My mother used Prell shampoo. I still remember the color; it was so bright green. And the smell. So unique.
I remember this television ad from 1960 like it was yesterday. I was fascinated when the pearl was dropped in the Prell and watched and watched each time like it was important. Back then, I guess it was.
That was before my time but I've always been fascinated with America in the 1950s and 1960s; the mid-century culture and can-do attitude.
Sky King was a childrens TV show set in the 1950s. Like other television head-of-households of this era, Sky King had a comfortable revenue stream with no occupation other than catching bad guys and flying around in his trusty Cessna 310B appropriately named
Songbird. Always at his side was his perky, young niece Penny-- who also had no scholastic or career endeavors-- but could pout, bat her eyes and ask
"uncle Sky, can I have a pony" or
"can I have an airplane" with such inocence and sincerity she was seldom denied.
"Why sure Penny." Their base of operations was the Flying Crown Ranch, the filming location an actual home on Rancherias Rd. out in Apple Valley, California built decades before suburban encroachment. Today a giant Walmart shopping center lies north, just over the hill. Sky King would never be able to land
Songbird on the busy street and taxi to his front door.
