Overzealous Brush Salesman
I occasionally get salesmen knocking at the front door. Usually they work for roofing contractors or home-security companies, though once I had a guy try to sell me nutritional supplements. But brush salesmen seem to have gone the way of the dodo.
Arizona Republic - Nov 16, 1959
Overzealous Brush Salesman Is Fined
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) — Brush Salesman Stanley Brown paid a $153 fine on charges by a housewife that he tried to force her to get in the bathtub and let him demonstrate a back-scrubbing brush.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) — Brush Salesman Stanley Brown paid a $153 fine on charges by a housewife that he tried to force her to get in the bathtub and let him demonstrate a back-scrubbing brush.
Comments
I remember the Fuller brush man from when I was a kid. There was a 1948 Red Skelton film called The Fuller Brush Man and a 1950 Lucille Ball film called The Fuller Brush Girl. But with fewer stay-at-home housewives, door-to-door salesmen/women have been largely replaced by "parties" selling cosmetics and the like.
Posted by ges on 07/10/16 at 10:41 AM
Not safe to let a strange man in the house when your home alone nowadays anyway.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 07/10/16 at 10:40 PM
At first glance it looked like an overzealous "bush" salesman was the subject and I thought, "Why would anyone go door-to-door selling shrubbery ?" Perhaps the next guy coming along would be selling herring?
Posted by KDP on 07/11/16 at 05:48 PM
KDP: looks like he was trying to get bush by selling his brush.
Brush, ha! Look up the Latin word for it...
Brush, ha! Look up the Latin word for it...
Posted by Richard Bos on 07/13/16 at 08:08 AM
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Category: 1950s