{"id":6800,"date":"2022-06-28T18:21:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T01:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2022-06-29T08:45:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:45:02","slug":"long-fordgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2022\/06\/long-fordgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Long fordgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A post from\u00a0<em>Hogan&#8217;s Alley<\/em> editor Tom Heintjes reminded me of something that I meant to discuss. As many of you know, in the 1960s, Ford licensed the Peanuts characters to advertise their affordable family car, the Falcon. But I&#8217;ve seen some people say that the characters advertised\u00a0<em>only<\/em> the Falcon, and that&#8217;s not true. Folks who read my book\u00a0<em>The Peanuts Collection<\/em> saw a poster that promoted the 1965 Mustang, &#8217;65 being the last year of the Peanuts license. But that, too, is not all.<\/p>\n<p>In late 1964, Ford launched a rental program, the &#8220;Ford Rent-A-Car System&#8221;. During 1965, they ran several newspaper ads featuring the Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and even Pig-Pen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Daily_News_Wed__Jun_16__1965_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6801\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Daily_News_Wed__Jun_16__1965_sm-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Daily_News_Wed__Jun_16__1965_sm-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Daily_News_Wed__Jun_16__1965_sm.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The_Charlotte_News_Mon__Jun_28__1965_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6802\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The_Charlotte_News_Mon__Jun_28__1965_sm-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The_Charlotte_News_Mon__Jun_28__1965_sm-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The_Charlotte_News_Mon__Jun_28__1965_sm.jpg 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The_Tacoma_News_Tribune_Mon__Oct_4__1965_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6803\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The_Tacoma_News_Tribune_Mon__Oct_4__1965_sm-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The_Tacoma_News_Tribune_Mon__Oct_4__1965_sm-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The_Tacoma_News_Tribune_Mon__Oct_4__1965_sm.jpg 347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The_Atlanta_Constitution_Tue__Nov_16__1965_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6804\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The_Atlanta_Constitution_Tue__Nov_16__1965_sm-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The_Atlanta_Constitution_Tue__Nov_16__1965_sm-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/The_Atlanta_Constitution_Tue__Nov_16__1965_sm.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Click to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p><em>Added later:<\/em> One thing to think about is how this campaign, focused largely on holidays and events, ended with Thanksgiving &#8217;65&#8230; the month before\u00a0<em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em> would permanently link holidays and Peanuts in people&#8217;s minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post from\u00a0Hogan&#8217;s Alley editor Tom Heintjes reminded me of something that I meant to discuss. As many of you know, in the 1960s, Ford licensed the Peanuts characters to advertise their affordable family car, the Falcon. But I&#8217;ve seen some people say that the characters advertised\u00a0only the Falcon, and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}