After 1937, children started leaving out Coke at night, while after another campaign showed Santa without a wedding ring, concerned fans wrote to Coca-Cola asking where Mrs. Claus had gone. In adopting such a quintessential seasonal character, Coca-Cola can safely repeat their campaign each year...
1930: First Coca-Cola ad featuring Santa debuts Coca-Cola ads have shaped how Americans view Santa for decades, with his bushy beard and twinkling eyes fast becoming the template in people's imaginations. But that design, created by Haddon Sundblom in 1931, wasn't the first ...
2005: Postmaster General formalizes Operation Santa Claus We've been writing letters addressed to the North Pole for nearly 200 years, but the question remains: What do we do with all the correspondence to St. Nick? After years of destroying them or sending them to an office, people began ...
Using his best friend as a model and with the corporate identity of Coke in mind, Haddon Sundblom, an illustrator set out to create a new vision of Santa Claus. Winter sales matched those in the summer, and Santa Claus was forever defined in the image of Coca-Cola....
It wasn't always Holiday World. And when it was Santa Claus Land, it WAS open in December. Check out some great old home movies and a vintage commercial.
The character, who appeared in Coke’s Christmas ads for nearly two decades, was named for the fact that he was a sprite (another name for an elf). The company didn’t actually introduce the Sprite beverage until the 1960s. 40. Sundblom’s Coca-Cola Santa Claus became one of the 20th...
Santa Claus is finishing up his final touches on all the toys & presents at the North Pole and the elves are packing his sleigh. The big guy is about to take flight with Rudolph leading the way, and you can track his entire trip thanks once again to NORAD....
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But that design, created by Haddon Sundblom in 1931, wasn’t the first ad by the company to feature the jolly man himself. The year before, artist Fred Mizen painted a department store Santa drinking a Coke for an advertisement in December 1930. 1929: The White House catches on fire ...
Have a Coke, a picture with Santa and a smile when the Coca-Cola Holiday Caravan pulls into Riverstone Thursday, Dec. 6. The 18-wheel semi-truck, decorated with 25,000 twinkling lights, will be at the Kroger in The Villages at Riverstone, 18861 S. University Boulevard, from 6 to 9 p...