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Bart Ell

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Re: Fruit and Vegetable Labels
« Reply #480 on: April 27, 2019, 02:26:51 PM »
The latest batch have been some of the more interesting ones yet.
From Shawl to Razor Back... I would love to hear how they came up with their names and branding.

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Re: Fruit and Vegetable Labels
« Reply #481 on: April 28, 2019, 01:12:56 PM »
The latest batch have been some of the more interesting ones yet.
From Shawl to Razor Back... I would love to hear how they came up with their names and branding.

That would be fascinating information, Bart.  One thing about these labels is that most of these produce companies go way, way back in time, around the 1920s or so.  Most of them are out of business and therefore it would be impossible to gain access to their company history or accounting firms.  (As a young man, I once worked at a major orchard/worldwide shipper of pears and other fruit.  Due to the nature of my job, I eventually had the run of the place.  In particular, there was a storage room above one of the packing houses and it contained tons of file cabinets and other items of company history.  When I wasn't busy, I would look through the records.  It seemed to be mostly customer information, addresses and the like.  I did come across a few items of interest, like a Christmas card from Franklin D. Roosevelt and wife, and a 1940's 78 rpm record of radio advertisements recorded by some announcer whose name was Peter Paul, or something like that.  There were some unglued fruit packing labels, but I didn't come across any info as to who came up with the names.)  My psychic sense shows me an image of a roomful of ad execs, poring over the pages of a thick, newspaper, like the New York Times...looking for ideas for names.

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Re: Fruit and Vegetable Labels
« Reply #482 on: April 28, 2019, 01:16:12 PM »
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« Reply #483 on: April 29, 2019, 11:37:05 AM »
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« Reply #484 on: April 30, 2019, 01:23:46 PM »
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« Reply #485 on: May 01, 2019, 02:09:51 PM »
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Re: Fruit and Vegetable Labels
« Reply #487 on: May 03, 2019, 01:06:35 PM »
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Here is a vegetable crate label in search of a name.  Harking back to what Bart was wondering about, we must ask ourselves...what came first, the label or the name?

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« Reply #488 on: May 04, 2019, 11:54:52 AM »
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« Reply #489 on: May 05, 2019, 12:37:17 PM »
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Re: Fruit and Vegetable Labels
« Reply #490 on: May 06, 2019, 12:49:43 PM »
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I think we can safely say where the name for this crate label came from.

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« Reply #491 on: May 07, 2019, 12:19:24 PM »
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« Reply #494 on: May 09, 2019, 08:07:20 PM »
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Is that Giant a Bigfoot!?!?
There was a little girl,
            Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
            When she was good,
            She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.