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Ringling Bros. Circus Brown Bag●108th●1978●Chicago Int'l Amphitheatre●Jacobs

Ringling Bros. Circus Brown Bag●108th●1978●Chicago Int'l Amphitheatre●Jacobs

$ 4.22

Availability: 61 in stock

Theme: Circus & Carnival

Show Location: Chicago International Amphitheatre

All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Ringling Edition: 108th

Condition: Good to Very Good Condition. Made of double-ply brown Kraft paper, the bag appears to have never been expanded. There are many small creases and specks of dirt from storage, and some edge and corner wear, and it's been folded across the middle; but it's completely intact and the glued seams are strong.

Year: 1978

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Vintage Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Promotional Brown Paper Supermarket Shopping Bag
108th Edition●1978 (Blue Unit)
Chicago International Amphitheatre
"Raggedy Ann's Family of Food Stores Circus Days"
Advertises sweepstakes drawing for 2,500 pairs of tickets, sponsored by the Raggedy Ann supermarket label, for the 108th Edition (Blue Unit) performances at Chicago International Amphitheatre, October 19 to November 19, 1978. The bag has two different illustrations of Lou Jacobs, the famous clown who performed for Ringling Bros. for more than 60 years.
Two-color, two-ply Kraft paper shopping bag. Dimensions of 12" x 7" x 17" (around ⅓ bushel).
Please see Item Condition above.
The item references
four venerable institutions, all defunct
:
Ringling Bros
., which closed in 2017;
Lou Jacobs
, who performed in Ringling Bros. from 1925 to 1988 and died in 1992;
Chicago International Amphitheatre
, long the Ringling Bros. venue in Chicago, which was demolished in 1999; and
Certified Grocers Midwest
, a retailers' cooperative that distributed Raggedy Ann-labeled products and which, as best as I can tell, went out of business in 2008 after merging into Central Grocers Cooperative.