Reading about the passing of Leslie Buck, the man who designed the coffee cup pictured above - started me thinking about coffee ads. Leslie Buck's obituary was in the New York Times today; I am attaching the link:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/nyregion/30buck.html?hp
The Times writes:
It is, of course, the Anthora, the cardboard cup of Grecian design that has held New Yorkers’ coffee securely for nearly half a century. Introduced in the 1960s, the Anthora was long made by the hundreds of millions annually, nearly every cup destined for the New York area.
There are a number of coffee commercials and jingles that come to mind. There is the, "good to the last drop" slogan from Maxwell House. We all know from the ad, that "mountain grown coffee," hand picked by Juan Valdez of course, is the richest tasting blend. I guess Starbucks doesn't advertise, but they do promote themselves through Twitter. Maybe tweeting is the newest form of jingling.
Well, anyway, I wanted to include an actual coffee commercial. I am attaching a classic below. Note - it is for instant coffee. That instant stuff was pretty popular back in the 50s and 60s:
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