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by Vic Jefferies » Mon May 16, 2011 3:46 pm
Ah, Garrick cigarettes! What about, Ardath, Craven A, Turf, Kensitas, Players, Three Threes, Red Rothmans, Black and White (my first smoke) Spud, Lexington, Blue, Red, Green and Brown Capstans, Old Chums, Phillip Morris, Kool etc..........?
What about lollies on a string that turned into buzz saws, columbines, MacRobertson chocolates, Sherberts in paper bags with hollow liquorice straws to suck it up (that never worked) Ju JU Jubes, Choo Choo Bars, Rainbow Balls, Marchants and Lloys soft drinks, Snow Cap Champagne and Horehound Root Beer?
How about kerosene Fireside heaters, their predecessors the tall, black, thin kero heaters, Primus metho stoves, kerosene shower heaters, Kosi stoves that were built to burn coke, gas lights in houses in the days of the power blackouts?
What about when the roads were full of Chryslers, Oldsmobiles, Buicks, Fords of all shapes and sizes: Customlines, Pilots,Prefects, A and T models, Packards, Hupmobiles, Chevrolets, Oaklands, Whippets, Austins, Wolselys, Standards, Vanguards, Hudsons, Singers, Hillmans, Rileys, Studebakers, Armstrong Sidelys, Dodge, De Sotos, and who can forget the ugly Mayflower?