Vintage Packaging Brings A Smile

[Sandpatch]

Although my Dad passed away over a decade ago, I still depend on the inventory of odd stuff he left in his home shop. My Dad was quite skilled at anything involving home repair or improvement, so I never know what I might find there. To wit, check out this package of hanger strap which I needed. I'll bet it's 50 years old and the package has that wonderful 50s/60s appearance that always brings a smile to my face. Although after spending several hours in the cold, dank crawlspace under my house, I hardly looked as euphoric as the man on the package.

 

[Ruidoso Bill]

Hours under a house is never a good time! my sympathy!

 

[nickt]

Same here. Its nearly 40 years and I still find and make use of the remaining few bits of my dad's workshop inventory. I have seen that happy man logo before. I think it was on some toilet bowl gaskets and pipe wrap insulation. Anyone that has replaced a toilet or crawled under a house to wrap pipes can appreciate the irony of the happy man logo.

I found this on my shelf....

 

[Sandpatch]

Here's a package from a time when men were men and light bulbs were light bulbs. From Chicago's Commonwealth Edison.

 

[Sandpatch]

And from the era when most drug stores had tube testing machines and sold tubes, comes this simplified package. There's even a tube inside.

 

[Sandpatch]

Interesting too that today's packaging is often dominated by warnings and regulatory information, whereas a generation ago buyers succeeded with common sense. The price stickers on old packages are also a source of amusement!

 

[Ruidoso Bill]

And from the era when most drug stores had tube testing machines and sold tubes, comes this simplified package. There's even a tube inside.

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That was one of the first things I remember being taught how to do. Pull the tubes (make chart first) go to the corner store and test the tubes. Great memories.