The Air at the Top of the Bottle

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Children’s Card Games (59)

May 15th, 2009 · 6 Comments

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“Dandy Candy,” a “Built-Rite Toy,” parades anthropomorphic junk food before its young audience.  Pies, cakes, candy canes, gum drops, and other sugary citizens laugh and frolic before jagged pastel backgrounds.

I suppose the idea is to encourage children to up their sugar intake.  I had no interest in sweets as a kid; my family, of course, was appalled, and warned me that I was endangering my health, but I wouldn’t get with the program.  Grown to maturity, I still don’t see the point of this stuff.  Maybe if I had this game to teach me, I would have learned my lesson.  And maybe not.

(Posted by Doug Skinner)   

Tags: Card Games · Ephemera

6 responses so far ↓

  • 1 elena // May 15, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    she seems quite happy about being half full. or half empty if you want to look at it that way.

  • 2 mamie // May 16, 2009 at 12:33 am

    Damn that’s a cute card! I don’t want to drink her, I want to date her!

  • 3 mamie // May 17, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    I love her gloves and slippers. And the extra straw! She’s outgoing and generous!

  • 4 Lisa // May 20, 2009 at 9:50 am

    She reminds me of the old movie house trailers advertising what can be had at the snack bar at intermission – back when there was such a thing as a double-feature.

  • 5 mamie // May 22, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    They have double features at the drive-ins up here. I’ll see any movie(s) at the drive in! Next field trip, after Prague?

  • 6 Gail // May 28, 2009 at 9:13 pm

    full of promise and enthusiasm. my lower intestines sometimes feel the same way after drinking too much red wine.