Do You Have A Cold Adult Beverage While Operating The Tractor?

[Bird]

I think, instead of Geritol and Vitameatavegamin, I'd rather have Hadacol. In 1951 or 1952, I got to see my one and only live "medicine show" when a couple of clowns with a wagon came to Healdton, OK, put on their medicince show and were selling Hadacol. And after they left town, I noticed bottles of Hadacol in the window of the local drugstore. I don't know how long they sold it.

 

[Egon]

Moss; whatever will give a decrepit older body the best advantage!

 

[tallyho8]

I think, instead of Geritol and Vitameatavegamin, I'd rather have Hadacol. In 1951 or 1952, I got to see my one and only live "medicine show" when a couple of clowns with a wagon came to Healdton, OK, put on their medicince show and were selling Hadacol. And after they left town, I noticed bottles of Hadacol in the window of the local drugstore. I don't know how long they sold it.

Your link to Hadacol is very interesting. Dudley LeBlanc was the P T Barnum of Louisiana in that time period and was so popular that I believe my parents named me after him. It was amazing that he could hire every one of America's top entertainers to promote his product. His was the last of the famous "medicine shows" and they drew upwards of 10,000 people at a time that practically no indoor venue could even hold so large of a crowd.

There were many dry counties at that time where alcohol use was officially frowned upon but unofficially a part of normal everyday life and tonics such as Hadacol provided the populace an approved method of imbibing. I'm sure that many farmers of that time period consumed his product and this may have even provided the incentive for manufacturers to put rops on tractors.

 

[Bird]

There were many dry counties at that time where alcohol use was officially frowned upon but unofficially a part of normal everyday life

And it wasn't just counties; the whole state of Oklahoma was dry back then, except for 3.2% beer. But of course, any 10 year old or older person could tell you where the bootleggers were.

 

[scott_vt]

I'm sure that many farmers of that time period consumed his product and this may have even provided the incentive for manufacturers to put rops on tractors.

Good Afternoon Dudley,
I think thats a stretch, but humorous just the same !

 

[MossRoad]

Quote from the article you linked to:

"Hadacol was a patent medicine marketed as a vitamin supplement. Its principal attraction, however, was that it contained 12 percent alcohol (listed on the tonic bottle's label as a "preservative"), which made it quite popular in the dry counties of the southern United States."

12%!!!

 

[Bird]

Quote from the article you linked to:

"Hadacol was a patent medicine marketed as a vitamin supplement. Its principal attraction, however, was that it contained 12 percent alcohol (listed on the tonic bottle's label as a "preservative"), which made it quite popular in the dry counties of the southern United States."

12%!!!

Yep, just about the same as a good wine.

 

[tugboat-2]

Hadacol eh?...Hmmmn,..nope, can't say I recall it up here. Maybe it never made it past the border,...but on the other hand, I likely missed a lot of the good stuff which provokes me to ask: Bird,..did you really mean "good" wine?
CHEERS,
. . tug PSpraps my briefest post?) Sorry

 

[Bird]

Bird,..did you really mean "good" wine?

Of course, I did. Although the old cheap wine that I like is Carlo Rossi Sangria (yep, unlike many, if not most, men, I like it a little sweet) and it's only 10%. But when I started in law enforcement, the wine of choice of the homeless "winos" was Thunderbird, a white wine, and then later MD20-20, a red wine, became the wine of choice. Now I haven't seen either one in over 20 years, but I guess they're still 20%, just as they used to be. I've never tasted Mad Dog 20-20, but some 35 years ago, I did try Thunderbird once. I think I'd prefer kerosene.

I'm like Justin Wilson, the Cajun. You know on his cooking shows, he said the right wine is the one you like.

 

[tugboat-2]

Ah, yes ! Carlo Rossi, MMmmm. Use to cruise across Texas to visit MIL in Tucson every winter. Couldn't wait to grab a big jug of Carlo and was always amazed at the price, I think 6 or 8 bucks. We get it up here "now" at 4 times the price.

I always get laughed at when I pull out my favourite Canadian wine, because it comes in a cardboard box,....and it's cheap. But as you say, its whatever you like that is the "right one" for you. And yes,.. I've had the opportunity to taste some "very, very expensive wines and personally, I wouldn't thank you for them.

Well, er,..ah,..not true,..I certainly would say "thanks", but only to be polite. I think it depends on what you get a taste for as you get used to something and I got used to the cheap stuff, thank you very much. That may have a direct relationship to the size of the police dept pay cheques back in those days too, ha, ha!

How is your tomato crop doing Bird? (Tomatos v/s Mockingbirds?)
CHEERS,
. . tug
PS: sorry I thought you meant Hadacol was similar to good wine.