Brought to You Today by the Colors Teal and Brown (354/366)

TIME: 8:32 am
PLACE: Viviano's on the Hill and Shaw's Coffee
SUBJECT: Teal and brown colors

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We kept up the tradition of our annual Italian run this morning.

Gotta have that cheese, salami and Italian cookies for Christmas!

Relieves Fatigue (347/366)

TIME: 12:20 pm
PLACE: 1st block of North Charles St

SUBJECT: Ghost sign

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I've been wanting to take a picture of this for some time, however, everytime I drove by, there would be a car parked in front of it.

There was no car today!

I'm not sure what relieves fatigue, is sold everywhere and is only 5 cents. I could sure use some though.

I did do some quick research in the local historical newspaper archives (courtesy of our library) and found this advertisement for some gum that "relieves fatigue" and was only 5 cents for 5 sticks back in 1916.

Maybe this is it.

 

Simpsons In Real Life (204/365)

TIME: 2:25 PM
PLACE: Work cafe
SUBJECT: Want Ad

Of course, when I saw this in the paper today, the first thing I thought of was the Simpsons….

"Bart's Inner Child" Season 5, Episode 7

Homer reads the "FOR FREE" section of the paper,

Marge asks Homer why he bothers reading that section of the paper. "They never have anything good." But as she finishes, Homer gasps at an ad he has just spied: "FREE TRAMPOLINE, 534 Center St."

Homer: Oh my God!
Lisa: What is it?
Homer: Tramapoline! Trampopoline! [runs out]
Bart: He said what now?
Marge: Please, don't bring home any more old crutches!

Pillow Pet (072/365)

"It's a Pillow. It's a Pet. It's a Pillow Pet!".

Advertising slogan

TIME:  12:53 PM
PLACE:  Living room
SUBJECT:  StellaDella and Oreo

SD has been obsessed not only with zombies, but also with Pokémon.  She has been diligently playing the Nintendo DS Pokémon Soul Silver game we bought her for her birthday.  Today, I caught her using Oreo as a pillow as she was dressing her Kyogre on her game system.  It doesn’t look like Oreo minds one bit.

Red Goose Shoes (255/365)

 
“Half the fun of having feet is Red Goose Shoes.”

Advertising jingle, Red Goose Shoes

TIME:  2:16 PM
PLACE:  5227 Gravois, St. Louis, MO
SUBJECT:  Trautwein’s Shoes sign

DQ, SD and I went down to South St. Louis on a grave marker hunt at St. Peters & Paul and Gatewood Garden Cemetery.  I found the stone I was researching at St. Peters & Paul, then we drove across the street to Gatewood.  No luck there.  We had the windows down in the Jeep and on the way to the front gates of the cemetery, I heard a jangling which sounded exactly like the noise Oreo’s chain collar and metal tags make when she shakes her head.  I looked in my rear view mirror and saw a dog.  He looked like a much skinner Oreo.  I stopped because he was running in front of the car and I didn’t want to run him over.  When I stopped, he came up and put his front paws on the window ledge.  He was very stinky, like he rolled in something dead.  How appropriate for a cemetery.  He was friendly - too friendly - he jumped in through DQ’s window!  I opened my door, got out and drug him out -  I didn’t need a stinky dog in my car!  I was able to grab him long enough to obtain a phone # off his collar; DQ called but an answering machine picked up.  A couple minutes later, a truck pulled in the gates, a guy got out and the dog took off towards him.  He was the dog’s owner, who also owned a house on the grounds.  He said that he had found the dog in a garbage can, he was an escape artist and hoped he didn’t bother us.  Except for the smell, it was no bother *grins*.  We stopped at a QuikTrip to get gas and wash the stinky dog aroma off our hands.  This sign was just down the street from the gas station.  Wish I would have thought to take a photo of the “demon dog” when he was leaning in the window.  Now THAT would have been an excellent photo of our day.

Cheer Up & Smile (244/365)

 
 
“Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first. But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is clear. Why isn't a presidential commission looking into this? Or at least some guys from the National Carbonation Council.”

Chris Rock (American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director, b1965)

TIME:  2:15 PM
PLACE:  9th & Allen, St. Louis, MO
SUBJECT:  Tile advertisements

These advertisements are located on the old Orange Smile Syrup Company building in the Historic Soulard Neighborhood in St. Louis.  The small soda manufacturer opened just prior to 1929.  The “Cheer-Up Soft Drink” and “Smile Orange Drink” were just a couple of the sodas bottled at this location until the early 1960s. The building had a roller rink for a short while in the mid 1960’s and then an industrial business, Powercraft, occupied the space for 26 years.  Today, condos fill the building.  A great history of the building (which dates back to 1871) can be found here at the Smile Lofts website.