
I still can vividly remember the sting of it. One of the tricks my Mother also had was to add Mercurochrome to baby oil and use the concoction as a tanning lotion.
Even as young as two or three she'd slather that on me when we got to the beach, and by the time we got back home I'd look like Little Black Sambo...
Wildwood, New Jersey. Wudda stud...


"I was born a poor black child." Navin Johnson (h/t The Jerk)
ReplyDeleteYou turned out the way you turned out because you were raised by your parent's generation. Your kids turned out the way they did because they were raised by YOUR generation.
ReplyDeleteGoing down to wildwood cantt wait for it to open
ReplyDeletemercurochrome was for the rich kids. We had merthiolate.
ReplyDeleteYou folks just can't get it straight, Mercurochrome didn't sting. Metholiade did!!!
ReplyDeleteMerthiolate seperated men from babies.
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