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Texas
Cucumber Billboard Offends Some Texans – North Texas in a Pickle!
At first glance, it looks like a cartoon character. But a closer look reveals something much more revealing. The billboard was put up by the companies Condoms to Go and Sara's Secret. KTVT / KTXA
LANCASTER, Texas (CBS) ―At first glance, it looks like a cartoon character. But a closer look reveals something much more revealing. A billboard along Interstate-35 in Lancaster is packing quite a sexual punch and some North Texans aren’t amused. – WJZ13
Here’s a peek at Sara’s Secret’s ad campaign:
North Texans usually aren’t amused. While driving through this past summer, it was all about cows, anti-abortion billboards, and most counties were dry counties (you have to drive over a hundred miles for a beer). Given the problem of the flies and the dust, maybe these billboards are the least of their problems. Sure sounds like someone will be in a pickle!
Selz Royal Blue Shoes – Whitehall, Illinois – Bob Kisken & E. Leatherberry
© Bob Kisken
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Arizona Journal-Miner March 19, 1905
The Gazette Times - June 4, 1908
Selz Royal Blue, N.H. Putnam, Kentucky, Lebanon © E. Leatherberry - Flickr
Selz “Royal Blue” shoes were manufactured by a German immigrant, Rolf Selz. The company closed in the late 1940s. It is said the the Selz Company made a pair of shoes for Queen Elizabeth giving it the right to use the word “Royal” in advertisements. – Leatherberry
Selz Royal Blue Shoes, Texas, Hillsboro © E. Leatherberry - Flickr
colorantshistory.org's Robert Baptista Photographs Ads & Ephemera
Mail Pouch Tobacco – Dover, NJ 1991 © colorantshistory.org/Robert Baptista
Edgerton Photographer – Beaumont, TX 1994 © colorantshistory.org/Robert Baptista
Intercoastal Mercantile Co. 1918 – Vinton, LA 1996
Russo Auto Wreckers- Elizabeth, NJ 1994 © colorantshistory.org/Robert Baptista
Aroy Building 1930 – Pt. Arthur, TX 1999 © colorantshistory.org/Robert Baptista
Borne Chemical Co., Elizabeth, NJ 1997 © colorantshistory.org/Robert Baptista
Goodyear Tires – Myersville, NJ 1998 © colorantshistory.org/Robert Baptista
Kolsch Beer – Leverkusen, Germany 1999 © colorantshistory.org/Robert Baptista
Hi Frank,
Looking at your vast site reminded me of some photos of ads on buildings I have shot in the past. Attached are some that you are welcome to post at your site.
Best Regards,
Robert Baptista
Outstanding shots Robert! -FHJ
The Borne Chemical Co. depicted in the 1997 photo was located on a 9-acre site at 632 South Front St., Elizabeth, NJ. Chemical operations began at the site around 1917. Borne Chemical used the site for the processing and blending of various types of petroleum, dyes and chemical products. When oil prices skyrocketed in the 1970s, the company began to sell recycled motor oil and auto transmission fluid. But oil prices dropped in the 1980s so the company went bankrupt and abandoned the site. The property is now listed as a Superfund site which the City of Elizabeth hopes to redevelop it after the environmental cleanup.
Robert Baptista 2/9/2008
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