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A MESSAGE FROM PDX RETRO ~

Do-Not-Drink-and-Drive-Poster-4

dont drink and drive 1

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ADVICE FROM THE COFFEE WOMAN~

folgers main

Virginia%20Christine
      Virginia Christine (March 5, 1920 – July 24, 1996)

Christine was an stage, radio, film, television, and voice actress 
who is particularly remembered as "Mrs. Olson", or the “Folgers
Coffee Woman”, in a number of television commercials for the
coffee.

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PORTLAND’S GOLDEN WEST COFFEE

golden west

A Golden West Coffee box from the 1940s. Closset  & Devers, Inc. was
located at the corner of Northwest Fifteenth Ave. and Pettygrove Street.

closset and devers wagon

                 coffee jar

   closset & devers ad 1903
    1903

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IT’S COKE TIME!

Jack Paar and Marilyn Monroe, of ”Love Nest”, take a Coke break

love-nest-movie-poster-1951
1951

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SMILES ALL AROUND FOR MOTHER’S DAY

kool aid 1962
1962

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