What do you remember? Please, what you remember and not what
you Google. This is about memories.

Here's what I remember.

Cologne
Hai Karate
Jade East
British Sterling
Old Spice
English Leather

Hair Tonic
West Point
Brylcreme
Vitalis
VO-5

After Shave
Afta
Aqua Velva
Noxema

What do you remember? Please, what you remember and not what
you Google. This is about memories.

Here's what I remember.

Cologne
Hai Karate
Jade East
British Sterling
Old Spice
English Leather

Hair Tonic
West Point
Brylcreme
Vitalis
VO-5

After Shave
Afta
Aqua Velva
Noxema

I'm not sure what you mean about what you remember. All of those products are things that I definitely remember during my earlier years. I don't see remembering them as any great accomplishment, however.

I used a few of them but not many. I never liked hair tonics or after shave lotions. Old Spice was one of my father's favorites and I'll never forget it's smell.

I still use V05 shampoo and have for years so I don't consider that something from the past.

What is the name of the after shave the barbers used for ever it seemed?

I think it was bay rum aftershave. When I was MUCH younger I had a crew cut and when we were going to any function my Dad would use a red hard a** bristle brush and a jar of what looked like green snoot. I do not remember the name of that product but I remember the yucky smell and my scalp would be pink from the brush.

Lectric Shave!

My Sweet Wife just gave me a haircut this afternoon. It was a nearly perfect haircut and she ain't a barber nor a hairstylist. During the course of the treatment involving the trimming off of excessive growth of . . . hair . . . perhaps six months overdue . . . I commented that, when I was a kid, I got the sort of haircut requiring the use of ButchWax to maintain its integrity. I also told her that I never in my life bought a tube of Brylcreem or Wildroot. She laughed, without jamming the scissors into the back of my neck, when I also said that I have never used "gel" and stopped using any form of hairspray some time ago. Whenever I smell Old Spice I think of my Dad on his way to The Elks Club. The Green Mennen Stuff is close, but not the same.

My personal preference, today, is Polo. A gift from my grandson. =)
(in the blue spray bottle)

What is the name of the after shave the barbers used for ever it seemed?
Was it Lilac Water?

Butch Wax. That's what my Dad used on me. I remember a lot of smells but not the names.

Brut colonge & aftershave
Avon Wild Country cologne
Breck shampoo
Micrin mouhwash
Prell shampoo

Were all used in our house. My dad loved Wild Country.

Just thinking about Prell Shampoo takes me back. In Basic Training once you got your bar of soap used looking enough and squared away, No hair or bubbles on the bar, all the streaks had to be in one direction and no soap residue on the plastic soap container, silly stuff like that. Then you would use Prell to wash everywhere. It smelled nice.

Brut colonge & aftershave
Avon Wild Country cologne
Breck shampoo
Micrin mouhwash
Prell shampoo

Were all used in our house. My dad loved Wild Country.
Many Avon bottles became collector's items.

Many Avon bottles became collector's items.

One of my friend's mom & dad had collected every one made up until his dad's passing about 8 years ago.

One of my friend's mom & dad had collected every one made up until his dad's
passing about 8 years ago.
Cool! A complete collection.

Due to you guys I just bought a bottle of Bay Rum on EBay for $12 inc shipping. I'll let you know if it's genuine and smells like the stuff the barber put on me at Wilson's Barber Shop in Shady Nook. Never have had the stuff applied once I left the sticks.

Cool! A complete collection.

As complete as you could probably get. About a year afterwards they started cleaning out the house and he was trying to get a value on it all. I never asked if he got it sold.

Was it Lilac Water?

Bay rum I believe.. Lucky Tiger

I just found this site.

How to smell like a Barber Shop (http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/10/13/how-to-smell-like-a-barbershop/)

Barbicide: sounds like the act of killing your barber! Pop and I used to go to the Sunset Barber shop on NW 23rd and about College. Jim Armstrong was a good and patient barber. He cut my hair as I was getting over the chicken pox. That was a long hair cut.

Barbicide: sounds like the act of killing your barber! Pop and I used to go to the
Sunset Barber shop on NW 23rd and about College. Jim Armstrong was a good
and patient barber. He cut my hair as I was getting over the chicken pox. That
was a long hair cut.
I know the site. I can't drive by without thinking there was Barber Shop there.
Wasn't there a 7/11, too?

I just found this site.

How to smell like a Barber Shop (http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/10/13/how-to-smell-like-a-barbershop/)

Well there ya go! Want to smell barbershop fresh every day then this is what you need.

Prunepicker,

Yes, there was a 7-11 there. The barber shop was on the very west end. There was a beauty shop right next to it from time to time, and then the 7-11 was next in line. I might be mistaken (neither the first nor last time) but I think there was a hardware store in that same small strip mall, but it might have been a bit farther east.

I might be mistaken (neither the first nor last time) but I think there was a
hardware store in that same small strip mall, but it might have been a bit
farther east.
Around 1998 there was a furniture finishing shop in that center. He finished
some book cases for us.

The red stuff the barbers always used on me was called "Fitch Hair Tonic". He would slosh on a bit then vigorously rub it all over your scalp with his fingers.

Clubman talc on the brush and Jerris on the neck after the haircut.

I used English Leather in the 60's. The "hep cats" wore British Sterling. On day I
accidentally used Dad's Old Spice. The chicks loved it. In fact, they still do.

The more things change the more they don't change.

I use Brylcreem and Clubman's aftershave today.

I use Brylcreem and Clubman's aftershave today.

Just wondering,what age group are you in?

I always have a bottle of Old Spice on hand. Never know when you want to drive the chicks wild, splash a little old spice on and and they will be running after you.:cool:

Just wondering,what age group are you in?

I'm 36. :)

But they work really really well. I tried them and was very impressed.

My grandfather introduced me to Groom & Clean when I was 10, and I've used it ever since (at least I do when I'm not sporting a crewcut)--it holds better than Brylcreem and is water-based, not oil-based (you don't get the grease buildup). I've used Brylcreem occasionally, too. One of the additional benefits of Groom & Clean is its ability to successfully wash out any other grease buildup from other tonics, waxes, or pomades you may have in your hair.

My grandfather introduced me to Groom & Clean when I was 10, and I've used it ever since (at least I do when I'm not sporting a crewcut)--it holds better than Brylcreem and is water-based, not oil-based (you don't get the grease buildup). I've used Brylcreem occasionally, too. One of the additional benefits of Groom & Clean is its ability to successfully wash out any other grease buildup from other tonics, waxes, or pomades you may have in your hair.


Pretty sure the old Brylcreem adds used to tout " No Greasy Buildup"

Groom and Clean is good too. I have a tube of it too and use it sometimes. I like Brylcreem better though.

With what little hair remains up there a VERY little dab of Brylcreem does me. Of course I just use a little chapstick classic on the ends of my moustache. (Age rounds to 60.)

Pretty sure the old Brylcreem adds used to tout " No Greasy Buildup"

Perhaps compared with pomades and other products, but I still get a layer if I use it regularly or don't shampoo daily.

Thanks to my DW, we dated since JR. High, told me what I wore that drove her crazy. Crazy in a good way, it was English Leather.

I have had a bottle (not the same bottle) of English Leather in the bathroom since the 70s , English Leather and Old Spice are always in there.

Brylcreem, a little dab'l do ya. Brylcreem, you look so debonair.

Brylcreem, a little dab'l do ya. Brylcreem, you look so debonair.

Brylcreem, if I only had hair.

I don't want Brylcreem, Wildroot, Butch Wax, OR Fop . . . I'm a Dapper Dan man!

Like Dan Draper?