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MIKEY LIKED LIFE IN THE 1970’s

70 popular vintage 1970s cereals we loved & we miss - Click Americana

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A 5 year-old “Mikey” was portrayed by John Gilchrist along
with his two real-life brothers, Tom and Mike in 1971.

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The Quaker Oats Company, known as Quaker, is an American
food
conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois. As Quaker Mill
Company, the company was founded in 1877 in Ravenna, Ohio.

In 1881, Henry Crowell bought the company and launched a
national advertising campaign for Quaker Oats.

In 1983, Quaker acquired Stokely-Van Camp, Inc., the maker
of
Van Camp’s and Gatorade. In 2001, PepsiCo bought Quaker
Oats for $14 billion, primarily to acquire the Gatorade brand.
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Cereal Tycoon: Henry Parsons Crowell Founder of the Quaker Oats Co. - Faithlife.com

Henry Parsons Crowell (1855–1944)

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ANOTHER GREAT TV WESTERN

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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
is a
Western television series
that ran for eight seasons from April 15, 1951, through September
24, 1958. The
Screen Gems series began in syndication, but ran
on
CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time, on ABC
from 1957 through 1958. The
Kellogg’s cereal company was the
show’s national sponsor.

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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok starred Guy Madison
(right) as the legendary
Old West lawman (in real life,
also a
gunfighter
) U.S. Marshal James Butler "Wild
Bill" Hickok, and Andy Devine (left) as his comedy
sidekick, Jingles P. Jones. Devine opened each episode
by shouting “Wiiiiiild Biiiiilll Hickok.” He also delivered
the opening commercial for Kellogg’s Sugar Corn Pops.



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Guy Madison (Robert Ozell Moseley)
(January 19, 1922 – February 6, 1996)

Following his retirement, Madison built a large ranch home
in
Morongo Valley, California. He died of emphysema at the
Desert Hospital Hospice in Palm Springs at the age of 74.

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A HEALTHY CEREAL FROM KELLOGG IN 1939

23 Vintage Ads That Would Be Banned Today | Bored Panda

Pep was a brand of whole-wheat breakfast cereal produced by
the
Kellogg Company, and introduced in 1923, which became
the first to be fortified with vitamins B and D in 1938. Pep was
a long-running rival to
Wheaties
, and also the sponsor of Mutual
Radio
‘s The Adventures of Superman radio series. One of Pep’s advertising slogans was "the Sunshine cereal".




Pep ad featuring Our Gang (1928).

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