So, rewatching this Buster Keaton short, with the ability to pause, I am really getting into the snapshot in time you catch of the background in non-studio shots. They painted ads everywhere them days, 1921. (and if you watch close like, there is some revolver gunplay, a big ol honking one 12 minutes in.)
Soft Drinks, Beech Nut chewing tobacco, and Coca Cola. Soft drinks. It's Prohibition. You can still get Beech-Nut. I wonder if that Coca Cola stuff caught on. Hey, where was this movie shot? Jersey or Cali? Hard to tell in the early days of film
Ah, California. A Proto Safeway in South Hollywood.
"1914 In a separate commercial effort Sam Seelig founds a chain of four stores in California called Sam Seelig Grocers. According to the Safeway web site, this chain grew to over 322 stores by 1926. In 1925 he renamed them Safeway."
Ol' Engine 3244 SoPac RR
It's a Mikado 2-8-2, built in 1913. You can buy that train.
Chesterfield satisfies, and more Beech Nut.
This place had been in business 22 years when this was filmed in 1921. Cohn and Goldwater clothiers. Sort of a Dickies of Souther California. Clothes for the working man
Another. This is now a museum locomotive, 1229
Tires and Chinese food.
Chockablock with ads. Is that coca cola again, or someone violating their trademark? Gold Dust?
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