[Leica] Tri X is for kids!

[shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)]

remarkable analysis into the convergence of consumer branding.
to add an international data point, anyone know about when they
started bottling tres equis? :-)

-rei

On Jan29 15:17, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> I was checking out
> TWENTIETH CENTURY TIMELINE EDIBLES & QUAFFABLES
> http://www.geocities.com/foodedge/timeline.htm
> 
> And I was looking through the 50's, one of my more nostalgic decades.
> 1952, fish sticks
> 1952, Kellogg's Frosted Flakes
> 1952, Saran Wrap
> 1954, M&M's Peanut Candies  (my favorite for the movies)
> 1954, Reddi-wip
> 1954, Trix
> 
> 
> When I came to "1954, Trix" my eyes and brain played a trick on me and I 
> saw
> and thought "Tri X" film. Like it was a mis-print.
> 
> I thought I remembered like it was yesterday when the breakfast cereal
> "Trix" came out on our little round black and white TV with the big bunny
> sitting at the kitchen table.
> "Trix is for kids!"
> Which is always my reply when someone says "How's Trix?" to me.
> 
> But I wondered if the "1954" was part of it.
> So I checked
> 
> 1954 - KODAK TRI-X Film, a high-speed black-and-white film, was introduced.
> ??? Texas Eastman constructed a new plant to produce EASTMAN TENITE
> polyethylene plastic. ??? Kodak Brasileira began operating a sensitizing 
> plant
> in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
> http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/kodakHistory/1930_1959.shtml
> 
> Which of course happened at the same time as
> 1954, M&M's Peanut Candies  (my favorite for the movies)
> 1954, Reddi-wip
> 1954, Trix
> 
> SO TRIX AND TRI X BOTH CAME OUT AT THE SAME TIME!
> 
> That's enough to tear a hole into the next dimension!
> Kind of puts a shiver down your spine doesn't it!?
> Heck I believe in all that stuff now!
> 
> Beam me up I'm ready.
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/

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Ridgewood, New Jersey