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Dave Mellor NJ

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I'd walk a mile for a Camel. Who remembers Ipana toothpaste?

Brusha brusha with the new Ipana,
Bush your cares away.

So why can my mind remember things from 60 years ago but has a hard time remembering why I walked into a room.
 
Hello, I see they have a couple of clock face gas pumps, along with computer face type, that automatically calculate price on amount of gallons.Photo probably from early 1940,s ?Interesting anyway.
 
I have seen some photos from back in the day that say Kendal the 500 mile motor oil. That always makes me think how far we have came.
 
Hello again, I think later Kendall improved , and became the 2000 mile oil change, had two fingers image on much of advertisement and roadmaps, might have been early post war era ?Kendell refinery still in operation,as Penn Brad oil .
 
Gene F said:
I have seen some photos from back in the day that say Kendal the 500 mile motor oil. That always makes me think how far we have came.
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We talked to a Ford powertrain engineer one time about 7,500 mile oil changes. He said it's what the buyers wanted and he still recommended changing oil and filter at 3,000. This was about the time synthetics were hitting the market in earnest.
 
My point is that times change. Certainly formulas have changed.

Any one recall ever going into a pharmacy with a working soda fountain?

Didn't Harlan Sanders have his first Kentucky Fried Chicken in a gas station?
 
Yep, remember working soda fountains.....in independently owned drug stores in south Alabama and east Tennessee years ago.

Before CVS became the dominant pharmacy in the USA.
 
I used to take the vacuum tubes (valves in the UK) to the drug store to use their big red tube tester. It had rows of sockets of varied pin configuration, including one with an umbilical to attach to the top of a particular type. You’d let the tube warm up and glow orange, then push the TEST button and the big potentiometer needle would swing to green for Good, yellow for Weak, or red for Replace. The druggist would open the front of the machine with a key to reveal shelves of RCA, GE, and Westinghouse tubes (I think) in printed cardboard boxes. My parent’s blond wood Emerson console only needed a tube or two replaced once in its lifetime. I knew it was time to test them because the volume faded to nothing after it played just a moment or two of the radio or a record.
They also had a soda fountain, staffed by the pharmacist’s wife. I once went in with apple-cheeked Carol Sobelsohn from fifth grade and ordered a lime rickey (soda water with bright green lime syrup). Just one. I wasn’t made of money. I requested “two straws, and no comments”. I was a precocious and obnoxious, quite the combination.
 
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