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Liquid Dividends
What else could you do with your inventory on the eve of Prohibition?
Source: Fall River Daily Evening News (Fall River, Massachusetts) 14 Jan 1920, Wed Page 7
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 04, 2021 -
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Category: Censorship, Bluenoses, Taboos, Prohibitions and Other Cultural No-No’s, Freebies, Come-ons and Loss Leaders, 1920s, Alcohol
Crater Critters and Kin
Between 1959 and 1977, an Australian company based in Melbourne called Rosenhain and Lipmann (commonly known as R&L) designed and manufactured unique and innovative toys that became hugely popular both in Australia and overseas.[1] R&L started out making snap-together items that worked like tiny plastic model kits that didn't need any glue and were issued in a clear glassine bag, inside Kellogg's cereal boxes. Between 1959 and 1977, over 70 different sets were released and it is estimated that about one billion R&L toys were delivered around the world.
Quote from Wikipedia entry.
Explore all the sets at this great site.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 31, 2019 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Food, Freebies, Come-ons and Loss Leaders, Twentieth Century
The World’s Most Unusual Drugstore
See their complete 1942 ad here.
"Stack it high and sell it cheap" was Doc Webb's motto. Over the years, he built his empire from a small drug store at Ninth Street and Second Avenue, opened in 1925, to a sprawling bazaar of 77 stores, covering seven city blocks. Webb was as much a national legend as his stores. The unorthodox, merchandising medicine man always had a gimmick to lure thousands of customers through the doors. At ten cents a dance, no wonder the Dancing Chicken generated excitement at Webb's City in this 1975 photo. He sold dollar bills for 89 cents and bought them back the next day for $1.35. He offered three-cent breakfasts, brought in animals that performed at the drop of a coin and mermaids who "talked." He made other merchants mad because he sold his wares below the suppliers' suggested prices.
Article source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 20, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Freebies, Come-ons and Loss Leaders, Eccentrics, Regionalism, Twentieth Century
The Pepsi Cola Shopping Spree of 1964 and 1965
Why don't we have these contests anymore?
Original ad here.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 30, 2016 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Family, Food, Advertising, Freebies, Come-ons and Loss Leaders, 1960s
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