OK, maybe I'm imagining it, but didn't "Top Job" used to be a big brand name?

[qnr]

Along with Spic N' Span and whatnot? Saw some in a dollar store today, haven't heard an advertisement Top Job in years (assuming that I'm not just imagining remembering the frequent ads years ago).

[Gormy Cuss]

1. You're not imagining it.

"Top Job" was one of the brands my mother used years ago.

[qnr]

3. Ah, ok, thanks. Me, I still remember getting the plates and glasses in Duz

detergent... never see that around anywhere.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. Duz! Was there any other way to get drinking glasses?

That was another of her favorite brands.

[qnr]

5. Well, Welches Jams and Jellies, but those were the only two sources

of drinking glasses in the world, I believe.

[qdemn7]

6. Wrong.... there were 3 sources!

Back before the 1st Arab oil embargo in 1972, gasoline was extremely cheap, less than $0.35 a gallon. Down in Texas, service stations fought for your business by offering free dishes, glasses, cups and flatware with a minimum 8 gallon purchase. When I was a kid, all our stuff like that came from gas station.

[qnr]

7. True, and you couldn't get free car washes from Duz and Welches

Edit: Well, I guess you could put some Duz and water into the Welches glass & throw it on your car a few hundred times....

...and how about those Red Rose animals.. they sure seem a lot cheaper these days.

[LibertyLover]

9. That brought back a memory -

in 1969, my mom, a glutton for punishment, took me and a friend, both 16, out to California from New Jersey. For 7 weeks she drove across country in our station wagon with camping gear, clothes and enough makeup between my friend and I to stock a medium sized pharmacy beauty counter. We had a blast visiting DisneyLand, national parks, presidents' libraries and all sorts of tourist traps in between NJ and CA and back. But, one of the things I remember most vividly was when we were coming home and driving through Texas. One of the gas stations was featuring a very nice stonewear dish set. Mom liked it so much that she bought gas and 2 sets of the dishes, plus two of the extra packages with serving dishes, butter dish, salt and pepper shakers and platters. Mom died in 2000 and I still have one of the butter dishes from that set that I use occasionally in her honor.

[qdemn7]

10. Thank you

That was a very nice story!

[skygazer]

11. Somebody put towels in their detergent

Can't remember which one it was now but my mom got a whole set of towels that way.

You used to get good stuff in cereal boxes, too. x(

[Gormy Cuss]

12. Duz did that at one point.

:hi: and I think there was another brand.

How about those Cracker Jacks prizes too?

I still enjoy finding the Red Rose tea critters in each box.

[qnr]

2. self-delete n/t

[Z_I_Peevey]

8. Maybe I'm imagining this,

but a jingle popped in my head the minute I saw your post: "Top Job, Top Job, Cleans floors like ammonia cleans glass!".

Or was that some other brand, and I'm having a senior moment?

[qnr]

13. I don't remember the jingle. Although, it occurred to me last night, while

I was thinkng about the subject generally, that a cleanser commercial is the very first one I remember:

Ajax "Stronger Than Dirt!" - with a white knight or something like that.