Contest Entry - Avon Calling - 1960s

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

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[pronker]

I am so glad you posted! Just the other day, I was telling the Youngest about folks who came to the door: the Bread Truck, the Milk Truck, the Fuller Brush man, the Avon lady ... now, occasionally, there is the Get Your Steaks Off This Meat Truck, or kids selling things for their schools, Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons. There's still the Avon Lady, but she schedules parties or leaves flyers on the door.

Who takes the place of all the Ice Man jokes, I wonder? You know, 'hey, your third kid resembles the Ice Man, harhar!!'

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

My sister-in-law was an Avon Lady and she was always after me to follow in her footsteps, as it were. Could you imagine someone sending a young woman into a stranger's home these days to peddle cosmetics? Ye gads, it's a very different world than the one I grew up in.

We don't even get religious folks anymore.

[pronker]

This is true. There are dangers in working pizza delivery, mail deliver ... (*is grim*) So your sister had a fairly nice run in Avon, I take it. It was fun to anticipate our own Avon lady and order things, the usual suspenseful wait for a few weeks. I'm guessing, but Beeline and other fashion home party companies probably worked the same way.

I wonder why the religious don't call anymore?

We live on fairly busy street on the way to an elementary school; in fact, it's busier than what I thought it would be when we scoped it out before buying. Some friends live on a court and I am jealous.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

She did - for about ten years before she decided enough was enough. It was never a mystery as to what we were going to get for Christmas or birthdays, though.

I don't know. I see the nice young men on the bicycles peddle by our place, but they never stop... well, the one time they did, The Big Guy gave them a lesson on polytheism. Now I think they are afraid of us.

Yes!

[heather mccrillis (from livejournal.com)]

I suppose the dangers are why even the Girl Scouts set up cookie tables in store lobbies nowadays.

Re: Yes!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

You are probably right. What a different world it is now.

[pronker]

Does your street get the Ice Cream Truck? Because I would miss the Ice Cream Truck .. :(

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

We do! It's plays this insane, half-out-of-tune Turkey in the Straw music and it looks like the ice cream truck from hell (all bashed in and scary looking. I would never get ice cream from it).

[pronker]

That's good to hear. Some years back I did an LJ poll and 'Turkey' came in first, followed by 'Little Brown Jug.' Other entries were 'Peter Cottontail' *in November!* and 'Silent Night,' in July.

Where my mom used to live had Mexican vendors walking their carts each day, offering fruit ices and non-dairy stuff like that. Yum!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Oh, we still have those vendors here! We have a large Mexican population here and they are a familiar sight in the summer time. Nothing hits the spot like some of their aqua fresca.

[misstia]

you can have more than one contest entry and you can post entries back to back.....this would get some votes.....please don't feel you have to limit contest entries, you don't!!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay, I'll change the title then.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure my mom had that pink powder puff thingy at lower right. Yes, just because this made me think of her! :)

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I think mine did as well! *grin*