Comments on: Oreo Billboard, Southern California, 1955

By: Aitch

Aitch — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:23:33 +0000

WOW Pop Art!

By: Timothy Severs

Timothy Severs — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:11:23 +0000

Oreos rule! This billboard rocks as well.

By: Jim Dally

Jim Dally — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:57:02 +0000

What’s in a name? A few years ago I was in the state of Maine and near a small town saw for the first time “Belted Galloways” a breed of cow that a friend calls an Oreo. They are dark on both ends with a white stripe around their middle! Their markings are rather amazing.

By: Chris Ezell

Chris Ezell — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:27:07 +0000

too cool stuff

By: Eric Lindenmuth

Eric Lindenmuth — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:18:28 +0000

Oreo’s now strech all across the globe. I just ate a pack, on a mountain top, in Changsha China. They were two sweet for my Chinese friend, but they were good old All American food for me!! Thanks for the great pic!

By: Rachel Gomez

Rachel Gomez — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:23:21 +0000

It’s all about Double Stuf, mint-Oreo ice-cream and chocolate covered Oreos!

By: Jerry Foisel

Jerry Foisel — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:18:37 +0000

I’ll have MY OREO’S dunked in an ice-cold glass of grade A, whole, Shamrock Dairy Milk (Phoenix, Arizona, “I remember touring the dairy on opening day in 1959 or 60. The Shamrock Plant on The Black Canyon Freeway in the most charming 1950′s Americana neighborhood I’ve ever seen! We ate vanilla ice-cream off those ‘itchy’ wooden spoons, marvelled at the factory, and left with milk carton piggy-banks that we cherished for years!”

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:17:17 +0000

Awesome pic, yes billboards were once beautiful. Or maybe we think that looking back. Maybe at the time people thought they were obnoxious as most do now. Still a great pic, what a tragedy Nabisco is gone from Buena Park. They used to make chocolate chip cookies at that one and they smelled so good for miles.

By: Tiki Goddess

Tiki Goddess — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:13:54 +0000

I just read about Gary Leonard’s show yesterday, and when I read that he saved the slides from the dumpster I thought “Now that sounds like something Charles Phoenix would do!” Wonderful slide, and now I must run to the kitchen here at work to see if they have any Oreos in the snack machine.

By: Daddyo Caddyo

Daddyo Caddyo — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:36:49 +0000

Charles, The Nabisco factory is on the far reaches of town, and requires a bit of a hike to find. Most Richmonder’s grew up wiffing and sniffing the sweet smell of vanilla extract from the C.F Sauer manufacturing plant near downtown. Since 1911, this landmark has been in continuous operation, and has one of the last animated incandescent billboard signs still functioning. See this cool billboard in action on their website: athttp://www.cfsauer.com/company/index.asp