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| 925 Larkin Street |
Zubelda
Cigarettes – the Double Package and Jane on Larkin (and a black-painted
building, too).
The
following information about Zubelda Cigarettes comes from Kasey Smith and this
link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kaseysmith/6046551553/
" 'You can't describe her, sighs the Khedive,
because there was never anything like her. She's a poem, a little mountain
brook, a rose garden, a ---
from a 1912 print ad
The P. Lorillard Company named their new Turkish blend
cigarette Zubelda, in honor of the Khedive of Egypt's wife. Lorillard felt that
their Zubelda was just like the lady, and claimed 'They taste like shooting
stars. And their fragrance is like the Garden of Eden. They're as gracious and
welcome as a long-absent sweetheart.' "
Zubelda
cigarettes debuted in October 1912 which would place this sign from around that
period.”
Copyright © by Chris Enquist 7/2/14
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