Do ya miss good Cracker Jack toys and Cereal prizes?

[Dr Crankenstein]

Pink elephant popcorn had little prizes in the box as well that needed assembly[S

[That stuff used to be so stale and rubbery that it would squeek when you chewed it.

Anybody know the Cracker Jack kids name? It's not Jack. (I do know the answer.)

How about the dog? (I've forgot the dogs name.)

I think the popcorn was just packing material for the toy until they developed those styrofoam peanuts. (Which taste exactly the same as the popcorn, BTW)

I thought the kid's name was simply Sailor Jack, and the dog was Bingo. [S

Saturday mornings for me used to kick off at 6AM with "The New Adventures of Pinocchio". Every Sunday night was family time with "The Wonderful World of Disney".

How old IS Kurt Russell anyhow?

 

[RAT FINK]

Gunsmoke and Beverly Hillbillies....oh and Gilligan"s Island,Dukes Of Hazzard......Daisy[dr...in her Prime....and who couldn't forget ...The Waltons....Goodnight Jim Bob!....Green Acres....can't remember what I did this morning though[S

 

[shakey56]

Saturday Mornin'

I loved the westerns on Saturday. I think it was "Western Theatre"

And remember playing "far away" with the cities on the bottom of CocaCola bottles?[S

Lynn

 

[Sniper]

Hey Dr.Crank, I think you might be right about the Cracker Jack dogs name being Bingo, seems to ring a bell, but I'm still not a 100% sure. The little sailor dudes name is Robert.

 

[sgtpontiac]

Doc, I think you are correct....

I think the popcorn was just packing material for the toy until they developed those styrofoam peanuts. (Which taste exactly the same as the popcorn, BTW)

I thought the kid's name was simply Sailor Jack, and the dog was Bingo. [S

Saturday mornings for me used to kick off at 6AM with "The New Adventures of Pinocchio". Every Sunday night was family time with "The Wonderful World of Disney".

How old IS Kurt Russell anyhow?

It's sailor Jack and Bingo.... maybe the image of the boy was taken from a kid named Robert something but Cracker Jack had commercials on tv and that kid was called Sailor Jack.....sorry Sniper but I think Doc is right about the name.....

 

[donsrods]

I did the same thing! Like twin sons of different mothers! Did your mom make you sit at the table till your dinner was gone? I got very creative in disposing of peas...

No, I have always been a pig and ate like one. As long as I had my Hopalong Cassidy dish to eat on I was happy and always cleaned up my plate. I still have the dish, but don't eat on it any more.

Don

 

[Dr Crankenstein]

Hey Dr.Crank, I think you might be right about the Cracker Jack dogs name being Bingo, seems to ring a bell, but I'm still not a 100% sure. The little sailor dudes name is Robert.

It's sailor Jack and Bingo.... maybe the image of the boy was taken from a kid named Robert something but Cracker Jack had commercials on tv and that kid was called Sailor Jack.....sorry Sniper but I think Doc is right about the name.....

Everybody's right according to Wikipedia.

Sailor Jack and his dog, Bingo, were introduced in 1918 and registered as a trademark in 1919.[citation needed] Sailor Jack was modeled after Robert Rueckheim, nephew of Frederick and Louis Rueckheim, the German immigrants who invented the popcorn-peanuts-and-molasses snack in 1872. Robert, the son of a third and eldest Rueckheim brother Edward, died of pneumonia shortly after his image appeared at the age of 8.[4] The sailor boy image acquired such meaning for the founder of Cracker Jack that he had it carved on his tombstone, which can still be seen in St. Henry's Cemetery, Chicago.[4] Sailor Jack's dog Bingo was based on a real-life dog named Russell, a stray dog adopted by Henry Eckstein in 1917 who demanded that the dog be used on the packaging. Russell died of old age in 1930

 

[donsrods]

Another show that was funny was Amos and Andy. It fell out of popularity when blacks started complaining it painted them in a bad light, but I never understood that. There certainly are enough shows on TV that portray we whites as idiots and nothing is ever said about that. To me it was just a funny sitcom and was one of my Dad's favorite shows.

Don

 

[Snake Farm]

I'm sure nobody but me remembers the little Fords and Mercurys that came in Cheerios i think.1954.

I missed these by a couple years E-Man but I remember most all the other stuff that folks have mentioned like the Green Stamps and the Popsicle sticks. Smoked a lot of candy cigarettes in my day too Another toy I remember was a plastic Camel with moveable legs that walked across a table powered by a weight (lead no doubt ) attached with a length of thread that you hung over the edge. Also paratroopers with a little hook on their backs that you launched into the air with a rubber band on a stick and they floated back down on a little plastic parachute. Always the Hot Rodder, I remember getting a few more feet of altitude out of them by using one of those big red rubber bands

 

[Snake Farm]

Hey, look what I just found

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120883529904

 

[donsrods]

Hey, look what I just found

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120883529904

Pretty cool, haven't seen one of those in decades.

If you want some interesting reading and a trip back in time, go on Ebay and buy a Sears catalog from the 50's. I bought a 1958 catalog and I felt like I was 12 years old again with my dream book. I used to drool over all the neat car parts, guns, and tools that they sold back then, and it was like a trip in a time machine to be able to read it again.

There are several for sale on Ebay right now, here is one of them:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1959-Sears-...873?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35bacd5e41

Don