qnr
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Sep-07-07 12:58 AM
Original message |
OK, maybe I'm imagining it, but didn't "Top Job" used to be a big brand name? |
|
Along with Spic N' Span and whatnot? Saw some in a dollar store today, haven't heard an advertisement Top Job in years (assuming that I'm not just imagining remembering the frequent ads years ago).
|
Gormy Cuss
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Sep-07-07 01:02 AM
Response to Original message |
1. You're not imagining it. |
|
"Top Job" was one of the brands my mother used years ago.
|
qnr
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Sep-07-07 01:04 AM
Response to Reply #1 |
3. Ah, ok, thanks. Me, I still remember getting the plates and glasses in Duz |
|
Edited on Fri Sep-07-07 01:04 AM by qnr
detergent... never see that around anywhere.
|
Gormy Cuss
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Sep-07-07 01:13 AM
Response to Reply #3 |
4. Duz! Was there any other way to get drinking glasses? |
|
That was another of her favorite brands.
|
qnr
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Sep-07-07 01:16 AM
Response to Reply #4 |
5. Well, Welches Jams and Jellies, but those were the only two sources |
|
Edited on Fri Sep-07-07 01:16 AM by qnr
of drinking glasses in the world, I believe.
|
qdemn7
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Sep-07-07 01:46 AM
Response to Reply #5 |
6. Wrong.... there were 3 sources! |
|
Back before the 1st Arab oil embargo in 1972, gasoline was extremely cheap, less than $0.35 a gallon. Down in Texas, service stations fought for your business by offering free dishes, glasses, cups and flatware with a minimum 8 gallon purchase. When I was a kid, all our stuff like that came from gas station.
|
qnr
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Sep-07-07 01:47 AM
Response to Reply #6 |
7. True, and you couldn't get free car washes from Duz and Welches |
|
Edited on Fri Sep-07-07 01:50 AM by qnr
Edit: Well, I guess you could put some Duz and water into the Welches glass & throw it on your car a few hundred times....
...and how about those Red Rose animals.. they sure seem a lot cheaper these days.
|
LibertyLover
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Sep-07-07 10:06 AM
Response to Reply #6 |
9. That brought back a memory - |
|
in 1969, my mom, a glutton for punishment, took me and a friend, both 16, out to California from New Jersey. For 7 weeks she drove across country in our station wagon with camping gear, clothes and enough makeup between my friend and I to stock a medium sized pharmacy beauty counter. We had a blast visiting DisneyLand, national parks, presidents' libraries and all sorts of tourist traps in between NJ and CA and back. But, one of the things I remember most vividly was when we were coming home and driving through Texas. One of the gas stations was featuring a very nice stonewear dish set. Mom liked it so much that she bought gas and 2 sets of the dishes, plus two of the extra packages with serving dishes, butter dish, salt and pepper shakers and platters. Mom died in 2000 and I still have one of the butter dishes from that set that I use occasionally in her honor.
|
qdemn7
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Sep-07-07 10:14 AM
Response to Reply #9 |
|
That was a very nice story!
|
skygazer
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Sep-07-07 10:16 AM
Response to Reply #3 |
11. Somebody put towels in their detergent |
|
Can't remember which one it was now but my mom got a whole set of towels that way.
You used to get good stuff in cereal boxes, too. x(
|
Gormy Cuss
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Sep-07-07 10:20 AM
Response to Reply #11 |
12. Duz did that at one point. |
|
:hi: and I think there was another brand. How about those Cracker Jacks prizes too?
I still enjoy finding the Red Rose tea critters in each box.
|
qnr
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Sep-07-07 01:03 AM
Response to Original message |
|
Edited on Fri Sep-07-07 01:04 AM by qnr
|
Z_I_Peevey
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Sep-07-07 09:28 AM
Response to Original message |
8. Maybe I'm imagining this, |
|
but a jingle popped in my head the minute I saw your post: "Top Job, Top Job, Cleans floors like ammonia cleans glass!".
Or was that some other brand, and I'm having a senior moment?
|
qnr
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Fri Sep-07-07 10:41 AM
Response to Reply #8 |
13. I don't remember the jingle. Although, it occurred to me last night, while |
|
I was thinkng about the subject generally, that a cleanser commercial is the very first one I remember:
Ajax "Stronger Than Dirt!" - with a white knight or something like that.
|
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Fri Apr 26th 2024, 01:40 PM
Response to Original message |