Brookston Beer Bulletin

Jay R. Brooks on Beer

  • Home
  • About
  • Editorial
  • Birthdays
  • Art & Beer

Socialize

  • Dribbble
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • GitHub
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
Powered by Head Quarters Built on WordPress
You are here: Home / Art & Beer / Beer In Ads #1199: Duffy’s Tavern For Blatz

Beer In Ads #1199: Duffy’s Tavern For Blatz

May 22, 2014 By Jay Brooks


Thursday’s ad is for Blatz Beer, from 1950. The ad is sort of part of Blatz’s “I lived in Milwaukee, I ought to know” series from the later Forties and Fifties that featured prominent celebrities, sports figures and famous folks from Milwaukee claiming to know “Blatz is Milwaukee’s Finest Beer” because they lived there, or near there, at some point in their lives. This one doesn’t so much feature a person as a radio show, Duffy’s Tavern, a radio sitcom about the misadventures of bartender/bar manager Archie. Archie was played by Ed Gardner, who also wrote and produced the popular show during its ten-year run. Despite the ads showing Gardner in his role as “Archie,” I guess he wasn’t famous enough (maybe since it was radio no one knew what he looked like?). That’s also why it doesn’t use the “I’m from …” of “I’ve been to …” Milwaukee-focused opening line, and instead the show’s fictional bar serves Blatz as their exclusive beer. Also, I’m pleased to announce that this is the last Blatz ad in this series that I’ve found so tomorrow we’ll be returning to random beer ads.

1950-Blatz-Milwaukees-Finest-Beer-now-being-served-exclusively-in-Duffys-Tavern

Filed Under: Art & Beer, Beers Tagged With: Advertising, Blatz, History



Comments

  1. Beerman49 says

    May 23, 2014 at 11:08 pm

    Good finale to that blast from the past – none of your readers, save for some really OLD fart like Fred Eckhardt ever would have heard that show on the radio. 50’s TV couldn’t do the transition from radio, as they did with “Amos ‘n Andy”, “Lone Ranger”, & a few other radio staples (mostly soaps) from the 30’s & 40’s because of the supposed “morality of the day”.

    “Cheers” broke the barrier on a bar-based TV show (which hasn’t been replicated since, because, unless it’s done it featuring upscale cocktails & craft beer, “trendy” food, & the associated chatter instead of working stiffs yakking over a beer, it won’t strike much of a chord. I’d bet big time that the “Cheeers” creators were insipred by “Duffy’s Tavern”.

    I’d love to see a 20-40-something scriptwriter latch on to my idea & create a show to make fun of all the current pretensions . Farcical scenarios are infinite, & there are many capable actors around who can pull that stuff off, & it’d be a perfect show for a lot of celeb cameos (think Jimmy Fallon, David Letterman, Betty White, Joan Rivers, Jimmy Kimmel, et alii, plus “serious” actors like Clint Eastwood who are willing to do a comedic “cameo” gig)..

Find Something

Northern California Breweries

Please consider purchasing my latest book, California Breweries North, available from Amazon, or ask for it at your local bookstore.

Beer Bulletin Email

Enter your email address to receive daily digests:

Recent Comments

  • Kendall Staggs on Beer In Ads #4341: Miss Rheingold 1955 Filling Yuletide Requests
  • Historic Beer Birthday: Robert Burns » Brookston Beer Bulletin on John Barleycorn
  • Susan Appel on Historic Beer Birthday: John Roehm
  • S. Pavelka on Beer Birthday: Rich Norgrove
  • Celebrating Texas History With Alamo Beer: An Iconic Taste Of The Lone Star State – SanctuaryBrewCo on Fictional Beer Brands

Recent Posts

  • Beer In Ads #4346: Something Is Brewing For 1956 February 8, 2023
  • Historic Beer Birthday: Andrew MacElhone February 8, 2023
  • Historic Beer Birthday: A.J. Houghton February 8, 2023
  • Historic Beer Birthday: Lüder Rutenberg February 8, 2023
  • Beer In Ads #4345: Miss Rheingold 1955 Visits San Bernardino February 7, 2023

Tag Cloud

Advertising Anheuser-Busch Announcements Bay Area Belgium Brewers Association Brewing Equipment Budweiser Business California Christmas Europe France Germany Guinness Health & Beer History Holidays Hops Humor Infographics Kegs Law Mainstream Coverage Miller Brewing Northern California Pabst Packaging Patent Pennsylvania Press Release Prohibitionists Rheingold San Francisco Schlitz Science Science of Brewing Sports Statistics The Netherlands UK Uncategorized United States Video Washington

The Sessions

session_logo_all_text_1500

Next Session: Dec. 7, 2018
#142: One More for the Road
Previous Sessions
  • #141: Future of Beer Blogging
  • #140: Pivo
  • #139: Beer & the Good Life
  • #138: The Good in Wood
  • #137: German Wheat
Archive, History & Hosting

Typology Tuesday

Typology-png
Next Typology:
On or Before March 29, 2016
#3: Irish-Style Dry Stout
Previous Typologies
  • #2: Bock Feb. 2016
  • #1: Barley Wine Jan. 2016
Archive & History

This month’s posts

February 2023
S M T W T F S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728  
« Jan    

BBB Archives