Sunday, August 21, 2022

Colorful Cans in Kellogg

Two days in a row of color sequences.

Yesterday I had occasion to stop at Lark Toys in Kellogg, Minnesota. If you don't know of it, it's both a roadside attraction and a toy shop. They have a very nice miniature golf course, an indoor, handmade carousel, and a large toy store that seems to have grown a lot since I was last there. (They've added on a pole barn or two at the back, so the toy rooms keep going and going... it's a bit like the House on the Rock, though not nearly as terrible for those of us who hate the House on the Rock.)

Suffice it to say, they have some serious inventory in that shop. One room is handmade wooden toys from their own workshop. 

Along the front hallway, there are displays of classic toys and board games in an area called Memory Lane. At the north end is a case that displays something other than toys, and the color arrangement, as well as the history of commercial labels, called out to me:

You may note the pink Tab can near the top right. That's not the late 1960s design I wrote about earlier; instead, I think it's the one I would have been drinking from back in college around 1980.


1 comment:

Michael Leddy said...

I haven’t thought of Wink in years. Thanks for the memory.