Friday, February 17, 2023

Jupiter Discount Presidents' Day Ad – Feb. 1963

Presidents' Day is this Monday, February 20, 2023 – so it's a good time to post this ad. It's for the well-remembered Jupiter Discount Store located at 630 Broadway (next to Kline's). It ran in the Journal back on February 20, 1963.

These vintage George Washington sales ads almost always depict him in the hoariest manner – chopping down a cherry tree either as a kid or adult (which lends itself to a price-chopping theme) or as refusing to tell a lie (which fits in nicely with the notion of how unbelievable a store's prices are).

What's interesting are the very common items chosen as Jupiter sales items: baked ham, toilet paper, napkins, Dutch Maid Sugar Wafers, etc. 

Dutch Maid? Hey, I believe that was the same company that made the well-remembered Yes Yes Cookies (subject of one of this blog's most popular and most visited posts).

Anyway, if I remember correctly, Jupiter Discount was one of the stops on our weekly Saturday morning pilgrimage to Downtown Lorain. It was right next to Kline's, where we also shopped (and where Mom would say hi to some of Grandma Brady's old co-workers, since Grandma worked there for almost her entire working career).

Here are a couple of photos (courtesy of Lorain Historical Society) showing the Jupiter store. The photos might bring back a few memories of Downtown Lorain's waning heyday in the 1960s.

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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2023 at 7:46 AM

    Great fountain coke served in a paper cone placed in a metal base. A favorite spot for my mom to buy yarn. Todd

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  2. -Alan D HopewellFebruary 17, 2023 at 9:36 AM

    I'm pretty sure it's the only Jupiter store I've ever seen.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 17, 2023 at 12:50 PM

    We need more politicians of years ago like George Washington.Remember George Washington never told a lie in his life.And here we have Joe Biden telling lies every single day.And the sad thing is that Biden is too senile to understand that he's telling a lie to start with.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 18, 2023 at 12:55 PM

    Just like Jupiter would have "George Days"...I don't think any store is going to run "Biden Days" in the future to commemorate Joe.

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  5. BoilerplantFebruary 18, 2023 at 10:25 PM

    Mom bought a print of Ducks landing in a pond at the Jupiter for 50 cents. I finally gave it to the metropark for a decoration. Jupiter became SS Kresge which became Kmart. Mom would leave us at the counter while she shopped. We would usually get a hot dog fried on the grill with a toasted bun and a Coke or Root beer in that same wax paper cone

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