Tan Don't Burn, use Coppertone...

[rogerballard]

Don't be a Paleface...

[TexasBushwhacker]

1. Jodie Foster was in one of the original Coppertone commercials

Modern EFFECTIVE sunscreens didn't come out until around 1980. I got plenty of burns as a kid and teen.

[rogerballard]

3. I like Jodie Foster...

My sisters were fair haired and freckled, I was dark haired and more brown and prone to tan. I lived in Colorado for almost 20 years, sun shine in abundance, did not have to lay out in the sun. Sunscreen and sunglasses are a must in Colorado.

[panader0]

2. When i was a senior in HS in Honolulu in '68

my secret heart throb was a fellow senior girl who made a Coppertone ad.
She had bucks after that.

[OriginalGeek]

4. we saw something just last night that mentioned

using baby oil instead of sunblock back in the old days. My wife (Native Floridian) said "Yeah we did that and we also mixed it with iodine."

But neither of us could figure out why - she said she didn't notice it did anything different and she gave it up early in her teens as she decided she didn't like outside all that much anyway lol.

We are both native Floridians but she has lived here all her life while I was in Texas for most of my youth. We are both as pale as goths but without the black lipstick. We don't have tan lines either because we are all-over chalkies.

[a kennedy]

5. My sister used baby oil to tan, she died of melanoma cancer on May 21, 2010

One of my 4 brothers was covered in moles, he would get very tan in the summer, he never used baby oil, but he died of melanoma cancer on December 23, 1980. Don’t know why I even mention this, I guess when I saw the baby oil use all I could think of was melanoma cancer. Sorry.

[cwydro]

6. My mother was a pale Welsh woman who baked in the sun every chance she got.

Then lived most of her life in NC playing tennis and going to the beach. As I have also.

She got melanoma in her fifties, but lived to 90.

So far for me - I’ve had a basal cell carcinoma removed. I grew up in NC, tennis, beach, etc. Then lived in Key West for 23 years.

I’m a lot more careful now.

[a kennedy]

7. So happy for your mother.......usually dont survive melanoma......

and here’s to continuing good news about your skin.

[cwydro]

8. Yes, she was a tough one.

Didn’t even tell us about it until I became suspicious lol.

I’m wearing hats and long sleeves now!

[OriginalGeek]

9. All it took for me was one bad sunburn

I was maybe 12 or 13 on our annual vacation in FL (all my grandparents lived here) and went out every day at the beach like I was invincible. I burned bad enough on my back and legs that I couldn't move for several days and I have hated sun ever since. Well, unprotected sun.

I've lived back here for almost 35 years and been to the beach maybe 5 times. When I do go to the beach I use the highest reef-safe SPF I can find and, like I try to do everything, use it liberally. I love looking at and being around the beach but I just remember that burn so vividly I don't want to risk anything even remotely close again.

We went to Key West in July for our 31st anniversary - had a blast, didn't get burned.

[cwydro]

10. Its a wonderful place; you wouldnt believe the burns I saw on tourists there!

I suffered burns like yours as a child too, but I was apparently too stupid to learn until much older lol.

[OriginalGeek]

12. ha, I used to work in a liquor store here in Orlando

I always knew the Canadians because
a) They asked for cigarettes 200 at a time*
b) they were lobster red and seemed to be in terrible pain.


*My boss laughed out loud at me the first time a Canadian tourist asked me for 200 Marlboro and I was like "you want 200 packs?!?"

[cwydro]

13. Lol! I lived in Orlando before Key West.

Worked for the Mouse.

I loved working there, but hated being so far from the ocean lol. Big scuba diver in those days, so every weekend was a trip to somewhere else in Florida.

[OriginalGeek]

11. Very sorry about your family

I don't think my wife was even thinking of that back then but now she's glad she decided to stay away from sun.

I used to work for a guy from Chicago and he'd go at least once a week to tanning salons. I never could figure that out - paying for fake sun when you live in Florida. He was very tan but I wonder how that is doing for him now. Haven't heard from him in 17 years since he moved to Maine for work.