Thursday, November 19, 2009

Swing on Down to IDEAL

Remember that commerical for this store called Ideal. It sang "If you got a passion for fashion and you got a craving for savings...
Well, a friend reminded that the same commerical would say. "Its not a Quonset Hut. I laughed so hard but asked what the HELL is a Quonset Hut.
Read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut
Here is a photo of one. I guess we were still in a post WW2 mode.

3 comments:

Stuart said...

Oh yes those commercials were catchy in a most annoying way. I had forgotten all about them.

Calhoun said...

Actually Ideal was a Quonset hut. The ad began with the following sentence: It not a fancy salon; it's nothing but a Quonset hut...But..." And then the jingle began ("If you've got a passion for fashion...).

Unknown said...

You are CORRECT. Thanks for clearing that up. Remember "General Copper and Brass Co??? They had an ad that ran the same time. "Mr Copper buyer..