Growing up in the STL-there are some foods/dishes etc. that are St. Louis-Toasted Ravioli (oddly a place in downtown San Jose next to one of my offices has this-but I don't have it in me to try), Gooey Butter Cake, Thin Crust Pizza with Provel, and Dad's Original Scotch Oatmeal Cookies-yes there are others. How does this relate to cardboard?
When the St. Louis Blues were still babes in the woods, Dad's Cookies for the 1970-71 season came out with a set of NHL cards that resemble book marks. The set consisted of 144 cards from all NHL teams. The cards are 1 7/8 inches wide by 5 3/8 inches tall. The cards have player portraits with them wearing a generic NHL Jersey-the bilingual front of the cards have player's name and team above their position and statistic from the previous season and career totals. The reverse is bilingual with instructions on how to redeem wrappers for a NHL decal. The cards were in packages of Dad's Cookies and "Hat-Trick" candy bars.
Bobby Clarke and Gilbert Perreault have rookie cards in the 1970-71 OPC issue-the Blue Notes have 10 players in the set-Bob Wall, Brit Selby, Gary Sabourian, Jim Roberts, Barclay Plager, Noel Picard, Frank St. Marseille, Ab McDonald, Tim Ecclestone, and Red Berenson. Images from the Bay lot.
Some sources indicated these were from Dad's Cookies of STL. But alas they are from a Canadian baker and confectioner. They also make a Scotch Oatmeal Cookies-found this image on the Net-but alas no Hat-Trick Candy.
Cool oddballs. I have a few of the Golden Seals from this set in my collection.
ReplyDeleteI love some of th Golden Seal cards-they have a finite amount of cards which collecting as a team would be very doable.
DeleteHey Brady - the San Leandro card show (that you attended last November) is this coming Saturday, the 25th. Hope you can make it and locate some truly oddball vintage! And we can chase some quality suds afterward......
ReplyDeleteI order a 3 lbs box of oatmeal cookies and half of the cookies were broken, some were crumbs.
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