This feels uncanny to me, because some of the sights and sounds remind me so much of my dad’s side of the family (I notice the sales label is marked Tennessee).
Irene looks like my late grandma Opal, who is buried between my paternal grandad and step-grandad out in Jackson, TN. The accents in the video aren’t quite as thick as my family on that side, but they do remind me of them.
I used to see machines like this a lot in the 70’s because my step-grandad was a real estate agent out of Murray, KY. My uncle ran the Levi’s jeans factory in the area until they shut down and moved production in the late 70’s.
I believe they were on good terms with the Ellis Popcorn Company, because we’d always go home with a couple of large tins of Blue Ribbon popcorn my step-grandad said he’d got from the Ellis’.
Don’t forget to save a few whole kernels for the cornbread, that’s how I like it!
