On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:03:08 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
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> On Aug 13, 10:44*am, "Kris Baker" > wrote:
> > "David Nebenzahl" > wrote in message
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> > .com...
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> > > On 8/12/2010 2:42 PM Kris Baker spake thus:
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> > >>http://snurl.com/10lqv0*The "winking housewife" is very familiar -- does
> > >> she come
> > >> from a Pillsbury cookbook, or other 1950s ad?
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> > > 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.
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> > >http://minneapolis.about.com/od/hist...a/millcity.htm
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> > > 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.
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> > > * 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?
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> > It's an image that was posted on the Salt Lake Tribune website.
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> > Unfortunately, I know no one in the Minneapolis area - although I
> > did pore through over a thousand Pillsbury images.
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> > I'll find that image some day, when it no longer matters
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> > Kris- Hide quoted text -
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> It doesn't look familiar to me, although it's in a very familiar
> illustrative style - could it have been on a Coke sign?
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OK, I opened it because you did and you're still here.

The winker is not familiar and looks like a modern graphic evoking an
earlier era.

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