amylsacks' photos with the keyword: 1933

A delicately penciled two-part dismissal of General Mills and its trained Silkies as our sugary epic draws to a close.

I don't mean to be picky, but "complete in itself" shouldn't require so much elaborate costuming.

"The Other Bride," seen a few pages earlier, wasn't the only one asleep at the switch. Look how the Christmas tree image is helpfully flanking the "Cake for Summer Parties."

"Mary" or "Marv Maust"? Regardless, I salute you.

The painter of cake signed their work. That's unusual. I'm sorry that I can't actually read the name, because these little paintings are just great.

I fiddled with the type a bit. It's on the cramped side, but nobody cares because they're dazzled by the picture, right?

An hour later, "Little Bride" is fast asleep on the couch, worn out by her heroic kitchen toil. Her bored husband has another slice or two of that marvelous cake and reads the paper. Meanwhile, "Other Bride" is well-rested, so she and her Harvey Korman-esque birthday boy mend fences. They hit all the night spots and party 'til sunup.

I admit that I doctored this to look like a double-page spread. It's just cooler that way. Also, there should've been a banner below the whole thing saying, "ONE YEAR LATER..." but much like "Other Bride" I found myself pressed for time. [shrug]

"The Queen of Hearts Cake... A lovely high, fine white Pound Cake, decorated for valentine parties, showers for brides, etc..." It's the Softasilk Cake Flour Show! Starring Lady Gaga as Marie Antoinette! (Or maybe vice versa...) Front cover of a 24-page promotional published by General Mills, Minneapolis, MN. (All these pages were originally posted to flickr on February 11th, 2011.)

Exactly what items are congregating here? Curtains? Hands? Hippie hair? Cephalopods? Well, whatever. It's very cool. Published by Chappell & Co., Inc., New York, N.Y.

The dream of every Russian cantor's son: to come to America and become famous penning songs about Easter parades and white Christmases. :D

...The "dog" on the right is really a sheep with the Dutch Boy's hair, and the pilgrim has freakish moth wings. Yeah. This promo must've moved a LOT of product. o_0

So, at left, we've got our Party Amoebas, or Microbes. Followed by the first "figure" on the upper right, which must have been a place marker at Sigmund Freud's card party...

Honey, my slaw has marshmallows in it, and my place marker looks like that Philip Morris Cigarettes dude! This is the worst party ever!!

My personal preference is just to load one of those ping-pong-ball shooters with marshmallows. But whatever. Front and back sections of a promotional published by the Angelus-Campfire company. Enlarged to show detail. Originally posted to flickr on May 4th, 2011.

"Three meals a day! We must eat to live, But what a thrill New dishes give." It's hard to beat the panache of the B.Y.O. Waffle Iron soiree', but the Uneeda Bakers do their best. From "Champion Peanut Butter Chops" (American cheese, cracker crumbs, and of course peanut butter sculpted to look like meat) to "Pears Olga" (canned pears with some cream, sugar, and shortbread crumbs dumped on top) there's nothing like that Thirties glamour! Front cover, plus center pages from a promo published by The National Biscuit Company, aka Nabisco, New York, N.Y.