Posted on 08/30/2015 10:35:58 PM PDT by re_nortex
thimk I missed something...?
That would now be considered rasist
If you remember this, then do you remember Bunny Bread?
My Pleasant here and we used to go to the Dairy Queen, get $.10 cones, and go watch the coke ovens burning at night
I remember when driving into Pittsburg was like entering Dante’s inferno
And then there was Chilly Billy Cardilly
Remember Saturday night double horror movies?
And zombies at the Monroeville mall?
Waited on him once in a restaurant
All the other waitresses were jealous like ooooooo
To those ready to take offense, sure. But I think other FReepers. whom I've pinged as a courtesy, may offer further insight. As for me, I don't recall the commercial being taken that way in the 1960's when racial tensions were quite high, including Pittsburgh where it was frequently played.
And Windfiler, we've sure covered the gamut of late from the Temptations to Green Acres and now this! :)
I think you'll enjoy this article, Pittsburgh's brands once were talk of the town.
Priceless. Still my favorite tea. I always buy half a dozen boxes whenever I see it in the store (hard to find.) I’ve never heard the song, however.) I’ll have to show this to my husband when he gets up! I’ve never heard the commercial.
I discovered it when we lived in the Seattle area, and I’ve been hooked ever since. I was disappointed to learn, a few years ago, that they are now owned by Lipton.
Remember when the boxes of tea came with miniature English ceramic animals inside? My kids (and now my grandkids) have collections of those.
Yes, it is still around, although hard to find.
bttt
I last saw it at the local WalMart.
Yep! I remember that! Red Rose is my favorite tea, and the stores around here all sell it. Not hard to find at all. I still collect the little ceramic things inside. I don’t have any complete collections though.
Can you find the following:
“Its the Budweiser beer that’s brewed right here. Dubois Budweiser Beer.”
I’m old enough to remember “old frothingosh” and the Forbes and Shady Grill!
I do remember Bill Cardille!And Sam Nover for some odd reason! I wasn’t permitted to stay up to watch chiller theater but one time I did and that spooky music intro terrified me!!!
OK!
How about Popeye and Knish?
Remember them?
Oh my—does this EVER bring back memories!
Grew up in the Burgh proper (S. Oakland). And i still buy Red Rose Tea (they have a decaf too). It’s at our WalMart and at the Big Bird (Giant Eagle). They don’t always have the little ceramic characters in the boxes anymore (there is a mail in thing—but occasionally I’ll get a box w/one in it—I guess it goes by the “series” they are doing).
Talking about Yinzer commercials tho...the Cochran auto group (they have about a gazillion brands now) is running their anniversary ad. How times have changed. I remember my dad going to the ORIGINAL Cochran in North Braddock when he was buying a car. Now we lived in Oakland and the whole family went to pick up the new car, and my late mother ooohed and ahhhhed over the Braddock homes. We lived in a tiny, shotgun row house, and the homes in N. Braddock had yards, grass, and space in between them. When I think of those neighborhoods today, it’s stunning the difference.
We could see the “glow” from our perch in Oakland of the slag dump that was just behind the eastern side of the Squirrel Hill tunnels. They have developed that area in 1/2 million dollar homes. Built on slag. It’s called Somerset.
I can remember “trips” out to Browns Dump to watch the dumping. It was kinda scary to me (I was little, but liked the soft serve ice cream we’d get along the way). The soft serve was quite the departure from the isalys we ALWAYS had (I grew up behind the BIG Isalys on the Boulevard of the Allies). UPMC has that property now.
No! I know Popeye the spinach eating,”I yam what I yam” sailor man. Is there something more? :)
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