Name/Title
Deck of cards advertising Hooper's Chocolates, Alameda, c. 1940sEntry/Object ID
2021.128.17Description
Acc. No. 21.128.17
Subject Category: Businesses of Alameda
Date or Period: c. 1940s
Object: Card deck with box
Description: Box, with on the short sides and back 'Redi-Slip, on the long sides 'Remembrance playing cards with redi-slip', and on the front a glued-on card featuring a chubby boy wearing a cook's hat, and stating 'I love to make gooo candy', and 'Hooper's chocolates, Alameda, California'. The same image is on the back of each card. The Ace of Spades card, and top of the box, state ‘Made by Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, Min.
Size: L 3 1/2" x W 2 1/2"
History of Object: Deck of cards advertising Hooper's Chocolates, when based in Alameda. The Hoopers, Gordon and Barbara, both worked at Miss Saylor's Chocolates, where Gordon worked himself up from clerk to supervisor of the plant. Around 1940 they started their own business, based in Oakland, although they had a shop in Alameda, corner Park and Central. In the 1950s they took over a candy business in Oakland, and the Alameda location disappeared.
Brown and Bigelow were a leading manufacturer of playing cards in the U.S. from late 1920s to 1980s.
Acquired from: Estate of Nancy Martin
Donation Date: 2016
Catalog Date: 12/2/2021
