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Snacking in the Sixties

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:52:07 +0000

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of lines/stripes.

Five boys are sitting at a patio table in the back yard as they drink Food Fair root beer and orange soda and snack on Wheat Thins, twin pops, and Fruit Flavored Slices. Three of the boys are wearing striped shirts, and the two oldest boys look similar enough to be brothers or maybe even twins.

The Kodak Paper stamp box on the other side of this real photo postcard was first used around 1950. The design of the Wheat Thins box on the table suggests a date sometime in the sixties based on the Nabisco Wheat Thins - 1960s image posted on Flickr by Brandon (Waffle Whiffler).

Update: After another Alan commented on Flickr that he was getting a sixties vibe from this photo, I did some additional checking and found a clearer example of the side of the box (see Nabisco Wheat Thins - 1960s). I revised the title and description to reflect that these kids were probably snacking in the sixties rather than the seventies.

Who Was That Masked Man?

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 03:52:02 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of Halloween (costumes, masks, jack-o'-lanterns, decorations, ghosts, gravestones, or anything else spooky or scary; no limit—post as many Halloween photos as you'd like).

A photo of a man (or possibly a woman) wearing a grotesque mask, overalls, suit jacket, gloves, neckerchief, and straw hat. He's carrying a cane in one hand and a package wrapped in newspapers in the other.

Could this be a Halloween costume? If so, is he dressed as a farmer? Or do the cane and package suggest a stick-type bindle characteristic of a hobo?

This is an unused real photo postcard with an AGFA-ANSCO stamp box on the other side, which indicates that it may date to the 1930s or 1940s.

A couple of other details point to a specific locale. First, under magnification, the heading on part of the bundled up newspapers says, "New Era," so it's possible that it was the Lancaster New Era, a paper published in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Secondly, a pouch of "Good Bite" chewing tobacco with a fish logo is sticking out of the breast pocket on the man's suit jacket. The Good Bite brand of chewing tobacco originated in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

For some other disconcerting masks, see Costume Creepiness.

Punxsutawney Phil Chocolates for Groundhog Day, February 2, 2019

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 17:11:02 +0000

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I spotted this store display of Punxsutawney Phil groundhogs rendered in solid milk chocolate at a Gardners Candies store in State College, Pennsylvania, last year.

I'm pleased to report today on Groundhog Day, February 2, 2019, that the esteemed rodent has predicted an early spring this year. Despite CNN's cynicism—see Groundhog predicts an early spring. Don't get too excited, he's usually wrong—I'm optimistic that the long national nightmare of last week's polar vortex is finally over.

Easy-Lite Gold Sparklers Box

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:30:07 +0000

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Sparkler box with unique typefaces for Fourth of July merriment.

Cracker Jack Riddles

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 01:50:41 +0000

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Cracker Jack Riddle cards like this one were issued in sets of twenty in 1906. They included well-worn humorous riddles that circulated widely in books and newspapers at the time. A book of Conundrums, Riddles, and Puzzles by Dean Rivers that appeared in 1903, for instance, contained all the riddles on this card and probably most or all of the ones on the other nineteen cards.

Cracker Jack

It is not often one can find
A candy good for body and mind,
But our old doctor says it's true
That "Cracker Jack" is good for you.

This famous confection is manufactured from choice, wholesome materials and blended together in a scientific manner. Cracker Jack is a combination of candy, popcorn, and peanuts, and it is very nutritious as well as palatable. It is more easily digested and assimilated than richly made candies. It is good alike for young and old.

The more you eat
The more you want.

Manufactured by Rueckheim Bros. & Eckstein, Chicago, U.S.A.

See riddles on other side.

"Cracker Jack" Riddles

What relation is a door mat to a door step? A step farther.

What is the difference between one yard and two yards? A fence.

How do we know that Noah had a pig in the ark? Because he had Ham.

When is money damp? When it is due in the morning and missed at night.

What is the cheapest way to buy a fiddle? Buy a little medicine and get a vial in?

How may book-keeping be taught in a lesson of three words? Never lend them.

Why are records brittle things? Because they cannot be lowered without breaking.

When did George Washington first take a carriage? When he took a hack at the cherry tree.

What is the difference between forms and ceremonies? You sit upon one and stand on the other.

Why do girls kiss each other and men not? Because girls have nothing better to kiss, and men have.

Why were the brokers in the panic of 1873 like Pharaoh's daughter? They saved a little prophet from the rushes on the banks.

Send name and address with 2c stamp and receive a full set (20 different kinds) of our famous "Cracker Jack" Riddle Cards.

Astro Bow—Get in Orbit and Go Go Go!

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 10 May 2017 18:01:04 +0000

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"Astro Bow. Get in orbit. Go-go-go. 39¢. Buser Century, Inc."

A black velvet hair bow shaped like a space capsule!

"Get in Orbit" and "Go Go Go" with "Astro Bow" is what the printed card is telling us. What Space Age gal could resist something like this?

Leave It to Beaver Rocket to the Moon Space Game

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:08:44 +0000

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"Leave It to Beaver Rocket to the Moon Space Game. Thrills with Beaver on a race to the moon. As seen on A.B.C. television coast-to-coast."

The disembodied head of Beaver Cleaver floats in space somewhere between the earth and moon on the lid of this 1958 board game tie-in with the TV show Leave It to Beaver.

Dwarf Nasturtium Seed Packet

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:16:46 +0000

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"Nasturtium Dwarf. Price 5¢."

An early chromolithographed seed packet from the William D. Burt seed company of Dalton, N.Y.

Hinkle's Handy Easter Egg Colors

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 19:47:57 +0000

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"Hinkle's Handy Egg Colors. Manufactured by Hinkle Drug Co., Columbia, Pa....Not for use in coloring any food except shell eggs. Contents--6 one-dram bottles."

Front panel of a small box containing six small glass tubes with corks. Inside the glass tubes are the dried-out remains of the different colors of Easter egg dye.

Dot Razor Blades

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 19:26:34 +0000

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Top panel from a small packet of Dot Razor Blades.

See also Clix Thin Double-Edge Razor Blades.

Clix Thin Double-Edge Razor Blades

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 19:26:32 +0000

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Top panel from a small packet of Clix Thin Double-Edge Razor Blades.

See also Dot Razor Blades.

Spencerian Steel Pens Are the Best

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:10:46 +0000

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"Spencerian Steel Pens are the best. Da locum melioribus."

Cover of a folded nib card, circa 1890s. Nib pens (or dip pens) were used for Spencerian Script and other writing styles. The metal tips, or nibs, of the pens were sold separately, and some came in small cardboard folders that had covers with elaborate designs like this.

I Am Sending by Adams Express a Christmas Package to Your Address

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 03:07:27 +0000

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Adams Express Company is now a "publicly traded diversified equity fund," as Wikipedia puts it, but in the early part of the twentieth century it was still a shipping company, like UPS and FedEx are today. Back then, you could use this postcard to poetically alert a friend or relative to the imminent delivery of a Christmas present by the Adams Express Company.

Adams Express Company

Today I am sending by Adams Express
A Christmas package to your address;
And furthermore I wish to say,
Don't open until Christmas day.

They Are on the Way from the Harrisburger Hotel, Harrisburg, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:09:54 +0000

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"They are on the way now. Harrisburg, Pa., ________. Dear ________. We are pleased to inform you that we are forwarding today--____ letters ____packages. And we have noted your change of address on our records. J. A. Johnson, manager. The Harrisburger, Harrisburg's newest hotel, Harrisburg, Pa. U.S.M. Doc Rankin."

Man with a Package, Movie Shots Photo, Philadelphia, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:11:10 +0000

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An undated real photo postcard. A man carrying a package was hurriedly walking down the street when the Movie Shots photographer took his picture.

For a similar photo, see Woman Walking, Movie Shots Photo, Philadelphia, Pa.

Planters Nut and Chocolate Company

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:43:49 +0000

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"Shepard Stern, representing Planters Nut and Chocolate Company, Suffolk, Va., Atlanta, Ga., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Planters Peanuts, 5¢."

"Reminder! Order Planters Peanuts. Thank you."

Kiss-L-Toe

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 21:45:56 +0000

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Vintage Kiss-L-Toe packages dating to the 1950s on display at the National Christmas Center in Paradise, Lancaster County, Pa., in 2009.

Fireproof Christmas Snow for Decorating Christmas Trees

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:58:01 +0000

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"Holiday House. Fireproof Christmas Snow for decorating Christmas trees."

Front panel of a cardboard box that still contained a few of the shiny fireproof Christmas snowflakes (these were mica flakes, fortunately, and not asbestos snow).

Checkers with Board

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:12:38 +0000

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"Checkers with board. Contents, 24 pieces." This is the top of a box containing a pocket-size checkerboard.

Always Handy and a Boon When Traveling

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 20:40:18 +0000

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"Pocket Chess and Checkers. Always handy and a boon when traveling. Made in Hong Kong."