The elephant paper roll.
is the age of Scottex, sold in packages of 12, 24, 36, 48, ... If we continue like we all have to buy a car to buy then ranchera package rolls hygienic, as the Americans have almost all cars ranchera, so they must have made toilet paper multinationals such package sizes.
In my childhood was different buying toilet paper one at a time and often the voice of a mother who said, "Boy, get down to the drugstore to a roll, that s' acabao and is your father at night. "
And the boy down to the drugstore, where the druggist in addition to selling the elephant rolls, sold colonies, detergents, soaps, bleaches and scouring pans and brooms.
Where will the etymology of the word drugstore, perhaps because the detergent and bleach are toxic, like a drug, the fact is that drug stores and druggists have faded with the role of the elephant and the evolution of turn of the century while his countryman were appearing etymological drug addicts or junkies, for the slang, hopefully, if extinguished as soon as possible in this century by the longer we go.
And if we are in the second decade of the century and everything that happened in the second half of the twentieth century already belongs to history, but for which we live is nice to remember because it is our and for those that do not you lived you may be surprised how different was the world.
anyone say, seems to speak of the last century, and that is that what I speak, of the last century.
Returning to the protagonist de nuestra historia, había otro competidor suyo que recuerdo, debía ser una segunda marca propia o un plagio de la competencia, era el rollo de papel del rinoceronte, es una pena que no hayan perdurado tan bonitos nombres con el tiempo como sin embargo si lo hizo el otro rey de los cuartos de baño el señor Roca .
Y como era el rollo de papel del elefante, pues era un papel de color madera de extraordinaria áspera suavidad que nos curtía como hombres y como mujeres, los papeles higiénicos de hoy hacen a las personas blandengues, el que no ha conocido el elefante no sabe lo que es la palabra rudo.
And even at times had the rough-soft elephant paper, toilet paper is a standard of quality of life can not be waived in the twenty-first century Western society but in the early decades of the second half of the twentieth century had a more casual competitor economic and not very different in quality as the base, this was the newspaper, but it sounds Third books of the time Spain did not qualify for third world by the hair, but by a few decades that the country had emerged from the most absolute poverty in which he left the civil war, and then to Spain and invented the term of any other developing country.
Another substitute the role of the elephant were outdated telephone directories in Madrid were five huge, two streets, two surnames, and yellow pages, the five published in a very fine Bible paper, a luxury compared with the roughness of the role of the elephant.
must also remember other more noble role of newsprint was none other than serve as a wrap sandwiches that hungry Spain, there were still many years to appear foil and Perico Delgado winning Tour the Reynolds team that was the most famous brand in its early role aluminum and advertising this new product needed to unseat the economic newspaper.
In those days we were mediocre in all sports, perhaps for reasons including poor nutrition of the war that did undermine one cm height of the previous generations to yogurt, other timid character who appeared in those years wanting to make a hole in our refrigerators that were also beginning to appear in homes, our mothers, who are now between 80 and 85 years were the first that had a refrigerator, washing machine and mop, my grandmothers born in the last two centuries by the hair, and remembered my dear Aurora in 1898 and Alberta in 1899, had no refrigerator until they were very very old, late 60's, until then also washed clothes by hand rubbing against the wood table as wavy the laundry in the river of the manger in Bethlehem, and scrubbed the floor on their knees all his life for the mop stick look pretty normal now was invented very, very modern.
cold And we spent all those years, the houses had then and my parents bought it new to extreme in 61, two years before I was born, they say that they had a kitchen coal cast-in wall inside a cabinet niche, which in a few years was replaced by a gas stoves were placed on a table until they began to join a unit with oven and even a cupboard for the gas cylinder.
Sometimes I can not believe the difference between the world I knew in my childhood and that we live in Internet and mobile phones, and I am relatively young for my 47 years I have left " see?
