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The Good Old Times
- Thread starter Jimi
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Did you know Elmer’s glue was first introduced by the Borden Company in 1947. It was created by a team of chemists headed by Ashton Stull, the VP of the company’s chemical division from 1938 – 1968. The Borden Company was originally a dairy business, one of the prime ingredients in this early form of glue was casein, the protein in dairy milk. Borden called their original product Cascorez Glue. Consumers liked the white glue for its ability to spread easily, dry clear, and be washed off school desks and hands. The company had been using Elsie the Cow on their milk products for many years, and she had an established husband named Elmer the Bull. In advertising campaigns, Elmer was frequently fixing things for Elsie, so the company realized he was a perfect fit as the mascot for their glue. By 1951, the company had repackaged the former Cascorez Glue in a white squeeze bottle with an orange twist cap and renamed it Elmer’s Glue-Al. The new logo featured Elmer’s face and name prominently. Today, the product is known simply as Elmer’s Glue and is now made with non-animal products. And while the product line has been expanded to include many specialty glues, the familiar white squeeze bottle with the orange cap and Elmer’s face on it can still be seen in nearly every household and classroom.
Oh, every single one of those, plus this jogged my memory of a toy I couldn't for the life of me remember the name of. COLORFORMS! I had a set (maybe Barbie?) with a blonde girl and different outfits you could peel and stick onto her. Oh, I spent hours dressing that two dimensional girl, ROFL!
Every year. What a bitch that was to clean up afterward! LOL! But it sure looked pretty on the tree.
Wow, a '69 Roadrunner with a hemi and 3,000 miles for less than three grand? I'd give anything for that now. I sure wish I would've kept one of my moPars. They were so easy to fix, I could still be driving one today. But I thought there would always be another one, and I didn't properly appreciate them.
Tinsel took forever to put on the tree, strand by strand. It would be found for weeks after Christmas! And Angel Hair, that fluffy white fiberglass that you pull really thin to look like snow? I would itch for days. Pretty but I really disliked them both!
