LA ZOOS

Not an ad for multiple animal parks here in Los Angeles. Rather this is for cigars from the B & B Cigar company of Kalamazoo, Michigan. That explains the ‘zoo’, but wherefore the ‘la’? Evidently it was thought adopting a touch of Spanish might lead people to believe these hailed from Cuba rather than the Great Lakes. More about the cigar business of Kalamazoo and the labor strike of 1908 from the good people at the Kalamazoo Public Library.

Photo by Triumphant.