While supplies last, Target stores nationwide will carry five limited-edition General Mills Big G cereal boxes featuring fun “Retro” package designs. The packages also have cartoons from the 50s, 60s and 80s. Consumers picked their favorite Retro package designs and General Mills listened. Visit http://www.grocerysavvy.com/ to view some past cartoons while getting product information, coupons and more!
This week is about the Cheerios box from 1956. Here are some great facts from 1956 to start off your day:
- Pop Culture:
- Academy Awards Best Film: Around the World in Eighty Days
- Rock and Roll dance craze sweeps the World
- Elvis Presley enters the US music charts for the first time, with “Heartbreak Hotel,” the first of 170 hit singles
- “My Fair Lady” opens on Broadway starring Julie Andews as Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as Professor Higgins
- Politics/News:
- Gas per Gallon: 22 cents
- Alabama Bus segregation laws declared illegal by US Supreme Court
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Federal Aid Highway Act, creating the Interstate Highway System
- Popular Fads/Products etc:
- Black-and-white portable TV sets hit the market
- The first Transatlantic Telephone Cable goes in operation
- The first commercial videotape recorder the VR-1000 from Ampex Corp goes on sale
- The hard disk drive is invented by an IBM team led by Reynold B. Johnson
Each week, I will feature a different Big G Cereal box. One reader will win a Big G Cereal Retro Prize Pack each week as well. This prize pack includes the 5 boxes of cereal and a $10 Target Gift Card.
Enter the giveaway by filling out the form below. Also, be sure to check out all of our other giveaways.
This giveaway is open until March 18, 2011 at 11:59 pm CST to U.S residents.
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love the retro packaging.
Thank-you!