Sunday, September 02, 2012

1946 Cole Bros. #5

4 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Looks like a double humper Bactrian

Now that's what a camel should look

like instead of those Dromedaries

on the cigarette packs

Ole Whitey said...

Chic: If you were a bit older you would have heard the tale about Barnum & Bailey playing Winston-Salem and the Reynolds Tobacco man showing up with a camera asking for a picture of a Camel.

Supposedly he made the mistake of asking some first of May who didn't know a Camel from a Dromedary and apparently neither did the photographer.

I wasn't there and can't vouch for the yarn but that has not stopped me from telling it on more than one occasion.

Chic Silber said...


Heard that the ad agency that lost

the account suggested the slogan

"I'd Walk A Mile On My Camel"

Ole Whitey said...

You remember Campbell Express Lines used a Camel logo with the slogan "Humpin' to Please"

On Johnny Fraser's little winter show years ago down in the cane-breaks and the bayous, I told this gal I would let her in under the sidewall for a quarter. She replied, "No Sir; I'm saving my quarter to see that Campbell." Later I spotted her watching with awe as the camel was being loaded.