What a great collection! Our cousins Rex and Coco Doane have stuff like this and my favorite is a display for synthetic hair nets with the slogan "Fits like a human hair net!" That phrase haunts me.
Re: "chiropedic", sometimes companies make up words that sound like another word when they can't legally use the word they want to use.
In the 50s and 60s, Procter & Gamble wanted to advertise the germ-killing capabilities of Dreft laundry detergent, back when a lot of baby laundry consisted of dirty cloth diapers. Dreft wasn't powerful enough to be considered germicidal or antiseptic--about the only thing you could put in your wash that was truly germicidal was Lysol or bleach, and nothing really was antiseptic when diluted in wash water. So, the marketeers came up with the term "Germaseptic"--a term that meant nothing, but got the idea they wanted to get across, across.
For what it’s worth, Trim is my favorite brand of nail clippers. And I’m someone who has been diagnosed with OCD for clipping my nails, so my endorsement might mean a little more due to volume.
Gibbons! I actually have a Stegmaier tray on a ledge in my kitchen (and a tap in one of my storage bins). They were the two big beers in my father's hometown, Wilkes-Barre, PA, and when we went out to the area to visit the relatives, I know my Uncle Gene had trays from both brands. I always got a kick out of Gibbons' slogan: "Gibbons ... is good." Guess that's what passed for marketing those days.
No. That's the recent revived version. The one I have is from the late '50s, with cartoon chipmunks around a bottle out by a lakefront with the slogans "Cold and gold from the Poconos" and "Brewed to the taste of the nation." Wish I could post a photo. I actually bought it for my father one Christmas and took it back after he was gone and we sold the. house.
I couldn't help but notice the Peoples beer tray in your kitchen. I've got the exact same one on display in my office at home. Incidentally, I was shocked one night to see the Peoples logo randomly show up on bottles and on taps in a barroom scene in the Amazon series "The Man in the High Castle." Weird to see a long-defunct strictly Wisconsin brand show up like that, and not, say, Heisler, the usual TV fake beer brand.
That Texas Ware display is a treat to see. Personally, I've loved Texas Ware since childhood because of the colorful speckled colors of the line of products that use industrial scraps. So it's interesting to see how the manufacturer was focused on advertising the durability rather than the aesthetics of the line.
"Paul Lukas has multiple vintage advertising displays about toenail clippers" sounds like a sentence that would be in an "about the author" kind of blurb.
My favorite novel is 'The Mezzanine' by Nicholson Baker, a masterpiece of inconspicuous observation. Baker also wrote a brilliant 1994 piece for 'The New Yorker' about the manufacturing of nail clippers. It's available in the NYer archives: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/11/07/clip-art
What a great collection! Our cousins Rex and Coco Doane have stuff like this and my favorite is a display for synthetic hair nets with the slogan "Fits like a human hair net!" That phrase haunts me.
Rex and Coco are longtime friends of mine. Their collection includes some stuff that they bought from me when I had a moving sale in 2018!
I was pretty sure they are. My husband is Rex's cousin. We just went on a baseball trip to North Carolina together.
Re: "chiropedic", sometimes companies make up words that sound like another word when they can't legally use the word they want to use.
In the 50s and 60s, Procter & Gamble wanted to advertise the germ-killing capabilities of Dreft laundry detergent, back when a lot of baby laundry consisted of dirty cloth diapers. Dreft wasn't powerful enough to be considered germicidal or antiseptic--about the only thing you could put in your wash that was truly germicidal was Lysol or bleach, and nothing really was antiseptic when diluted in wash water. So, the marketeers came up with the term "Germaseptic"--a term that meant nothing, but got the idea they wanted to get across, across.
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I have that same Ballantine beer tray!
The typography on the Texas Ware piece is fabulous!
Yeah, I’m gonna have to order some blood and tongue head cheese for sure….
Re: the toenail clipper ad. I am more puzzled by “shapes toenails correctly.” What is correct and who is in charge of setting the standard?
I think the idea is that the "correct" way won't result in an ingrown toenail.
For what it’s worth, Trim is my favorite brand of nail clippers. And I’m someone who has been diagnosed with OCD for clipping my nails, so my endorsement might mean a little more due to volume.
Gibbons! I actually have a Stegmaier tray on a ledge in my kitchen (and a tap in one of my storage bins). They were the two big beers in my father's hometown, Wilkes-Barre, PA, and when we went out to the area to visit the relatives, I know my Uncle Gene had trays from both brands. I always got a kick out of Gibbons' slogan: "Gibbons ... is good." Guess that's what passed for marketing those days.
Stegmaier Porter (with the horse on the label)?
No. That's the recent revived version. The one I have is from the late '50s, with cartoon chipmunks around a bottle out by a lakefront with the slogans "Cold and gold from the Poconos" and "Brewed to the taste of the nation." Wish I could post a photo. I actually bought it for my father one Christmas and took it back after he was gone and we sold the. house.
I couldn't help but notice the Peoples beer tray in your kitchen. I've got the exact same one on display in my office at home. Incidentally, I was shocked one night to see the Peoples logo randomly show up on bottles and on taps in a barroom scene in the Amazon series "The Man in the High Castle." Weird to see a long-defunct strictly Wisconsin brand show up like that, and not, say, Heisler, the usual TV fake beer brand.
I love everything about that brand. "Brewed to Please YOU!" I also have this ball knob: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54105428548_1a49eee8a7_h.jpg
That Texas Ware display is a treat to see. Personally, I've loved Texas Ware since childhood because of the colorful speckled colors of the line of products that use industrial scraps. So it's interesting to see how the manufacturer was focused on advertising the durability rather than the aesthetics of the line.
"Paul Lukas has multiple vintage advertising displays about toenail clippers" sounds like a sentence that would be in an "about the author" kind of blurb.
The thing is, I don't *want* more than one. That's why I'm selling two of them!
One is still more than most of us have.
Why aren't toenail clippers treated with the same respect as Brannock Devices?
Feet and shoes are structurally important, toenails are more small and icky?
My favorite novel is 'The Mezzanine' by Nicholson Baker, a masterpiece of inconspicuous observation. Baker also wrote a brilliant 1994 piece for 'The New Yorker' about the manufacturing of nail clippers. It's available in the NYer archives: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/11/07/clip-art