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Free baby? 73 years ago Fred Meyer had a strange giveaway for a store opening
On December 1, 1949 Fred Meyer had one of their most wacky promotions. “FREE BABY,” was published in an advertisement in The Oregon Journal newspaper.
Free baby? 73 years ago Fred Meyer had a strange giveaway for a store opening
On December 1, 1949 Fred Meyer had one of their most wacky promotions. “FREE BABY,” was published in an advertisement in The Oregon Journal newspaper.
Author: Kyle Iboshi
Published: 3:26 PM MST November 26, 2019
Updated: 1:14 PM MST December 1, 2022
PORTLAND, Ore. — Editor's note: This story was originally posted on Nov. 29, 2019.
On December 1, 1949, Fred Meyer promoted the grand opening of a new shopping center in Portland’s Hollywood District with a contest to give away a baby. That’s right, a baby!
“FREE BABY,” read an advertisement in The Oregon Journal newspaper. “Drawing Thursday, December 1, for a healthy 2-months-old baby, to be won by some deserving man and wife.”...
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
(My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.) Never forget Excalibur.
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