Above is a baseball-themed ad for the Toledo-based brew that appeared in the Journal back on Sept. 1, 1961. It’s a cute ad with its anthropomorphic beer bottles, announcing that the Firelands Distributing Company was making draft-brewed Buckeye Beer available in Lorain and Elyria.
Regular readers of this blog know that I like to post vintage beer ads, especially Old Dutch and Black Label. I’ve featured Buckeye Beer before, including a 1956 ad (here).
Since my last post, the Maumee Bay Brewing Company (Toledo’s original craft brewery) is still producing its revived version of Buckeye Beer. The vintage label (at right), however, has been abandoned in favor of one (below) that conforms to the brewery's corporate brand.
Beer ads and commercials were actually fun when we were kids; I remember the animated Duke commercials (which I can't find on YouTube), which spoke of "big, round barley, Charlie", and the Black Label commercials with the eight great breweries and the Carling Philosophy on each and every can.
ReplyDeleteOr my fav the Hamm's bear along with the "land of sky blue water" song. TB
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