The year before, artist Fred Mizen painted a department store Santa drinking a Coke for an advertisement in December 1930.1931: Rockefeller Center lights up officially for the first time The New York Historical Society // Getty Images 1931: Rockefeller Center lights up officially for the first ...
39. In 1942 Sundblom introduced a new friend for his Coca-Cola Santa, known as “Sprite Boy.” 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 t...
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 ...