09-12-2011
( Reply#: 6957 ) |
S C Jones |
Digger, thanks for adding your story to the site. I agree with you about the
lingering memories of Hammond and Hessville, and I graduated Morton the year before your were born, so you have many years yet to have those memories.
If you haven't seen the site, you might be interested in the Planet Hammond site--just google Planet Hammond. It is on facebook, but you do not have to join or register to look at some of the pics and read some of the comments.
There may be some info about the Hammond Dairy Co. I know there are some
photos and discussions that include the Borden Dairy.
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09-16-2011
( Reply#: 6964 ) |
Jim Plummer |
Speaking of Borden's, does anybody remember the name of Elsie the Cow's husband. I think in the ads she had a couple of calf's also! |
09-17-2011
( Reply#: 6966 ) |
Jim R |
Elmer the bull. Kids were Beulah and Beauregard.
Harding K thru 7
Morton 8 thru 12
Class of 1972 |
09-17-2011
( Reply#: 6968 ) |
Bill Bucko |
quote:
Originally posted by Jim R
Elmer the bull. Kids were Beulah and Beauregard.
Harding K thru 7
Morton 8 thru 12
Class of 1972
Elmer is STILL around. Who do you think they named Elmer's Glue after?
I remember Elmer/Elsie balloons, comics and other premiums, back when they were first introduced. Must have been the late 50s. For a while there were also toy kits for blowing your own sticky bluish-colored balloons smelling strongly of some solvent (probably acetone). I bought mine at Pop's (Dick's Grocery), on Kennedy Ave. near 165th--right next door to Flick's Tap. Probably the kits were soon banned because of the chemicals.
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
09-18-2011
( Reply#: 6972 ) |
tom w |
Seems to me that the whole family lived on a little farm in the basement of the Museum of Science and Industry. I remember listening to the birds chirping on the recording, over and over. tom w |
09-18-2011
( Reply#: 6973 ) |
Bill Bucko |
quote:
Originally posted by Bill Bucko
For a while there were also toy kits for blowing your own sticky bluish-colored balloons smelling strongly of some solvent (probably acetone). I bought mine at Pop's (Dick's Grocery), on Kennedy Ave. near 165th--right next door to Flick's Tap. Probably the kits were soon banned because of the chemicals.
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63
The bluish sticky stuff came in a tube, like model airplane glue, for 25 cents. I didn't mean to imply that it was also made by Borden. Very strong chemical smell ... may have been toluene rather than acetone. You'd blow a balloon, and the stuff would harden. DOES ANYBODY ELSE REMEMBER THIS STUFF?
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
09-18-2011
( Reply#: 6975 ) |
seejay2 |
Yes! I remember that stuff coming in 'stocking stuffer' types of packets and as booby prizes at the county fair. You blew up a transparent plastic bubble (don't get that stuff on you!!) that had a bluish cast to it. You thought these things would last forever because they set up right away. We would put it on a shelf to see how many years they would last. Years?? Minutes was more like it. In a while, they would begin to shrivel up and collapse like a Hollywood marriage...Cj |
09-18-2011
( Reply#: 6976 ) |
Tom J |
Didn't it come with a little hollow stick that you would dip in the goo and then blow in the other end of it to make the bubble? |
09-18-2011
( Reply#: 6977 ) |
S C Jones |
quote:
Originally posted by Tom J
Didn't it come with a little hollow stick that you would dip in the goo and then blow in the other end of it to make the bubble?
And it smelled really of something that made you think it might catch on fire quite easily, if you lit a match to it, or that it might put you to sleep? Here is Wikipedia's take on it:
Chemically, the bubbles contained polyvinyl acetate dissolved in acetone, with Ethyl Acetate plastic fortifiers added. The acetone evaporated upon bubble inflation leaving behind a solid plastic film.[1]
Besides the obvious potential for messes when letting children play with liquid plastic, the substance also emitted noxious fumes. The fumes could become concentrated inside the straw, so users had to be careful never to inhale through the straw while inflating their balloons.[2] Because of these problems, Super Elastic Bubble Plastic was eventually discontinued
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09-18-2011
( Reply#: 6978 ) |
seejay2 |
Yes Tom, it was a little plastic straw like those useless little coffee stirrers but about half the length.
And dangerous?? Who cared? They were fun and we didn't lose even one kid to those things. These were kids who were immune to any chemical out there. After all, we would ride bicycles for miles behind the mosquito fogging trucks. The tree houses they let us build were far more dangerous than the bubbles.
The steps to the rickety old tree houses were held on by no more than one bent, rusty nail that only went about halfway through what it should have. 20 feet up to get to the treehouse to throw dirtbombs and water balloons at any living thing that walked by.
Now that was living dangerously!!...Cj |
09-19-2011
( Reply#: 6988 ) |
Bill Bucko |
"Super Elastic Bubble Plastic"!! Thanks, youse guys!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Elastic_Bubble_Plastic
However, I strongly disagree with the article's chronology. This was DEFINITELY during the 1950s; I doubt if it lasted even as late as 1960! I used to look for it, hanging from the toy rack in Pop's that faced the front of the store, just back of the cash register, where the store divided into two aisles. It was not around for long. At least, not that I ever saw. This was back in the days when I watched Tarzan movies to see Cheta, not Jane; so it's not as though I was distracted by irrelevant things like girls.
Just searched Ebay for it, without results. Plenty of other vintage bubble-blowing apparatus; but no delightful blue poison in a tube, like I grew up with.
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
09-19-2011
( Reply#: 6989 ) |
Bill Bucko |
Just did a Google search for "Super Elastic Bubble Plastic" and there are lots of hits: evidently someone REPACKAGED the stuff, after my day, replacing the simple straw and blue-lettered white tube, with colorful packaging. Not the same thing, in my opinion.
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
09-19-2011
( Reply#: 6990 ) |
seejay2 |
I think you're just about right on the mark, Bill. I do seem to remember, however that maybe it made it's way into the early 60's for a bit. I also remember something coming out years later that just didn't work like the original stuff and then it disappeared.
I personally don't put too much faith in anything Wiki has to say. In fact, when I worked at IUN, Wiki wasn't even accepted as a viable research source.
CHETA!?!?!?!? Yikes!!!...Cj
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09-19-2011
( Reply#: 6991 ) |
HassoBenSoba |
Here's a 30-second "WHAMMO" commerical re: Super Ball and the dreaded, toxic Super Elastic Bubble stuff. The video is black & white, but the soundtrack music and the hair-style of the kid bouncing the ball definitely are '60's; maybe 63-64.
http://youtu.be/8pErbVm-LGI
The You-Tube posting says 1970, which is probably wrong; the commercial almost certainly would have been in color.
LR |
