The first Super Bowl game was January 15, 1967.The Green Bay Packers,
led by quarterback Bart Starr, defeated the Kansas City Chief, 35-10.
Team members celebrating the victory with Green Bay Packers
coach Vince Lombardi
The winner of the Super Bowl is awarded the Vince Lombardi Trophy
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is a Screen Gems television production which
originally aired in 166 episodes on ABC from October 1954 until August 1959. One
of the German Shepherd dogs used in the children’s TV series was the fourth in the bloodline of the original Rin Tin Tin.
Eskimo Pie, the chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar wrapped in foil, was the invention of Danish Immigrant Christian Kent Nelson, who was a school teacher
and the owner of a candy store. He got the inspiration for Eskimo Pie in 1920 in
Onawa, Iowa when a young customer couldn’t decide between ice cream or a
chocolate bar. After experimenting with various ways of coating bricks of ice
cream with melted chocolate, Nelson began selling his discovery under the
name of “I-Scream Bars”.
In 1921, he filed for a patent and obtained an agreement with local chocolate
maker Russell C. Stover to mass-produce them under the new trademark
name “Eskimo Pie” (a name suggested by Mrs. Stover). After a patent was
issued to the Eskimo Pie Corporation on January 24, 1922, Nelson soon
franchised the product. One of the earliest advertisements for Eskimo Pie
appeared in the November 3, 1921 issue of the Iowa City Press-Citizen,
shown below.
Christian Kent Nelson
Edith Young
Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories was a 15-minute radio soap which aired from
January 18, 1937 to November 16, 1956 on CBS and was sponsored by Spry
Shorting. Aunt Jenny (full name Jennifer F. Wheeler) was played by Edith
Young. The show offered cooking tips along with some homespun
philosophy.
1950s
Buffalo Bill, Jr. is a Western TV series starring Dickie Jones. It aired in syndication
from March 1, 1955, until September 21, 1956. In 1964, the series aired on ABC Saturday mornings for one year.
Actor Dickie Jones turns 85 on the 27th of February. He
is best known as the voice of Pinocchio in the 1940 Walt
Disney film.
