Showing posts with label nostalgia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nostalgia. Show all posts

Monday, August 4, 2025

Bakin' Up Some Whimsy ...

“What’s life without whimsy?”

 ~ Dr. Sheldon Cooper

  ~ “The Big Bang Theory”

   ~ American sitcom

   ~ 2007 ~ 2019

 

The adorable Pillsbury Doughboy declares “I’m a Hot Little Biscuit” as he poses in front of my stovetop percolator in this monochrome capture where whimsy meets nostalgia on a summer day in the kitchen.

 

Poppin’ Fresh, more widely known as the Pillsbury Doughboy, is an advertising mascot for the Pillsbury Company, appearing in many of their commercials. Many commercials from 1965 until 2005 (together with some for Geico between 2009 and 2017) ended with a human finger poking the Doughboy’s belly. The Doughboy responds by giggling when his belly is poked (Hoo-Hoo!, or earlier on, a slight giggle “tee hee”).

 

The Pillsbury Doughboy was created by Rudolph “Rudy” Perz, a copywriter for Pillsbury’s longtime advertising agency, Leo Burnett Company. Perz was sitting in his kitchen in the spring of 1965, under pressure to create an advertising campaign for Pillsbury’s refrigerated dough product line (biscuits, dinner rolls, sweet rolls, and cookies). His copywriter, Carol H. Williams, imagined a living doughboy popping out of a Pillsbury refrigerated dough can and wrote the campaign, “Say Hello to Poppin’ Fresh Dough.” Williams was inducted into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Fame in 2017.


 

Sunday, January 2, 2022

Rainy Day At The Ritz ...

“I can’t imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.”

         ~ Bill Bryson

         ~ American-British author

          ~ born 1951

In the mood for a steak sandwich & fries, barbecue or maybe a burger, all topped off with ice cream? Then look no further than the iconic Ritz Barbecue, a tasty staple on the grounds of the Allentown Fairgrounds since 1928 in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Dine inside or step right up to the window to order as 1950s era music wafts outside and enjoy a slice of nostalgia served up by the eatery.

The Ritz serves up a pop of color in the painterly HDR image I shot in a rainy mist on a drizzly late December afternoon as the tree to the left is still festooned with Christmas lights.


 

Monday, February 3, 2020

Kissed By Nostalgia ...


“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
           ~ Khalil Gibran
               ~ 1883-1931
I saw these X’s & O’s – symbols of hugs and kisses – etched on a tree a few weeks before Valentine’s Day 2020 at Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pennsylvania and presented the image in sepia to enhance a nostalgic feel.

I’m not sure how long they’ve been there, but I first photographed them in October 2014, just before Sweetest Day – that image was posted on this blog as “X’s & O’s” on October 15, 2014.