Vintage neon signs

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One of my first jobs as a package/stock boy when I was
in high school:
PIGGLY WIGGLY

 

[Trenchfriend]

@2jakes
Nice storefronts!

 

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[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Fading Fast]

Rum Punch, Dark and Stormy, Mai Tai, Caipirinha - I don't know what to try first...

 

[2jakes]

Follow-up on my previous Vogue neon sign posted!

EMERSON'S BROMO SELTZER

Emerson Drugs' Bromo-Seltzer was a prolific sponsor of Radio throughout the Golden Age.

 

[2jakes]

Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower - Baltimore, Maryland

This historic structure, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was modeled after the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was completed in 1911 and has been a Baltimore landmark ever since. The tower was designed by Joseph Evans Sperry and built by Captain Isaac Emerson, the inventor of Bromo-Seltzer. The tower was originally topped with a 51-foot revolving replica of the blue Bromo-Seltzer bottle, which was illuminated by 596 lights and could be seen from 20 miles away. The four clock faces are all still working; however, the bottle had to be removed in 1936 due to structural concerns.

Vick's and Milk of Magnesia were about the only blue bottles I remember as a kid.

Came in glass bottles, not the plastic crap they put out today,
although the ingredients seem to be the same, but don't quote
me on this!

 

[3fingers]

Rob

I don't really want to think about how I can remember street scenes like this with a little newer cars parked along the curb. It doesn't seem like that long ago.

 

[2jakes]

I don't really want to think about how I can remember street scenes like this with a little newer cars parked along the curb. It doesn't seem like that long ago.

Somethings are forever etched :

This was Houston street downtown in the '50s.
Majectic movie theater where my buddies and I saw "Davy Crockett"
premier with Fess Parker & Buddy Ebsen in person in '55.
A couple of blocks from here is the Alamo and Fess Parker looked nuthin'
like the real "David Crockett".
In '63, played hooky from school to see President Kennedy &
pretty wife, Jackie.
The motorcade passed the Majestic theater turned left on St. Mary’s
street to dedicate a new school (JFK High School) somewhere
on the Southside.
Next to Burt's Shoe Dept.on the left side was Walgreens.
Best chocolate malts ever for 75¢.

This was before shopping malls existed, gas was cheap and all those
cars I see on the photo were so common back then,
I hardly paid attention.
I see one now and I will stop and stare.... remembering when I drove
one and was "affordable"!

 

[2jakes]

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Subliminal messages!

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Not necessarily politically correct in today's time, but it is what it was.

Rob

 

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[2jakes]

"It is...what it is.”

 

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"It is...what it is.”

Growing up, I'd get a "good" shirt a year to wear with a tie (mainly for funerals, weddings and other such occasions) and, more often than not, it would be an Arrow Shirt (Arrow's "Dover" model was the one with the button-down collar which, as a kid, even though I had no idea of its history, I liked since it was, to me, a fun gimmick).

 

[2jakes]

Growing up, I'd get a "good" shirt a year to wear with a tie (mainly for funerals, weddings and other such occasions) and, more often than not, it would be an Arrow Shirt (Arrow's "Dover" model was the one with the button-down collar which, as a kid, even though I had no idea of its history, I liked since it was, to me, a fun gimmick).

It was in the '70s working for big retail department store in the Camera
Dept.
Arrow Shirt was promoting this style shirt and colors from a bygone era.

Around payday, I would buy a couple of these pinstripe beauties.
Made possible courtesy of the store who allowed 15% regular employee discount plus 25% if the apparel was for work.

It was around this time, I also purchased the Parker Big Red pens (ball-point) which was actually an unique red/orange hue.

Soon after a friend made me aware of the genuine 1920s Parker Duofold fountain pens.
I have the Senior & mechanical pencil that work great although I don’t
write as much letters as in the past.

 

[Frunobulax]

It was in the '70s working for big retail department store in the Camera
Dept.
Arrow Shirt was promoting this style shirt and colors from a bygone era.
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Around payday, I would buy a couple of these pinstripe beauties.
Made possible courtesy of the store who allowed 15% regular employee discount plus 25% if the apparel was for work.
It was around this time, I also purchased the Parker Big Red pens,
which was actually an unique red/orange hue.
This was a ball-point pen.
Soon after a friend made me aware of the genuine 1920s Parker
Duofold fountain pens. I have the Senior & mechanical pencil
that work great although I don't write as much letters as in the past.

Well, we have something in common, then. I did a couple years in a big retail department store's camera department, as well.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[2jakes]

Well, we have something in common, then. I did a couple years in a big retail department store's camera department, as well.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

Kodak Instamatic cartridge cameras & Polaroid cameras with
"instant fotos " were our best sellers around Christmas time.

If ever you spot a faded pinkish muted color image in the
Vintage Gas Stations section, most likely was taken with
a Polaroid camera.

 

[Haversack]

This is the view looking north on Willamette Street in Eugene, Oregon in 1962-63. That's Skinner's Butte in the background. There is a reverse view from the top of the butte looking south, (supposedly of the same era), in the movie, Animal House.

 

[Haversack]

I've a bit of a family connection to Arrow shirts and collars. Frederick F. Peabody was the president of Cluett Peabody the company that made and sold Arrow products. He retired to Santa Barbara in 1919. My grandfather was Mr. Peabody's valet.