New Chevy bill boards posted around Detroit

[LouisXIV]

www.rockinghammemories.net/chevybillboards.html

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I can imagine how old auto industry families would be touched by such messages and slogans, but it makes me wonder what percentage of modern Detroit families is still involved in it and more specifically General Motors. Or is it something that people automatically take pride in as the trademark of Detroit no matter where they are orginally from or what they do for a living?

[bixaorellana]

Those are extremely clever and good looking ads -- love 'em!

I don't think of those billboards as being Detroit-specific. What they say to me is "have pride in American workmanship", which of course carries the underlying message of "support US jobs & companies". From a pure selling viewpoint, the ads say "Chevrolet has a long history of reliability and design excellence".

[mickthecactus]

They are excellent. Very clever..........

But what's a poodle skirt?

[bixaorellana]

Maybe the style didn't reach darkest England in the 1950s. Or maybe because you were a lad, you didn't notice. The skirt was a "circle skirt", not unlike the skirt under a Christmas tree. Poodles weren't the only motif used, but the one that seems to have endured in popular memory.

[mickthecactus]

Dec 6, 2011 16:22:13 GMT bixaorellana said:

Maybe the style didn't reach darkest England in the 1950s. Or maybe because you were a lad, you didn't notice. The skirt was a "circle skirt", not unlike the skirt under a Christmas tree. Poodles weren't the only motif used, but the one that seems to have endured in popular memory.

I was around in the '50's but certainly don't remember those skirts here.

Good of you to model it for us though Bixa.......... ;D

[LouisXIV]

Thanks for the pic bixaorellana. Did you notice the saddle shoes? I remember my "white bucks" from the mid 1950's. Or do you remember: "How much is that doggie in the window?"

Many years ago I lived in the Detroit area and happy that I am not there now. Back then the city had its Ford people, GM people and Chrysler people and maybe even a few American Moters people. And I am sure there still are a few around. I even had an AMC Pacer at one time. Many people never noticed that the passenger side door was bigger than the drivers side door:
www.carrera.no/Pacer.htm

[mickthecactus]

Dec 6, 2011 16:51:50 GMT LouisXIV said:

Thanks for the pic bixaorellana. Did you notice the saddle shoes? I remember my "white bucks" from the mid 1950's. Or do you remember: "How much is that doggie in the window?"

Many years ago I lived in the Detroit area and happy that I am not there now. Back then the city had its Ford people, GM people and Chrysler people and maybe even a few American Moters people. And I am sure there still are a few around. I even had an AMC Pacer at one time. Many people never noticed that the passenger side door was bigger than the drivers side door:
www.carrera.no/Pacer.htm

Not the one with the waggly tail?

[tod2]

Bixa wrote" I was around in the 50's but certainly don't remember those skirts here!"

I'll let you in on a secret...... that skirt pattern is still available today - I think it's a Simplicity and is probably available from Butterick & McCalls (I'll check my pattern cabinets tomorrow)!
We don't sell a lot of 'Rock 'n Roll' skirts but the odd rock party sends the aged in for a last twirl ;D

More secrets....I have one in a far lost cupboard together with it's "stiff petticoat"(made of ruched netting and edged with bias binding) Mine has the LP Record motif!

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Research will indicate that "How Much is that Doggy in the Window?" is a French song translated into English.

[LouisXIV]

Really Kerouac, how many Franc was it back then?

[mickthecactus]

Dec 6, 2011 22:08:56 GMT kerouac2 said:

Research will indicate that "How Much is that Doggy in the Window?" is a French song translated into English.

Using my schoolboy French it would be something like-

Combien est le chien dans la fenetre?

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[mickthecactus]

Dec 7, 2011 14:43:17 GMT kerouac2 said:

I was close...........

[LouisXIV]

That made my day. Merci.

[bixaorellana]

Dec 6, 2011 17:27:22 GMT tod2 said:

Bixa wrote" I was around in the 50's but certainly don't remember those skirts here!"

I'll let you in on a secret...... that skirt pattern is still available today - I think it's a Simplicity and is probably available from Butterick & McCalls (I'll check my pattern cabinets tomorrow)!
We don't sell a lot of 'Rock 'n Roll' skirts but the odd rock party sends the aged in for a last twirl

More secrets....I have one in a far lost cupboard together with it's "stiff petticoat"(made of ruched netting and edged with bias binding) Mine has the LP Record motif!

Actually, that was Mick who doesn't remember the skirts. I remember them well, along with crinolines. Did you have a Tonette?

Dec 6, 2011 16:51:50 GMT LouisXIV said:

I remember my "white bucks" from the mid 1950's.

This is for Louis ~~

[tod2]

Oops! Sorry Bixa and Mick -
As for a Tonette....I have never heard of one so looked it up on Wikipedia. Kind of musical intrument ?

[bixaorellana]

Caution: this information will curl your hair!

www.old-time.com/commercials/1940's/Which%20Twin%20Had%20The%20Toni.htm

farm5.static.flickr.com/4030/4612213947_5517bfcb3e_b.jpg

[LouisXIV]

bixaorellana, thanks, more memories. That video reminded me of how I looked at my Senior Prom.

I had a tonette when I was in the fourth and fifth grade. Never very good at it. Something we had to do at school.

This is something like the white bucks I had except they were "Flagg Brother" shoes that had a mechanical device to close the shoes, not the laces. theshoebuff.com/shoes/white-bucks-mark-mcnairy-amsterdam/