Bud Bowman Ice Cream Ad – April 25, 1947

Although for many years, Lorain had many fine local dairies producing their own ice cream, there was still a market for ice cream produced by national and regional companies, including Chicago-based Bowman Ice Cream.

(I sometimes think of the huge Bowman Ice Cream logo that used to be painted on the side of Whalen Drugs facing Meister Road. I can see it in my mind’s eye.)

Anway, I’ve written about Bowman Ice Cream and its mascot Bud Bowman before, including this post featuring a 1962 ad, and this one which revealed that there was a live-action version of the cartoon archer that traveled around the country not unlike Oscar Mayer’s Little Oscar.

The ad shown above, which appeared in the Lorain Journal on April 25, 1947, is kind of amusing. In it, Bud is shown shoveling a spoonful of his namesake ice cream into the waiting maw of a real person.

Although this blog is one of the few places on the internet where you can find Bud Bowman, he still pops up here and there on Ebay.

Here he is on the front and back of a vintage milk bottle currently on Ebay.

And this Bud’s for you on a 1954 WBKB TV Chicago ad, also on Ebay.