Hi.
So I really couldn’t find any reference to dad’s Ipana Girl. And no other Ipana image I saw came close to the beauty of the girl above the door in the ‘rage. Ipana was a toothpaste brand by the Bristol-Myers Company released in 1901, and reached its height of popularity in the 50s with a Disney-created mascot, Bucky Beaver, who sang a particularly annoying song. Ipana toothpaste declined over time with a combination of excluding men from their marketing, competition from Colgate, and recalling the product after finding out that an ingredient called hexachlorophene was actually quite dangerous. I also read on several sites that Ipana used asbestos fibres in the toothpaste for their abrasive quality. SO there’s that.
Farewell Ipana Lady. All through my childhood, I truly believed that you were dad’s girlfriend – even though I sort of knew it also wasn’t true.
Remembering Salv Caleo 