My first husband worked at a Texaco station during the summers when he was in school. Remember -"Take your car to the man who wears the star".
What about 'LSMFT'? Certainly a precursor to the electronic abbreviations.
NativeMainer, Thanks for the Stuckey picture!! Brings back so many memories!!
When I was thinking about Red Barn, I thought of Arby's too. I remembered when they had a promotion for Pepsi with collectible Looney Toons characters on the glasses. I don't know how many different characters there were in all (a lot) but I only ever got Porky Pig. I'm drinking ice water in it right now.
Kind of wanted Pepe LePew too.
I still have all of these.......
I remember the "Love Is..." boy and girl from the newspaper comics.
How could I forget that classic burger joint BIG BOY? Wonder what happened to all the old statues?
LSMFT?Don't recognize that one.Do remember the "Take your car to the
man who wears the star"!
Arbys,
"America's Roast Beef, Yes Sir!
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February 21, 2012 11:14 AM
Given that Big Boy restaurants started way back in 1936, you
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treated with more respect. But as these photos of Big Boy statue graveyards show, that’s far from the truth.
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Aaaaw! That's sad. Big Boy was a lovable icon, not like that creepy Jack-In-The-Box drive thru' abomination.
Why 37% of people our age are scared sh*tless of clowns. The rest blame Stephen King.
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Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco.
And wasn't it, "You can trust your car to the man who wears a star...the big, bright Texaco star?"
What about Sinclair gas stations? Is there a dino graveyard out there?
Yup, the Texaco jingle was:
"You can trust your car
to the man who wears the star
The big, bright Texaco star."
The slogan came in the 1940s. The jingle didn't play until 1962.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jwpearce/9581660507/
I can't find where the dinos went. I keep getting hits for Baby Sinclair of the TV show Dinosaurs! Remember "I'm the baby, gotta love me!" ?
I don't remember the Texaco jingle - must be before my time hahahaha.
Elimar, you're a woman after my own heart. I totally adored Pepe LePew!!! I used to mimic Pepe all the time.
Slow, What was the name of the girl skunk that Pepe was always trying to woo? (If you don't remember, I will look it up.)
Penelope Pussycat!!! She wasn't a skunk!!
Oh, that's right!
I do a perfect imitation of Pepe.
I can do a fair Popeye laugh. Can anyone else talk like a cartoon?
Eilmar - you won the Lucky Strike contest.
Native - wow for the Big Boy graveyard.
Can you guess the "X" "brusha, brusha, brush, new xxxxxx toothpaste, with the brand new flavor, it's friendly for your teeth. Hint - it hasn't been sold in many a year. Seems to me it was Bucky Beaver?
"Sinclair is the gas to buy.
Nickel is the reason why.
Only Sinclair gasoline
has nickel, nickel, nickel."
I can copy the voice of the secretary on Monsters, Inc. really well. In fact, since Cartoon Network is located here in Atlanta, I've thought of applying for a job there. I can also do Hank Hill, Edith Bunker, Mojo JoJo, almost everyone with a distinctive voice. Once in a while I can do Christopher Walken, he's difficult - inconsistent or something. Basically I'm a mimic! And I mimic my mother and my brothers and my ex and my ex-MIL and..... hahaha!
The Tweety Bird glass from Arby's is the only one that survived our childhood. Remember Arby's pretty Christmas glasses? We have a full collection of both patterns - one had red hollies, the other was an etched white pattern - snowflakes or something. I wonder where they are...
Brusha-brusha-brusha new Ipana toothpaste
with the brand new flavor |
Native - all right!!! I was actually a tube of Ipana toothpaste in a grade school "skit".
How about the McDonald's Grimace? I still have one of those glasses. Last week when my 44 year old son was here I put out his old "Snoopy" hand towel in his bathroom. It's pretty thread bare but I thought it might be fun. Maybe he noticed but he didn't mention it. Time to get back to the "decluttering" thread.
There's a decluttering thread? I must live under a rock.
Elimar, I see a traveling road show in the works!! We can have our own act with all the imitations we can all do!
Yeah Slow Deep. Called "Not a Horder..." ha ha. At our age we're stuck with stuff still hanging around from our kids and now stuff coming in from our parents. Whew.
I really need to clean out my closets. I can't believe how quickly junk accumulates. My husband hates to throw things away. Getting started is overwhelming!
Ahhh Stuckey's the precursor to 7-11s and AM/PMs. We used to give my father a bad time about Stuckey's because he'd stop whenever he'd see one on a trip. He used the restroom excuse, but he used to love to buy pralines there.
Any sugar addict is well aware of the lure of the Stuckey's Pecan Log.
If you stopped for one of these dee-lish pecan rolls, you best have an insulin syringe on standby in the glove compartment.
My Mother loved those Elimar!
I didn't care for them when I was a kid. I developed a taste pecans later on in life. I was such a picky eater. That sure has changed over the years!
A decluttering
thread?I have GOT to find this!
NativeMainer- when Eli posted a link to this thread last week, I added it to my favorites, and started from the beginning. But I'm only on page 9, and when I saw that you posted this morning, I had to skip ahead and tell you how much I'm enjoying it! Someone has probably already mentioned: hot pink, crushed velvet, hip hugger bell bottoms, with a snug (nylon?) colorful top with colors in a VVVV pattern. AND white pleather go-go boots. AND a suede vest with fringe along the bottom. I thought I died and went to heaven that Christmas...
staynsane, Sounds groovy!
A Star Is Born - This was my first ADULT movie in a movie theater.
Adult, as in R-rated? I am not sure what the first one would have been. I saw the original Michael Caine version of Alfie and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Those are both 1966. I know I saw MIdnight Cowboy a few years later, which was X-rated.
