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| The Brady picnic basket today |
We went on quite a few picnics in the 1960s, usually as part of a day of swimming. Mom would pack a picnic lunch and we'd head out to East Harbor State Park, or perhaps Findley State Park. (Lakeview Park didn't have much of a beach back then.) The basket always contained the things needed to eat outside, such as a plastic tablecloth, paper plates, the thumbtacks to hold everything in place on the table, plastic silverware, a brush to clean the table, etc. Everything else (sandwiches, pop, etc.) fit nicely in our huge Coleman cooler.
Food just seemed to taste better outside. Of course, you had to keep the potato salad out of the sun.
Anyway, the Brady picnic basket saw a lot of action over the years. It was pressed back into service decades later when the Texas Bradys (including my young nephews) came to Ohio for their annual visit.
Once in a while, rather than pack sandwiches in a cooler, it was easier to just pick up a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken to bring along. And that's the same theme of this full-page Manners ad, which ran in the Journal back on July 1, 1963. The idea was to pick up a convenient Country Cousin Chicken Chick-nic pack, which came with chicken, dinner rolls and six cans of Coke. It was a pretty good deal.
4 comments:
Down here in Texas they still have the roadside picnic tables here and there on country roads. A sign, a little pull-off, sometimes a little shelter over it. Sometimes a single table, sometimes a few. A reminder of good old times back in Ohio.
Hey Dan - Sometimes on my drive back to Lorain from Nashville I’ll stop off in Louisville for a Frisch’s Big Boy (still taste great)! They seem to be getting harder and harder to find. They closed one other Louisville location. In the Spring we drove up to Lorain on I-75 instead of I-71 planning on eating at the BB in Oregon OH but sadly found out they were closed too. Thank goodness there’s always O-Boy. Todd
The Hilton crew were never much for pick-a-nicks.
My dad (b 1915) always said his dad (b 1877) always said, "The times are changing. Used to be we ate inside and sh!t outside. Now, we eat outside and sh!t inside. I guess that's progress."
Now, I always say it, and I suspect my kid will always say it, too!
There are Frisch's Big Boys in Fremont and Tiffin I think.The Tiffin one is tiny.Like a mini sized version.
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