Vintage shots from days gone by!

Graphic THANKS to squidoo.com!



Ron ("RonCo") Popiel must have sold a gazillion of these iconic
gadgets after they hit the TV screen starting back in the '70s !!!
Chuck of ChucksTackleBox.com states they were pretty well made.
He collects vintage fishing tackle. And as crazy as a lot of RonCo's
stuff might have seemed, people chuckled THEN sent in their
money to see if the goods could deliver as promised. (Maybe
Preston Tucker should have had a Ron P. for a pitch man back
in the late-'40s???)

These '70s images are at Chuck's site; THANKS, Chuck! Other
MEMORABLE RonCo stuff we saw on the tube included such
things as the Veg-O-Matic and the Popiel Donut maker! Yowza!

​

 

SNL Aykroyd retrospective THANKS to roadmonster!!!

 

True testimonial! *

"Yep! Took my lunch hour out of the office and strolled
down to the river. Wore this baby out with my handy
Popiel Pocket Fisherman and was back in the office in
time to land a big new contract! THANKS, RonCo!"



[* -- Nudge, nudge. It's a joke! BTW, I hope this doesn't put me
over-limit on dead animal pix again. Sheesh, ya show a dead
croc, alligator, Thylacine, great white shark, Bengal tiger ... show
a couple of dead horses, and you're suddenly Benito Musolini! ]

 

Photo THANKS to antifascistencyclodedia



Photo THANKS to transterrestrial



Ricky Mussolini, Benito's grandson, as portrayed by John Belushi
in the very first skit introducing "Saturday Night Live," 1975.
Photo a THANKS to hotoffpress.wordpress!

 

Okay, okay, I want to add my name to the petition to make
Mazooma self-appointed policemen for this thread! Uh, wait
a minute ...

"See here now! You don't ELECT a king !"



(BTW, 'Zooma how'd somebody get your baby picture?
Glad it was you, not me. I'm on a bearskin rug! Boy!
Would I be em-bare-as'ed!)

 

Jimi'Shemi, the reason for 10-2-4 was that is when you needed a little boost of energy, at 10:00, 2:00 and 4:00. Coke had codiene, not cocaine. How about Moxie?

 

Thanks! That's funny and informative at the same time. Hm, 10-2-4!

Codiene? I thought that came along later (?). Moxie? Maybe we'll need to do osme research, you and I. Part of the fun AND the WORK on this thread.

 

Don't normally use the term, but THIS pic is precious!

 

At one point in time, albeit, a long time ago, Coca Cola did contain cocaine.
quote from Wikipedia:
"Use of stimulants in formula

When launched Coca-Cola's two key ingredients were cocaine (benzoylmethyl ecgonine) and caffeine. The cocaine was derived from the coca leaf and the caffeine from kola nut, leading to the name Coca-Cola (the "K" in Kola was replaced with a "C" for marketing purposes).[28][29]
Coca — cocaine
Pemberton called for five ounces of coca leaf per gallon of syrup, a significant dose; in 1891, Candler claimed his formula (altered extensively from Pemberton's original) contained only a tenth of this amount. Coca-Cola did once contain an estimated nine milligrams of cocaine per glass, but in 1903 it was removed.[30] Coca-Cola still contains coca flavoring.
After 1904, instead of using fresh leaves, Coca-Cola started using "spent" leaves — the leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process with cocaine trace levels left over at a molecular level.[31] To this day, Coca-Cola uses as an ingredient a cocaine-free coca leaf extract prepared at a Stepan Company plant in Maywood, New Jersey.
In the United States, Stepan Company is the only manufacturing plant authorized by the Federal Government to import and process the coca plant,[32] which it obtains mainly from Peru and, to a lesser extent, Bolivia. Besides producing the coca flavoring agent for Coca-Cola, Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it sells to Mallinckrodt, a St. Louis, Missouri pharmaceutical manufacturer that is the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use.[33]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola

 

And another! Ya let the kids have the keys, and -- whammo! -- it always starts!​

 

I think this kid had some "spent" Kola nut in his last bottle!

 

The NOT-so-perfect day!​

 

Sweet pic!

 

You have to love the expresssions on these folks' faces!

 

BTW, was that a Jewett?

 

Yeah thats funny, and hella cute