A Cracker Jack Idea!

[Meanderer]

I bought some cracker jack in the store yesterday, and found out that it now comes in a bag! What a great idea!

 

[Pappy]

Send it in to: iCrackerJacks.com and they will send you a mini case for your IPad, and a tiny stylus to use. :sentimental:

 

[Meanderer]

Cracker Jack History and Lore

http://www.crackerjackcollectors.com/cjcahistory.htm

 

[Falcon]

Thanks for that Meanderer. Guess I'll go out and buy me a bag. Haven't had any in I don't know when.

 

[Meanderer]

 

[ronaldj]

do you know the little dogs name on the box?.................










Bongo

 

[oldman]

Bongo? I thought it was Bingo. We still buy them at the ballpark. Remember the song?

 

[Meanderer]

According to the link below, it was Bingo.
http://www.crackerjackcollectors.com/cjcahistory.htm

1918:Mascots Sailor Jack and Bingo introduced. Sailor Jack was modeled after F.W. Rueckheim's grandson Robert. Sailor Jack's dog Bingo was based on a real-life dog named Russell, a stray adopted in 1917 by Henry Eckstein who demanded that the dog be used on the packaging.

 

[Meanderer]

Here's a 1908 version of the song, that includes the lead-in words.

 

[RadishRose]

There was a song about a dog ".......and Bingo was his name, oh." I wonder if that was about the Cracker Jack dog?

 

[ndynt]

Jim, my dreams last night were filled with your crackerjack videos. And I do not even like crackerjacks.

 

[Meanderer]

Sorry, Nona, here's another commercial. He's a real basket case in this one!

 

[Linda]

There was a song about a dog ".......and Bingo was his name, oh." I wonder if that was about the Cracker Jack dog?

My dad used to sing me that song about Bingo.

 

[Pappy]

A picture of some of the prizes back then. Notice some were tin.

 

[Meanderer]

Today's prizes seem pretty lame, by comparison, Dave! Mostly pieces of paper.