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do you remember bay rum?

I remember the smell of the barber shop.  I remember the tall bottles on the shelf over the barber's sink - red, green and sometimes yellow. 
I remember the smell of shaving lather.
I remember the barber with a very, very sharp straight razor in his hand.
No wonder so many men grew beards.

 
 
wildroot cream-oil signs do you remember wildroot cream-oil, charlie?

do you remember when it was still plain old wildroot hair tonic?

I remember Fearless Fosdick.  He was my hero.  Any man with that many bullet holes in him just has to be somebody's hero.

 Wildroot Hair Tonic bottle

 
 
do you know what this is?
hints:
It is electric.
You sit in it.
It became obsolete when they
banned capital punishment.

Do you know what this is?

(the answer is at the bottom of the page)

 
 
from Brunswick ad 1916
 do you remember when there were pool tables in the barber shop?

Or was it barber chairs in the pool hall?
I remember playing pool while my friends got their hair cut and them playing pool while I got my hair cut.

I don't remember any distinguished looking gentlemen or ladies in pool halls in those days.
Brunswick ad c.1900

 
 
pin ball machine c.1940 DO YOU REMEMBER THE LITTLE WOODEN PIN BALL MACHINES?

I remember pin ball machines in the pool halls but they were bigger and stronger than this light weight wooden one.
I remember the roughnecks that played the pin ball machines.  They would have beaten this one to kindling. 
I also remember that they were good guys who just didn't know their own strength.

 
 
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do you know what this is?
answer:
This is a salon hair drier from 1960.
It was electric.
You sat in it.
By coincidence, capital punishment and
this type of chair became obsolete at
about the same time.

salon hair drier chair, electrically operated

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