Posted in Postcards, Tar Heelia on May 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
During the month of May, we uploaded quite a few new towns to the North Carolina Postcards digital collection. Be sure to check them out below: Dixonville, Wayne County Fremont, Wayne County LaGrange, Lenoir County Lake Phelps (aka Lake Scuppernong), in Washington and Tyrrell Counties Salvo, Dare County Sharpsburg, in Edgecombe, Nash, and Wilson Counties [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged albert lasker, george washington hill, lucky strike, the cigarette century on May 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“If [George Washington Hill, president of American Tobacco, 1925-1946] did not invent the hard sell, he nonetheless drove it to new heights. Selling Lucky Strikes became his obsession. Packages dangled on strings in the windows of his Rolls Royce, which had the Lucky Strike logo emblazoned on its taillights. Hill named his pet dachshunds Lucky [...]
