I was at a Tailgate Sale yesterday. A Tailgate Sale is when an organization - in this case a childcare center - organizes a sort of flea market. Anyone can rent a space for small fee and sell stuff (supposedly out of the back of a station wagon or small pickup, hence the term "tailgate sale.")
Anyway, one of the vendors had a box of postcards and I poked through them, picking out two pretty cool bacon-related cards:
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| This card shows women working in the packaging room at Swift & Company, packaging and wrapping Swift Premium Bacon. It dates from the mid-1930's. The back of the card reads: 'In a room cooled by washed air, and without being touched by hand, Swift & Company's Premium Bacon is sliced and packaged at the rate of more than 200 packages a minute.' Maybe the women packaging the bacon are wearing gloves or something, because that one in the foreground on the right sure looks like she touching the bacon with her hand. |
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| This scene shows the operation of a "typical Wilson & Co. Sliced Bacon Unit." This one was set up for public viewing at the Century of Progress Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) in 1933. This one shows a few more details of the operation than the Swift photo above: The bacon slices are coming down a conveyor on the right, packaged and placed on the roundabout near the center; next they're weighed at one of four weighing stations before being handed off to be wrapped. |
I got a kick out of finding two old cards with pretty much the same subject on them. They're not very rare, though. I found several of them for sale on eBay
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