[Dixielandjazz] The Internet and DJML

[Don Kirkman]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:17:05 -0500, you wrote:

>I do not recall Ovaltine having any connection with Little Orphan Annie but
>I know I had to send away their labels to get a Captain Midnight secret code
>ring.  The secret code turned out to be 1-26 signifying the number of the
>letters in the albhabet.
>
>Can't recall radio commercials for Postum but the Sunday News had what
>amounted to about a six box comic strip for the product, with a rather
>grotesque villain who was named Mr. Coffee Nerves.  I never tried it but I
>believe hearing that it tasted worse than Sanka, which is really pretty hard
>to imagine.

Postum was one of  Post Cereals' products, and people who had scruples
against coffee  and meat (such as Seventh Day Adventists, in those
days at least) liked their Postum.  As I recall it had dried figs
among the ingredients (but then so do today's "blueberry" flavored
instant oatmeal).   Post, Graham, and Kellogg tried to make us eat
better, and got wealthy in the process.  :-)  Memories! [musical, that
is]

>Incidentally, I recall some years ago that two spokesmen for breakfast
>beverages happened to die on the very same day.  There was Robert Young who
>had been spokesman for Sanka and also  Alan Shepherd , who for years along
>with other astronauts, had constantly knocked Tang, which they were forced
>to take on their space missions.
>Obviously, one spoke on behalf of theproduct and the other against it.
>
>Tides
> HC
>On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Don Kirkman <donsno2 at charter.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 10:54:41 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>> >Harry Callaghan wrote in part:
>> >
>> >> When the TV series "The Waltons" was running, I remember people
>> commenting
>> >> "That sure looked dumb, the family sitting around in the evening,
>> looking at
>> >> that big radio as if it was a television when there was really nothing
>> to
>> >> see".
>> >>
>> >> But, fact of the matter is that's exactly what people usta do back then.
>>
>> >Yup, we all used to do that.
>>
>> Yeah, but did you send Ovaltine lid liners in to get your Little
>> Orphan Annie secret decoder?  Or remember the commercials for Congoin
>> and Postum?   We watched all of that stuff on our old Kennedy radio ca
>> 1933.  And a little later we got to hear the King of Jazz, himself, on
>> Sunday afternoons (as I recall).
>>
>> >> I have especially fond memories of radio because I can remember when
>> other
>> >> kids and myself would lie on our livinig room floor in the late
>> afternoon,
>> >> listening to the likes of "Superman", "Dick Tracy", "Hap Harrigan", "Sky
>> >> King", "Captain Midnight" and of course, "Jack Armstrong, the
>> All-American
>> >> Boy" which featured the Ameche brothers, Don and Jim.
>> >>
>> >> As these mostly 15-minute programs were being heard, each one of us
>> could
>> >> conjure up our own vision of how the action was taking place.
>> >>
>> >> Kids don't have that today, what with TV, the PC and video games,
>> nothing is
>> >> left to the imagination.
>> >>
>> >> And while a lot of educational material is available on the internet,
>> they
>> >> spend too much of their time sitting in front of a PC.
>> >>
>> >> My daughter was only last week lamenting the fact that my 10-year old
>> >> grandson doesn't know about what it was like back then.  Kids aren't
>> outside
>> >> playing cowboys and indians anymore.or building huts,like we usta do.
>> >>
>> >> See what you stirred up here, Mr. Ringwald....well, you've only got
>> yourself
>> >> to blame.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >About  ten years ago when my grandson was 12, he wanted to use the phone
>> in our kitchen.  It is an antique pay phone with a rotary dial.
>> >
>> >He picked up the receiver and got a funny look on his face.  He had no
>> idea how to dial with a rotary dial phone.
>> >
>> >--Bob Ringwald
>> >
>> >
>> >
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