Tin Sign Info

Having a room for all manner of vintage paraphernalia from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s is a great idea to add aesthetic appeal to your home.  To get started creating a vintage room in your home, first address the walls.  Think about what people would see on the walls in the mid 1900s; whether it’s a vintage Pepsi sign or an advertisement for Pan-American airlines, create the right aesthetic beginning with the walls.  Next address the furniture: consider items like a jukebox, a vintage diner set, or a worn leather chair.  For the carpet, consider fun black and white tiles or even shag carpet. 

Once you’ve got the essential items down, make sure to add lots of little sculptures, figurines, and pieces of art that represent the era.  When the room is completed, you’ll have an excellent space to lounge, relax, and travel to the past.  Vintage rooms are great for guests as well; you might even think about adding a bed to make it a vintage guest room!

During the Great Depression, Pepsi gained popularity following the introduction in 1936 of a 12-ounce bottle. Initially priced at 10 cents, sales were slow, but when the price was slashed to five cents, sales increased substantially. With a radio advertising campaign featuring the jingle “Pepsi cola hits the spot / Twelve full ounces, that’s a lot / Twice as much for a nickel, too / Pepsi-Cola is the drink for you,” Pepsi encouraged price-watching consumers to switch, obliquely referring to the Coca-Cola standard of six ounces a bottle for the price of five cents (a nickel), instead of the 12 ounces Pepsi sold at the same price. Coming at a time of economic crisis, the campaign succeeded in boosting Pepsi’s status. In 1936 alone 500,000,000 bottles of Pepsi were consumed. From 1936 to 1938, Pepsi-Cola’s profits doubled. They advertised on tin signs to show there drop in price.

Pepsi’s success under Guth came while the Loft Candy business was faltering. Since he had initially used Loft’s finances and facilities to establish the new Pepsi success, the near-bankrupt Loft Company sued Guth for possession of the Pepsi-Cola company. A long legal battle, Guth v. Loft, then ensued, with the case reaching the Delaware Supreme Court and ultimately ending in a loss for Guth.

Pepsi is a carbonated beverage that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. It is sold in retail stores, restaurants, cinemas and from vending machines. The drink was first made in the 1890s by pharmacist Caleb Bradham in New Bern, North Carolina. The brand was trademarked on June 16, 1903. There have been many Pepsi variants produced over the years since 1898, including Diet Pepsi, Crystal Pepsi, Pepsi Twist, Pepsi Max, Pepsi Free, Pepsi AM, Pepsi Samba, Pepsi Blue, Pepsi Gold, Pepsi Holiday Spice, Pepsi Jazz, Vanilla Pepsi, Pepsi X (available in Finland and Brazil), Pepsi Next (available in Japan and South Korea), Pepsi Raw, Pepsi Retro in Mexico, Pepsi One, Pepsi Ice Cucumber and Pepsi White in Japan. Yes, but we can still treasury all the old soda pop tin signs designed by Pepsi.

In October 2008, Pepsi announced they would be redesigning its logo and re-branding many of its products by early 2009. In 2009, Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max began using all lower-case fonts for name brands, and Diet Pepsi Max was re-branded as Pepsi Max. The brand’s blue and red globe trademark became a series of “smiles,” with the central white band arcing at different angles depending on the product. As of January 2009, Pepsi’s newer logos have only been adopted in the United States. Currently, Pepsi Wild Cherry and Pepsi ONE are the only two Pepsi products that continue to use the 2003 design. Diet Pepsi Wild Cherry, Diet Pepsi Lime, and Diet Pepsi Vanilla received the redesign.

The other day my husband and I were out doing earns and it was lunch time. He suggested that we stop some where for lunch since we still had a lot of earns still to run. I suggested how about a A&W root beer and hot dogs for lunch.  I told him about the time my sister worked at A&W has a car hop. Boy did that bring back the memories for both of us.

Little did I know that the A&W we use to know are no longer around it’s either drive thur or go in. What ever happen to the good old days. The A&W Root Beer place we found was in a Kentucky fried Chicken place. I guess that progress. I still have the first A&W root beer mug that our daughter drank out of. That’s why we started collecting all the old retro tin signs that we love to help remember when.

Today we are inundated with advertising everywhere we go. From TV and radio advertising, to internet and billboard advertising, its almost impossible to go one day without seeing some form of advertising.

Before modern advertising, companies had to work with what they had in order to advertise. Broad media outlets either did not exist or were not used by many. Other than newspapers, companies did not have broad access to consumers as much as they do today.

So how did some of these old companies manage to grow so large before the days of TV and radio ads? Many chose the medium of tin signs. Today we know them as vintage signs or antique signs. These colorful painted signs advertised everything from soda and beer to oil and laundry detergent.

Antique auto signs have become popular to collect. Of course there are vintage signs made by Ford, GM and Dodge, but if you’re lucky you can find antique tin signs from companies that no longer exist.

Vintage and antique signs have become a very popular item to collect. For history fans, antique tin signs offer a glimpse into a simpler time and give insight into how business used to be.

Why Would Companies Choose Tins Signs?

Tin signs were a great form of advertising. People could hand them up inside or outside of business establishments and they did the selling. They could be mailed to places where they could be displayed and it would benefit both the company and the retailer. Obviously tin signs worked as an advertising medium since many of the signs still exist and many of the companies that used them are still in business.

Consider popular antique tin signs made by Coca-Cola and Pepsi, as well as Quaker State and Ford Motor Company. These signs still exist and many are in original condition, which makes them popular with collectors.

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The registered trademark of this multinational soft drink firm represents arguably the most widely recognized consumer product on the face of the earth.

From “The Pause That Refreshes” to “The Real Thing,” the company’s advertising slogans have become as much a part of Americana as has our visual perception of the fat and jolly Santa Claus first drawn by the artist Haddon Sundblom for a Coca-Cola advertisement that appeared in 1931.

As the company expanded its business to global markets, particularly after World War II, many people in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America have come to associate the taste of this carbonated cola drink with American culture.

Cartersville is home to the first outdoor painted Coca-Cola Sgn, originally painted in 1894.

 
Coca Cola Signs - Here we offer the finest in nostalgic signs made from aluminum, tin, wood, and glass. CocaCola has attracted some of the top artists and illustrators for their advertisements who has created timeless Coke images of refreshment we know and love. Metal signs are made to last for years. Don’t miss your favorite Coke ads on trays, thermometers, tin signs, wooden signs, art glass panels and vintage signs from the past.

If you like the 60s, the 70s, and the 80s, or are fond of an even earlier period, you’ll love reproduction metal signs.  They bring to life legendary, unforgettable icons of a bygone era via authentic-looking tin posters that can be displayed in any room, home, dorm, and office.  You’ll find more than 50 retro signs featuring celebrities, food and drink, consumer brands, sports figures, animals, characters, and vehicles.
 
The soda pop, beer and liquor signs will have no trouble blending in and looking effortlessly at home in watering holes and certain bistros.  The same goes with gas and oil tin signs when exhibited in gasoline stations, car service centers and in a garage.  Senior citizens who are into baseball will love seeing the image of their boyhood pitching or batting idol immortalized in metal.  Other sports tin signs highlight illustrious athletes in football, tennis, racing, hunting, and fishing. Reproduction metal signs are always a good option when you’re running out of unique gift ideas.  They are evocative and great to look at, and they remind us of simpler and happier times.

Well here it is less than a month before Valentine’s Day. Every year I see people wait to the last minute before shopping to buy their love ones a gift. Well this year I’m looking for help from my blog readers on what to buy my husband Bill. Let me tell you a little about him so you have an idea what kind of man he is. He loves fixing old cars, drives a semi truck for a living, very understanding especially with me. I do tend to get on his nerves. We have been married over 30 years. He does part-time fire fighting when he’s in town. Loves the oldies on the radio, he’s a big Coca-Cola fan. If you could see are kitchen, dining room, and living room you know. Well let’s here from some of my blog readers for ideas.

I have been looking for reproduction tin signs with a drink coke cola emblem on it since remodeling the kitchen. For my birthday this year my wife gave me a vintage coke cola sign.

Coke cola advistment metal signs add a great way to add a little piece of the past kitchen, office, resturant or lunch room. These signs make great gifts.