I forget the name of this shop, but I do remember that it was located in a building on West 57th Street in Manhattan, not too far from Fifth Avenue. (The name “yellow pages” comes from the yellow paper used to print the numbers on residential phone numbers were in a separate book with white pages.) Sorry, I digress, so I looked in the phone book and found a place that repaired Ronson Lighters and sold replacement parts. Issued by the local telephone company every year, for free, the “Yellow Pages” listed the phone numbers for business. We would turn to a large book called the “Yellow Pages”. Now for any readers who are too young to remember the world before the internet, we did have a resource to help us find things. Watching the cartoon as a kid I never imagined we'd be living it.Ĭreate an account or login in order to post a comment.The Ronson Touch Tip lighter wand I purchased in 1995. I never paid much attention in the past but now when I see items like the lighter I think of George and The Jetsons. Anyway, that lighter reminds me of my Rocketeer. They also stopped using the black japanned finish and began using the colorful auto paints too. In fact, I have a whole collection of mid-century machines that have auto-inspired "dashboard" instrumentation.
I have a Singer sewing machine nicknamed "The Rocketeer" that is so iconic of that swooped style. Masterpearl, Yes, he had to have his Cadillacs too. I guess this is what they call naustalgias. I like how you compared it to car fenders and rockets. You're both right about the style reminiscent of the 50s. You can see the mid-century styling in the nod to the "rocket" style of the old car fenders from the 50's. This is the design/type of Ronson that he used in atleast the 1950's that I can verify in regard to the time period. He always was very well dressed and purchased things of high value. My father always used them back in the 50's and I remember them well.
Masterpearl, Just happened along on your post and recognized your Ronson lighter.
Lol.It is the movement it has in the Style. The lighters were built in to the stand.īTW I've never seen one that was 14ct gold in a ashtray so im probably wrong. They look a lot like the lighters I've seen with an ash tray stand. This one makes me feel like going to the moon. My father had one in the 1960s, he smoked 40 embassy a day, he bought it from new, I think it was in 1966
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