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Moon Girl Butter: 1922
Washington, D.C., 1922. "Food Show. Borden Creamery booth." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.
Strange duo
Sort of weird to see ammonia and butter being sold or advertised together.
Err Quotes
Check the autograph site Hollywood Collectors Show if you want to see excessive, annoying use of quotation marks (as well as italics, bold and colors) in modern times.
[Wow. Annoying. Extremely annoying! - Dave]
Love the Shoes
I need to stick a Post-it in my time machine: "When you get to the 1920s, remember to BUY SHOES!"
Quote Pure Unquote
You see quotation marks used in this fashion quite frequently in ads, signs and slogans from around this period. Seems to have been done for emphasis rather than as a disclaimer. The practice was definitely old-hat by the time I was earning my wise-guy wings and enjoyed sniggering over the literal implications whenever an instance was observed.
Buttermilk
Yuck, my great-grandfather always poured it over his raisin bran every morning.
I love Gulden's Mustard, good to see the brand is still around after 86 years.
Begin the countdown
Now that Shorpy has given the world "Moon Girl Butter," it can't take more than, say, two or three days before a rock band, or at least a rock song/album, receives that title.
"Dude, have you heard the new Moon Girl Butter track?"
Booth Babes
The butter girls were probably cuter than the adjoining ones selling mustard and ammonia. They would have an easier time giving out samples, too.
Those metal plates along the roof look like a radiator system.
Use More Butter!
I love the counter display advertising in this one. I wonder if the ammonia display people to our left had a girl to attract attention too?
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