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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
8 comments:
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gunnypink said...
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Hi, kids, my name's Buster Brown, I live in a shoe, this is my dog Tige, he lives there too. OK Froggy, twang your magic twanger. Couldn't sell a pair of kids shoes with that today...gotta have a BB star endorse the shoe first. So, who was more ignernt?
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3/17/10, 8:31 AM
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franco (stortini) fellini said...
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I'm just barely old enough to have been to the Kensington General Store in Kensington, MD. Everybody called it "Mister Victor's", after the owner. My mother took me there to buy Buster Brown shoes. This was in the 70's. I had no idea who Buster Brown was.
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3/17/10, 8:47 AM
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tom said...
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From what I disremember, Froggy was sitting on an upright piano, which was conveniently never played..., and would gesture upon command from Buster Brown.
Seems there were lots of "Ramar in the Jungle" and Tarzan movies on Saturday AM TV in the late '50's.
tomw -
3/17/10, 9:46 AM
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Rodger the Real King of France said...
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As I remember Ramar alternated with Flash Gordon. I hated the former, loved the latter.
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3/17/10, 2:54 PM
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Anonymous said...
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It's "PLUNK your magic twinger, Froggy"...
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3/17/10, 9:33 PM
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Anonymous said...
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YouTube has some Andy's Gang on video but not much Buster Brown.
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3/17/10, 10:54 PM
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gunnypink said...
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I just remembered going into the drugstore, and inside the door was a machine, that you could climb up on a pedestal, place your feet into a slot in the machine, and get an xray look to see how well your shoes fit. Seems to my remembery, that the machine had a picture of Buster Brown and his dog on it. Methinks it was a catalyst to get parents to buy shoes for their chillrun.
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3/18/10, 8:55 AM
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tom said...
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Gunny, I remeber one of those machines in the shoe store. Didn't have to put any dough into it, but it was unplugged. I guess they figured out that X-raying your bones a lot didn't do a whole lot of good.
I remember stepping up and looking into toe viewer and seeing nothing. Seems there were two viewports on the one I remember.
tomw -
3/18/10, 3:26 PM
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