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I am a member of a car club in Falmouth, MA and these ads were recently posted to add some humor to our lives. Take a look at these ingenious solutions that were being advertised way back when.
The DDT one is great. I remember in 1970 when I met my wife in Hawaii for R&R and when I came home from Viet Nam. They actually went through the cabin spraying DDT before we landed. Hard to believe. This was on Pan Am and American chartered flights.
Wow, I can't believe that Popular Science would recommend pouring oil in the ground in 1963! I remember doing it in about 1972 and being scolded by my Dad and others not to do that!! Which I never did since. Course in some ways I have always wondered.... where does oil come from anyway? The earth! Anyone else have some more of these old magazine articles? Sure are fun to look at....
Oil on a gravel road is very similar to asphalt. Many times, a tree that has been chopped down is not dead, and to kill it, you pour stuff on the stump, like oil, or concentrated round up
So here's an environmentally friendlier use: my brother-in-law had an oil burning heater and he would go around to the families collecting used motor oil to power his heater.
My thoughts exactly!!I I will say i got a hell of a laugh from your comment
Oh come on. A hammock would have been comfortable. How many of us, as kids, used to sleep on the ledge under the rear window? Not too bad at night, but it could get a tad warm in the sun. We used to do that allot in my Dad's car. In my Mom's station wagon, we three kid's fought over sleeping positions during the long trips. The loser got to sleep on the floor. Whoever came in 2nd got the seat, and the winner got to sprawl out on the luggage in the back.
Here is a couple of more ads - another one for DDT
never seen one like that,until today. went over to a friend of mine and went into his toy room, he has one setting in the corner,very good cond,very cool piece
Oh come on. A hammock would have been comfortable. How many of us, as kids, used to sleep on the ledge under the rear window? Not too bad at night, but it could get a tad warm in the sun. We used to do that allot in my Dad's car. In my Mom's station wagon, we three kid's fought over sleeping positions during the long trips. The loser got to sleep on the floor. Whoever came in 2nd got the seat, and the winner got to sprawl out on the luggage in the back.
Not only that, but the hammock would have been ultra safe swinging to the G-forces of just about any accident forming a cushioned cocoon around them, as the fibers stretched. No popped off the body heads with those. But then again we grew up without them, or seat belts, and survived very well
Not only that, but the hammock would have been ultra safe swinging to the G-forces of just about any accident forming a cushioned cocoon around them, as the fibers stretched. No popped off the body heads with those. But then again we grew up without them, or seat belts, and survived very well
That begs the question - would MORE have survived with more hammocks or seat belts? It's only obvious to the survivors that some didn't make it that may have otherwise.
These are pretty cool old ads. I do recall those pump cans of bug spray. When I was a kid back in the 1960s we would visit my grandmother in Arkansas and she had a couple of those old canister sprayers around. She used them for misting her flowers with water.
Growing up, we lived in the country. Lots of flying bugs. At night, before bedtime, mom would spray the whole house with Gulfspray insect killer. Stunk up everything. We would cover our heads to sleep.
