what a character

What A Character! – Fatty Turkey

A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons.
From the annals of spokesfigures whose time had come and gone before they’d even arrived, there’s Fatty Turkey, the eponymous mascot of Fatty Turkey Brand Whole Frozen Turkeys. A subsidiary spawned from McLaren Preservatives, the Fatty Turkey Brand was… »

What a Character! – The Richmond Spectacles Rich Man

A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons.
The jaunty figure of the Richmond Spectacles Rich Man still steps lively over Pearl Street, striding across the rooftops of the Deputy Tyrone Campbell Building just south of Deputy Tyrone Campbell Blvd, as he has for sixty years this… »

What a Character!- What’s Ailing Sol?

A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons.
We’ve got a patient here with a very long medical history! Let’s see- He’s got chills, fever, aches and pains? Why, someone’s got the flu!
How about; Coughing, sneezing, and breaking out in irregular, red specks? Obviously, it’s chickenpox!
And then… »

What a Character!: Monsieur LeSteak

A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons.
Remember Charlie the Tuna, the seemingly suicidal spokes-fish for canned fish titan Starkist? Of course you do, who could forget his apparently misguided yet earnest attempts to qualify for a life (or the end thereof) inside a small, tin… »

What a Character!: The Spaghetti Giant

A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons.
What stands twenty-five feet tall, wears a toga with a garland of grape leaves and was a fixture of the city’s “Restaurant Row” for thirty-five years? If you said “The Spaghetti Giant,” then are you ever correct!
Between 1949… »

What a Character!: Sour Grapes Magee

A new recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons.

“Aw … PHOOEY!” The Silent Life of
Sour Grapes Magee
Long-time residents of the city may recall that the dour-faced figure painted on the side of the Lowell Furniture Warehouse – just east of Southwest South Street, by exit 588… »