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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Mail Pouch & Melo Crowns (PG LXVII)




Found this one in Lancaster city, along the 400 block of North Prince Street. The Melo Crown ad faces North Prince Street and the Mail Pouch faces North Market Street, to the rear of the building. In 1939 the Bloch Brothers, owners of Mail Pouch and WOW chewing tobacco, purchased the August Pollack Company of Wheeling WV, adding cigars to their product line. This explains why they show on the same building. There is still a lot of tobacco grown in Lancaster County. If you drive around some of the more rural farms, some Amish, in the fall you can see barns filled with tobacco leaves hanging to dry.

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