G Washington's Coffee,1919

[booksandcheeses.livejournal.com]

One more from me for tonight. I adore this one--

Comments

[creative-excess.livejournal.com]

If you hadn't written that out, I would still be sitting here, trying to figure out what the product is called. Gmashgmlon's? GNshrnotons?

[tsuki-no-hana.livejournal.com]

I was reading it as Gmashgmlon's, for what it's worth. Fantabulous brand recognition there!

[loreamara.livejournal.com]

I was about to write that comment, but backwards. I was trying to figure it out for a minute or two, and then read the subject.

Mashmgton's?

Who taught them to make a cursive i that way??

[anodracs.livejournal.com]

This ad seems almost Alice in Wonderland-ish to me, for some reason. Also, I wasn't aware that iced coffee was popular in the early part of the 20th century.

[innostrantsa.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! Post-WWI was a huge time for coffee culture. Think of it-- lots of empires (Austro-Hungarian, Prussian, Ottoman, etc.) were broken or weakened after the war, which led to a lot of what's now considered bohemian culture. Where better to be bohemian, than a coffee house? And hot weather is no reason to give up that most cosmopolitan of beverages, yo.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

The ad copy could use some variety; lots of repetition there. I was surprised by the iced coffee suggestion. They had ice in 1919?

[whoseline_wlsc]

teehee! This is cute!

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

I read the tag line on the can as "Made in at the the cup table."

Don't get me started on that crazy script though. Gwashmglons? Sounds like some sort of warrior robot that... omg! Run! he Gwashmglons are attacking! With giant spoons!

[ms-hissyfit.livejournal.com]

That is a mental picture, which is in both parts adorable and frightening. Now I imagine a kitchen floor filled with small, but determined Gwashmglons...