The little colored astroids on the Steelers helmets is (more or less) the Steelmark, a logo owned by the American Iron and Steel Institute. Once… Read More »Sunday Football TIL Special: The Steelers and the Steelmark
Photo by Grasons.
With a sack full of lemons. The company is Limoneira, based in Santa Paula. I actually own stock in them. They’re big in Lemons and… Read More »Santa from Santa Paula
The former owner was clearly not a vegetable, if you get my drift. Photo by Integrity First.
Photo by Integrity First.
This looks to be the 100th anniversary tin made in 1987. It looks like the log cabin shaped tins were last really used in the… Read More »Tin Log Cabin Syrup & Wire Woven Asbestos Kindlers
Sounds like a Chardonnay. Photo by True Legacy.
Wikipedia tells us this snake oil didn’t actually have much lithium in it, so in 1917 they had to change the name to Buffalo Mineral… Read More »Buffalo Lithia Water
Big Mac joining forces with Big International Bureau for Weights and Measures in 1974. Even Ronald McDonald wasn’t enough to successfully import these foreign units… Read More »McDonaldland and the McMetric System
Despite the aggressively American name, Florida Boy Orange was a popular orange drink marketed in Germany by Pepsi in the 1970s. I gather it was… Read More »Florida Boy Orange Car – Naturally without Carbonic Acid