On 8/13/2010 8:44 AM Kris Baker spake thus:
> "David Nebenzahl" > wrote in message
> .com...
>
>> On 8/12/2010 2:42 PM Kris Baker spake thus:
>>
>>> http://snurl.com/10lqv0 The "winking housewife" is very familiar
>>> does she come from a Pillsbury cookbook, or other 1950s ad?
>>
>> Dunno, but if you know anyone in or near the Twin Cities, you might have
>> them go to the Pillsbury Mill City Museum in Minneapolis: lots of displays
>> of historic Pillsbury packages and advertising material going way back.
>>
>> http://minneapolis.about.com/od/hist...a/millcity.htm
>>
>> Be sure to have them go up into the "Flour Tower". The multimedia elevator
>> ride is well worth it. Saw it last summer and was very impressed.
>>
>> * By the way, did you intend to "snurl" that link? It works out to
>> dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls. My browser (Firefox) has no idea what
>> it is and pops up a box asking me what to do with it. What is it?
>
> It's an image that was posted on the Salt Lake Tribune website.
>
> Unfortunately, I know no one in the Minneapolis area - although I
> did pore through over a thousand Pillsbury images.
>
> I'll find that image some day, when it no longer matters
Well, there's always that ...
I found the site for the museum itself:
http://www.millcitymuseum.org.
Has contact info (phone & email). Perhaps if you contacted them, someone
there might have enough time on their hands (and interest) to look at
your picture.
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