Good Ole Days
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Industrial Toys
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That's a big word I have never heard of. Esplain and maybe I can work it into my writings?
I was watching 50s car ads. It's amazing how the key was "NEW" this and "NEW" that. NEW for 56!
With Electrosonic styling! Or some such thing.
And, no little thing, the theme was often what your neighbors would think or say! Commercials often show them looking on in Envy.
Very sad!
I was watching 50s car ads. It's amazing how the key was "NEW" this and "NEW" that. NEW for 56!
With Electrosonic styling! Or some such thing.
And, no little thing, the theme was often what your neighbors would think or say! Commercials often show them looking on in Envy.
Very sad!
dieselcrawler
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Wow... dig a hole, fill with gravel, dump in used motor oil, repete. Sage advice from 1963...
bunyip
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And the buzzword for the 1970's was buzzword.....
Industrial Toys
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It was a common practice for heavy equipment working out in the wilderness to just drop their oil where ever. Ontario hydro apparently did it all the time. Some would argue, that's where oil comes from. Another friend asks, where do you think all your tubes of grease go?
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I can remember as a young kid growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania, every summer the county would come by with a tanker truck of old used oil that they would spray on the dirt roads to keep the dust down.
Times have changed though...recently I came across some Kodachrome slides I took back in the 70s. I had come across an old miner's cabin out in central Nevada; the walls of the cabin were lined with faded and yellowed newspapers from 1906 - 1908 to keep the wind from coming through the cracks in the walls. Fascinating stuff to me so I photographed some of what was on the walls:
How about lunch and a beer for 15 cents in Reno?
The ad from a Reno drug store. Anyone care for a dose of "Sulphur and Cream of Tartar"? Only 6 cents!
Or a tailored suit, latest in fashion for the lady of the house, only $14.75?
The fashions changed for sure...but prices have REALLY changed!
Times have changed though...recently I came across some Kodachrome slides I took back in the 70s. I had come across an old miner's cabin out in central Nevada; the walls of the cabin were lined with faded and yellowed newspapers from 1906 - 1908 to keep the wind from coming through the cracks in the walls. Fascinating stuff to me so I photographed some of what was on the walls:
How about lunch and a beer for 15 cents in Reno?
The ad from a Reno drug store. Anyone care for a dose of "Sulphur and Cream of Tartar"? Only 6 cents!
Or a tailored suit, latest in fashion for the lady of the house, only $14.75?
The fashions changed for sure...but prices have REALLY changed!
oosik
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I remember the cigarette ads on TV. A very young Ronald Regan advertising the health benefits of smoking. And the Lucky Strike, Hit Parade. OR - The 1896 Yukon Daily News - Sunday edition - "look your best, hair cut and a shave - 15 cents at Jim's barber shop".- - Yukon Territory, Canada.
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According to the inflation calculator I used $15 in 1908 was equal to $415 in 2017.
2LaneCruzer
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I got involved in environmental compliance early on; the new laws required surveys of what was disposed of and where. All branches of the company had places where they dumped used oil, and it was on a regular basis. They began to save it later and burn it in their diesel engines...don't know how that turned out. Our lab took a backhoe, dug a pit, and our used, out of date chemicals and other non-flushables were simply dumped into this pit for years. They later reclaimed this waste; "hazardous" wasn't the word for it. Neighbors were understandably concerned.
Waste disposal was in a much different mind set than it is now; effluent was dumped into a pond or a river, and as long as it didn't poison the neighbors or their livestock, it was somewhat ignored. Engineers were by and large conscious of the dangers, and tried to design ways to keep most of it out of the environment, but their word was not always the deciding factor. After monitoring wells were required, ground water users often got a big surprise.
In any case, environmentally I have seen this country make improvements that are almost unimaginable; not without a cost, but with a tremendous benefit. It seems no one, the public especially, realized early on what damage was being done...until people began to die at night from air pollution excursions; lakes and rivers caught on fire, and asbestos, radon and Mercury began to kill people.
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Of course it's been many years ago, (more than 40 years anyway) when I used to change oil in my car and pour a very thin stream of the used oil along my chain link fence to kill the grass directly under the fence. And of course it was in town and certainly no secret, and no objections.
