Last time I visited Mom in New York, we noticed that Martinson's Coffee was back on the supermarket shelves.    Martinson's was my grandmother's (her Mom's) favorite coffee brand when the old A&P stopped doing coffee right.  I noted that I had been buying Maxwell House again, and that it seemed that many of the old coffee brands were being brought back to compete with the various premium providers.   We both racked our brains for a few minutes trying to remember the old Maxwell House Slogan but could not, until we checked one of the new cans on the Supermarket shelf-and lo and behold-the old slogan was still being used, albeit less prominently; "good to the last drop".

Other products from those days, and even earlier, which had some memorable and long-lasting slogans were breakfast cereals.  Wheaties was "breakfast of champions", and of course Tony the Tiger was the face of Frosted Flakes.    It seems like today many of the cereals like to emphasize fiber content and their affect on cholesterol levels.   Are we that much more into health or are we just having less fun?  

At Awesome Avenue, we decided to do our part to make sure we're all still having fun.  Check out our retro-cereal logos and slogan t-shirts.   And as always, we offer free shipping to US destinations and APO addresses.

We were cruisin' through Silver Lake today checkin' out the scene, and could see the light towers of Dodger Stadium off in the not too distant distance.   The MLB All-Star Game takes place  tomorrow evening in St. Louis.   The All-American game will be played in a Stadium named for the Busch Family and now owned by a Belgian brewing firm.    Anyway, to me Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang will always be associated with baseball and I think the way we view the sport was changed by Charles Schulz.   CB on the mound, Schroeder behind the plate humming Beethoven and Snoopy catching a fly ball in his teeth.   Ichiro, Pujols, Chad B, and Mariano R got nothin on' them.  We even found a Portuguese version of a Charlie Brown Baseball Cartoon.   We had no idea this resonated even in the Mother Church of Soccer.

True to our form here at Awesome Avenue, we have a Charlie Brown baseball shirt.  Although we doubt Charles Schulz would have used quite this rendering in the Sunday Morning Comics, we like it.   So whether you're heading out the ballpark in St. Louis or to the bar to watch your game, you're sure to get noticed in this item.   

My mother always tells the story about how when I was 5 or 6 I made some remark about "the old days before television".  I don't know the context of the remark and I think even my mother has long forgotten why I said that, it's just one of those stories a mother tells about the days when her kids were saying cute things.  Over the weekend I read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, about how a teenager in Britain did not recognize an original Sony Walkman or be able to imagine what it was for.  Cassettes?  For music?  Some of our classic toys might fall into that category, like the Fisher Price Chatter Telephone.  A generation ago, it looked like many of the telephones in use, today, with all-cellphone homes increasing in number, might some small child today, upon receipt of this particular toy as a gift,  fail to recognize it as a phone?