Golden oldies. Remember these?

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Aunt Marg said:
If anyone knows what this was used for, please weigh-in.

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Turpentine oil is applied to the skin for joint pain, muscle pain, nerve pain, and toothaches. People sometimes breathe in (inhale) the vapors of turpentine oil to reduce the chest congestion that goes along with some lung diseases. In foods and beverages, distilled turpentine oil is used as a flavoring.
 
Pappy said:
Turpentine oil is applied to the skin for joint pain, muscle pain, nerve pain, and toothaches. People sometimes breathe in (inhale) the vapors of turpentine oil to reduce the chest congestion that goes along with some lung diseases. In foods and beverages, distilled turpentine oil is used as a flavoring.
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Thanks, Paps!

Boy, I can only imagine the smell. Clothes, bedding, furnishings... all smelling of turpentine.
 
win231 said:
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Neighbours had one of these and for once a commercial actually got it right, no false advertising on it!

What you see is what you got with the Water Wiggle.

Was such a great way to cool down and have a little fun when it was just so stifling hot out that we didn't feel like making the walk to the beach.

Thanks for the memories!
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
I remember Glass Wax. It was some type of liquid glass cleaner. You smeared it on the windows, let it dry and wiped it off. The problem was you ended up with all the white dust that got all over everything.

They really hit the jack pot when they offered Christmas stencils. I think you had to send for them. You put the stencil on the window and dabbed it with the Glass Wax which would make a white design on the window.

The beauty of it all was that all you had to do after the holidays was wipe it off and you ended up with sparkling clean windows, so they said.
I pestered my mom to let me have the stencils.

I remember stenciling snowflakes on every window of our house. Mom must have spent hours cleaning up the mess.

We also did it on our school windows as well. The poor janitor had to clean the windows..
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Your post brought back a lot of great old memories for me, Ruth!

The stenciling I remember, even though we never had it in our home or at school, but whenever a holiday was in the midst, out would come the heavy craft paper (in school) and we'd make Christmas ornaments, Chinese Lanterns, snowflakes, Santa cutouts, colourful leaves in the early fall to make the start of autumn, and the list went on, and whatever could be applied to the class windows was.

Looking back on it now I seem to remember few school days going by where classroom windows weren't plastered with something or another! LOL!

Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
 
Pappy said:
Had these too.

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Baby brother had an Erector set, nothing junk about it. Solid brass and steel pieces, nuts, bolts, fasteners, a little wrench and screwdriver... he used to tinker with his for hours at a time.

Toys like the Erector set lasted for a lifetime and where then (or could be) passed down from generation to generation, and kids required no batteries to enjoy it.
 
Info about the above Cooker

Adelect cooker. No1. Manufactured for Adelect by Simpsons
The Adelaide Electric Supply Company increased the use of electricity with a the campaign which included demonstrating electrical appliances. In 1934 the charges for electricity used by domestic applicances was decreased. Another incentive was the Adelect stove which was manufactured in Adelaide and was not purchased but hired by the customers.​

 
Kadee46 said:
Info about the above Cooker

Adelect cooker. No1. Manufactured for Adelect by Simpsons​

The Adelaide Electric Supply Company increased the use of electricity with a the campaign which included demonstrating electrical appliances. In 1934 the charges for electricity used by domestic applicances was decreased. Another incentive was the Adelect stove which was manufactured in Adelaide and was not purchased but hired by the customers.​

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Lovely tidbit of history, Kadee!
 
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