never got much use. There was a turntable in a drawer – yeah, that didn’t work out.
I’ve been meaning for many days to send you this link, Bluebird. You might find something for the next old ads post.
irmaharding.tumblr.com/Refrigerators
If I ever knew that IH made refrigerators, I’d forgotten it. Now I can finally close that tab.!
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I hardly remember any of those. I think they have Tumblers like those in Seventh Avenue or Collections catalogs.
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A friend of mine bought a house a few years ago that had that exact built-in stereo system. The main system was in the den with a speaker in every room. It was also a intercom too. I still use it in my shop.
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I just realized that the Budweiser can looks like it required a punch opener. Even older than the pull tabs that I remember from the 70s.
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I remember those pull tabs — nasty little things with razor-sharp edges. Ouch!
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I want turquoise kitchen appliances!!
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