@choatieMom I’m amazed you had chisels back then. ?
We used mastodon bones.
Lark cigarettes - “Have a Lark, have a Lark, have a Lark today!”
The melody was familiar and they made a great commercial play on it.
The Lark spokesman began singing it. The Lone Ranger entered and tapped him on the shoulder - “That’s my song.” Then William Tell tapped the Lone Ranger on the shoulder, “Excuse me? WHOSE song?” (It was Rossini’s “William Tell Overture.”)
Wow, reading these exchange numbers made my great grandmother’s phone number just pop onto my head.
If I actually needed it, I would have no clue, but reading brought it back via muscle memory, I guess.
Oliver 0-1623. Some things you never forget. And how about a party line?
In the old Honeymooners episodes, Ralph gives his phone number and it starts with Bensonhurst (BE)
I grew up in Bensonhurst and had a BE number (23). The two other exchanges people had were Dewey (DE - 33) and Cloverdale (CL - 25).
BEnsonhurst 3-7741. But because that was someone’s actual phone number, years later the 3 was dubbed in as a zero. I guess it’s a game as old as time for people to call up fictional phone numbers.
The Ricardos’ phone number on I Love Lucy was MUrray Hill 5-9975 which was probably unrealistic since they lived on the Upper East Side.
Anyway, I guess that’s why I thought phone numbers were all-numeric by the 60’s. I’ll never get selected for Jeopardy now. ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names#Standardization show a list of common exchange names. Note that one of the three names that mapped to 49 is an ethnic designation that is sometimes seen as insulting, although it is possible that many Americans then did not even know that it referred to an ethnic group.
Seems like lots of phone numbers used in television shows had the 555 prefix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)
“Everybody doesn’t like something, but nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee”
Mama keeps yellow dandy like dandelion,
Mama keeps white bright like the sunshine.
Mama keeps blue twinkling like your eyes do,
Mama’s got the magic of Clorox-2!
With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good!
Lemon Pledge as you’re dusting brings new luster to your wood!
I was sorry to see this today. Not sure if it was regional or not.
That commercial must have been very effective. My H grew up outside of Boston and his family always had spaghetti on Wednesday nights.
“Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti day.”
I actually met Anthony last year shortly before I graduated. Super nice guy. RIP Anthony.