Smith Brothers Cough Drops
 

Tried today Chek Black Cherry soda, a house brand at Winn-Dixie. Had an instant flashback to those cough drops. Unfortunately Smith Brothers went out of business, but the flashback was exhilarating.

Didn't they have some licorice-flavored ones too?

Didn't see any. But, will try Red Cream next. Hopefully it will taste like the A-Treat brand from my golden years.

I like the Ludens sugar free wild cherry cough drops. But, I hate menthol cough drops, or menthol anything.

Yup, delicious ones. Made it enjoyable to have a cough.

Didnt know Smith bros went out of business. Good bunch of guys.

y'all have way too much time on your hands.

:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl::clap2:

Try to find "ludens" brand

The Smith Brothers factory was in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Smith Bros are back!
 

They are now made by another company

Yup .... the Smith brothers, they were named Trade and Mark .....it shows it on the label.

Smith Bros. wild cherry cough drops were the only thing that we were allowed to eat during class when I was in grade school

not sure that I ever had a sore throat...I just loved the taste

We've earned it

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Isn’t that retirement? LOL

It would be nice if now and then one could just reminisce without ridicule.

I don't think that it's "ridicule" .... it's just satire, "senior style". Reminiscing is good.....
Speaking of reminiscing, does anybody remember the tv commercial for Halo shampoo and the jingle that went along with it?
After 70 plus years, it just popped into my head the other day.

Some History
 

In Poughkeepsie they had a restaurant which also had a very large "Soda Fountain" and white marble floors. Across the street was the Nelson House Hotel which was the major hotel in the area and when passing through Poughkeepsie, President Roosevelt would sometimes stop at the front of the hotel and say a few words to the residents. He lived in Hyde Park which was about 5 miles from the Hotel and Smith Brothers Restaurant. Next to Hyde Park was a large catholic school for priests. Today that is now the Cullinary Institute of America with about 2000 students and next door (about 2 miles away) is Marist College. And about 3 miles north of Smith Brothers Restaurant is the famous Vassar College which in the early days was for Women only and Yale Students were bused to Vassar to be dates for the Women. in the late 50's early 60's Vassar was opened up to include men. Unfortunately, with the opening of a large Mall
about 7 miles from Poughkeepsie a number of business's are now closed and the city
has suffered from this change. The large IBM Manufacturing which in the 60-90's employed about 27,000 is now a twinkle of what is was in the hey days of the very large
computers. Just a little history of the Smith Brothers area when they made Cough
Drops. :popcorn:

A-Treat.
 

A-Treat
Red Cream. Drank a lot of that in Allentown.