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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Wordless Wednesday -- Prince Spaghetti Advertising

Here is an iconic ad: Prince Spaghetti commercial, starring Anthony

 The small book, Prince Treasury of Italian Recipes has 305 pages.
The above items were used for advertising the Prince Spaghetti Company and Restaurant in Lowell, Massachusetts. The large paper place mat was still given away at the time the plant closed in 1997, and the bottom two items were much older things from years past. I have a few other items, taken at the time the company, now known as Borden, Inc., but still manufacturing pasta under the Prince label closed.
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6 comments:

Greta Koehl said...

Wow - that's a blast from the past!

January 17, 2012 at 7:29 PM
Carol said...

I remember the brand too.

January 17, 2012 at 7:40 PM
Heather Rojo said...

I remember that for a while there was a restaurant at the Prince factory in Lowell. It was one of the first places we went to eat when we moved to Londonderry (there was only one restaurant in town back then so we had to go to the "Big City"!)

January 17, 2012 at 9:29 PM
Barbara Poole said...

Glad you all remembered. Heather, the restaurant was Prince Grotto. It was closed when Borden bought it, but we did use it for training sessions after the company closed. Unfortunately, Borden didn't want to be in the restaurant business.

January 18, 2012 at 8:20 AM
Cheri said...

AAAAaaaannnnn- toe - Kneeeeeee!

Brought back many memories!

Wednesday was Prince Spaghettti Day.

January 19, 2012 at 7:33 PM
Barbara Poole said...

Cheri, nice it brought back memories, and hopefully a smile.

January 20, 2012 at 7:39 AM

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