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♫♪♫.•* “We’ve got to move these refrigerators'' *•♫♪♫ --- Dire Straits 3 week Number One Song - "Money for Nothing"
When I was in High School, I bought an older, previously owned, 1953 Pale Sky Blue Chevy Bel Aire for $250 which I customized complete with having it painted a Beautiful “Polar White.”
After seeing that brand new cold, cool color, my friends immediately nick-named my car . . . “The Refrigerator!”
It had a radio in it.
In 1956, before I was in High School, the Philips Fridge Company made a pretty unique Refrigerator. It was available in a Beautiful “Artic White!”
It had a radio in it!
A Crosley Radio.
Now, take a look at my Dad’s Old Floor Model Crosley Console Radio.
It has the same Crosley Radio Tuning Dial!
For the Hysterical Historical Record, that Refrigerator Feature was not the first! This Dual-Purpose Radio-Refridge Concept was tried, with limited success, earlier in the 1930s by another company!
And again in 1974.
Now that one not only had a Radio but a Tape Cassette Player-Recorder built in too! Can you imagine having one of these during the Peak Forgotten Hits years where you could listen to a radio playing so many future Forgotten Hits?! Or listening to your “Favorite Hit Music Cassette Mix Tapes?! All while you’re in the kitchen cooking up great dishes as inspired by Mark Bego’s Cookbook, “Eat Like a Rock Star?!”
It was just three years later, a big TV campaign was launched for this Refrigerator featuring that Great Forgotten Hit, Foreigner’s “Cold as Ice” as its background music!
OK, I might have made that last line about Foreigner up, but still . . . the rest is true!
CB ( which stands for “Cold-storage Boy!” )
Being a life-long born and bred Chicago Boy (my OWN "CB" moniker, I guess!), the only refrigerator that comes immediately to MY mind is this one ...
Which, of course, brings to mind the IMMEDIATE question for the ages ...
How is it possible that William "Refrigerator" Perry has a Super Bowl Touchdown on his resume ...
But Walter Payton DOESN'T?!?!?
It just goes to show that some things in life just aren't fair.
(And from what I've heard, this little statistic flaw haunted "Sweetness" for the rest of his life)
Me ... and Walter ... and the kids, circa 1993 ...
Incredibly, now THIRTY years ago!!!
